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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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General Recommendations
SFPL One City One Book Selections
By:
SFPL_joanl
Created on:
Jun 18, 2015
11 items
SFPL has been selecting One City One Book books for our citywide reading program for the past 10 years. Here is a look back at ...
General Recommendations
SFPL One City One Book selections through the years
Created on:
Jun 11, 2015
13 items
SFPL has been selecting One City One Book books for our citywide reading program for the past 10 years. Here is a look back at...
Topic Guide
Cross-Dressing - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Feb 11, 2015
22 items
Men and women have cross-dressed over the years for a variety of reasons. While some of them live full lives as the opposite ge...
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Genre Guide
Somewhere in Time historical fiction book club
Created on:
Sep 14, 2021
38 items
Do you enjoy some history with your fiction? Mark your calendar for the fourth Sunday afternoon of the month from 3:30 to 4:30 ...
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General Recommendations
Archived Staff Recommendations
Created on:
Nov 06, 2017
95 items
SFPL's West Portal Staff recommendations.
General Recommendations
Audiobooks You Can Really Sync Your Ears Into [SFPL]
By:
SFPL_Adults
Created on:
Oct 13, 2016
23 items
Yes, listening to books counts as a type of reading, at least in this librarian's "book." Of course, it really matt...
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General Recommendations
Some Recent Debuts You Might Have Missed
By:
SFPL_CDO2
Created on:
Feb 24, 2023
24 items
Want to be among the first to discover a new author? Here are some recent debut novels that you might have missed. All are avai...
General Recommendations
Literature in Translation
By:
SFPL_CDO2
Created on:
Dec 30, 2022
52 items
World Literature Today posted a list of 75 notable translations of 2022. Broaden your reading horizon in 2023 and check one out...
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General Recommendations
Celebrate Friendship this Valentine's Day
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Jan 31, 2022
27 items
Celebrate your friendships on Valentine's Day. The books on this list have friendship as a central theme - some fiction, some n...
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General Recommendations
Book Club: West Portal 2021-2022
Created on:
Aug 23, 2021
19 items
Join SFPL staff & Ms. Christine as she meets virtually with West Portal neighbors to discuss a fiction or non-fiction selec...
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General Recommendations
Summer Stride 2021 Author Line Up
Created on:
Jun 27, 2021
32 items
SFPL has author talks all Summer long, get the books, hear the author. http://bit.ly/SS21Events
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General Recommendations
More Than a Month 2021 - Adult
Created on:
Nov 22, 2020
45 items
Contemporary books, fiction and non-fiction written by Black author available at SFPL. More Than a Month is SFPL's Black Histor...
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General Recommendations
Classics Reimagined
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Nov 10, 2020
17 items
If you want a new take on some classic stories, check out these titles available from SFPL to Go.
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General Recommendations
A Viva Literature Trip
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Aug 05, 2020
24 items
Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with a trip through the pages of Latin America. Check one out from SFPL today!
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General Recommendations
Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month 2020: Fiction
Created on:
Apr 17, 2020
23 items
SFPL curated selection of eResources celebrating and honoring Asian Pacific Islander American authors, culture and heritage.
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Topic Guide
Golden Gate Park
By:
SFPL_Adults
Created on:
Apr 01, 2020
28 items
Golden Gate Park has delighted San Franciscans for 150 years. Check out some of these books available from SFPL and learn more ...
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General Recommendations
"Big Books" to tackle now that you have time
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Mar 24, 2020
14 items
With busy lives "big books" - not only classics but any long book - can be intimidating to tackle but if other entert...
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General Recommendations
Staff Picks of 2019
Created on:
Dec 12, 2019
32 items
SFPL's favorites published in 2019, available at your library.
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Top Picks
NaNoWriMo Inspo: Successful NaNo Books
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Sep 16, 2019
47 items
These writers started their books during NaNo. If they did it, so can you. SFPL has materials in multiple formats - book, ebook...
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If You Liked ...
The Shirley Letters From the California Mines, 1851-1852
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
Created on:
Sep 25, 2017
10 items
Selections from SFPL about the other '49rs of California's gold rush, the quest for fortune, adventure and survival on the fron...
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Genre Guide
Historical Fiction for Teens
By:
SFPL_JenW
Created on:
Jan 08, 2017
13 items
Travel back in time with these popular historical fiction titles. Recommended by a SFPL Teen Librarian.
Genre Guide
Excelsior Branch Staff Mystery Recommendations
Created on:
Feb 28, 2015
17 items
Mysteries recommended to SFPL patrons by Excelsior Branch staff
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Genre Guide
Historical Fiction
Created on:
Feb 26, 2015
18 items
A compilation of classic and contemporary novels where the plot is set in the past. Check them out at SFPL.
3 likes
General Recommendations
West Portal Book Club: Great Reads from the Past
Created on:
Feb 17, 2015
49 items
Past selections for West Portal Book Club. Recommended by a SFPL Librarian.
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