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General Recommendations
The Mix At SFPL Recommends
Created on:
Feb 13, 2015
22 items
The Mix At SFPL is an AWESOME new Teen Center at the Main Library.
The books on this list are recommended reads from the teens...
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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 ...
4 likes
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Oscars 2022: SFPL
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
Created on:
Jan 31, 2022
26 items
2022 Academy Award nominations (winners indicated). DVDs, and books they were based on, and music offered by SFPL.
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General Recommendations
SFPL Ocean View Branch Staff Picks - March 2024
By:
SFPL_HelenN
Created on:
Oct 29, 2021
10 items
Recommendations by SFPL librarians who love to share the joy of reading, watching documentaries and cooking.
General Recommendations
Transgender Fiction at SFPL
By:
SFPL_KevinD
Created on:
Jul 23, 2018
11 items
Recommended fiction featuring transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming characters, written by transgender, non-binary...
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General Recommendations
SFPL's New Adult Graphic Novels from Spring 2018
By:
SFPL_LisaF
Created on:
Jun 19, 2018
15 items
Here's a selection of some of the Graphic Novels we ordered at SFPL from March - June 2018
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...
Topic Guide
SFPL Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2017
By:
SFPL_JohnG
Created on:
Mar 16, 2017
10 items
SFPL adult books on Asian Pacific Americans
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Topic Guide
SFPL's Banned Book List
Created on:
Jul 21, 2015
26 items
In honor of banned book month, here are a number of titles that have either been banned or heavily challenged. SFPL supports ...
8 likes
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
War - An SFPL Resource Guide for Teens
By:
SFPL_NancyS
Created on:
May 19, 2015
16 items
The nonfiction and fiction items in this list explore the effects of war and ethnic conflicts on young people around the world....
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Topic Guide
World War II on the Home Front - an SFPL Booklist for Children
By:
SFPL_NancyS
Created on:
Apr 09, 2015
14 items
These books give readers an idea of what it was like to live through World War II in the United States. An SFPL Booklist for Ch...
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Topic Guide
Picture Books about War - An SFPL Booklist
By:
SFPL_NancyS
Created on:
Apr 07, 2015
16 items
Picture books about war, from the Civil War to the present day. See also the separate list of books about the Holocaust. An SF...
Topic Guide
Beyond Anne Frank: More About the Holocaust - An SFPL Booklist
By:
SFPL_NancyS
Created on:
Apr 02, 2015
19 items
Teens will be interested in these nonfiction and fiction stories of terror, struggle, death, and survival. An SFPL Booklist.
Topic Guide
Everything Sherlockian - an SFPL Booklist
By:
SFPL_NancyS
Created on:
Mar 26, 2015
13 items
Fascinated with Sherlock Holmes? So are a lot of other people. Here are fictional titles inspired by Holmes, a couple of biogra...
1 like
Topic Guide
Classic (Pre-Stonewall) LGBT Fiction - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Mar 25, 2015
17 items
These titles were written before, and mostly published before the Stonewall Riots which represent the burgeoning era of gay and...
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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...
1 like
General Recommendations
SFPL Parkside Mother-Daughter Bookgroup Suggested Titles
By:
SFPL_ParksideLib
Created on:
Aug 04, 2021
72 items
Books we've read and discussed
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General Recommendations
SFPL West Portal Mother-Daughter Book Club Suggested Titles
Created on:
Aug 04, 2015
91 items
A list of books we've read and discussed and would recommend to our friends ages 9-12
13 likes
General Recommendations
2015 SFPL On The Same Page / One City One Book
Created on:
Jul 07, 2015
6 items
Join San Francisco's biggest book club. Here are our On The Same Page Picks for 2015!
General Recommendations
More than a Month for Kids 2021
By:
SFPL_Kids
Created on:
Dec 16, 2020
15 items
Beautiful Black books available at SFPL! More Than a Month is SFPL's Black History Month celebration, in which we recognize imp...
1 like
General Recommendations
New LGBTQIA Fiction - 2020
By:
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...
1 like