A night of crime fiction with Heather Gudenkauf and Lisa Unger!A couple’s gender reveal party turns deadly and everyone is a suspect in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight GuestTombolo Books welcomes Heather Gudenkauf back to the bookstore to celebrate the release of her latest thriller, The Perfect Hosts! Gudenkauf will be chatting with fellow bestselling author Lisa Unger!More about The Perfect HostsMadeline and Wes Drake have invited two hundred of their closest friends and family to their sprawling horse ranch for the most anticipated event of the year: a “pistols and pearls” gender reveal party so sensational it is sure to make headlines. But the party descends into chaos when the celebratory […]

Tombolo Books welcomes back award-winning author Jason Vuic for an evening discussing his latest book A Town Without Pity.Tombolo Books welcomes back award-winning author Jason Vuic for an evening discussing his latest book A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South. In A Town Without Pity Vuic recounts two heartbreaking stories from Arcadia that rose to national prominence at the end of the Reagan era and forced the town to reckon with not only AIDS hysteria but also the legacies of a racist past.More about A Town Without PityIn the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was “fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota.” With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history, Arcadia […]

Tombolo Books welcomes back award-winning author Jason Vuic for an evening discussing his latest book A Town Without Pity.Tombolo Books welcomes back award-winning author Jason Vuic for an evening discussing his latest book A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South. In A Town Without Pity Vuic recounts two heartbreaking stories from Arcadia that rose to national prominence at the end of the Reagan era and forced the town to reckon with not only AIDS hysteria but also the legacies of a racist past.More about A Town Without PityIn the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was “fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota.” With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history, Arcadia […]

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist celebrates debut novel at Tombolo Books!Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Mirta Ojito to celebrate the release of her debute novel Deeper Than The Ocean!Told in a dual narrative that moves seamlessly between past and present, Deeper Than the Ocean is a meditation on the strength of women, the enduring power of a mother’s love and the corrosive hold of family secrets across oceans and time.Weather permitting, this event will take place in Tombolo Books' courtyard.More about Deeper Than The OceanIn 1919 Spain, Catalina Quintana is the eldest daughter in a family of silkworm farmers on the tiny island of La Palma in the remote Canary Islands. Fiercely independent, Catalina dreams of […]

Michael Grunwald and Craig Pittman discuss Grunwald's We Are Eating The Earth at Tombolo Books!Tombolo Books welcomes bestselling author Michael Grunwald to the bookstore for a conversation with local author Craig Pittman featuring Grunwald's latest book We Are Eating The Earth: A Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.In this rollicking, shocking narrative, Grunwald shows how the world, after decades of ignoring the climate problem at the center of our plates, has pivoted to making it worse, embracing solutions that sound sustainable but could make it even harder to grow more food with less land.More about We Are Eating The EarthHumanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our […]