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General Recommendations
SFPL One City One Book Selections
Created on:
Jun 09, 2016
18 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
The LGBT Community in Germany, Before and During the Holocaust - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Feb 12, 2015
22 items
There was a well-developed LGBT subculture in urban areas of Germany before the rise of the Nazi Party. However, gay men, in pa...
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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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General Recommendations
New LGBTQIA Fiction - 2020
By:
SFPL_KevinD
SFPL_KevinD
Created on:
Nov 03, 2020
29 items
A selection of some of the most interesting queer fiction titles published in the past year. All titles are available to check...
Top Picks
Indigenous Voices for Children & Tweens
By:
SFPL_Family
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Oct 30, 2020
24 items
Check out these recent titles by Native authors, about the Native experience, from board books to novels to nonfiction. All ava...
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General Recommendations
Archived Staff Recommendations
Created on:
Nov 06, 2017
95 items
SFPL's West Portal Staff recommendations.
General Recommendations
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...
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General Recommendations
New Fiction - 2020
Created on:
Dec 08, 2020
31 items
Sadly there's no in-person browsing at this time. In the meantime, take advantage of some virtual browsing. Here is a sampling...
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General Recommendations
LGBTQIA+ reads
By:
SFPL_ParksideLib
SFPL_ParksideLib
Created on:
Jun 24, 2022
14 items
SFPL Parkside branch's LGBTQIA+ book recommendations for teens and adults. Books range from the 1800s through 2021 and include ...
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
Bay Area points of historical interest with literary tie-ins : for students
Created on:
Dec 01, 2021
42 items
A school librarian had a great idea: they read the Port Chicago 50 and then took the students there to visit the site. Then the...
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General Recommendations
Filipino American History Month 2021 - Fiction, Poetry & Graphic Novels
Created on:
Sep 08, 2021
16 items
Available here at SFPL, a selection of fiction, poetry, and graphic novel titles by Filipino or Filipino American authors prese...
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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
Contemporary Scandinavian Fiction
By:
g
ggvadultlib
Created on:
Mar 11, 2021
90 items
Works of fiction from Sweden, Norway and Denmark, with additional titles from Iceland and Finland. 1945 to 2021. Some may be av...
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General Recommendations
85 Notable German Novels of the 20th and 21st Centuries
By:
g
ggvadultlib
Created on:
Feb 10, 2021
85 items
Notable German-language novels written roughly in the last hundred years. Some are also available as ebooks or in German at SFPL.
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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
A Viva Literature Trip
By:
SFPL_danielay
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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Topic Guide
Read Around Africa
By:
SFPL_danielay
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Jun 04, 2020
40 items
A trip through literature around Africa's 40 most populous countries. Books are available from SFPL mostly in eFormats. Pick a ...
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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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General Recommendations
"Big Books" to tackle now that you have time
By:
SFPL_danielay
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
West Portal Staff Picks: March 2020
Created on:
Feb 19, 2020
7 items
Items selected by SFPL's West Portal Librarians for the month of March 2020.
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General Recommendations
Golden Poppy Book Awards 2019: Fiction
Created on:
Jan 22, 2020
11 items
The members of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance present The Golden Poppy Book Awards to recognize the most disti...
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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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General Recommendations
LGBTQ+ Fiction by Black authors
Created on:
Dec 04, 2019
16 items
A collection of recent and older Fiction titles by African American authors, featuring LGBTQ+ themes. All available for checkou...
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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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