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08/25/2026

Available now from Tivoli Books: The Insurrectionists by Alex Abella

The Insurrectionists is the first installment of a planned trilogy of novels about Cuban-American exiles in the aftermath of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. In this volume, set in the 1960s, a handsome young survivor of the debacle marries his brother’s strong-willed widow and rises to become a rich and powerful Miami businessman — without shedding his ties to the violent anti-Castro underground and the CIA.

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08/25/2026

Available now from Tivoli Books: Her Own Terms by Judith Grossman

It’s the 1950s and Irene Tanner, the granddaughter of a stoker, has managed to survive the Blitz, climb out of a dreary lower middle-class background, and make her way at Oxford. But just as she’s about to complete her studies and embark on a literary career, she stumbles into an unwanted pregnancy. Abortion was illegal in Britain in those days. But Irene is determined to live her life by her own lights.
Originally published in 1988 and long out of print, Her Own Terms is an unjustly forgotten feminist classic whose brilliant and sympathetic protagonist represents a generation of ambitious women.

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08/25/2026

Available now from Tivoli Books: Michaela by Frank Kirby

As aged Maureen Murphy lies dying in a New York hospital, and her three grown children maintain a weary vigil, their lives unfold in a tapestry of remembrance and reflection through the turbulent decades of the postwar era. Missing is a fourth sibling: Michaela, whose polio death in 1953 colors everything that follows. Michaela is a stunning debut in the spirit of Colm Tóibín and Alice McDermott.

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08/25/2026

Available now from Tivoli Books: The John Wood Case by Ruth Suckow

It’s a Wonderful Life is a movie about a man named George Bailey who discovers, in the love of his neighbors, how much good he’s done in the world. Now imagine that George Bailey turned out to be an embezzler.

That’s the issue at the core of The John Wood Case, a remarkable novel about the moral crisis that besets a close-knit town in Iowa shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, when it emerges that the community’s leading citizen is not at all what he seemed. John Wood is the mystery at the heart of the swirling emotions and imperatives that his friends, neighbors, and employer must navigate in coping with the scandal.

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08/25/2026

Available now from Tivoli Books: Ode to Angelo by William Prendiville.

The sprezzatura of American and English expats in Rome is shattered by an encounter between a young American and her lover’s bullying brother. Through it all, a faintly absurd poet and scholar named Augustus Reading—worldly yet earnest, sybaritic yet civilized, ridiculous yet sublime—manages to uphold a standard of decency bordering on grace.

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08/25/2026

Available now from Tivoli Books: Angels and Beasts by J. Bradford Hipps (author of The Adventurist).

The horn of a white rhinoceros is worth more than its weight in gold-or even cocaine-thanks to a folkloric belief in its aphrodisiac power. When a rumor surfaces that such a horn lies lost on an abandoned game ranch in central Texas, a writer named Cass is drawn into a peculiar treasure hunt by her enterprising brother Max.
By turns darkly comic, suspenseful, and moving, Angels and Beasts is a novel about grief, longing, family, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to keep going.

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02/13/2026

I’m pleased to announce that all of our Tivoli Books titles are live now as ebooks on Apple Books. They continue to be available on Amazon, of course, along with our paperbacks. And both can be had from tivolibooks.com, where you get the added satisfaction of supporting independent publishing (and shameless fun between covers) to the greatest extent possible.

01/13/2026

Check out Dwight Garner's excellent review of "Catapult" in today's New York Times!

In “Catapult,” an impulsive project between two friends leads to reflections on human nature and conflict.

12/24/2025

A great review of "Good Bones" by Patrick Kurp:

Brooke Allen’s preface to Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading (Tivoli Books, 2025) will read to some like a eulogy delivere...

11/23/2025

We are having a Black Friday sale at Tivoli Books, running from today through December 1.

Use coupon code TIVOLI50 for 50% off all paperbacks. Grab a great book at half off, and support truly independent publishing.