Join us for our first event as a pop-up/events bookstore and the beginning of a series of events we’ll be doing for Latine Heritage Month!

On September 22nd, catch horror writer Gabino Iglesias talking about his new book House of Bone and Rain at 4pm at the Civic Media Center (433 S Main St). Reading will be followed by a Q&A with Brian Alan Ellis. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

About the author:

Gabino Iglesias is the author of the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning novel, The Devil Takes You Home, as well as author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novels Zero Saints and Coyote Songs. He is a writer, journalist, professor, and literary critic living in Austin, Texas. He is the horror columnist for the New York Times Book Review. 

About the book:

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME, a group of five teenage boys in Puerto Rico seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered; a Latinx STAND BY ME with a haunted, obsidianly dark heart. 

For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe’s grandmother’s refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo's mom has been shot dead. We’re gonna kill the guys who killed her Bimbo swears. And they all agree.

Feral with grief, Bimbo has become unrecognizable, taking no prisoners in his search for names. Soon, they learn Maria was gunned down by guys working for the drug kingpin of Puerto Rico. No one has ever gone up against him and survived. As the boys strategize, a storm gathers far from the coast. Hurricanes are known to carry evil spirits in their currents and bring them ashore, spirits which impose their own order.

Blurring the boundaries between myth, mysticism, and the grim realities of our world, House of Bone and Rain is a harrowing coming of age story; a doomed tale of devotion, the afterlife of violence, and what rolls in on the tide. 

Join us on Independent Bookstore Day (4/27) to say farewell to 400 NW 10th Ave and celebrate our 8 years of life! We announced this back in December, but if you haven't heard: After nearly a decade of running a bookstore, I'm excited to be shifting gears and shutting down the brick & mortar, converting to pop-ups and events-only in the fall (meaning this will no longer be my full-time gig). This will be our closing party (it's not a sad thing!) and I'd love to see you!

We'll have a funeral (putting the 'fun' in funeral) with words from old friends including Kiren, the founder, and readings by Anthony Verdi and Tyler Gillespie.

Our last day open will be Saturday, May 4th but we hope to sell everything we can on Indie Bookstore Day and then liquidating from there.

If you need furniture / fixtures and would like some of ours, please reach out after 4/27 and we can talk about the details.

Buy a book and send off our physical location with lots of love.

about the authors:

Tyler Gillespie is the author of the poetry collections Florida Man: Poems, Revisited (Burrow Press) and the nature machine! (Autofocus) as well as the essay collection The Thing about Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (University Press of Florida). He teaches at Ringling College of Art and Design. He's on Instagram @tyler_gills

Anthony Verdi is a writer, event planner, and the founder of Splat Magazine. His writing has been featured in Maudlin House and Vlad Mag. When not writing he is planning oddities markets and making tees for Ant Apparel. He lives in Gainesville and is working on his first novel.

Join us on Independent Bookstore Day Eve for the last author event we'll have in the space, on April 26th at 6pm with climate poetry by visiting author David Keplinger and Orlando local writer Alex Gurtis. Reading will be followed by a Q&A, books will be available for sale + signing.

about Alex Gurtis:
Alex Gurtis is a poet and critic whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Autofocus, Barrelhouse, HAD, The Shore, The West Trade Review, and others. A ruth weiss Foundation Maverick Poet Award Finalist and a winner of Saw Palm's Florida Flora and Fauna poetry contest, Alex received his MFA from the University of Central Florida.

about David Keplinger:
DAVID KEPLINGER is the author of eight poetry books, recently Ice (Milkweed Editions, 2023) and Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018), which was winner of the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize for a mid-career poet. In 2020 he was awarded the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and that same year his work in translation from Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen, Forty-One Objects, was a finalist for the National Translation Award. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and other prizes including The Cavafy Prize (2014), The Colorado Book Award (2007) and the T.S. Eliot Prize for his first collection, The Rose Inside (Truman State, 1999), which was selected by Mary Oliver. He teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.

about David's book, Ice:
In a careful examination of personal and collective histories, David Keplinger’s Ice indexes the findings from memory’s slow melt.
"From Dante to Blake to Emily Dickinson, the poems in Keplinger's latest book summon literary history (and geological history, too) in an effort to understand modern life."
—New York Times Book Review

Join us for a night of fruit and Florida felony with Florida writers. Annabelle Tometich will be in conversation with Rebecca Renner, author of recent release Gator Country on April 12th at 6pm at the store. Tometich will be speaking on her new book, The Mango Tree, a memoir about growing up Filipina in Florida and the messiness of family. Copies of both books will be available for purchase and signing.

There's parking in our shopping plaza and street parking around the neighborhood.

About the book:

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother.
When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn't prepared to hear her mother's voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger siblings afterwards was easy; all she had to say was, "Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes." They immediately understood. Answering the questions of the breaking-news reporter—at the same newspaper where Annabelle worked as a restaurant critic—proved more difficult. Annabelle decided to go with a variation of the truth: It was complicated.

So begins The Mango Tree, a poignant and deceptively entertaining memoir of growing up as a mixed-race Filipina "nobody" in suburban Florida as Annabelle traces the roots of her upbringing—all the while reckoning with her erratic father's untimely death in a Fort Myers motel room, her fiery mother's bitter yearning for the country she left behind, and her own journey in the pursuit of belonging.

With clear-eyed compassion and piercing honesty, The Mango Tree is a family saga that navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle's life, from her childhood days in an overflowing house flooded by balikbayan boxes, vegetation, and juicy mangoes, to her winding path from medical-school hopeful to restaurant critic. It is a love letter to her fellow Filipino Americans, her lost younger self, and the beloved fruit tree at the heart of her family. But above all, it is an ode to Annabelle's hot-blooded, whip-smart mother, Josefina, a woman who made a life and a home of her own, and without whom Annabelle would not have herself.

About Annabelle:

Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent eighteen years as a food writer, editor, and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, “The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony” will be published April 2, 2024 by Little, Brown.

Tometich’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Catapult, the Tampa Bay Times, and many more outlets. She has won more than a dozen awards for her stories, including first place for Food & Travel Writing at the 2022 Sunshine State Awards. She (still) lives in Fort Myers with her husband, two children, and her ever-fiery Filipina mother

About Rebecca:

Rebecca Renner is an author and National Geographic contributor from Daytona Beach, Florida. Her other writing has appeared in The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Tin House, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Stetson University. She is the 2024 winner of the Florida Book Awards’ Gerald Ensley Developing Writer Award. Gator Country is her debut. She lives in Orlando, Florida with the two cats the universe sent to keep her in line.

Gator Country has garnered rave reviews from the New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Tampa Bay Times, Christian Science Monitor, Sierra Magazine, BookPage, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and more. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a People Magazine Book of the Week. Many publications and platforms—as wide-ranging as BookPage, Amazon, and the Chicago Public Library—included Gator Country in their best of 2023 books list.

Join us for a night with local Gainesville writer Sarah Zachrich Jeng presenting her new thriller, accompanied by moderator Alicia Thompson (LOVE IN THE TIME OF SERIAL KILLERS, WITH LOVE FROM COLD WORLD) on March 26th at 6:30pm at the shop.

This is Sarah's first in-person book launch and we're stoked to be hosting!

Copies of titles by both authors will be available for purchase + signing

About the authors:
Sarah Zachrich Jeng grew up in Michigan and always had a flair for the morbid and mysterious (for her dad’s thirty-fifth birthday, she wrote a story entitled “The Man Who Died at 35”). She had a brief career as an aspiring rock star before she came to her senses and went back to school to become a web developer. Sarah lives in Florida with her family and two extremely hyper rescue dogs.

Alicia Thompson is a writer, reader, and lover of baseball. She has never caught a foul ball but she was once two seats down from a Jumbotron proposal and that has to count for something. She’s currently taking in home games in sunny Central Florida with her husband, two children, and a cat named Luna who has yet to hit for the cycle (aka has not escaped out of every door in a single day, although with the numbers she’s been putting up . . .)

Join us at the shop Thursday, March 7th at 6pm for an evening with Florida YA writer Ginny Myers Sain for the release of her new book One Last Breath (set near Gainesville!). Our friend Mazzy (Good Intentions Book Club) will be interviewing Ginny.

Ginny Myers Sain is the New York Times bestselling author of Dark & Shallow Lies and Secrets So Deep. She lives in Florida and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school students seriously intent on pursuing a career in the professional theatre. Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote settings. Follow her on Twitter @stageandpage and on Instagram @ginnymyerssain or find her on her website at ginnymyerssain.com.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

In honor of World AIDS Day, join author Margaret Galvan in conversation with UF professor Kenneth Kidd at 6:30pm on Dec 6th as they talk about photographer Nan Goldin’s HIV/AIDS activism that Galvan writes about in her new book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (2023). Out now from University of Minnesota Press, In Visible Archives examines the artwork of eight women and how their work intersects with cultural touchstones like the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks.

Margaret Galvan is Assistant Professor of Visual Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her archivally-informed research examines how visual culture operates within social movements and includes her first book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, out this fall with University of Minnesota Press. See margaretgalvan.org for more information.

Kenneth Kidd is Professor and Associate Chair of English at the University of Florida. He's the author of three books, most recently Theory for Beginners, and co-editor of five more including the forthcoming Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might Be. With Elizabeth Marshall he co-edits Routledge's book series on Children's Literature and Culture.

There is free parking available in the shopping plaza and there's also street parking.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Hang out with me and my pals at the shop on Oct 28th at 6pm to celebrate too many things: 7 years of slinging books, the FEST, my 30th birthday, and Halloween. Featuring two of my book besties, Ryan Rivas and Brian Alan Ellis, along with Shane Hinton, it will be a not-to-miss night of Florida lit messsiness. Plus, Ryan will be reading from his new book, Lizard People.

Event is free. Books will be available for purchase (Buy my friends’ books to help them buy beer later and also support the store).

Shane Hinton is the author of the story collection, Pinkies, the novel, Radio Dark, and editor of the anthology We Can't Help It If We're from Florida. A fiction editor for Tampa Review, he teaches writing at The University of Tampa and lives in the winter strawberry capital of the world.

Ryan Rivas is the author of the image/text book, Nextdoor in Colonialtown and the novella, Lizard People. He is the Publisher of Burrow Press, and the Coordinator of MFA Publishing at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas creative writing program. A Macondo Writers Workshop fellow, his work has appeared in The Believer, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, and elsewhere.

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Press and Vlad Mag, and is the author of several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) and Hobbies You Enjoy. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Fanzine, Mon­keybicycle, Elec­tric Literature, Forever Mag, X-R-A-Y, Heavy Feather Review, and Yes Poetry, among many other places. He lives in Florida. 

Join us at the shop (400 NW 10th Ave) for a night with cartoonist Tommi Parrish presented in conjunction with Sequential Artists Workshop on October 20th at 7:30pm.

Tommi Parrish (b. 1989, Melbourne) is a trans-Australian cartoonist and painter living in Western Massachusetts. Their debut work, The Lie and How We Told It, won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBTQ graphic novel, was nominated for the Ignatz award, and was featured in many Best of 2018 lists.

Tommi's sophomore graphic novel released by Fantagraphics in 2022, Men I Trust has so far been nominated to the LA times books awards. Parrish's comics have been translated into 11 languages worldwide and and their work has been showcased in The New Yorker, Granta Magazine, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Vice, and many more.

Join us for a live comics reading presented by the Sequential Artists Workshop on at 7pm on Sept 20th at the store. We’ll have books for sale by some of the artists.

Here’s the lineup:

M.S. Harkness

M.S. Harkness is an American cartoonist known for her graphic memoirs Time Under Tension (Fantagraphics, 2023) Desperate Pleasures (Uncivilized, 2020) and Tinderella (Kilgore Books, 2018) and various self-published mini-comics. Her work is an incisive bildungsroman of growing up poor, marked by sexual trauma and various other indignities. Her cartooning is rendered in stark black & white, tending toward forceful graphics that blend contemporary animation and traditional cartooning styles.

Born in Carney, Oklahoma, Harkness currently resides in Columbus, Ohio where she occasionally teaches at the Columbus College of Art & Design. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Comics from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2017, studying under Kevin Huizenga. A weightlifter for many years, Harkness is also an NASM CPT and works part-time as a Personal Trainer. @m.s.harkness on Instagram msharkness.com.

Raeghan Buchanan

Raeghan Buchanan is an artist based in Columbus, Ohio, who makes comics focusing on Black Punk culture. Buchanan founded and co-runs POCtoberArt, an online gallery that features illustrations of Black/POC punk, funk, and rock musicians to document and create a visual dialog between artists and bands. She has recently created self-published books Strange Glances and the POCtober Sketchbook, as well as The Secret History of Black Punk, now available from Silver Sprocket. @peppermint_raygun on Instagram peppermintraygun.com.

Carly Shooster

Carly Shooster is a Jewish-American cartoonist based in Gainesville, Florida. She graduated from the California College of Arts with a MFA in 2022 and has since been working on her first Graphic Novel, 'Mamita'. When she's not supporting community arts through her work at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA) and the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), she's walking her dog and tending her garden. @hunger_eating_munch on Instagram carlyshoo.com.

Morty

Morty was born under the wolf moon. She is a cartoonist and printmaker. She wants the pictures to bring your attention to the matrix of spiritual information in which your mundane life is situated and to make you smile. @girls.complex on Instagram girlscomplex.carrd.co.

Derek M. Ballard

Derek M. Ballard is a cartoonist and animator based in Gainesville, Florida who makes modern American family comics

Please join three-time National Book Award finalist and our favorite local author Lauren Groff in launching her new novel the Vaster Wilds on Sept 11th at Superette (1511 NW 2nd St) from 5-8pm.

Superette will have drinks and apps.

We'll be selling the books! We'll have signed hardcovers available for purchase at the event. If we run out, we can take on-site orders for more copies which Lauren will sign at a later date.

For every book sold, a donation will be made to the Alachua Conservation Trust, but no need to buy a book to attend.

the basics:
- event is free and not ticketed
- for venue specific questions, please reach out to Superette. For book questions, reach out to Third House.

if you are not in Gainesville and would like to order a signed copy of her book, you can grab one here. we'll be shipping them out the week of its release: https://checkout.square.site/.../ZPJZRHFXS4CYW3LM72OL7RV3...

Stop by SAW for a book release party for The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature at July 28th at 6:00 pm, featuring co-editor Tom Hart. Free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

abt the author:
Tom Hart is a cartoonist. He started The Sequential Artists Workshop, a school and arts organization in Gainesville, Florida.

His book about his daughter, Rosalie Lightning, was a NY Times #1 bestseller and been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese, and was featured on many best of 2016 lists, and was nominated for two Eisner Awards.

The Sequential Artists Workshop
1314 S. Main Street, #2

Join us for an evening with children's and YA author David Elliott discussing his book Bull (if you're into mythology, it's a novel in verse retelling of Theseus and the Minotaur) on July 21st, 6:30pm, at the store (400 NW 10th Ave). Event is free, we'll have copies of Bull and some of David's other books for sale (including a v cool one abt Joan of Arc).

Parking is available in the shopping plaza and there's also street parking.

about the author:
David Elliott is the award-winning author of over thirty picture books and novels for youngpeople, including The New York Times
bestselling And Here’s to You!. His YA novel in verse, Bull (2017), has been compared to Hamilton. Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, released in March of 2019, was a finalist for The American Library in Paris Book Award. The Wall Street Journal’s called the book “stunning . . .elegant . . . arresting . . . supple and harrowing. Before becoming a writer, David worked as a cucumber washer in Greece, a popsicle stick maker in Israel, a teacher in Libya, and a singer in Mexico. Currently, David lives in New Hampshire with his wife, and a Dandie Dinmont terrier, Queequeg. Learn more about David at www.davidelliottbooks.com.

Join us for an evening with Tyler Gillespie, author of Florida Man: Poems (Red Flag Poetry), The Thing about Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (University Press of Florida), and his new book of poetry the nature machine! (Autofocus) launching May 9th. Tyler will be in conversation with Kenneth Kidd, UF Professor of English Lit on March 23rd at 7pm at the Civic Media Center, 433 S Main Street.

Book Description

Tyler Gillespie, like many of us, has recently spent a lot of time online and in other landscapes devoid of IRL humans. During quarantine with his grandmother in Florida, he began expanding his writing practice with new forms of media expression, going as far as recording snippets of a comedy album and creating a pop diva robot persona through text-to-talk technology. He eventually abandoned these projects, but traces of them can be found in the nature machine!

Throughout this collection, Gillespie merges poetic forms with interstitial moments of sound and visual technologies to playfully theorize the now and to seriously contemplate the future. With dexterity, he threads ideas on cybernetics, pop music, the environment, desire, and recovery to examine how technology has transformed our natures. But ultimately, full of warmth and wit, this book reminds us why, despite everything, we're still not-yet-machines.

"Tyler Gillespie is a smart and hilarious poet. His poems know what it's like to have fun, and are as entertaining when they're goofing around with Britney Spears as with Ferdinand de Saussure. Whether he's riffing on Sex and the City and/or discussing Karl Marx, the nature machine! will move you to laugh and to think--about the moon, about the Bible, about exclamation marks, about almost everything!” – Kathleen Rooney, author of Where Are the Snows

4/29 is Independent Bookstore Day, a day to cherish and show some love to your not-corporate-owned neighborhood bookstores. This year we'll have some of the exclusive IBD 2023 items, free stuff, and brand-spankin-new t-shirts.

At 2pm, we’ll have an interactive storytime with one of our favorites, J.N. Fishhawk, reading from his book Billy & Tubboat Sallyforth. Join Billy and his friends for sea-faring, deep-diving shenanigans above and below the waves of the Wide Whim Sea. For children of all ages, featuring a pirate treasure chest full of costumes and props for to kids to help act out the story!

Join us for a reading by author Patricia D. Norland at the Civic Media Center, Sunday April 16th at 4pm discussing her book The Saigon Sisters: Privileged Women in the Resistance.

"The Saigon Sisters brings a rare perspective on the Vietnam War; despite thousands of books on it, we know little about the war's root causes. Few books on 20th century Vietnam are by Vietnamese, fewer still by Vietnamese women. In The Saigon Sisters, French-educated Vietnamese women share--in their own words --why they forsake comfort and safety to fight for independence during France's occupation of Vietnam, and through the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

Graduating from Saigon's prestigious Lycee Marie Curie in 1950, these women could have left Vietnam and the explosive conflict. Instead, several don black pajamas and go into the jungle to join the resistance against the French. Others find different ways, including leading double lives, to participate in the struggle. Why did these privileged women rebel?”

https://www.thesaigonsisters.com/

Copies available for purchase, event is free to attend

Please wear a mask for the safety of CMC volunteers and staff.

In his new memoir Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice, Quaker activist George Lakey circles back over seven decades, telling stories from the center of many history-making events — from his first arrest in the Civil Rights era to recent marches for climate justice, with actions for LGBTQ rights and labor justice in between.

Recently retired from Swarthmore College, Lakey was the Eugene Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change. In 2018, Lakey published How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning.

Responses to Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice . . .

"George Lakey stands out for the sheer range of his contributions to peace and justice. His upbeat, soul-driven spirit underlies it all, as you’ll catch in this revealing memoir."
—Daniel Ellsberg, peace activist and author.

"Almost no one I can think of has made better use of their time on earth—and George Lakey just keeps going. This book is equal parts illuminating and inspiring!"
—Bill McKibben, leader of climate group 350.org

“George Lakey is a national treasure, whom I met when I was 22. Dancing with George was a blast. His unstoppable, thoughtful, contagious approach to democratic action has inspired my life’s work. It’s a story Americans need now more than ever.”
—Frances Moore Lappé, author, Diet for a Small Planet

“Dancing with History packs a powerful, honest, and deeply personal account of George Lakey’s remarkable life and legacy of family building and movement building, honoring identity and liberation for all, ‘raising the temperature’ on what it means to live a life of social action and bearing witness. This book is a stunning testimonial, like walking through a historical landscape of a life of turning courageously to meet what’s next.”
—Valerie Brown, writer, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher

“George Lakey shows us how to ignite positive change in the face of adversity. He weaves in passion, creativity, faith, and even humor. An inspiring read for our
moment.”
—Dave Bleakney, Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Please join us for a live, in-person, interactive storytime event for parents and kids at 3PM on Saturday, November 19th at Third House Books in Gainesville.

The event will feature a pirate treasure chest full of costumes and props with which kids can help Fishhawk and Rocket tell the tale of their protagonist Billy, who heads out for a day of adventure on the waters of the Wide Whim Sea in his grandfather’s little ship, the Tugboat SallyForth.

Billy & Tugboat SallyForth is the first in an ongoing series of books set in the World of Whim Sea, a fantasy world full of whacky nautical adventures and silly puns that Fishhawk and Rocket are co-creating together.

The interactive storytime event is ideal for children ages 5-10, but younger and older kids are welcome, too. Everyone is invited to participate, at whatever level they choose—there will be costumes and props for kids who want to help portray some of the characters in the story, and props for audience members to play along with, as well. We’ve even had some grownups get in on the act at some of our storytime presentations, in the past. Our motto is “Fun for kids of all ages!”

Copies of the book and other Whim Sea swag including coloring books, greeting cards, fine art prints, and sea shanty zines will be available before and after the presentation. Fishhawk and Rocket will stick around to sign copies of the book and chat with parents and children afterwards.

A fun—and extremely silly—time is guaranteed for all!

Join us on Oct 14th at 7pm for one of our first in person events since 2020, a double book launch for Florida writers Ryan Rivas (NEXTDOOR IN COLONIALTOWN, Autofocus Lit) and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (HELEN HOUSE, Burrow Press) and featuring Kristen Arnett (WITH TEETH, MOSTLY DEAD THINGS). The event will be hosted at the Civic Media Center (433 S Main St) in order to accommodate a larger audience. Masks are required.

Event is free, but we encourage guests to purchase a book to support the authors and the store. Books will be available to purchase on-site.

About the authors:
Ryan Rivas is the author of Nextdoor in Colonialtown (Autofocus 2022). He is the Publisher of Burrow Press, and the Coordinator of MFA Publishing at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas creative writing program. A Macondo Writers Workshop fellow, his work has appeared in The Believer, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Necessary Fiction, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, and elsewhere.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of short fiction, essays, and pop culture criticism living in Florida. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle and the assistant managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her work appears in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Joyland, Vice, Vulture, and others. She was a 2021 nonfiction fellow for Lambda Literary's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Helen House is her first book.

Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was awarded a Shearing Fellowship at Black Mountain Institute and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize recognizing mid-career writers of fiction. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, Guernica, Buzzfeed, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, and elsewhere. Her next book (an untitled collection of short stories) will be published by Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House). She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and currently lives in Miami, Florida. You can find her on Twitter here: @Kristen_Arnett

Join us for the Civic Media Center's annual spring fundraiser, Springboard, featuring a talk by author and bookstore owner Danny Caine.

Support the CMC's vital programming and learn more about the history and impact of giant tech corporations, the importance of local community, and how to cut the Amazon cord.

Danny will be introduced by Heather Halak of Gainesville's Third House Books. You can buy Danny's book via Third House's website here: https://thirdhousebooks.indielite.org/book/9781621067061

Tickets are by donation, and you can register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../cmc-springboard-with-danny...

This launch event celebrates the fantasy novel debut of Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winning author, P. Djèlí Clark, as he returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe in A Master of Djinn.

P. Djèlí Clark will be in conversation with best-selling author Cadwell Turnbull, author of the science fiction novel The Lesson.

Six independent bookstores have teamed up to bring you this exciting conversation between these two gifted writers. Signed bookplates for A Master of Djinn are available from each store. Purchase a copy from Third House here: https://thirdhousebooks.indielite.org/book/9781250267689

Join Third House Books for our virtual celebration of Independent Bookstore Day 2021 on April 24th. Your support is how we've gotten through this rough year -- and we're celebrating that we're still here!

We will exclusive merchandise including signed editions, limited - special only for this day and indie bookstore exclusive - merch. You can view some of these items in the discussion portion of this FB event! Merch will go up for sale at 12PM. No holds, no reserving merch -- sorry folks, those are the rules. The merch will be available for purchase through this event, Instagram, and Indielite.

Join us at 7:30pm on Crowdcast with a panel, Publishing When Things Go South featuring two of our favorite local authors Jason Dearen and Jack E. Davis. We'll hear from Jason and Jack about publishing in a pandemic, and the role that independent bookstores play in the big mess of the pandemic! Panel is free to attend. Please register at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ibd-2021

We encourage folks to purchase copies of Jason Dearen's book, Kill Shot, and Jack E. Davis' most recent book, The Wilder Heart of Florida from Third House!

We will have limited, signed copies of Jack E. Davis' The Wilder Heart of Florida available on Indielite thanks to the University Press of Florida! https://thirdhousebooks.indielite.org/book/9781683401636

Join us for a virtual evening event on Crowdcast with authors Sarah Gerard (True Love, Sunshine State, and Binary Star) and Raven Leilani (Luster) on October 6th at 6pm ET.

Registration on Crowdcast is required to attend. The link for the event is https://www.crowdcast.io/e/true-love-luster

While the event is free to attend, we ask that you support our independent bookstore by purchasing a copy of one (or each of these) author's books on our site.

True Love by Sarah Gerard (signed): https://thirdhousebooks.indielite.org/book/9780062937438

Luster by Raven Leilani: https://thirdhousebooks.indielite.org/book/9780374194321

About the authors:
Raven Leilani is author of the debut novel, Luster (FSG, 2020). Her work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Yale Review, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review, among other publications. She completed her MFA at NYU.

Sarah Gerard is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has written popular essay collection Sunshine State (Harper Perennial, 2017), and novels Binary Star (2015) and True Love (2020). She currently lives in Florida.

This event is hosted by Third House Books and Burrow Press.

We're excited to be chosen as a Latinx bookstore partner for Bloomsbury YA's panel for Latinx Heritage month! The panel features YA authors Lilliam Rivera, Ibi Zoboi, Zoraida Córdova, and Mark Oshiro, and will be moderated by Adriana Herrera. Join us September 24th at 7:30pm ET on Crowdcast! In order to attend, please purchase a book from the list below.

Once you purchase a book from the list, you will be given a special link with access to register for the online event.

https://thirdhousebooks.indielite.org/bloomsbury-ya-latinx-heritage-month-event

All attendees will be entered to win a 6-month Libro.fm Audiobooks membership!

In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, join author Natalia Sylvester and narrator Frankie Corzo for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the audiobook RUNNING.

The story of a Cuban-American teen whose father runs for president, RUNNING is a novel about speaking up and taking action—even when your views don’t align with loved ones’. Join Sylvester and Corzo for a conversation about storytelling, activism, and the power of raising our voices.

Hosted by Third House Books in partnership with Libro.fm, an audiobook distributor that makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores. Get your copy of RUNNING via Libro.fm here. 

The event is on Crowdcast, and requires registration. While this event is free, we ask that you sign up for Libro.fm under Third House Books, or purchase a hard copy of Natalia’s book from our site!

Join us for an all day celebration of independent bookstores! We will have exclusive merchandise only available to indie bookstores, along with music and local authors speaking.

Join the Gainesville Playreaders, a theater group by Y-Not Theatre, for their monthly meeting. The group meets every third Thursday of the month at 7pm.

Join us for the Diverse Converse, our in-house book club emphasizing the voices of POC and LGBTQ writers at 7pm. Group meets every fourth Friday of the month. For March, we’ll be reading Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare.