Book Group: “The Reformatory: A Novel” by Tananarive Due
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of …
Book Group
Grab a cup of coffee and join us monthly for an informal discussion about the best in Florida literature. Topics range from fiction to food, poetry to politics. Free with registration, the History Center’s book group meets from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
Book Group: “Through the Groves: A Memoir” by Anne Hull
Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father’s family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the …
Book Group: “The Apartment” by Ana Menéndez
The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have …
Book Group: “Good Day Sunshine State” by Bob Kealing
In 1964, Beatlemania flooded the United States. The Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North America—and they spent more time in …
Book Group: “Swamp Story: A Novel” by Dave Barry
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a …
Book Group: “Urban Vigilantes in the New South” by Robert P. Ingalls
Named an Outstanding Book on the subject of intolerance in the United States by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States, Ingalls’s work …
Book Group: “Painter in a Savage Land” by Miles Harvey
In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book …
Book Group: “Florida” by Lauren Groff
In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie …
Book Group: Summer Reading Review with Colette Bancroft
The Tampa Bay History Center’s book group will meet virtually to discuss the detailed architectural drawings by Charles Greacen.
Book Group: “Matrix: A Novel” by Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff’s new novel is described as a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
