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| Tutorial: Drop-In eBook Help Mondays, 2-3pm Learn about SFPL’s different electronic media platforms, including Libby by Overdrive, Hoopla and Boundless in a one-on-one setting. |
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Workshop: Fix-it Clinic / Bike Repair Sunday, 9/7/2025, 2:00 - 4:00 BIKE REPAIRS with Bay Area BikeMobile - The BikeMobile will provide free tune ups and repairs, fix flat tires, adjust brakes and gears and even replace broken or worn-out parts like chains, seats and tires. The only thing it can’t do is replace missing wheels or gears. Best of all, while the mechanics work on your bike they’ll explain how you can keep it running smoothly. Bike or no bike, everyone is welcome to attend to learn about maintenance, safety and more! This event is first come first served. One bike per person. |
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Film: Tremors Saturday, 9/20/2025, 3:00-5:00 Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one. PG-13, 96 mins., 1990. Closed captions (CC) in English. |
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Mission Bay Reads The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Wednesday, 9/24/2025, 6:30 - 7:30
In The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak explores belonging, identity, and the history of war-torn Cyprus through the story of teen-age lovers Kostas and Defne. |
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Workshop: Alebrije Shadow Box Craft for AdultsWednesday, 9/10/2025, 5:30-7:00 Alebrijes are brightly colored Mexican folk-art sculptures depicting fantastical creatures or familiar animals. Use your imagination to create a colorful alebrije. You will also design a brightly painted shadow box to house your sculpture. Space limited. Seats available first come, first served.
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Storytime: For Toddlers
Tuesdays at 10:15
Books, songs, movement and more. For toddlers 16 months through age 2 and their caregivers. Space limited. Tickets available on a first come basis at the reference desk starting at 10am. |
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Storytime: For Preschoolers
Tuesdays at 11am Books, songs, fingerplays and more for ages 3–5. Space limited. Tickets available on a first come basis at the reference desk starting at 10:30am. |
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Storytime: For Babies
Thursdays at 10:15am
Songs, rhymes and books for infants and their caregivers. Space limited. Tickets available on a first come basis at the reference desk starting at 10am. |
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Storytime: For Families at SPARK Social SF Monday, 9/15/2025, 11:15 - 11:45Books, songs, rhymes and fun for children of all ages at SPARK Social SF, 601 Mission Bay Boulevard North. |
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Saturdays, 10/11 and 10/25, 10:00 - 11:00 Wednesday, 10/29/2025, 6:30 - 7:30 Saturdays 10/11 and 10/25, 1:00-2:00 |
Staff Recommendations: Read These Books |
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We can do hard things : answers to life's 20 questions
by Glennon Doyle
Explores twenty essential life questions, offering wisdom, personal insights, and transformative lessons designed to help readers confront challenges, find healing, and share inspiration through courage, solidarity, and meaningful conversations
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The island of missing trees
by Elif Shafak
A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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Madness in the family
by William Saroyan
Seventeen stories deal with immigrant families, the expatriate writer, children, and life in the modern world
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Stalin's scribe : literature, ambition, and survival : the life of Mikhail Sholokhov
by Brian J. Boeck
"Mikhail Sholokhov is one of the most contested recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature in the history of the award. As a young man Sholokhov's epic Quiet Flows the Don--originally Quiet Don--became an unprecedented overnight success. Yet he struggled to complete a second novel for Stalin and his feud with Boris Pasternak made international headlines. Rich with intrigue and set during the most tumultuous years of the Soviet Union, [this book] is the first-ever biography of a man who was one of his country's most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia's archives, historian Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov's official Soviet narrative is actually a web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions. Boeck deftly examines the complex connection between an author and a dictator, revealing how a Stalinist courtier became an ideological acrobat and consummate politician in order to stay in favor and remain relevant after the dictator's death.
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Mission Bay Branch Library
960 Fourth St.
San Francisco, California 94158
(415) 355-2838
sfpl.org
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