• Book Group: “Florida” by Lauren Groff

    Tampa Bay History Center 801 Water Street, Tampa, FL, United States

    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 waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling 

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  • Book Group: “Painter in a Savage Land” by Miles Harvey

    Tampa Bay History Center 801 Water Street, Tampa, FL, United States

    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 about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the past. This is the thrilling story 

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  • Book Group: “Urban Vigilantes in the New South” by Robert P. Ingalls

    Tampa Bay History Center 801 Water Street, Tampa, FL, United States

    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 centers on anti-union vigilantism directed by the city's elite–most often by a succession of citizens' committees–against the cigar makers of Tampa's Ybor City community, skilled 

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  • Book Group: “Swamp Story: A Novel” by Dave Barry

    Tampa Bay History Center 801 Water Street, Tampa, FL, United States

    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 lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve 

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