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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
SFPL Black History Month 2017 New Books
By:
SFPL_JaneG
SFPL_JaneG
Created on:
Jan 09, 2017
34 items
Many excellent lists celebrate Black History Month. This list features some books in the SFPL collection published over the pa...
General Recommendations
SFPL & 1990 Institute present author Helen Zia in conversation with Sherry Hu
Created on:
Apr 21, 2019
17 items
A 1990 Institute Book Bonanza Event. Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 6:30 p.m. at the Main San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditor...
General Recommendations
SFPL Summer of Love
Created on:
Jun 28, 2017
15 items
Selections to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 'Summer of Love' from SFPL.
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Topic Guide
SFPL Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2017
By:
SFPL_JohnG
SFPL_JohnG
Created on:
Mar 16, 2017
10 items
SFPL adult books on Asian Pacific Americans
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Topic Guide
LGBT Experience During the Harlem Renaissance - An SFPL LGBT Resource Guide
Created on:
Mar 09, 2015
18 items
The Harlem Renaissance was a time and place where black American artists and intellectuals blossomed. While few people associat...
General Recommendations
The African American Experience: documentaries available to stream
By:
SFPL_Adults
SFPL_Adults
Created on:
Jun 25, 2020
12 items
A selection of essential documentaries to educate, honor and celebrate the complexities of the African American experience. The...
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Archived Staff Recommendations
Created on:
Nov 06, 2017
95 items
SFPL's West Portal Staff recommendations.
General Recommendations
Bombs Away: Humor Goes to War
Created on:
Mar 25, 2017
20 items
Don’t miss the exhibition Bombs Away: Humor Goes to War. Selections from the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit & Humor on view ...
Topic Guide
LGBTQIA Archive Picks
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SFPL_StaffPicks
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...
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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...
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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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Topic Guide
SFPL: Oceania
By:
SFPL_AbrahamI
SFPL_AbrahamI
Created on:
May 16, 2018
39 items
"Our sea of islands...the world of our ancestors was a large sea full of places to explore, to make their homes in, to bre...
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General Recommendations
Black History Month for Adults, SFPL 2018
Created on:
Jan 16, 2018
12 items
Black History Month for Adults
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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 ...
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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
General Collections Staff Picks, Spring 2022
By:
SFPL_BrianW
SFPL_BrianW
Created on:
Apr 08, 2022
24 items
These are recommended titles from the collections managed by staff in the General Collections & Humanities Center at the SF...
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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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Topic Guide
Novels that Take Place in San Francisco
By:
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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
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
Book Club: West Portal 2021-2022
Created on:
Aug 23, 2021
17 items
Join SFPL staff & Ms. Christine as she meets virtually with West Portal neighbors to discuss a fiction or non-fiction selec...
General Recommendations
Books on Russian History
By:
g
ggvadultlib
Created on:
Mar 18, 2021
81 items
Nonfiction books on the history of Russia at SFPL
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 /...
General Recommendations
DVD Selections
Created on:
Nov 15, 2020
99 items
Recent DVD releases at SFPL
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General Recommendations
Indigenous Peoples' - Books
Created on:
Sep 30, 2020
25 items
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' by reading stories, poetry and histories written by Native Americans available from SFPL.
