Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lane DeGregory to the bookstore to discuss her acclaimed anthology, The Girl in the Window And Other True Tales. Part anthology and part craft guide, The Girl in the Window And Other True Tales offers something for readers and writers alike. Lane DeGregory loves true stories, […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
Haitian American author Micki Berthelot Morency’s empowering debut novel, The Island Sisters, is filled with rich island culture, the human cost of abuse, and the unbreakable bond of friendship. Tombolo Books is trilled to welcome local author, Micki Berthelot Morency to the bookstore to launch her debut novel, The Island Sisters. Morency pulls from her […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
Join us for a conversation with two authors who examine the treasure that is the "Florida Dream:" Renowned historian Gary R. Mormino in his historical account of the Dream revealed in the 2000's in Dreams of a New Century: Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida's Turning Point (University Press of Florida, 2022) and best-selling children's author […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
Tombolo Books is thrilled to partner with The Battleground for an exciting workshop combining Manga and Poetry!! Begin creating your own manga, comic or graphic novel together with The Battleground youth program! During this workshop, we will facilitate the beginning stage of your process by helping you create a main character and a poem/verse for […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
Tombolo Books is thrilled to partner with The Battleground for an exciting workshop combining Manga and Poetry!! Begin creating your own manga, comic or graphic novel together with The Battleground youth program! During this workshop, we will facilitate the beginning stage of your process by helping you create a main character and a poem/verse for that […]
The African American Heritage Association has partnered with local bookstore, Tombolo Books, to bring the city’s African American history to the forefront. This monthly series acknowledges St. Petersburg’s Black past, present, and future. From Melrose Clubhouse to Desegregation of Pinellas County Schools, the series covers a multitude of topics related to local Black history and […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Good Intentions
1900 1st Avenue South, Saint Petersburg
💌 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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
Tombolo Books
2153 1st Ave S., St. Petersburg, Florida
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 […]
