"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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]