To celebrate the Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading we've curated a reading list focused on this wonderful city. Get a taste of the famous Columbia Restaurant, learn about the Summit Venture's crash into the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, and see immigrant cigar workers carve out a space for themselves. Books are on sale with code … Continue reading Tampa: A Reading List
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“Gálvez’s fresh, vivid, personal, and direct prose is a delight to read. We travel in time with these spontaneous writings, and we can feel the pain and the endurance of Cuban émigrés and patriots in nineteenth-century Tampa longing for their Patria.”—Madeline Cámara Betancourt, author of Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria “Gálvez opens an important … Continue reading Tampa
From Saloons to Steak Houses
Black beans and vice in Florida’s Cigar City “This rollicking ride through Tampa history captures the flavor of the city through the stories of some of its most colorful and legendary people and places. From bootleggers and jook joints to labor strikes and sit-ins, this is social history at its finest.”—Janine Farver, former executive director, … Continue reading From Saloons to Steak Houses
Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading 2019
We traveled to Tampa last weekend to attend the Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading. We displayed some of our new and bestselling books, and it was great to meet with everyone who visited us at our booth! Eugene A. Shinn, author of Geology of the Florida Keys, and Julie … Continue reading Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading 2019
Creating the Sunshine Skyway Memorial
By Bill DeYoung, author of Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down . . My research for Skyway took me to the Tampa Bay area many, many times. On an early trip—before I’d done the first interview—I went looking for a memorial, a monument, or even … Continue reading Creating the Sunshine Skyway Memorial
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