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SFPL One City One Book Selections
Created on:
Jun 09, 2016
19 items
SFPL has been selecting One City One Book titles for our citywide reading program for the past 15 years. Here is a look at our ...
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Topic Guide
SFPL Black History Month 2017 New Books
By:
SFPL_JaneG
Created on:
Jan 09, 2017
34 items
Many excellent lists celebrate Black History Month. This list features some books in the SFPL collection published over the pa...
General Recommendations
SFPL Explorer Guide to Bayview Branch Library
Created on:
Oct 06, 2021
6 items
A few of the top picks by SFPL staff that represent their neighborhood.
General Recommendations
Black History Month SFPL 2018, Teens
Created on:
Dec 29, 2017
10 items
In honor of Black History Month, here are some books that speak of the black experience in America. Most of these titles are av...
General Recommendations
What SFPL Staff Is Currently Reading
Created on:
Jul 07, 2015
18 items
Want to know what the members of the SFPL Readers' Advisory team is currently reading? Check it out here!
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Topic Guide
LGBT Experience During the Harlem Renaissance - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Mar 09, 2015
18 items
The Harlem Renaissance was a time and place where black American artists and intellectuals blossomed. While few people associat...
General Recommendations
What librarian Elizabeth is reading 2021
Created on:
Jan 05, 2021
38 items
SFPL Main Children's Center Librarian Elizabeth LOVES telling you what she's read in kids fiction, both the good, bad, and not ...
1 like
General Recommendations
The African American Experience: documentaries available to stream
By:
SFPL_Adults
Created on:
Jun 25, 2020
12 items
A selection of essential documentaries to educate, honor and celebrate the complexities of the African American experience. The...
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What librarian Elizabeth is reading 2020
Created on:
Mar 31, 2020
70 items
SFPL Main Children's Center Librarian Elizabeth LOVES telling you what she's read in kids fiction, both the good, bad, and not ...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Season Of The Witch Read-Alikes
Created on:
Aug 05, 2015
29 items
Did you love SFPL's 2015 One City, One Book selection Season of the Witch? Here are a handful of similar items and tie-ins that...
2 likes
General Recommendations
SFPL-Chinatown Branch Library Staff Picks for Summer 2023
Created on:
Jul 26, 2023
12 items
Summer is still here, dive into a good book! Checkout our Staff Picks by Chinatown Branch Library.
General Recommendations
Summer 2022: Black Music Appreciation Month at SFPL
Created on:
Apr 18, 2022
19 items
Across the generations, Black music has pioneered the way we listen to music while preserving Black cultural traditions and sha...
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Juneteenth at SFPL
Created on:
Jun 14, 2020
26 items
Juneteenth commemorates the day the last enslaved Black lives were emancipated in the United States on June 19, 1865. It was on...
1 like
Topic Guide
Japanese American Literature
By:
e
emmabridges1
Created on:
Jan 15, 2024
45 items
Other recommendations not currently owned by SFPL:
Haunted by Waters - Robert T. Hayashi
Nature Behind Barbed Wire - Connie Y....
General Recommendations
Toward a Black Aesthetic: Black Women, Style and African Liberation
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Jan 09, 2024
22 items
The street photography of Kenneth P. Green Sr., the first Black photographer at the Oakland Tribune, captured the style and res...
3 likes
General Recommendations
2023 T(w)een Winter Read Recommendations - Middle Grade Edition
By:
SFPL_AshleyM
Created on:
Dec 03, 2023
14 items
Cozy up with a book or three while it's gray outside. This is a list of recent favorites from SFPL librarians, but you can read...
General Recommendations
New and Noteworthy Biographies and Memoirs, Autumn 2023
By:
SFPL_PaulaH
Created on:
Oct 25, 2023
23 items
Selected from SFPL's General Collections & Humanities Center.
2 likes
General Recommendations
Fil-Am 2023: On Identity
Created on:
Aug 16, 2023
8 items
A variety of Filipinx American titles that explore knowing and living one's truth and history. (And a culinary mystery just for...
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Authors of Banned Teen Books Speak Out
Created on:
Aug 03, 2023
9 items
What do authors of challenged teen books have to say about book banning, the freedom to read, and the power of empathy? This aw...
1 like
General Recommendations
2022 BCALA Best of the Best Booklist - Pre-K through 4th Grade
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
May 15, 2023
24 items
A list of highly recommended books for African American children and teens recommended by members of Black Caucus of the Americ...
General Recommendations
African Americans in San Francisco and California
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Apr 05, 2023
16 items
Check out these resources at SFPL to get a history of African Americans in San Francisco and California from the Gold Rush to p...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Weaving Stories AANHPI 2023: Kids
Created on:
Mar 10, 2023
21 items
A list of SFPL kids books celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander cultures.
General Recommendations
New and Noteworthy Biographies and Memoirs, Autumn 2022
By:
SFPL_PaulaH
Created on:
Nov 21, 2022
18 items
Selected from SFPL's General Collections & Humanities Center.
4 likes
General Recommendations
More Than A Month 2023: Essays and Histories of Black Resilience
Created on:
Sep 20, 2022
16 items
Essays and histories of resistance and resilience presented on this list are historical accounts interwoven with personal exper...
General Recommendations
NoName Book Club Selections 2022
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Sep 12, 2022
15 items
Noname’s Book Club, started by rapper Noname (Fatimah Warner) is “an online/irl community dedicated to uplifting POC voices.” T...
6 likes