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General Recommendations
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.
4 likes
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 ...
2 likes
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 Summer 2023
Created on:
Jul 26, 2023
12 items
Summer is still here, dive into a good book! Checkout our Staff Picks by Chinatown Branch Library.
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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
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
Toward a Black Aesthetic: Black Women, Style and African Liberation
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Jan 09, 2024
22 items
The street photography of Kenneth P. Green Sr., the first Black photographer at the Oakland Tribune, captured the style and res...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Fil-Am 2023: On Identity
Created on:
Aug 16, 2023
8 items
A variety of Filipinx American titles that explore knowing and living one's truth and history. (And a culinary mystery just for...
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...
3 likes
General Recommendations
NoName Book Club Selections 2022
By:
SFPL_AACL
Created on:
Sep 12, 2022
15 items
Noname’s Book Club, started by rapper Noname (Fatimah Warner) is “an online/irl community dedicated to uplifting POC voices.” T...
6 likes
General Recommendations
¡VIVA! 2022: Must Reads
Created on:
Jul 22, 2022
18 items
Get these must-read fiction books by Latinx authors, available at SFPL.
5 likes
General Recommendations
LGBTQIA+ reads
By:
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 ...
3 likes
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...
5 likes
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...
7 likes
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.
4 likes
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
Jólabókaflóð - A Book for Everybody
By:
SFPL_CDO2
Created on:
Dec 03, 2020
27 items
Jólabókaflóð is the Icelandic holiday tradition of giving books as presents. In this spirit, here are some recommendations from...
1 like
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...
2 likes
General Recommendations
DVD Selections
Created on:
Nov 15, 2020
100 items
Recent DVD releases at SFPL (Movie descriptions via IMDB)
5 likes
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.
1 like
Topic Guide
Read Around Africa
By:
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 ...
3 likes
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...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Lesser Known Classics
By:
SFPL_danielay
Created on:
Mar 19, 2020
11 items
Some lesser known classics available in electronic formats from SFPL to check out and read or listen to right away.
4 likes