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General Recommendations
Golden Globe Awards 2022: SFPL
By:
SFPL_StaffPicks
Created on:
Jan 03, 2022
34 items
2022 Golden Globe Award Nominations (winners indicated), DVDs, books they were based on, and music offered by SFPL
1 like
Top Picks
Mock Newbery Awards SFPL 2016
Created on:
Nov 21, 2015
10 items
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American...
1 like
Topic Guide
LGBT Aging - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Mar 19, 2015
14 items
These titles explore the lives of LGBT middle-aged and senior citizens, now and in the past, with a focus on how we create com...
1 like
General Recommendations
Archived Staff Recommendations
Created on:
Nov 06, 2017
95 items
SFPL's West Portal Staff recommendations.
General Recommendations
SFPL-Chinatown Branch Library Staff Picks for Winter 2022
Created on:
Dec 14, 2022
27 items
Check out these Winter 2022 Staff Picks by Chinatown Branch Library staff. Hope you find your next great read!
2 likes
Genre Guide
SFPL's Books for Reluctant 4th-6th Grade Readers: Realistic and Historical Fiction
Created on:
Apr 30, 2015
24 items
1 like
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...
1 like
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
New and Noteworthy Biographies and Memoirs, Spring 2023
By:
SFPL_PaulaH
Created on:
May 09, 2023
17 items
Selected from SFPL's General Collections & Humanities Center.
General Recommendations
New and Noteworthy Biographies and Memoirs, Spring 2022
By:
SFPL_PaulaH
Created on:
May 15, 2022
15 items
Selected from SFPL's General Collections & Humanities Center
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General Recommendations
Must-Listen Memoirs for Women's History Month
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
Feb 28, 2022
18 items
For Women's History Month, listen to a memoir. Check out this list for inspiration.
SFPL's downloadable audiobook collection ...
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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...
1 like
Topic Guide
Ulysses at 100
By:
SFPL_JohnS
Created on:
Dec 08, 2021
100 items
The Irish author James Joyce published his groundbreaking modernist novel Ulysses in 1922, an event that profoundly influenced ...
2 likes
General Recommendations
What librarian Elizabeth is reading 2021: graphic novel edition
Created on:
Oct 03, 2021
97 items
SFPL Main Children's Center Librarian Elizabeth LOVES telling you what she's read in kids books, both the good, bad, and not so...
12 likes
General Recommendations
42nd Annual American Book Award Winners
Created on:
Sep 17, 2021
18 items
The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 42nd Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were cr...
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
2020 T(w)een Winter Read Recommendations - Middle Grade Edition
By:
SFPL_Teen
Created on:
Dec 11, 2020
13 items
Cozy up with a book or three while it's gray outside. This is a list of recent faves from SFPL librarians, but you can read wh...
General Recommendations
DVD Selections
Created on:
Nov 15, 2020
100 items
Recent DVD releases at SFPL (Movie descriptions via IMDB)
5 likes
General Recommendations
Isaac Julien and Angela Y. Davis in conversation, moderated by Sarah Lewis
Created on:
Nov 04, 2020
28 items
Angela Y. Davis activist, educator and author joins Isaac Julien to discuss the contemporary legacy of Frederick Douglass and a...
4 likes
General Recommendations
The Key to Murder: Mysteries with a Musical Theme
By:
SFPL_SherryW
Created on:
Aug 20, 2020
25 items
Whether set in Elizabethan England or present-day Seattle, these mysteries have one thing in common: a musician, whether victim...
1 like
Genre Guide
Book 1: Start a New Mystery Series
By:
s
SFPLBernal
Created on:
May 01, 2020
48 items
If you're looking to dive into a new mystery series, this list will get you started. This list features the first books in some...
7 likes
General Recommendations
2020 SFUSD Recommended Summer Reading, Grades 6-8
By:
SFPL_Family
Created on:
Apr 27, 2020
22 items
In a time when we may all feel isolated from each other, spend your summer connecting to others through stories. Challenge your...
General Recommendations
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Fiction Booklist
Created on:
Apr 07, 2020
17 items
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month - here is a collection of Fiction books about sexual assault, all available for check o...
1 like
General Recommendations
Read This!: Writers Read edition interview with Min Jin Lee
Created on:
May 03, 2019
13 items
SFPL presents our first edition of Read This!- interviews with authors, politicians, musicians, artists, and other local and no...
1 like
General Recommendations
New titles we are excited about in October
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Oct 24, 2018
41 items
Some non-fiction titles new to SFPL that caught our eye in October.
1 like