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SUNBELT PUBLICATIONS has over 30 years of experience in the publishing business. The goal for all of our programs

is to contribute to the body of knowledge on the topics of natural science, outdoor adventure, regional histories, and stories that celebrate the land and its people. Sunbelt books encourage discovery and conservation of the natural, historical, and cultural heritage of unique regions including California, the desert southwest, and Baja California.

PublishingFor works of outstanding merit that advance our mission, we develop quality publications. Our Publishing Program takes

projects through development, editing, layout, production, sales, and marketing. We have won numerous awards for individual publications as well as for overall contributions to the trade and region.

DistributionFor titles published by similarly talented publishers that fall within our niche, we offer exclusive distribution that broadly expands markets for most small publishers. By providing access to specialized book trade channels, including sources like Ingram, Baker and Taylor, and Barnes and Noble, as well as to a broad spectrum of loyal retailers including museum shops, specialty stores, and non-profit organizations, Sunbelt’s Distribution Program expands sales coverage and simplifies fullfilment.

WholesaleIn order to meet and exceed the demands of our many specialty retail customers, we cater to stock preferences by carrying a selection of favorite titles from various publishing houses including Wilderness Press, Globe Pequot, Tom Harrison Maps, and many others. Visit the “Specialty Catalog” page of our website for information on these titles.

Custom PublishingThrough Sunbelt’s Custom Publishing Program, clients receive face-to-face service that provides their work with the quality editing, layout, and production standards that we ensure for our own publications, free from the confines of editorial board objectives. If the subject of a custom publishing project falls within our niche, it may also be eligible for our Distribution Program. See page 11 for details.

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INSIDESpotlight on Authors

Diana Lindsay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicholas Clapp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greg Niemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Spotlight on SubjectsOutdoor Guidebooks . . . . . . . . . . . .Natural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Local Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Native American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Regional Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Children’s Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In the Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Earth Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maps, Foldables, & Tchotchkes . . . .

Spotlight on ServicesCustom Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Available in eBook format

DIANA LINDSAY | 3

DIANA LINDSAY is the author, co-author, or editor of many books that delve into the cultural and

natural history of San Diego County. Her master’s thesis was published by Copley Books in 1973 as Our Historic Desert. Since then, she’s developed award-winning books that include Anza-Borrego Desert Region, Anza-Borrego A to Z, Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles, and Ricardo Breceda: Accidental Artist. She was the managing editor of Coast to Cactus: The Canyoneer Trail Guide to San Diego Outdoors written by the San Diego Natural History Museum Canyoneers and is also the founder and president of Sunbelt Publications.

Coast to Cactus is more than a hiking guide to San Diego County. It is a trail guide designed to teach appreciation and understanding of the region, considered one of 35

biodiversity hotspots in the world. It is like having a trail naturalist—a

“Virtual Canyoneer”—with you who will introduce habitats and species, as well as cultural and geographical features, found on each exploration.

Diana Lindsay, Paula Knoll, & Terri Varnell

9781941384206 | $29.95

Marshal South Rides Again9780932653123$14.95

Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles9780932653666$21.95

Anza-Borrego Desert Region 6ew/ Lowell Lindsay(Wilderness Press)9780899977799$21.95

Borrego Springs Sculptures9781941384145$11.95

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4 | NICHOLAS CLAPP

Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Nicholas Clapp has studied, filmed, and written about the deserts of the

world. As an author, prior publications include The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands, Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen, and Who Killed Chester Pray? Now, with the detailed eye of a cinematographer, he has compiled three books chronicling the rise and fall of rowdy mining towns of the desert West and another on the ancient and mysterious lives of southwest desert shamans.

Called “handsome, compellingly written, and superbly illustrated volumes that both entertain and inform,” by Nevada In the West, Clapp’s series on mining town brings to life the the lusterous history and nostolgic present of some of the most important gold and silver mines in the American West.

Gold and Silver in the Mojave9780932653062 $24.95

Virginia City9781941384152 $25.95

Bodie (photos by Will Furman)9781941384268 $22.95

Old Magic: Lives of the Desert ShamansFor a thousand generations, desert shamans of the far

West sought order in the stars and in the mysteries and wonder of their grand, if unforgiving landscape. They’re

gone now, but there remain telling accounts of how they lived and how omens foretold a shaman’s destiny.

ISBN: 9781941384053 $22.95Winner of the PubWest Gold Award

for Best Historical or Biographical Book

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Baja Legends 9780932653475 $17.95

Las Vegas Legends 9780932653987 $17.95

Palm Springs Legends 9780932653741 $17.95

GREG NIEMANN

Greg Niemann, journalist, is

the author of the award-winning

Baja Legends, Palm Springs Legends, Baja Fever, Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS, and most recently, Las Vegas Legends. A long-time member of the Outdoor Writers Association of California, he often writes for the San Clemente Journal. When they are not traveling, he and his wife live in Palm Springs.

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OUTDOOR GUIDEBOOKS | 5Sunbelt’s regional cycling guides provide

comprehensive selections of trips for cyclists of every level and include state-of-the-art route maps with detailed trip descriptions. Author Nelson Copp is a popular lecturer on topics including Map & Compass Navigation and GPS. Cycling San Diego, 4e 9781941384138 $21.95Cycling the Trails of San Diego9780932653963 $19.95Cycling the Palm Springs Region 9780932653932 $18.95

Outdoor Guide to Palos Verdes 9780932653864$19.95

Fun Places in So. California9780983383222$25.95

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[A] Desert Bighorn Sheep 9781941384008 $29.95[B] Fossil Treasures Anza-Borrego Desert 9780932653505 $49.95[C] Anza-Borrego: A Photographic Journey 9780932653147 $21.95[D] Lagoon Time 9780916251420 $29.95

[E] Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in So. CA 9780932653697 $19.95 [F] San Diego: Intro To The Region, 5e 9781941384022 $27.95[G] Baja’s Wild Side 9781941384329 $19.95[H] Tortoises Through The Lens 9780916251017 $14.95

NATURAL HISTORY & ECOLOGY

Afoot & Afield San Diego(Wilderness Press)9780899978017$24.95

Baja CA Plant Field Guide, 3e(SDNHM)9780916251185 $34.95

Wildflowers of Orange County(Laguna Mtn Press)9780984000715$35.00

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San Diego: CA Cornerstone, 2e 9781941384244 $19.95

History in the Headlines9781941384220 $16.95

The Cuyamacas 9780932653949$19.95

San Diego: Intro To The Region, 5e 9781941384022 $27.95

This Day in San Diego History 9780932653901 $19.95

Coloring San Diego Landmarks 9781941384251 $9.95

Baja California Land of Missions (M&E Books)9781495191213 $29.95

California’s El Camino Real and its Historic Bells(M&E Books)9781532318948$22.95

Irving Gill: Progress and Poetry in Archietecture

(SOHO) 9780980095043

$22.99

Gateway to Alta CA 9780932653574 $39.95

San Diego Legends The Events, People, and Places That Made History, 2nd ed.

9781941384015 $17.95Written by “legend hunter,” popular speaker and TV guest,

Jack Innis, San Diego Legends delves into the stories of fascinating people and events that influenced the

development of San Diego. Discover the characters and groups that color the county’s timeline, from San Diego’s first radical (Father Junipero Serra) to the former “Mr. New Hampshire”

living in a hidden Torrey Pines cave.

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STORIES OF THE LAND & ITS PEOPLE

NATIVE AMERICAN | 7

Blood of the Band 9781941384121 $19.95

Cave Paintings of Baja California 9780932653239 $39.95

Rock Art of the Grand Canyon Region9780932653093 $24.95

Earth Pigments & Paint of CA Indians (PDC) 9780979378003 $19.95

Strangers in a Stolen Land 9780932653826 $16.95

Tom Hom 9781941384114 $14.95 9780932653444 $21.95

Tequila, Lemon, and Salt9780932653659 $14.95

Courage To Heal 9780932653857 $14.95

Rock Art Papers, Vol 18(SD Rock Art Assoc.)9780996975803 $20.00

Indians of the Oaks (SD Museum of Man) 9780937808504 $12.95

Reclaiming Our Stories(City Works Press) 9780976580157 $13.95

Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler 9780932653680 $19.95

Written by surgeon Paul Bernstein, Medical Director and Chief of Staff at Kaiser Permanente, this longtime, best-selling novel is based on the true story of how Sidney R. Garfield, MD, along with industrialist Henry Kaiser, changed the face of American medicine. At the height of the Great Depression, Garfield saw thousands of men building the Los An-geles Aqueduct, and recognized an opportunity to provide health care for those workers starting with a 12-bed hospital in the Mojave Desert.

Find more stories at: http://sunbeltpublications.com/product-category/fiction-and-biographies/

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8 | CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Bighorns Don’t Honk (BM) 9781891795602 $7.95 9781891795596 $15.95

Life in the Slow Lane (BM) 9781891795336 $7.95 9781891795077 $16.95

Fang and Stinger (BM) 9781891795640 $7.95 9781891795633 $16.95

Sugar Bear Story 9780932653703 $9.95

Who-o-o’s Awake in the Desert 9781941384312 $12.95

My Ancestors’ Village 9780932653611 $9.95

Color Me Fit 9781941384299 $9.95

Nature Adventures! 9781941384282 $12.95

The Painted Rocks(San Dieguito JPA) 9780965372503 $12.95

Desert Night Shift (BM) 9781891795329 $7.959781891795169 $15.95

Lizards For Lunch(Bobolink Media) 9781891795008 $7.95

Counting Little Geckos (Bobolink Media) 9781891795145 $6.95

Find more children’s titles at: http://sunbeltpublications.com/product-category/children-and-young-adult/

Monster In The Rocks (Bobolink Media) 9781891795657 $7.95

Geology and Geologic Hazards of NW Baja(SDAG)9781941384275 $49.95

Roadside Geology Sunrise Highway (SDAG)9780916251192 $12.95

Mining & Geology Joshua Tree NP(SDAG)9780916251703 $19.95

San Luis Rey On Display(SDAG) 9780916251369 $34.95

Geology of Coyote Mountains, S. CA(SDAG)9781941384213 $34.95

Picacho & the Cargo Muchachos, 2e(SDAG) 9781941384077 $34.95

Field Guide to San Andreas Fault (Thule Scientific)9781941384084 $39.95

Gulf of California Coastal Ecology 9781941384183 $19.95

EARTH SCIENCE

IN THE GARDEN | 9

Palm Springs-Style Gardening 9780932653895 $26.95

Soft Succulents (JM) 9780991584635 $34.95

Under the Spell of Succulents (JM) 9780991584604 $29.99

Sunbelt Publications works in close partnership with the San Diego Association of Geologists (SDAG), a branch of the non-profit organization for scientists and professionals, San Diego Geological Society. Members specialize in a large range of fields including hydrology, geotechnical engineering, earth science education, oceanography, mining, geoscience publishing, and environmental geology. The association boasts an active publishing program with a regional focus on San Diego and Imperial counties and adjacent areas.

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10 | MAPS, FOLDABLES, & TCHOTCHKES

TOM HARRISON MAPSMap design is more than just putting a bunch of lines and symbols on a piece of paper. It involves decisions on what to leave off the map, what kind of typeface to use, what size lines and symbols to use. Tom Harrison Maps recognizes that maps are difficult to read for most people, and we design them so you don’t have to know how to read a map, or even use a compass. They research each area, hike trails with a measuring wheel when needed,

obtain aerial photography, coordinate with Park Service and Forest Service administrators, digitize government maps, and produce a product that is unique in the mapping industry—a full-color, shaded-relief, easy-to-use topographic map.*

The Waterford Press Pocket Naturalist Series covers a range of subjects, including wildlife, birds, science, and natural history and are laminated for durability. Sunbelt carries a wide selection of Pocket Naturalist southwest desert guides.

Pocket Naturalist

San Gorgonio Wilderness Map9780991578450$10.95

Rec Map: San Diego Backcountry 9781877689543$10.95

Rec Map: Anza-Borrego(Wildrness Press)9780899974019$9.95

Southwestern Desert Birds 9781583550915 $7.95Chaprral Scrublands of S. CA9781583556832 $7.95

Sky Art Metal Sculptures of Borrego Valley3rd Ed.9781941384411 $8.95

SW Wildflowers Playing Cards(Adventurekeen)9781591933700$5.95

Southwest BirdsPlaying Cards(Adventurekeen)9781591933618$5.95

Easy Field Guide to SW Snakes (American Traveller)9780935810172$1.99

Local Birds San Diego County (Local Birds)9781886403079$8.95

*Excerpted and abridged from TomHarrisonMaps.com

CUSTOM PUBLISHING | 11What is custom publishing?

Examples of Sunbelt Custom Publications:

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Sunbelt Publications has thirty-plus years of experience in developing manuscripts, stories, collections, and histories into elegant, accessible, and informative works. With

a strong network of experts including writers, content developers, proof readers, editors, designers, and printers, Sunbelt Publications provides unparalleled personal service to guide the layperson through the ins-and-outs of developing a spectacular product.

Chula Vista Centennial: A Century of People and Progess, 1911-2011A celebration of the city centennial by Steven Schoenherr.

Waxie: An American Family Business Success Story

As told by the owners, managers, employees, vendors, and friends of

WAXIE to writer Donald H. Harrison.

“Sunbelt's staff is very professional, taking care in every aspect of publication, from helping the client determine the size of the book, to what paper stock to select, from bringing a consistent editorial style to the content, to eye-pleasing art direction. Any company or individual seeking to have a book professionally published would do well to contact Sunbelt.”

–Donald H. Harrison, author of Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Waxie: An American Family Business Success Story

“From my initial inquiries and the actual publication process, to the press release, I have been nothing short of impressed with this company.”

–Jenny Holt, author of Who-o-o’s Awake in the Desert

Learn more at http://sunbeltpublications.com/services/custom-publishing-services/

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–Teddy Tapscott, Yucca Valley Chamber of Commerce & California Welcome Center

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We will love only what we understand.

We will understand only what we are taught.

–Baba Dioum

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“Thank you for the excellent service. Sunbelt’s books are great. The discounts are appreciated.”

-Zella R. de Ibáñez, Executive Director, Tecate Community Museum

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