Books & Books presents

MICHAEL MEWSHAW 
discussing his new novel
NOT HEAVEN BUT PARADISE

Friday, February 28th, 6:30pm ET
Doors open at 6:00pm
Sanger Gallery - 533 Eaton Street

The son of a Spanish mother and an American father who claimed to have worked for the CIA, Paul Stewart lives in his family home, a carmen in the Albaic n district of Granada. The house, which surrounds a lush courtyard, has foundations that date from Spain's Islamic era and has been in the family for generations.

Struggling to make ends meet, Paul has turned the carmen into an artist's residency that caters primarily to American artists. The only current guests are Simone, a celebrity painter with a sexualized reputation, and an asylum-seeking Algerian professor who is the subject of a fatwa. Paul has been forced to take him in. An African refugee named Blessed, who's been displaced by the arrival of the professor, suffers a crisis of both body and faith as a result.

The relationship between Simone and Paul begins to complicate matters, and suspicions about everybody abound. Murky pasts and private agendas collide with avowed intentions--including those of the U.S. government--as events gather momentum toward an explosive, revelatory finish. In the hands of Michael Mewshaw, a master storyteller, this story fairly shines in our fraught age of political secrets and international terrorism.

About the Author: Michael Mewshaw is the award-winning bestselling author of a dozen novels and as many nonfiction titles. In addition to books, Mewshaw has also written hundreds of articles, reviews, and literary profiles for publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, Newsweek, Harpers and more. 

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Praise for Not Heaven But Paradise

"Mewshaw's sentences sing. His ability to evoke a setting that many will find exotic rivals Graham Greene's, as does the depth of his characterization and his ability to make the reader keep wondering what in the world might happen next. The narrative keeps delivering surprises all the way to the final line. I love this novel." -- Steve Yarbrough, author Stay Gone Days

Books & Books presents

AMANDA JONES
author of THE LIBRARIAN
in conversation with store co-founder and author Judy Blume

Saturday, March 8th, 6:30pm ET
Doors open at 6:00pm
Hugh's View - 533 Eaton Street

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Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars.

One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person's sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss “book content,” she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing.

Amanda Jones has been called a groomer, a pedo, and a porn-pusher; she has faced death threats and attacks from strangers and friends alike. Her decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for extremists using book banning campaigns-funded by dark money organizations and advanced by hard right politicians-in a crusade to make America more white, straight, and "Christian." But Amanda Jones wouldn't give up without a fight: she sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her in the resistance.

Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.

About the Author: Amanda Jones has been an educator for 23 years, at the same middle school she attended as a child. She has served as President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians and won numerous awards for her work in school libraries, including School Library Journal Librarian of the Year. A sought-after keynote speaker, Amanda is a frequent volunteer for state and national library associations, as well as a co-founder of the Livingston Parish Library Alliance and founding member of Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship. She lives in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.

About the moderator: Judy Blume has been writing for more than 50 years.  She has been making up stories inside her head for even longer.  Her 29 books have sold more than 90 million copies in 39 languages. Her beloved books for young people include Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, recently adapted into a major motion picture, the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge, as well as Just as Long as We’re Together, Tiger Eyes and Forever.  Her novels for adult readers include Summer Sisters, and In the Unlikely Event. An acclaimed documentary, Judy Blume Forever, is now streaming. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. B. White Award for Lifetime Achievement in Children’s Literature.  She lives in Key West where she and her husband George Cooper founded Books and Books @ The Studios. These days she can be found working several days a week at her shop.  Stop by and say hello.

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Books & Books celebrates the release of...

THE SOCIALITE'S GUIDE TO SLEUTHING AND SECRETS
(available Mar. 11)
with author S.K. Golden

Tuesday, March 11th, 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
Books and Books - 533 Eaton Street

Hotel heiress Evelyn Murphy is on the hunt for a cunning killer and a mysterious thief in the third Pinnacle Hotel mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Ashley Weaver.

New York, 1958. When Evelyn’s mail is delivered during a luncheon in the Gold Room, she’s surprised to find she has received a diamond tiara, which catches the attention of a costume jewelry sales team lunching nearby. Their leader, Lois Mitchel, is especially interested, but by the end of the lunch, Lois has choked and fallen into Evelyn’s lap—and by the end of the day, she’s dead. 

The papers report on the death the next day, while also spreading news of a Gentleman Thief who’s been leaving behind a red pocket square after robbing the city’s wealthiest. Determined to figure out what happened to Lois, Evelyn devotes herself to the investigation. 

The truth is as rare as a diamond and just as hard to crack, and Evelyn swiftly discovers that this particular mystery is multifaceted, too. From costume jewelry hawkers to wannabe Robin Hoods and a detective in residence at the Pinnacle, nothing is simple. But neither is Evelyn—and this case is hers to solve.

About the Author: Sarah K Golden is the author of the cozy mystery The Socialite's Guide to Murder. Born and raised in the Florida Keys, she married a commercial fisherman. The two of them still live on the islands with their five kids (one boy, four girls — including identical twins!), two cats, and a corgi named Goku. She graduated from Saint Leo University with a bachelor’s degree in Human Services and Administration and has put it to good use approximately zero times. She’s worked as a bank teller, a pharmacy technician, and an executive assistant at her father’s church. Sarah is delighted to be doing none of those things now

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Books & Books presents

IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE
discussing her latest book
RIDING LIKE THE WIND: THE LIFE OF SANORA BABB

Friday, March 14th, 6:30pm ET
Doors open at 6:00pm
Hugh's View - 533 Eaton Street

This saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature. 
 
In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding Like the Wind, renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb.
 
Dunkle follows Babb from her impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado to California. There, she befriended the era's literati, including Ray Bradbury and Ralph Ellison; entered into an illegal marriage; and was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that Steinbeck relied on to write his novel. But this is not merely a saga of literary usurping; on her own merits, Babb's impact was profound. Her life and work feature heavily in Ken Burns's award-winning documentary The Dust Bowl and inspired Kristin Hannah in her bestseller The Four Winds. Riding Like the Wind reminds us with fresh awareness that the stories we know—and who tells them—can change the way we remember history.

About the Author: Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an award-winning biographer, essayist, and poet. Her previous titles include the biography Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer and the poetry collection West : Fire : Archive.

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Praise for Riding Like the Wind

"This absorbing biography, written with both affection and admiration, shows Babb as one of the most indefatigable characters in American literary history."—The New Republic

“Dunkle’s book may help elevate Babb’s status, not simply because it so thoroughly explores the Steinbeck affair but because it succeeds at doing what all good literary biographies do: It makes a case for reading old writing in new ways.”
— The Atlantic

“By digging deeper, Dunkle uncovers a remarkable rebel — a woman who challenged social and political norms to defend her writing. She illuminates yet another woman forgotten in the annals of literary history. This biography not only revives a vital voice but reminds us of the many stories still buried in the past, ones that deserve to be dug up and told.”
— San Francisco Chronicle

"In contrast to the door-stopping volumes many contemporary biographers favor, Dunkle’s judicious account of Babb’s eventful life focuses on key experiences and relationships in a brisk text with plenty of meat and no fat. Babb comes across as a fiercely independent free spirit, loyal to those she loved. Riding Like the Wind is a welcome addition to the growing shelf of books devoted to enriching the literary canon with more voices and different points of view.”
— The Washington Post

"Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s excellent new biography of Babb tells the story of the largely forgotten writer, and Steinbeck has nothing to do with many of the most gripping chapters, which show how Babb’s destitute heartland childhood shaped her keen empathy."
— ARTS

"Writing in fits and starts, being both ahead of her time and told she was 'too late,' Babb perhaps worked against the wind more than she was able to 'ride' it. Yet the recovery of her extraordinary life and career, though long overdue, may at last allow us to say: Babb’s time is now."
— Los Angeles Review of Books

"This biography revisits the remarkable life of an author whose account of the Great Depression might have been seminal — if John Steinbeck hadn’t barely beaten her to it. But that hardly scratches the surface of a colorful history that also included friendships and affairs with literary luminaries."
— The Washington Post, 50 notable works of nonfiction from 2024

“Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s biography is not merely a kind of restitution but a thrilling recovery of Babb and the world she portrayed so convincingly in her novels, stories, and poetry.”
— The New York Sun

“This book has really stuck with me. The imagery that Iris Jamahl Dunkle colors the book with is outstanding, and Sanora Babb’s life was so fascinating. This one had me reading like the wind, if you’ll pardon a pun I’m sure 10,000 other reviewers made.”
— Unruly Figures

Books & Books presents

ALEX THAYER
discussing her new book
HAPPY & SAD & EVERYTHING TRUE

Sunday, March 16th, 2pm ET
Doors open at 1:30pm
Hugh's View - 533 Eaton Street

 

With charm and sincerity reminiscent of Judy Blume and Rebecca Stead, this debut middle grade novel is a “compassionate” (Kirkus Reviews), hopeful story about a girl finding herself through secretly giving out advice to classmates.

Back when Dee and Juniper were still friends, Dee never hid in the bathroom. Now, at the beginning of sixth grade, Dee finds herself there often. The dripping faucet is annoying, and there are other places she’d rather be—like at home and in her room with her cat, Norman. But at least Dee is safe from overenthusiastic teachers and having to see Juniper walking through the halls with her new friends. Dee would rather be alone than witness that.

But it turns out Dee isn’t the only one hiding from something. There are kids all over the school worrying in secret and needing someone to talk to. After Dee helps a second grader with spelling advice, more students begin coming to Dee with their problems. It turns out she’s a good listener, and she likes helping people. And when she starts receiving mysterious notes, it seems someone out there wants to be her friend—if only they would reveal themselves.

About the Author: Alex Thayer is a former film and television actress and elementary school teacher. She lives in New England with her two sons. She’s the author of Happy & Sad & Everything True and Bad Cheerleader.

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Praise for Happy & Sad & Everything True

Any kid who’s ever hidden in the bathroom will wish they had a Dee to whisper with.
— BCCB

Thayer’s debut novel brings readers to an authentic view of junior high, with its daily drama and moments of discovery... A solid purchase for libraries with a following for authors like Kate DiCamillo and Rebecca Stead. 
— Booklist

Alex Thayer’s delightful debut could not be more perfectly named. I experienced all the feels watching Dee navigate mean-girl cliques, lose her best friend, handle her eccentric single mother (who is maybe dating her PE teacher) all the while staying open to new possibilities. A charming, entertaining, and true book that gently illustrates how so many of life’s problems can be improved by a large dollop of generosity. I would follow Dee’s advice any time.
— Gayle Forman, author of Frankie & Bug and Not Nothing

Debut author Thayer skillfully and authentically captures the often-painful social transitions of middle school. In a satisfying growth arc, quiet, kind Dee comes out of her shell, realizing she’s worth more than the judgments of others made her believe... A compassionate window into the awkward and isolating stages of growing up.
— Kirkus Reviews 

Happy & Sad & Everything True has a sincere earnestness that brings you right back to the halls of middle school. Kids will absolutely love this sweet-yet-strong story. 
— Claire Swinarski, author of What Happened to Rachel Riley?

Books & Books presents

WILLA HAMMITT BROWN 
discussing her new book
GENTLEMEN OF THE WOODS: MANHOOD, MYTH AND THE AMERICAN LUMBERJACK

Tuesday, March 18th, 6:30pm ET
Doors open at 6:00pm
Sanger Gallery - 533 Eaton Street

About the Author: Willa Hammitt Brown first had her picture taken with Paul Bunyan when she was four years old in Akeley, Minnesota, and she grew up spending summers on Deer Lake in Itasca County in the heart of the Northwoods Vacationland. She is a writer and historian specializing in American cultural, gender, and environmental history and holds a PhD in history from the University of Virginia. She has taught history, gender studies, and expository writing at the University of Virginia, Harvard University, and onboard the MV Explorer for Semester at Sea. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, American Jewish History, Western Historical Quarterly, and Environmental History. She lives in Minneapolis.

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Praise for Gentlemen of the Woods 

"Gentlemen of the Woods is one of those rare gifts. A book I never knew I needed but is now indispensable. Willa Hammitt Brown’s work here is transcendent: a narrative and analysis that illuminates the past while explaining our present world. It is sharp, ceaselessly fascinating, and leaves the reader transformed in how they see the past, the world, and themselves."—Jared Yates Sexton, author of American Rule and The Man They Wanted Me to Be

 

"The story of the lumberjack is the story of America. It’s a story of road monkeys, bull cooks, and river pigs. It’s a story of capitalism, conquest, and controversy. Willa Hammitt Brown’s Gentlemen of the Woods interrogates the lumberjack’s many identities: Was he a dignified, mythic strongman? Was he an exploited itinerant tramp? Was he a degenerate, violent outcast? At last we have a book that pulls the lumberjack from the mists of memory and vividly paints him in his true, wild, filthy glory."—Mark Cecil, author of Bunyan and Henry and host of The Thoughtful Bro podcast

 

"You’ll never think about lumberjacks the same way thanks to Willa Hammitt Brown’s Gentlemen of the Woods. From their complicated and hidden narratives to their significant historical impact and larger-than-life lore, the restless ghosts of the North Woods are finally getting their due."—Susan Marks, author of Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food

 

"From go-devils to road monkeys to agropelters, Willa Hammitt Brown shows us the vast Northwoods workscape of America’s lumberjacks. Were itinerant ‘jacks’ heroes or villains? Neither, says Brown, but understanding their dangerous work lives, diverse backgrounds, and colorful saloons helps us see the Gilded Age at its brutal cutting edge. Filled with first-person narratives and legends, this beautifully written book breaks new paths in labor, gender, and environmental history, and the history of capitalism."—Scott Reynolds Nelson, author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend

 

"In this nuanced and insightful work, Willa Hammitt Brown deftly weaves together cultural history and memory studies to give an intimate and revealing portrait of the Northwoods lumberjack, an American icon shrouded in layers of folklore. Gentlemen of the Woods takes the reader on a fascinating journey beyond the legend of Paul Bunyan to understand life in a logging camp—with all its discomfort and danger—and the process of mythmaking in American popular culture."—Eric Rutkow, author of American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation

 

"Brown’s book should be read closely, along with her good scholarly documentation in the notes, and not just looked at for the fine images that we associate with the North Woods."—UP Book Review

Books & Books presents

TOMASZ JEDROWSKI discussing his novel SWIMMING IN THE DARK

Friday, March 21st, 5:00pm ET

Doors open at 4:30pm

PEAR House Courtyard - 529 Eaton Street

When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this hand­some, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are ful­filled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Inhabiting a beautiful, natural world removed from society and its con­straints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. But in their repressive Communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable.

Once they return to Warsaw, the charismatic Janusz quickly rises in the political ranks of the party and is rewarded with a highly coveted government position. Ludwik is drawn toward impulsive acts of protest, unable to ignore rising food prices and the stark economic disparity around them. Their secret love and personal and political differences slowly begin to tear them apart as both men struggle to survive in a regime on the brink of collapse.

Shifting from the intoxication of first love to the quiet melancholy of growing up and growing apart, Swimming in the Dark is a potent blend of romance, postwar politics, intrigue, and history. Lyrical and sensual, immersive and intense, Tomasz Jedrowski’s indelible and thought-provoking literary debut explores freedom and love in all its incarnations.

About the Author: Tomasz Jedrowski is a graduate of Cambridge University and the Université de Paris. Born in Germany to Polish parents, he has lived in several countries, including Poland, and currently resides outside Paris. Swimming in the Dark is his first novel.

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Praise for Swimming in the Dark -

“Swimming in the Dark is captivating both for its shimmering surfaces and its terrifying depths. I began reading, and soon realized I wouldn’t be doing anything else that day. I needed to see these boys, these lovers, through to the end. Tomasz Jedrowski is a remarkable writer, alive to the ramifications of history and politics, in which the violence of a corrupt state can never fully stamp out the flourishing of beauty, grace, and resistance.” — Justin Torres, National Book Award-winning author of Blackouts and We the Animals

“Reading Swimming in the Dark is a bit like peering into someone’s most intimate moments of self-discovery. It’s poetic and tender, burning with a quiet rage at the persecution the LGBTQIA+ community in Poland has suffered for decades and continues to fight against today. It’s a beautiful story – I hope you love it as much as I do.” — Dua Lipa, on selecting Swimming in the Dark for her Service95 book club 

"This is a lyrical exploration of the conflict between gay love and political conformity. Jedrowski is an authentic new international star." — Edmund White, award-winning author of Our Young Man

"Marvelous, precise, poignant writing; the reader is happy to be overwhelmed. The highest talent at work." — Sebastian Barry, award-winning author of Days Without End

“Jedrowski has woven a brilliant tale about two people in love who are torn apart by a political divide and a difference in values. . . . A tender, sad, and moving love story . . . full of suspenseful intrigue, conflict, and passion.” — The Gay & Lesbian Review

“Remember the feeling of the last day of summer camp? Nostalgia for something you haven’t quite lost yet? Tomasz Jedrowski captures that wistfulness in his debut novel . . . Jedrowski’s writing reminds us that even in the face of oppression, life continues.” — Ari Shapiro, NPR, Book Concierge

Books & Books presents

ANDREW FURMAN
discussing his new book
OF SLASH PINES AND MANATEES (out 3/18/25)

Wednesday, March 26th, 6:30pm ET
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Hugh's View - 533 Eaton Street

Through stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and change

Wings and talons clatter against a windowpane. Foxes den under a deck. Pines stand in quarter-acre lots, recalling a vanished forest. In this book, Andrew Furman explores touchpoints between his everyday suburban life and the environment in South Florida, contemplating his place in a subtropical landscape stretching from the Everglades to the warm Atlantic coast. Transportive vignettes of encounters in the natural world blend with ordinary, all-too-relatable stories of home and family life in these chapters. Puzzled and fascinated by the plants and animals he meets while continually preoccupied by busy domestic routines, Furman illustrates the beauty of his "suburban wilderness." He also reckons with changes and threats to the surrounding landscape. How, he asks, should humans go about living in what is simultaneously one of the most overdeveloped and most naturally beautiful states in the country?

Furman's meditations give rise to an environmental ethic that challenges distinctions between nature and culture, wilderness and civilization, solitude and family life. Rather, with humor and hope, he encourages readers to engage in life with the mindset that the human and non-human are inextricably connected--and to ask how they can better belong together.

Of Slash Pines and Manatees is a creative and memorable example for anyone seeking to live responsibly and richly in a world impacted by human activity. Furman inspires readers to focus fiercely on the local, to conduct their own adventures in the ecosystem outside their front doors, and to see that even in the most overdeveloped areas, what is wild persists.

About the Author: Andrew Furman is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in creative writing. His fiction and creative nonfiction frequently engage with the Florida outdoors, but he has also written about Maine, Jewish identity, basketball, lighthouses, swimming, and cast iron cookware. His essays and stories have appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Santa Monica Review, Ecotone, Willow Springs, Poets & Writers, Terrain.org, Flyway, and The Florida Review. He is the author, most recently, of the novels Jewfish (Little Curlew Press, 2020) and Goldens Are Here (Green Writers Press, 2018), and the memoir Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida (University Press of Florida, 2014), which was named a finalist for the ASLE Environmental Book Award. Two books are forthcoming in 2025: Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness (University Press of Florida) and a novel, The World That We Are (Regal House Publishing). He lives in south Florida with his family.

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Praise for Of Slash Pines and Manatees

"With this volume of witty and perceptive essays, Andrew Furman adds South Florida to the literary map, joining the lineage of place-based American writers ranging from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry. Even if you have never set foot in what he calls his 'asphalt-frosted' home territory, his book will invite you to see your own natural and cultural landscape with deeper appreciation."
—Scott Russell Sanders, author of The Way of Imagination

"Through figures as various and variously lovely as orange blossom, night herons, stingrays, and dulse seaweed, Furman takes us on a deep-dive tour through Floridian -and, by extension, American-history and its changing environment. This book not only makes me want to go to Florida but also to spend every minute there outdoors, hoping to see with vision as fresh and sweet as Furman's the world he lives in and loves."
-Nicole Walker, author of Sustainability: A Love Story

"A rich gathering of brilliantly conceived and gracefully executed literary forays into the surprising wildness of nearby nature. Furman has deftly braided natural history, playful curiosity, and deep insight into a narrative rope strong enough to pull us back into our home places with sharpened awareness, and with a renewed appreciation for the more-than-human world that always surrounds us."
—Michael P. Branch, author of On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer

"A really good primer on how to live in and be engaged with one's surroundings as an informed eco-citizen and enthusiastic naturalist."
—Rick Van Noy, author of Borne by the River: Canoeing the Delaware from Headwaters to Home

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Funding for this publication was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.