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Join us in the courtyard for a National Poetry Month Celebration in partnership with the City of Writers Poetry Festival & St. Pete Poet Laureate Gloria Muñoz! Local poets and artists Camilo Loaiza Bonilla, Keifer Calkins, Eleanor Eichenbaum, Tyler Gillespie, and Tenea D. Johnson will be leading collaborative poetry activities that will encourage attendees to […]

Tombolo Books welcomes Florida author and founder of the Word of South Festival of Literature and Music, Mark Mustian, to the bookstore to celebrate the release of his new historical fiction novel, Boy With Wings! Mustian will be in conversation with local author Paul Wiborn! More about Boy With Wings What does it mean to […]

Tombolo Books welcomes poet Connie Mae Oliver to the bookstore for a celebration of her poetry collection, dormilona, during National Poetry Month! Oliver will be in conversation with St. Petersburg's Poet Laureate Gloria Muñoz. dormilona is a bilingual book of poetry exploring dream states, distance, and the rituals of sleep. In this collection, the fluidity […]

Join us at the bookstore on Saturday, April 26th to celebrate INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY 2025! We will be open our regular hours, 10am - 5:30pm, with fun IBD happenings until 4pm both in the bookstore and out in our courtyard! Special Indie Bookstore Day merch will be available all day while supplies last! This year […]

Join Tombolo Books for a live reading of the online poetry series “The Climate of Us: Poems Between the Land and Sea” featuring local poets living in Florida! This series was created in partnership between Gloria Muñoz, the Poet Laureate of the City of St. Petersburg, and the Florida Humanities to make poetry more accessible […]

Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse… Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome back local, New York Times and internationally bestselling author Sarah Penner to celebrate the release of her third novel, The Amalfi Curse! The Amalfi Curse follows Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, […]

America's favorite writing coach, Roy Peter Clark is back with he essential guide to writing a winning college admissions essay! And he is heading to Tombolo Books to share more about this must-have instructional text for all college hopefuls! Clark will discuss Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay: Write Your Way into the School […]

Two incredible events, one evening! Spend the evening at the bookstore diving into the latest anthology edited by Michele Filgate, What My Father And I Don't Talk About! This new collection of essays features local author, professor, and friend of the bookstore Heather Sellers who will lead us in this incredible evening of reading and […]

Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly back to St. Petersburg for an evening to celebrate his latest novel, Nightshade! He will be in conversation with local, NYT bestselling author Lisa Unger! Nightshade introduces readers to a brand new character in the Connelly universe: Detective Stilwell, a cop relentlessly […]