September 21, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra, Rafael, and Shalyn talk about the One Book Project. Check out their discussion on the Graphic Novel Title: March Book One by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis. Visit Kerncountylibrary.org to join the book discussions and to find One Book Project programs happening in your area. Don't forget to check out what our staff members have been reading, watching, and listening to for this week.
Fahra Daredia 
Kern County Library 
 
Rafael Moreno
Kern County Library 
 
Shalyn Pineda
Kern County Library 
 
Shalyn is reading...

These Hands
by Margaret H. Mason

An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory.
 
Will
by Will Smith

A product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, and a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind, in this memoir, one of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby 
 
Shalyn is watching...
 
Good Place 

After her death, a woman wakes up in the Good Place, an afterlife town inhabited by the people who have led righteous lives, but the problem is that she gets sent there by mistake.
 
 
 
Fahra is reading...
 
The Daughter of Auschwitz
by Tova Friedman

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
March Book One
by John Lewis

A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
 
Also available on HooplaDigital 
Also available on Libby 
Fahra is watching...
9-1-1

Follows first responders in Los Angeles who are paramedics, firefighters, police, and dispatchers, as they respond to emergency situations and try to balance the pressures of their personal and professional lives.
 
Rafael is reading...

Little Cloud Lamb
by Ana A. de Eulate

Lambkin is a lamb with a cloud where other lambs have wool, so he is often by himself, as the other lambs do not want to play with him and he cannot join the ordinary sheep in helping people sleep, so he sees the world in a different way.
 
March Book Three
by John Lewis

Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. 
 
Also available on HooplaDigital 
Also available on Libby 
Rafael is watching...
The Poison Rose 
on Netflix 
 
Inspired by classic film noir, Carson Phillips, an ex-football star turned PI, has a soft spot for a lady in distress.
 
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    March Book Two by John Lewis
    Ascendance: An Original Novel by Jason M Hough
    Shows
    Big Brother
    Indian Idol 
    Jo Koy: Live from the LA Forum
    Resident Alien 
    True Story