Kern County Library HQ: Book Talk Bakersfield: August 24, 2022

August 24, 2022

Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:

Join Kern County Library staff member Fahra in conversation with author Sally Engelfried about her book Learning to Fall.

Find out what Fahra and Sally have been reading, watching, and listening to.

Ten lucky listeners will have a chance to win a copy of the book from Little Brown and Company Young Readers.

Click here for your chance to win a copy of Learning to Fall:

*Promotion starts August 24th, 2022 at 8:00am EST and ends September 14th, 2022 at 11:59pm EST.

Fahra Daredia
Kern County Library

Sally Engelfried
Author of Learning to Fall

Fahra is reading...

Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley

Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary

Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital

Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby

Learning to Fall
by Sally Engelfried

Reconciling with her alcoholic father, 12-year-old Daphne joins him at a weekly skate session where she starts to believe in him as she learns that skating is all about accepting failure, moving on and getting back up after you fall.

Available September 6th 2022

Fahra is watching...

Agent Carter
Disney +

In 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis.

Sally is reading...

In the Key of Us
by Mariama Lockington

Brought together during summer music camp where they are the only two Black girls, Andi and Zora slowly begin to connect and soon come to realize what has been missing from their lives each other.

When Women Were Dragons: A Novel
by Kelly Regan Barnhill

After the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when thousands of women, including her beloved Aunt Marla, transformed into dragons, left a trail fiery destruction and took to the skies, young Alex Green must face the consequences of this event as she learns to accept people as they really are.

Also available as eBook on Libby