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General Recommendations
What's Hot in Axis 360
By:
SFPL_SarahS
Created on:
Oct 27, 2017
13 items
Want to know what your fellow SFPL cardholders are reading? We sneaked a peek at the top subjects in Axis 360 to see what's tre...
Genre Guide
Hormel at 20
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
Created on:
Mar 25, 2016
7 items
SFPL's James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center--gateway to collections documenting San Francisco's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ...
Topic Guide
LGBTQIA Archive Picks
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
Created on:
Feb 22, 2016
13 items
Selection of archival materials including manuscript collections, pulp paperbacks, and video and audio recordings of the LGBTQI...
1 like
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
Topic Guide
Bay Area Chefs
By:
SFPL_LiaH
Created on:
Jan 24, 2015
32 items
The Bay Area is renowned for its ground-breaking culinary work. This SFPL list features some of our finest chefs and their rest...
5 likes
Topic Guide
PPIE Preparedness
By:
SFPL_DeeDeeK
Created on:
Jan 08, 2015
9 items
Ready yourself for the City-wide Centennial celebration of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), the 1915 world’s...
General Recommendations
SF HISTORY-The West Side of Town
Created on:
Jan 07, 2015
17 items
West side, best side? you decide! SFPL
General Recommendations
SFPL-Chinatown Branch Library Staff Picks for Spring 2023
Created on:
Feb 24, 2023
20 items
Check out these Spring 2023 Staff Picks by Chinatown Branch Library staff. Your next great read is just around the corner!
General Recommendations
Wall + Response Books at SFPL
By:
SFPL_JohnS
Created on:
Feb 24, 2022
31 items
Curated by the Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) artist and organizer Megan Wilson and the poet Maw Shein Win, the San Francis...
Topic Guide
SFPL: Bear Culture
Created on:
Feb 07, 2017
10 items
These items explore and celebrate the gay bear subculture through fiction, non-fiction, photographs, and more.
Topic Guide
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Apr 15, 2015
25 items
Topic Guide
LGBT San Francisco - an SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Feb 11, 2015
24 items
These materials focus on the LGBT Community in San Francisco, today and historically. They feature events and people important ...
1 like
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
Topic Guide
Bay Area Chefs, Past and Present
Created on:
Nov 16, 2022
46 items
Home cooks will find a myriad of options, from easy-to-prepare to adventuresome, traditional recipes to surprisingly appropriat...
General Recommendations
Queer Nightlife and Club Culture
Created on:
Sep 19, 2022
14 items
A selection of books about the unique worlds created on the dance floors and dark corners of queer bars and clubs. All titles ...
General Recommendations
There Are Trans People Here: Celebrating Transgender History Month
Created on:
Jul 25, 2022
31 items
August is Transgender History Month in San Francisco! This list offers a selection of books and films by transgender, nonbinar...
5 likes
Topic Guide
Racial Restrictive Covenants and the Politics of Property and Racism
Created on:
Jun 30, 2022
23 items
This SFPL list is a compilation of important works on race and property rights, the history of racial restrictive covenants, an...
8 likes
Topic Guide
Novels that Take Place in San Francisco
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Jan 23, 2022
16 items
San Francisco has been celebrated in some excellent novels. Here's a list of some of the best novels set in San Francisco that ...
General Recommendations
Bay Area points of historical interest with literary tie-ins : for students
Created on:
Dec 01, 2021
44 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...
4 likes
General Recommendations
Total SF Book Club: The End of the Golden Gate
Created on:
Jun 28, 2021
20 items
Total SF Book Club with Daniel Handler and Gary Kamiya, "The End of the Golden Gate" – Aug. 24, 7 p.m.
San Francis...
1 like
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
2 likes
General Recommendations
恭賀新禧!All About Chinese New Year!
By:
SFPL_SherryW
Created on:
Feb 08, 2021
43 items
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with these books and CDs for all ages in Chinese and English.
在此與各個年齡的中英文讀者一起慶祝新年!您可在網上預訂,請使用 SFPL...
General Recommendations
It's All Drag, All The Time
Created on:
Feb 07, 2021
24 items
RuPaul said "We're all born naked and the rest is drag!" As drag goes more and more mainstream, and becomes a target ...
1 like
General Recommendations
Best Cinematography Winners (Oscars)
Created on:
Dec 21, 2020
97 items
ONLY DVDS
These are the movies that won the Oscars for Best Cinematography (black & white and colored)
Work in progress /...
1 like
General Recommendations
Bay Area Celebrities and Their Favorite Books
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Aug 18, 2020
44 items
The SF Chronicle posted a list of the favorite books of some of our Bay Area celebrities. Want to read what your favorite music...
1 like