The One Book Project is a countywide reading and discussion project that fosters empathy, promotes awareness, and strengthens the fabric of our community by exploring the themes in this year’s One Book selection, Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa. About the Fall 2025 Primary Title Whiskey Tenderby Deborah Jackson Taffa Deborah Jackson Taffa’s Whiskey Tender, […]
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2024 One Book Project Read: All You Can Ever Know
The One Book Project is a countywide reading and discussion project that fosters empathy, promotes awareness, and strengthens the fabric of our community by exploring the themes in this year’s One Book selection, All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung. About the Fall 2024 Primary Title All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung […]
2023 Read: Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
The One Book Project is a countywide reading and discussion project that fosters empathy, promotes awareness, and strengthens the fabric of our community by exploring the themes in this year’s One Book selection, Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig. About the Fall 2023 Primary Title Sitting Pretty: The […]
2022 Read – A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
The Primary Title The One Book Project is a communitywide reading and discussion project inviting everyone to read and discuss the themes of civil rights, tolerance, diversity, acceptance, and courage. About the Fall 2022 Primary Title When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she […]
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2020 Read – Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
This September – November, One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern (The One Book Project) is encouraging the entire community to share experiences related to a single book’s themes through discussions, educational programming, and entertainment. The read is meant to pull a community together, cross cultural divides, and enhance understanding of our diversity, all while supporting literacy. […]
2021 Read – A Dream Called Home
The Primary Title The One Book Project is a community-wide reading and discussion project inviting everyone to read and discuss the themes of immigration and assimilation. About the Primary Title As an immigrant in an unfamiliar country, with an indifferent mother and abusive father, Reyna had few resources at her disposal, but she is determined to […]
2019 Read – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
This September – November, One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern (The One Book Project) is encouraging the entire community to share experiences related to a single book’s themes through discussions, educational programming, and entertainment. The read is meant to pull a community together, cross cultural divides, and enhance understanding of our diversity, all while supporting literacy. […]
2018 Read – Incarceration Nations
This September – November, One Book, One Bakersfield, One Kern (The One Book Project) is encouraging the entire community to share experiences related to a single book’s themes through discussions, educational programming, and entertainment. The read is meant to pull a community together, cross cultural divides, and enhance understanding of our diversity, all while supporting literacy. Are […]
2017 Read – $2.00 A Day
______________________________________________________________ About the Book A revelatory account of a kind of poverty so extreme, and so often hidden, most Americans don’t think it exists. Kathryn Edin teamed up with Luke Shaefer to make a surprising discovery: the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to one and a half million […]
