OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2006
BAJA BOOK BEAT

We are back to begin yet another year here at the book store….hard to believe but this will be the start of our 7th year in business…..much as changed at the book store….from 12 book cases of old paperbacks to an inventory of somewhere around 30,000 plus books has been quite a ride for us…..

Again this year we will continue to improve the quality and variety of books you will find here……besides what one expects in the way of pop paperbacks we have some very interesting books in the following sections………
ADVENTURE-TRAVEL/ALLIEN-UFO/ART/ALTERNATIVE LIFE STYLES
BIOGRAPHIES/CHRISTIAN/CLASSICS/CRAFTS/COOK BOOKS
CUBAN HISTORY/CHILDREN/EASTERN RELIGION/GENEOLOGY/HEALTH-DIET/HUMOR/HISTORICAL FICTION MEXICAN HISTORY/MILITARY NON FICTION
MILITARY FICTION/NATIVE AMERICAN/NEW AGE/PLAYS/POETRY
PHILOSPHY/SOCIOLOGY-PSYSCHOLOGY/SELF-HELP/SCI-FI FANTASY
TRUE CRIME/U.S. POLITICS/U.S. HISTORY/WESTERNS/WOMEN’S STUDIES/FOREIGN LANGUAGE I.E. FRENCH-GERMAN-SPANISH……

In addition we have a fine selection of Baja books….including some copies of the hard to find Dawson Series……several Spanish phrase books along with Spanish/English Dictionaries…..

Many of you have inquired about the publication date of the new BAJA ALMANAC…..in my latest conversation with the author he believes it will be available in the first part of November and we will have it in stock as soon as it is available….

NEW MAPS
We are now carrying some very nice maps from Esparza Editores Map Co. these are high quality maps and in addition to their BAJA map we have city maps of MEXICALI and ENSENADA…..a fine wall map of the BAJA.
And what will make a super Xmas gift is their Baja wall calendar priced at $5.00…..

Two Baja standards which almost everyone has used in the past are now out-of-print and we have not been able to ascertain exactly when the new editions will be printed……we were able to obtain 2 copies of Roadside Geology and Biology of Baja California and about a dozen copies of Baja California Plant Field Guide…

During the summer spent in places like Los Angeles/ San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest we were able to find and transport down here many new titles….and in one area I believe you will be pleasantly surprised ….COOK BOOKS…..we found so many wonderful cook books and have really expanded this section…..many on special diets... vegetarian/low carb/weight watchers…..ethnic recipes from around the world……and as always we carry local favorites …The Tequila Cook Book/The Chili-Lovers Cook Book/The Salsa-Lovers Cook Book/Tacos y Mas…..and for the many of you who have Frida fever we carry Frida’s Fiestas – Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo……

Cave Paintings Baja California…..Gateway to Alta California…Portrait of Paloma are all books by noted Baja Author Harry W. Crosby that we have in stock….Gateway To Alta California- Having set the stage in his masterly Antigua California, Crosby now takes us northward- via primary sources and personal exploration—as Spain makes its final push into the Alta California that had for so long remained an unattainable goal. Like Herbert Eugene Bolton before him, Harry W. Crosby is at his most insightful and convincing when functioning at the intersection point of on-the-ground exploration and archival research. Here is a major contribution to the story of California and the larger history of the Spanish borderlands. – Dr. Kevin Starr State Librarian of Calif

The Cave Paintings of Baja California-Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People.. This full-color account, revised and expanded from the original edition, depicts the author’s discovery and documentation of a world-class archaeological region in remote central Baja California. The paintings were unveiled to the modern world in the 1960’s by adventure writer Erle Stanley Gardner in conjunction with a comprehensive study by Dr. Clement Meighan of UCLA. These Great Murals, whose origins remain mysterious to this day, rank with those of southern France, northern Spain, northwest Africa, and outback ….

Portrait of Paloma-An engaging novel that is at heart a love story, Portrait of Paloma is also a provocative tale of gender, generation, and what two people can learn when they trust each other enough to bridge the divides of both……

“…of Sea and Sand.” Is Bruce Barber’s fine book which he describes as a drama of Two Living Deserts….some of the interesting facts covered by Bruce are a Mexican Frontier….30,00 years of indigenous man’s presence….Where America’s early lunar astronauts trained…..the location of 600 volcanoes…in excess of 12,00 Indian cave drawings…more than a dozen ancient Indian intaglios….Shellmounds describing 2,000 years of early man’s activity and water-cut gorges to compare with any on earth…….

The San Felipe Title Company (the book store) is open from 9 A.M. till 4 P.M. everyday except Monday…we are located in the finicial hub of downtown San Felipe…at the corner of Mar de Cortez and Chetumal…up on the balcony between the World Headquarters of BLUEROADRUNNER…RANDY LAND……and BAJA JAVA where Karen & Vince and of course the ‘Ladies of Baja Java’ serve fine food and the best coffee south of Seattle…..Our phone number is 577-047.