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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: Mini Zen Garden Adult Craft
Wednesday, 7/16/2025, 5:30-7:30 Zen Gardens create a peaceful environment for meditation and reflection. This mini version is perfect for a tabletop or desk. Space limited. Seats available first come, first served. . |
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Film: Back to the Future Saturday, 7/5/2025, 3:00-5:00 Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. This is the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future. PG, 116 mins., 1985. Closed captions (CC) in English. |
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Workshop: Gentle Yoga with Daniela
Saturdays, July 12 & 26, 10:00 - 11:00
This is a gentle yoga class for all ages and experience levels. We'll move mindfully and slowly to soothe the nervous system, stretch the body and build a little strength and stability along the way. Please bring a yoga mat if you have one. A limited number will be available to borrow. |
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Book Club: Mission Bay Reads The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Wednesday, 7/30/2025, 6:30 - 7:30
Written when McCullers was only 23, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter follows the life of deaf-mute John Singer and the lost people who come to confide him. |
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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 11:00 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 10:15
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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Activity: Sock Puppet Party Sunday 7/5/2025, 2:00-3:30 Make a sock puppet and play with it in the library's puppet theater while party music plays. For ages 3 and older. |
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Storytime: For Families at SPARK Social SF Monday, 7/21/2025, 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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Workshop: Fake Cake Photo Frames with GoGo Craft Sunday 7/20/2025, 2:00-3:30 Decorate a photo frame that looks good enough to eat with fake cake supplies, sprinkles, and colorful slime charms. For ages 6-18. Space limited. Reservations required: (415) 355-2838. |
Sunday, 8/10/2025, 2:00 - 3:00 Wednesday, 8/13/2025, 5:30-7:00 Wednesday 8/27/2025 6:30-7:30 |
Saturday, 8/16/2025, 2:00 - 3:00 Wednesday 8/20/2025, 5:00-7:00 Saturday, 8/30/2025 2:00-3:30 The Lost Boys |
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Temple alley summer
by Sachiko Kashiwaba
"One rainy night, Kazu sees a strange figure in a white kimono sneak out of his house--was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? The next day at school, the very same person is sitting in his class--and all his friends are convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years. If that isn't weird enough, Kazu learns that his house is in the exact location of an ancient temple called Kimyō, which, legend has it, could bring the dead back to life"
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The Griffin Sisters' greatest hits : a novel
by Jennifer Weiner
"Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were thrust into the spotlight as The Griffin Sisters, a pop duo that defined the aughts. Together, they skyrocketed to the top, gracing MTV, SNL, and the cover of Rolling Stone. Cassie, a musical genius who never felt at ease in her own skin, preferred to stay in the shadows. Zoe, full of confidence and craving fame, lived for the stage. But fame has a price, and after one turbulent year, the band abruptly broke up. Now, two decades later, the sisters couldn't be further apart.Zoe is a suburban mom warning her daughter Cherry to avoid the spotlight, while Cassie has disappeared from public life entirely. But when Cherry begins unearthing the truth behind their breathtaking rise and infamous breakup, long-buried secrets surface, forcing all three women to confront their choices, their desires, and their complicated bonds. With richly developed characters, a nostalgic nod to the pop culture of the 2000s, and a resonant tale of ambition, forgiveness, and family, The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits will captivate readers from the first note to the final encore"
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Great circle
by Maggie Shipstead
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to re-define herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two womens' fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-- collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead"
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Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda
With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda tells the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. Also recorded here are his meetings with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann, and other celebrated spiritual personalities of East and West.
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Mission Bay Branch Library
960 Fourth St.
San Francisco, California 94158
(415) 355-2838
sfpl.org
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