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“Santa Clara Valley” books spotlight California’s South Bay—its people, places, and transformations—from Ohlone homelands and Spanish-Mexican ranchos through the “Valley of Heart’s Delight” orchards to the rise of Silicon Valley. This category spans local history and neighborhood chronicles; biographies and corporate or campus stories; technology and entrepreneurship narratives; labor, migration, and housing studies; environmental and open-space guides; regional food, wine, and agriculture (including the Santa Clara Valley AVA); travel and photo essays; and fiction and memoir set in cities such as San José, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Saratoga, and Gilroy. Together, these works illuminate the region’s culture, innovation, inequities, and natural landscapes, offering readers a rich portrait of a place continually reinventing itself.

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