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Category | Media Type | Publication | Author | Publication Date | Notes | Read or Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fiction | Book | A Fouled Nest | Sporleder, Steve | 2009 | A novel set in Los Gatos | https://www.amazon.com/Fouled-Nest-Steve-Sporleder-ebook/dp/B006LR5MVI/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1702833042&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Sporleder&s=books&sr=1-3 |
History | Book | A History of the Santa Cruz Mountains | Wulf, William | 2001 | ||
History | Book | A Howling WIlderness,The Summit Road of the Santa Cruz Mountains 1850-1906 | Payne, Stephen | 1978 | https://www.amazon.com/howling-wilderness-history-Mountains-1850-1906/dp/B0006F0CWU | |
History | Book | A Trip Through Time and the Santa Cruz Mountains | Jensen, Billie J. and Reece C. | 1994 | https://www.amazon.com/trip-through-time-Santa-Mountains/dp/1886278075 | |
Nature | Book | All That the Rain Promises and More: A Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms | Arora, David | 1991 | https://shop.redwoodparksconservancy.org/products/all-the-rain-promises-and-more | |
Nature | Book | Animals of the Santa Cruz Mountains | Piwarzyk, Robert W.; Krajci, Marie; Lauck Barbara; Retsek, Stephanie | 2000 | ||
Nature | Book | Backroads & Hiking Trails, The Santa Cruz Mountains | Schad, Jerry | 1979 | https://www.amazon.com/Backroads-hiking-trails-Santa-Mountains/dp/0911518541 | |
History | Book | California Central Coast Railways | Hammon, Rick | 2002 | https://www.amazon.com/California-Central-Coast-Railways-Hamman/dp/0871085534 | |
Academic | Journal | Essays on Los Gatos History | Franks, Bruce | 1992 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/17erTLNJtlO6dtyk9JxhAKeblvV0U1gDJ/view?usp=drive_link | |
Nature | Book | Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet | Reid, John W.; Lovejoy,Thomas E. | 2022 | https://evergreenforestbook.com/ | |
History | Book | Evergreen Cemetary of Santa Cruz | Bliss, Traci | 2020 | https://thatsmypark.org/products/evergreen-cemetery-of-santa-cruz/ | |
Nature | Book | Field Guide to Neotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System, Santa Cruz
Mountains, in Light of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake | Ponti, D.P. | 1990 | https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr90274 | |
Nature | Book | Field Guide to the San Andreas Fault | Lynch, David K. | 2014 | Out of print, used copies are available through various sellets. | https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-San-Andreas-Fault/dp/1941384080#:~:text=Book%20overview&text=The%20book%20includes%20over%20200,geologic%20explanations%2C%20and%20a%20glossary. |
Nature | Book | Field-Trip Guide to the Geology of the Lexington Reservoir and Loma Prieta
areas in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties,
California: Open-File Report | Stoffer, Philip W. and Mesina, Paula | 2002 | https://www.amazon.com/Field-Trip-Lexington-Reservoir-Mountains-California/dp/1288750226 | |
Nature | Book | Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California: A Manual of the Vascular Plants | Thomas, John Hunter | 1961 | https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=3137 | |
Fiction | Book | From Sleepy Lagoon to the Corner of the Cats | Sporleder, Steve | 2011 | A novel set in Los Gatos | https://www.amazon.com/Sleepy-Lagoon-Corner-Cats-ebook/dp/B008E05JYU/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1702833042&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Sporleder&s=books&sr=1-2 |
History | Book | Gallivanting in the Gem City, Stories of Los Gatos, CA, California | Sporleder, Steve | 2009 | https://www.amazon.com/Gallivanting-City-Stories-Gatos-California-ebook/dp/B0076RB5RC/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1702833042&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Sporleder&s=books&sr=1-1 | |
Nature | Book | Geologic Hazards in the summit ridge area of the Santa Cruz Mountains | USGS | https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr91618 | ||
History | Journal | Georgiana Feminist Reformer of the West | Santa Cruz County Historical Trust | 1987 | https://www.amazon.com/Georgiana-Feminist-Reformer-Journal-1852-1860/dp/0940283026 | |
History | Book | Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains | Young, John. V. | 1984 | https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Towns-Santa-Cruz-Mountains/dp/0944220126 | |
History | Book | Highway 17 Almanack & Gazeteer | Gotliffe, Harvey and Leonard, R.V. | 1993 | LG Library (vol. 1 and 2) | https://biblio.sg/book/original-1992-highway-17-almanack-gazetteer/d/1502026953 |
History | Book | Highway 17 The Road to Santa Cruz | Beal, Richard A. | 1991 | https://www.amazon.com/Highway-17-Road-Santa-Cruz/dp/0962997404 | |
History | Book | History of Los Gatos, Gem of the Foothills | Bruntz, George G. | 1971 | https://www.amazon.com/HIstory-Los-Gatos-Gem-Foothills/dp/B07LH1667J | |
Fiction | Book | Hobo Ashes | Sporleder, Steve | 2013 | A novel set in Los Gatos | https://www.amazon.com/Hobo-Ashes-Steve-Sporleder-ebook/dp/B00GP4218O/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1702833042&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Sporleder&s=books&sr=1-4 |
History | Book | Holy City Riker's Roadside Attraction in the Santa Cruz Mountains | Lewis, Betty | 1992 | https://www.amazon.com/Holy-City-Religious-Roadside-Attraction/dp/0961768150 | |
History | Book | Holy City, California: My Father's Final Quest | Santa Cruz County Historical Trust | 2011 | https://www.amazon.com/Holy-City-California-Fathers-Final/dp/1468147374 | |
Arts | Book | Illustrated Field Guide to the Woody Plants of the Santa Cruz Mountains | Corelli, Toni | 2005 | https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Field-Guide-Plants-Mountains/dp/0964699435/ref=sr_1_6?qid=1702828676&refinements=p_27%3AToni+Corelli&s=books&sr=1-6 | |
Arts | Book | Images of America, Los Gatos | Conaway, Peggy | 2004 | https://www.amazon.com/Los-Gatos-CA-Images-America/dp/0738529036 | |
Arts | Book | Images of America, Los Gatos Generations | Conaway, Peggy | 2007 | https://www.amazon.com/Los-Gatos-Generations-Images-America/dp/0738555614 | |
Arts | Book | Images of America, Santa Cruz California | O’Hare, Sheila and Berry, Irene | 2002 | https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Cruz-California-Images-America/dp/0738520810 | |
History | Book | Lakeside Legends: The First 125 Years | Fishback, Karen Condon | 2007 | Available from Lakeside School | https://www.sealiesoftware.com/lakeside/book-print.html |
History | Book | Late Harvest, Wine History of the Santa Cruz Mountains | Holland, Michael and the Late Harvest Project | 1983 | Buy used | https://www.amazon.com/Late-Harvest-History-Santa-Mountains/dp/B000HD0C3U |
History | Book | Legendary Locals of Los Gatos | Bergtold, Peggy Conaway and Mathews, Stephanie Ross | 2014 | https://www.numulosgatos.org/books-and-catalogs/los-gatos-generations-by-peggy-conaway-ldgge | |
History | Book | Like Modern Edens, Winegrowing in Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains 1798-1981 | Sullivan, Charles L. | 1982 | https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Edens-Charles-Sullivan-1982-01-01/dp/B01K2WQ92S#:~:text=Book%20overview,of%20the%20Santa%20Cruz%20Mountains. | |
History | Book | Los Gatos Observed, the Architecture & History of Los Gatos, California | Dallas, Alastair and Conrad, Peter S. | 1999 | https://www.amazon.com/Los-Gatos-Observed-Alastair-Dallas/dp/0967026806 | |
History | Book | Mama's Memoirs: Growing Up in the Santa Cruz Mountains | Tarquino, Margaret Louise Rapp | 1995 | Limited availability | https://www.amazon.com/Mamas-memoirs-Growing-Santa-mountains/dp/0964861801 |
History | Book | Narrow Gauge Portrait: South Pacific Coast | MacGregor, Bruce A. | 1975 | https://www.robertgavora.com/pages/books/46241/bruce-a-macgregor/narrow-gauge-portrait-south-pacific-coast | |
Nature | Book | Natural Resources Inventory of Castle Rock State Park and the Upper San Lorenzo River Basin | Harvey and Stanley Associates | 1979 | In library use only | https://sccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S118C1491 |
Arts | Book | Nuts from Hazelhurst | Sears, Laura J. | 2004 | Poetry; Limited availability | https://www.amazon.com/Nuts-Hazelhurst-Laura-J-Sears/dp/0615126456 |
Fiction | Book | One Life, Mine | Garrod, Emma S. | 2012 | https://www.amazon.com/One-Life-Mine-Garrod-Emma/dp/B00N1QRST6 | |
History | Book | Our Old Santa Cruz-Volume 1 | Otto, Ernest F. | 2023 | https://www.amazon.com/Our-Old-Santa-Cruz-History/dp/1953609481 | |
History | Book | Perilous Trails, Dangerous Men | Secrest, William B. | 2003 | https://www.amazon.com/Perilous-Trails-Dangerous-Men-California/dp/1884995241 | |
History | Book | Pogonip, Jewel of Santa Cruz | Martin, Joan Gilbert; McInerney-Meagher, Colleen | 2007 | https://www.amazon.com/Pogonip-Jewel-Joan-Gilbert-Martin/dp/1890625086 | |
History | Book | Postcard History Series, Los Gatos | Mathews, Stephen Ross and the Los Gatos Library Museum History Project | 2009 | https://www.amazon.com/Gatos-Postcard-History-Stephanie-Mathews/dp/0738569623 | |
Arts | Book | Railroads of Los Gatos (Images of Rail) | Kelley,Edward and Conaway, Peggy | 2006 | https://www.amazon.com/Railroads-Los-Gatos-Images-Rail/dp/0738546615 | |
History | Book | Santa Clara County A Harvest of Change | Payne, Stephen M. | 2008 | https://www.showlettwestbooks.com/product/42673/Santa-Clara-County-Harvest-of-Change | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal | Pettijohn, Philander; Orlando, Alverda; Koch, Margaret R.; Silvers, Dean A.; Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 1995 | Gold Gulch Letters of James Frazier Reed;
Davenport Cement Plant Railroad System Conditions At the Corralitos Flour Mills 1880;
Old Mission Santa Cruz Water Supply;
Remember Early Watsonville Journal | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal Index | Santa Cruz County history journal : cumulative index to numbers 1 through 8 (1994-2016) / compiled | 2016 | ||
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal Issue Number Eight | Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 2016 | ||
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal Issue Number Five | Linda Yamane; Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 2002 | A Gathering of Voices The Native Peoples of the Central California Coast | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal Issue Number Nine | Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 2018 | LandScapes : activism that shaped Santa Cruz County, 1955-2005 | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal Issue Number Seven | Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 2014 | Redwood logging and conservation in the Santa Cruz Mountains : a split history | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal Issue Number Six | Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 2009 | Pathways to the past : adventures in Santa Cruz County history | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal Paperback | History Museum of Santa Cruz County, Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 1994 | https://catalog.santacruzpl.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&type=Keyword&term=Santa%20Cruz%20Journal&by=KW&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0&searchid=1 | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal, Issue Number Four | Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County | 1998 | The Society of California Pioneers of Santa Cruz County : with biographies and portraits | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal, Issue Number Three | Lydon, Sandy | 1997 | Branciforte issue | |
History | Journal | Santa Cruz County History Journal, Issue Number Two | Kittredge, Francis M.; Art and History Museum of Santa Cruz County; Santa Cruz County Historical Trust | 1995 | ||
History | Book | Santa Cruz County Parade of the Past | Koch, Margarate | 1991 | https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Cruz-County-Parade-Past/dp/0934136505 | |
Academic | Book | Santa Cruz County Place Names | Clark, Donald Thomas | 1986 | https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Cruz-County-Place-Names/dp/094028300X | |
History | Book | Santa Cruz Trains Reflections on the Mountain Route | Whaley, Derek R. | 2016 | https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Cruz-Trains-Reflections-Mountain/dp/153976236X | |
Arts | Book | Songs of Los Gatos, Poems of the Gem City | Hicks, Parthenia M. | 2014 | https://www.amazon.com/Song-Los-Gatos-Poems-City/dp/1611701635 | |
History | Book | Survival with Style: The Women of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Revised Edition | Barriga, Joan B. | 1989 | ||
History | Journal | The Burrell Letters | Burrell, Lyman J. | 1950 | https://www.jstor.org/stable/25156194 | |
History | Journal | The Diaries of Juanita Goldman | Goldman, Juanita | 1898-1962 | Available only from Neil Wiley | |
Fiction | Book | The Forest Spell (Kaine Academy Book 1) | Kempston, Megan | 2016 | A novel set in the Santa Cruz Mountains | https://www.amazon.com/Forest-Spell-Kaine-Academy/dp/0997566019 |
History | Book | The Holy City Sideshow | Barriga, Joan B. | 1988 | Not currently available | https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Holy_City_Sideshow.html?id=JIpTYgEACAAJ |
Arts | Book | The Raucous Bluejay: Charles Erskine Scott Wood | Barriga, Joan B. | 1989 | ASIN: B00072JQUG
Los Gatos Library Reference section Call Number: R 920.7 B27
San Jose Library Reference section Call Number: REF CAL 979.471 Barriga | |
History | Book | The Reign of the Lumber Barons - Part 2 | Powell, Ronald G. | 2021 | https://www.amazon.com/Reign-Lumber-Barons-History-Augmentation/dp/1953609414 | |
Nature | Book | The Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Book, Tenth Edition | Taber, Tom | 2006 | https://www.amazon.com/Santa-Cruz-Mountains-Trail-Book/dp/0960917098 | |
History | Book | The Shadow of Loma Prieta - Part 3 | Powell, Ronald G. | 2021 | https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Loma-Prieta-History-Augmentation/dp/1953609449 | |
History | Book | The South Skyline Story | Schwind, Janet and the Skyline Historical Society | 2014 | Buy used | https://www.amazon.com/South-Skyline-Schwind-Historical-Society/dp/0615800009 |
History | Book | The Tragedy of Martina Castro - Part 1 | Powell, Ronald G. | 2021 | https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Martina-Castro-History-Augmentation/dp/1953609384 | |
Fiction | Book | Two for the Show | Walton, Effie | 1964 | LG Library | |
Nature | Book | Vegetation Types and Forest Conditions of the Santa Cruz Mountains | Burks, G. F.; Jensen and H. A. (1932); Wilson, R. C. and Hanks , C. W. (1935-6) | 1935-6 | https://books.google.com/books?id=r1ZLAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false | |
History | Book | Where Grizzlies Roamed The Canyons (The Story of the San Lorenzo Valley) | McCarthy, Nancy | 1994 | https://www.amazon.com/Where-Grizzlies-Roamed-Canyons-McCarthy/dp/1880732122 | |
History | Book | Whole Mountain Source Book(annual) | The Wittens | 2012 | Now online only | https://www.facebook.com/WholeMountainSourceBook/ |
History | Book | Wines and Winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains, An Oral History
Interviews conducted by Charles L. Sullivan 1992-1994 | DR Bennion Trust, Santa Cruz Mountain Vintners | 1994 |
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