September 07, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Happy National Library Card Sign Up Month! Join library staff members, Fahra and Brenna talk about the benefits of having a library card and about the Snacks in the Stacks program that has started again at selected libraries. Find out what they have been reading, watching, and listening to.
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Brenna Smith 
Kern County Library 
Fahra is reading...

A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
by Carlotta Walls LaNier

An insider's account of the nation's most famous school integration recounts how the author made the decision to attend Arkansas's all-white Central High because of geographical practicality rather than a sense of heroism, describing how subsequent events affected her family's beliefs about dedication, perseverance, and sacrifice. By the co-author of the best-selling The Pact.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Also available as eBook on Libby 
 
The Undead Truth of Us
by Britney S. Lewis

Sifting through what is real and what is magic since the death of her mother, 16-year-old Zharie Young, who has been seeing zombies everywhere, meets a new boy named Bo who contradicts everything she thought she knew about monsters. 
 
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
HIT: The First Case

Vikram is a 32-year-old cop. While he is battling with his own traumatic past, the stakes get high when a girl called Preethi mysteriously disappears in Hyderabad and Vikram has to solve the case at any cost.
 

Brenna is reading...
 
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman

A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. 
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby
Who Do You Love: A Novel
by Jennifer Weiner

First meeting as children, a wealthy girl with a congenital heart defect and an underprivileged boy with athletic talents meet periodically over three decades before considering whether their affections will overcome their differences.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on Libby
 

Brenna is watching...
 
Bluey Season 1 The First Half. . . 

Follows the adventures of a six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy named Bluey who lives with her parents and her younger sister, Bingo.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Just Roll With It by Lee Durfey-Lavoie
    The Lady or the Lion by Aamna Qureshi
     
    Shows 
    Big Brother 
    House of Dragon 
    She-Hulk: Attorney at Law