LibrariesSt. Pete Beach Public Library lends metal detectors and CD players, which is the most surprising checkout list in this series. It also runs a free native-plant seed library, stocks Blu-rays including new releases, and has a children's programme with…
BookstoresTampaAntiquesandBooks runs used, rare, and antiquarian books through multiple rooms mixed with antiques. The owner is a retired professor, leather bindings turn up well under market, and the shop closes at four.
BookstoresHaslam's on Central Avenue was the largest independent bookstore in Florida, more than thirty thousand square feet, opened in 1933 and run by three generations of one family. It closed in March 2020 and never reopened. The murals have been…
LibrariesGulfport Public Library has an outdoor reading garden with proper shade, which in Florida is the difference between a nice idea and a usable one. Ten until seven five days straight, reading carrels, comfy sofas, seats with power outlets, free…
LibrariesWest St. Petersburg Community Library opens at eight in the morning and runs until eight at night Monday through Thursday, twelve-hour days four times a week. It has a fenced playground with a turf surface in the library lot, which…
HistoryMirror Lake Community Library is a Carnegie library that opened on December 1, 1915 with 2,600 books, one of only ten in Florida, built in Beaux-Arts style. On the National Register since 1986. Story times, therapy dog reading sessions, ESL…
LibrariesThe President Barack Obama Main Library is St. Petersburg's main branch, recently reopened after renovation, and one of only two libraries in the county open seven days a week. A real coffee shop inside, bookable study rooms and meeting rooms,…
Children's BooksThe Barbara S. Ponce Public Library in Pinellas Park holds 314 reviews and the children's wing is the reason. Fine motor toys, art stations, a play kitchen, daily crafts and story times with puppets and bubbles. It also still has…
LibrariesSeminole Community Library opens at eight in the morning four days a week and is open Sundays, which almost nothing else in the county manages. Two floors shared with the college, a quiet upper level, free first-come study rooms, and…
Places to WritePalm Harbor has an independent district library that opens at nine and runs to seven four days a week, with a coffee bar and a separate children's wing. The Barnes and Noble on US 19 covers evenings until nine, and…
HistoryClearwater Beach Library is the smallest branch in the county and opens three short afternoons a week. It has intracoastal views from the back windows, a summer crafts series and a local history series, and shares a site with a…
Book MarketingThe Barnes and Noble in Palm Harbor is store 3548, a purpose-built new location on US 19 and the newest large bookstore in Pinellas County. It sits seven miles north of the Clearwater store and the two get confused constantly.
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