May 11, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County Library staff member, Fahra and get to know new library staff member, Sa'miah Shakir Extra Help Library Associate at Beale Memorial Library. Find out what they have been reading, watching, listening to this week and make sure to send them your recommendations.
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
 
Sa'miah Shakir 
Beale Memorial Library 
Fahra is reading...

By the Book
by Jasmine Guillory

A young, black woman working in publishing makes a surprise connection with an author who has failed to deliver his highly anticipated manuscript, in the second novel of the series following If the Shoe Fits. 
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Fahra is watching...
 
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters 
On Zee5
 
Dancing their way into the audience's hearts, the little masters are back in action as they battle it out to win the prized title.
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Sa'miah is reading...
 
The Daughters of Ys
by M. T. Anderson

Drifting apart after their queen mother’s unexplained death, the sister princesses of an Atlantis-like city from Celtic legend find their bond irrevocably changed when their once-protected world becomes vulnerable to dangerous monsters. 
 

Sa'miah  is watching...
 
Vampire Diaries

Two vampire brothers, one good and one evil, move to a small town and try to win the heart of one of the teenage girls.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    A Game of Thrones by George R. R Martin
    Holi Hai! by Chitra Soundar
    If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy
    Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library by Amanda Oliver
    Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
    The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith
    Watersnakes by Tony Sandoval
    Yefferson, Actually / En Realidad Es Yefferson by Katherine Trejo
     
    Shows
    Breaking Bad
    Game of Thrones