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Italian Immigrant Hotels
In the early twentieth century, there were small hotels catering to recent Italian immigrants in San Jose. These were clustered around an...


The San Jose Trilogy
St. James Park will be published by Koehler Books in August 2025 and is the first novel of a planned triptych about dreams conjured and...


San Jose's Shame: The 1933 Lynching
The novel, St. James Park, reflects actual events that occurred in San Jose in 1933. Brooke Hart, was a recent graduate of the then...


Bootleggers!!
During Prohibition, a state official once complained there were more illegal distilleries in operation in Santa Clara County than in any...
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