A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning author, Hank Phillippi Ryan. In ONE WRONG WORD, savvy crisis management expert Arden Ward finds herself at the center of a scandalous affair. Ryan weaves a story of gossip, lies, and rumors where words can hurt you but they can also kill! Join […]
Set in the lushness of Cuba and Florida, and spanning decades, the stories in Dressing the Saints chronicle lives left behind and new ones forged with struggle, melancholy, and hope. Tombolo Books welcomes local author Aracelis González Asendorf to the bookstore for a celebration of her latest story collection, Dressing the Saints. Asendorf will be […]
From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century. In Into the Bright Sunshine, Samuel G. Freedman examines Hurbert Humphrey's early political career, when his efforts […]
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters. Rebecca Renner's Gator Country is the twisting true story of the impossible choices individuals must make to stay afloat in this world, and she will join local […]
Tombolo Books welcomes back Florida author Ryan Rivas to the bookstore to celebrate his "darkly comic and deeply strange novella" Lizard People. Rivas and Shane Hinton, author of Pinkies and editor of We Can't Help It If We're From Florida, will be in conversation! All his life, the unnamed narrator of Lizard People has believed […]
In Mickey and the Teamsters, Mike Schneider pulls the veil back on the most "magical place on Earth." Schneider offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the hidden struggles that surround Disney World, which employs the largest single-site workforce in the United States. Tombolo Books welcomes Schneider to the bookstore for a conversation about the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
"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 […]
