Celebrate the paperback release of the Tombolo Staff fave, Ring Shout!Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, is coming out in paperback and he is heading to Tombolo Books to celebrate the release!Ring Shout was an instant staff favorite when it was first published in 2020, so Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome Clark to the bookstore to tell us more about this "fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination" (The New York Times).PREORDER THE PAPERBACK HERE! More about Ring ShoutIN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling […]

Julie Marie Wade and Julia Koets join us at the bookstore to celebrate Wade's new memoir, Other People's Mothers.Tombolo Books welcomes local author Julie Marie Wade to the bookstore for a celebration of her beautiful memoir in essays, Other People's Mothers.PREORDER YOUR COPY HERE!This coming-of-age memoir explores the relationship between a daughter, her mother, and the other mothers present in their lives, revealing a young woman grappling with complex messages about who she is permitted—or destined—to become.Wade will be in conversation with local poet and professor Julia Koets!More about Other People's MothersRelationships between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught. Even in the best of circumstances, many of us may have grown up curious about the mothers of […]

Tombolo Books welcomes back Erin Slaughter to the bookstore for a conversation about her new memoir, The Dead Dad Diaries.Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome back Erin Slaughter to the bookstore to hear more about her new memoir, The Dead Dad Diaries. Part true-crime story, part poetic meditation on seeking to know a parent posthumously, The Dead Dad Diaries confronts the impact of domestic violence and hereditary addiction on a family lineage, and questions the extent to which we can trust the stories we tell ourselves about our memories, our lives, and the people in them.Slaughter will be back in conversation with Tombolo Bookseller and author, Rachel Knox!PURCHASE YOUR BOOK HERE!More about The Dead Dad DiariesErin Slaughter's father was murdered […]

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 […]