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 

Sally is watching...
A League of Their Own 
Prime Video 
 
Comedy series about the WWII All-American professional women's baseball league.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Ajay and the Mumbai Sun by Varsha Shah
    All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
    Bea is for Blended by Lindsey Stoddard
    Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin
    Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus
    The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
    Nura and the Immortal Palace by M. T. Khan
    Will by Will Smith
    Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy by Barry Deutsch
     
    Shows 
    The Bear
    Ms. Marvel
    Only Murders in the Building 
    Sandman