September 14, 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 main title: A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Lisa Frazier Page. 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 are 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...

A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark

In 1912 Cairo, a new world where the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities maintains an uneasy peace, the Ministry’s youngest agent, Fatima, must stop an imposter who threatens to tear apart the very fabric of this new Egyptian society.
 
 Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
Also available as eBook on Libby
Shadow Rider
by Christine Feehan

Gifted with the ability to manipulate light and dark, shadow rider Stefano Ferraro, the head of a Chicago crime family, meets his match in Francesca Cappello, a mysterious and dangerously beautiful woman whose powers rival his own. 
 
 Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
Also available as eBook on Libby 
Shalyn is watching...
 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A high-school girl learns that her destiny is to kill vampires and fight the forces of evil.
 
 
 
Fahra is reading...
 
The Last Cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera

Había una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children--among them Petra and her family--have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet--and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard--or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?
 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on Libby 
The Witches of Moonshyne Manor 
by Bianca Marais

To save Moonshyne Manor and Distillery from demolition, five octogenarian witches, having only nine days save their home, make a bargain with an evil far more powerful than anything they've ever faced, fracturing their sisterhood and leading to a fiery confrontation with their enemies. 
 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Also available as eBook on Libby 
Fahra is watching...
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law 
on Disney+
 
Jennifer Walters navigates the complicated life of a single, 30-something attorney who also happens to be a green 6-foot-7-inch superpowered Hulk.
 
Rafael is reading...

Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an all-American Combo
by Jo Koy

A laugh-out-loud, fearlessly honest memoir by the award-winning Filipino-American comedian uncovers the true family experiences behind his popular routines, discussing his mixed heritage, struggles with family mental illness and eventual embrace of his identity. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
by Paul Holes

An icon in the true crime world, the cold case investigator who finally caught the Golden State Killer provides an insider account of some the most notorious cases in contemporary American history and opens up to the most intimate scenes of his life. 
 
Rafael is watching...
Untold: The Rise and Fall of  AND1
on Netflix 
 
Inspired by New York City streetball, influential brand AND1 turned local legends on the court into international icons. So why did it come to an end?
 
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
    Detective Cross by James Patterson
    March: Book one by John Lewis
    The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare
    Ring Shout  by P. Djèlí Clark
    Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation by Aisha Tyler
    Movies 
    Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva
    Demolition Man
    Shamshera
    Shows
    Cobra Kai 
    Girl Meets World
    The Good Place 
    Lucifer 
    Supernatural 
    Winchesters