Join us at the bookstore for an exciting evening with local author Mark E. Leib for his novel Image Breaker, a story about a man's journey to to reexamine a life he once held dear in order live a life that deeply, truly matters! Tristan Wishnasky seems to have it all: a successful career as […]
💌 Join us again at Good Intentions for another round of Speed Dating with A Book to celebrate Bookstore Romance Week!💌 We are cooking up a completely new selection of books that will be presented as rapid-fire recommendations across all genres from local authors, book club leaders, and booksellers! And speaking of cooking, our friends […]
A steel town daughter’s search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama Beginning at the center, with her family’s 1947 arrival to a housing project near the color line, within earshot of what would become known as Dynamite Hill, Julie Buckner Armstrong works her way over time and across the map in her latest book […]
Tombolo Books in partnership with St. Petersburg Poet Laureate, Gloria Muñoz is thrilled to welcome Anne Barngrover to the bookstore for the September reading in our 2023 monthly poetry series! Barngrover will read from her stunning new poetry collection, EVERWHEN, an anxious, verdant poetry collection that is preoccupied with a chthonic era—when the secrets of […]
Here in the Dark, the first collection from award-winning author Meagan Lucas, is a gritty genre blending wallop of short stories, set mostly in Southern Appalachia, that explore the female experience of lawlessness. Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Meagan Lucas to the bookstore for an evening celebrating her debut short story collection! Lucas […]
A moving middle-grade mystery about a boy dealing with long-repressed memories of his father as he learns about his Mexican and Haitian heritage while spying on a mysterious stranger during the first weeks of COVID lockdown. Tombolo Books welcomes FL author Phillippe Diederich to the bookstore to celebrate his middle grade novel Lalo Lespérance Never […]
Historian Sarah McNamara traces the lives of the revolutionaries that made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State decades before Miami became Havana USA in her trailblazing monograph YBOR CITY: Crucible of the Latina South. McNamara, joined by fellow Florida historian Gary […]
This September, The African American Heritage Association Community Conversations in association with Tombolo Books presents a screening of “Underground History” and discussion moderated by Ms. Gwendolyn Reese, President, African American Heritage Association of St. Petersburg. Underground History is a documentary film project designed to explore connections between the St. Petersburg’s diverse cultural history and emerging […]
M.S. Harkness’s bold, precise black-and-white cartooning and eye for storytelling in TIME UNDER TENSION invites the reader in, while her sharp wit and naturalist ear as a writer takes it away from there. Never didactic, always real, Time Under Tension is a spirited and assured work of graphic memoir. Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome […]
In a memoir that's both rapturous and page-turning, L.L. Kirchner captures the terrors and joys of searching for radical honesty! Let us know we will see you at the event! Please RSVP HERE! Local author, journalist, and award-winning screen writer L.L. Kirchner has lived a life in search for nirvana. That search took her from […]
THIS COUNTRY is a gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by New Yorker cartoonist Navied Mahdavian. Mahdavian, joined by local author of Brujas Lorraine Monteagut, heads to Tombolo Books to share more about his gorgeous graphic memoir! Join us to hear more […]
Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Ginger Pinholster to the bookstore to discuss her gripping new novel Snakes of St. Augustine! Pinholster will be in conversation with Florida Book Award Winner and local author Gale Massey! “Here is a richly textured and compelling novel full of unforgettable personalities who will have you turning […]
An Unflinching Look delivers a powerful statement about the future that awaits the upper Florida Gulf Coast peninsula. When viewing Dimmitt’s mesmerizing and sobering photographs...one sees that the future is already here and moving rapidly toward apocalypse. —Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea An Unflinching […]
The New York Times bestselling author of the “otherworldly treat” (People) The Drowning Kind and The Children on the Hill returns with a spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family. Join us in welcoming bestselling author Jennifer McMahon to […]
Tombolo Books welcomes local author Andrea Rinard to the bookstore for a celebration of her debut flash fiction collection, Murmurations! Rinard will be joined in conversation by Jenn Gilgan. In the twenty-six short stories within Murmurations, Andrea Rinard introduces an eclectic array of women attempting to claim their own space and to find meaning in […]
You all know how much Tombolo LOVES a book club! What's the only thing that can make a book club better? A book Club with an award-winning author! Tombolo Books is thrilled to host the ultimate book club meet-up for Lisa Unger fans! Join the internationally bestselling author of twenty novels for an intimate deep-dive […]
"With admirable honesty and empathy, Thomas Hallock's essays and poems guide us on what is revealed as a necessary search for contentment--its languages, philosophies, and made kinships. And we travel with him on a sometimes-rocky path, but one that is always loving, always tender." - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. […]
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Cara Fitzpatrick shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school. The Death of Public School presents the compelling history of the fiercest battle in the history of American education—one that already has changed the future of public schooling. "The […]
A sweet and endearing picture book that celebrates the magical, enduring bond between caregiver and child! Tombolo Books welcomes award-winning musician and author Jesse Terry to the bookstore for a kid's storytime and sing-along! Jesse will read his book If I Were the Moon, adapted from one of his favorite and most requested songs which […]
Tombolo welcomes Rosa Lowinger to the bookstore to share more of her stunning debut memoir that is a moving portrait of a Cuban Jewish family’s intergenerational trauma, and a story about repair and healing that will forever change how you see the objects and places we cherish and how we manage damage and loss.Rosa Lowinger's […]