June 29, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County Library staff member, Fahra and get to know new library staff member, Althea Martinez one of the supervisors at Beale Memorial Library. Get to know all the fun things that are happening at Beale this summer and don't forget to check out what they have been reading, watching, and listening to.
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Althea Martinez 
Beale Memorial Library 
Fahra is reading...

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
by Samra Habib

In this stunning memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not, the writer, photographer, and activist shares her exploration of faith, art, love and queer sexuality—a journey that led her to the far reaches of the world to uncover a truth that was within her all along.
 
 
The Case of the Disappearing Doll
by Nancy Parent

When her doll Marabelle goes missing, Nancy and her friend Bree become sleuths to crack the case.
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
Also available as eBook HooplaDigital 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 
on Netflix
 
When strangers Reet and Ruhan cross paths, their journey leads to an abandoned mansion and a dreaded spirit who has been trapped for 18 years.
 

Althea is reading...
 
Who is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind
by Fariha Róisín

In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet, a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown and Indigenous people while ignoring and excluding them. 
 
 
Super Torta!
by Eric Ramos

Bombo loves the sandwiches on hard rolls called tortas so much he always takes three of them to school every day, but when he accidentally drops one during a field trip to a nuclear power plant it changes in unexpected ways.
 
 

Althea is watching...
Moon Knight
on Disney+
 
Steven Grant discovers he's been granted the powers of an Egyptian moon god. But he soon finds out that these newfound powers can be both a blessing and a curse to his troubled life.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
    Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest by Phoebe Wahl
    Nancy's Ghostly Halloween by Krista Tucker
    Nancy Takes the Case by Victoria Saxon
    Rappy Goes to the Library by Dan Gutman
     
    Music 
    The Game of Thrones Symphony 
     
    Shows 
    9-1-1 Lone Star