Join The Book & Cover as we welcome Kyra Davis Lurie for an evening of Gatsby vibes and great conversation where we'll learn more about her retelling of The Great Gatsby, new novel The Great Mann (out 6/10/25).
Join The Book & Cover's Thursday Murder Book Club hosts, shop co-owner Emily Lilley and Audrey DeWild, for an evening in conversation with local mystery author B.T. Polcari as we celebrate the release of the newest novel in his Mauzzy & Me series, Lucky Secrets. We'll chat about Polcari's newest work, the inspiration behind his books, and the devious riddles and puzzles that make his mysteries so unique!
Sports (and kissing) fans gather on the patio to celebrate the re-publication of Kandi Steiner's beloved football romances The Right Player and The Wrong Game! Kandi will be in conversation with fellow romance author Lena Hendrix. Tickets can be purchased here.
Kandi Steiner is a USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author best known for writing emotional, relatable love stories. Her works range from angsty and heart-wrenching to uplifting and sweet, offering a story for every kind of romantic. With over 35 novels to her name, Kandi has earned a devoted following of readers who affectionately dub her the "Queen of Angst".
Born in Oklahoma, a 20 year resident of Florida, and now settling down in Tennessee, Kandi draws inspiration from her surroundings, often weaving themes of family, love, and self-discovery into her narratives. When she’s not crafting compelling stories or getting lost in the words of another author, you can find her hiking in the mountains, indulging in cozy moments with her family, or practicing pole dancing and yoga. Her books, including the viral hit A Love Letter to Whiskey, have been translated into multiple languages, resonating with readers worldwide.
Lena Hendrix is a USA Today and Amazon Top 5 Bestselling contemporary romance author living in the Midwest. Her love for romance started with sneaking racy Harlequin paperbacks as a teenager and now she writes her own hot-as-sin small town romance novels. Lena has a soft spot for strong alphas with marshmallow insides, heroines who clap back, and sizzling tension. Her novels pack small town heart with a whole lotta heat.
When she's not writing or devouring new novels, you can find her hiking, camping, fishing, and sipping a spicy margarita!
Join us every Saturday at 10 AM in the storybook forest for story time!
Come and contemplate nature, religion, and conservation with us as Martha Park and Jamie Quatro discuss Park's illustrated essays in Park’s forthcoming A World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After.
Please RSVP/purchase tickets for this event here.
Join us every Saturday at 10 AM in the storybook forest for story time!
Join us every Saturday at 10 AM in the storybook forest for story time!
Join us every Saturday at 10 AM in the storybook forest for story time!
Join us for an evening with author Matthew Hubbard to celebrate the publication of his book The Rebel’s Guide to Pride. This is a free event and reservations can be made here.
Check out the schedule for the 2025 Ink Drink and get your tickets for a full day of bookishly fun activities at The Book & Cover!
Join us in the grassy area of Riverview Park as we kick off our Independent Bookstore Day celebrations with a gentle yoga practice guided by Kaylee Nix. We will be reading poetry from Victoria Hutchin’s new release, Make Believe. Tickets are $10 and all proceeds go to A Step Ahead Chattanooga, a local nonprofit working to make contraception accessible in our community.
We are honored and excited to welcome baker extraordinaire Anne Byrn (The Cake Mix Doctor herself!) to Chattanooga for an author event around her beautiful and insightful cookbook, Baking in the American South.
Our friend and local food expert Briana Garza of Chattanooga Taste Tours will be in conversation with Anne for this ticketed event focused on the history and culture of Southern baking, and there might even be a sweet treat to try! Join us at Queens Kitchen for what is sure to be a fun event! Sign up via the link provided!
Join us for a meet and greet with author Kristina Montague! More about Montague’s debut Jump In:
Kristina Montague, managing partner of JumpFund, a women-led startup investment fund
investing in female founders, is excited to announce the release of her book, Jump In: Women
Investing in Women, Growing Our Capital and Impact.
Jump In tells how a group of women in a mid-sized Southern city saw a need to support female
entrepreneurs, who have historically received only 2% of venture capital, and started the first
gender lens angel fund in the Southeast U.S. Jump In charts the rising tide of women as angel
investors, since JumpFund’s inception in 2013, and profiles other women angel leaders
increasing access to capital for underserved founders. The book also offers a “women’s guide to
angel investing” for those interested in jumping in to invest in the change they want to see in the
world.
“When JumpFund first started a decade ago, Kristina and her cohort faced pushback and the
questions: Why women? Why now?,” shares Heather Cabot, author of Geek Girl Rising and The
New Chardonnay, “The sisterhood shaking up tech in Chattanooga ultimately answered these
queries with results. Their resounding success demonstrates how investing in women drives
both innovation and the bottom line. And perhaps it will inspire you to jump in, too!”
A groundswell of women are discovering the power and purpose of angel investing. Women are
reshaping the conversation in startup investing not only to open doors for other women and
more diverse founders but also to consider a wider lens of companies solving problems that
matter to women. Learn from those who have put their resources to work to increase access to
capital for underserved founders. Gain a better understanding of Gender Lens Investing and the
women behind this important movement. Discover the basics of how to get started as an angel
investor, and how to seed your own group of women investing in women.
Topics covered in Jump In:
● The origin story of the first women-led, female-focused fund in the Southeast U.S.
● What is angel investing and how are women influencing this asset class
● The growth and impact of Gender Lens Investing.
● Getting started as an angel investor in early-stage, women-led startups.
● Profiles of women leading and investing in the change they want to see.
About JumpFund
Launched in 2013, JumpFund’s mission is to make the Southeast the best place for a woman to
invest in or start a business. JumpFund has built a portfolio of high-growth, women-led ventures
across our region by harnessing women's capital. JumpFund is also part of a national effort to
grow women’s capital and impact across the early-stage venture ecosystem.
For more information, please contact:
Kristina Montague
https://www.thejumpfund.com/jump-in
contactus@thejumpfund.com
ph: 423.757.0514
This is a ticketed event, tickets may be purchased here.
Storm the third installment in Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series.
Attendees may select to attend the evening just to revel or to revel and receive a copy of the book (with styled edges) once the clock strikes twelve. No parapet walk or dragon bond required.
Attendees can adorm themselves in gowns & sequins or the finest Fourth Wing pajamas in their wardrobe. There will be games, prizes, snacks, & sips!
About Onyx Storm:
After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty.
Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust.
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.
Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything.
They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth.
But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.
Tickets for this event can be acquired here.
Join The Book & Cover at our nextdoor neighbors' shop, Queen's Kitchen, as we welcome Cook's Country Executive Editor and TV personality Morgan Bolling in celebrating the new cookbook When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes with Contributions from 70 Women Writers with a live cooking demonstration, author conversation, and book signing at Queen's Kitchen.
Who better to join Morgan in conversation about a book described as a "tour of the diverse history of Southern food through 200+ stories of women who've shaped the cuisine" than Chattanooga's own culinary tour guide, Briana Garza of Chatt Taste Food Tours? We look forward to an evening of lively conversation, engaging cooking, and tasty samples! Morgan will do a demo featuring her drop biscuit recipe, with tastings for attendees!
About the book:
When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes with Contributions from 70 Women Writers is a first-of-its-kind Southern cookbook featuring more than 300 Cook's Country recipes and fascinating insights into the culinary techniques and heroes of the American South. Shepherded by Toni Tipton-Martin and Cook's Country Executive Editor and TV personality Morgan Bolling, When Southern Women Cook showcases the hard work, hospitality, and creativity of women who have given soul to Southern cooking from the start. Every page amplifies their contributions, from the enslaved cooks making foundational food at Monticello to Mexican Americans accessing sweet memories with colorful conchas today.
About the author:
MORGAN BOLLING is Executive Editor of Creative Content for Cook’s Country, a cast member of the Cook’s Country TV show, and a passionate Southern woman.
This is a ticketed event and tickets can be acquired here.
The Book & Cover is overjoyed to welcome author Hanif Abdurraqib back to Chattanooga and the Riverview Ampitheatre to celebrate the paperback publication of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension.
Join The Book & Cover (and our neighbors!) for a Saturday of fall festival fun.
This is a ticketed event and tickets may be acquired/purchased here.
You're invited to spend Mean Girls day with The Book & Cover and author M.L. Rio who will be in the shop celebrating the publication of her novella Graveyard Shift. M will be in conversation with resident horrorphile bookseller Bennett Burns. The evening promises to be so fun it's scary!
M. L. Rio holds an MA in Shakespeare studies from King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe and a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her bestselling first novel If We Were Villains has been published in twenty countries and eighteen languages. Graveyard Shift is her first novella.
Advance praise for the Graveyard Shift:
"This place has everything—rats, fungus, thrills, chills, mysteries, hostile incidents—and M.L. Rio deftly weaves it all together into a short, sweet (okay maybe not that sweet) story. A rad, crisp, creepy read."
—Chuck Wendig, bestselling author of Black River Orchard and The Book of Accidents
“Like all M. L. Rio's work, Graveyard Shift is shot through with cool, heavily dosed with ennui, and dense with people-pleasures. Within this tangled skein of complicated characters (ranging from sweetly unhinged to truly problematic), Rio presents a world of nihilistic macabre only to strip it back, painting the gruesome with a softer brush and her singular gift for portraiture.”
—Olivie Blake, bestselling author of Atlas Six
“Graveyard Shift is wonderful - dark, strange and hair-raisingly tense - it spills over with atmosphere, full of flawed, fascinating characters. I raced through it.”
—Catriona Ward, bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street
“[A] satisfying follow-up to If We Were Villains. . . Rio stuffs a plethora of surprises into her concise narrative without skimping on character development. This packs a punch.”
—Publishers Weekly
"Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer 2024" - CrimeReads
Sink your canine teeth in the sides of our neck Saturday September 21st as Jenna Levine joins us to celebrate her novel My Vampire Plus-One!
This is a ticketed event, please register/purchase tickets here.
In his debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a family member and the specter of police brutality.
With a profound awareness of literary tradition, Collier enters into the American canon and dialogues with Black Southern noir—a poem like “Beloved,” whose title expresses not only a genuine tenderness in its term of endearment but invokes Morrison, contextualizes this book within the legacy of racial injustice in the U.S., presenting again the prolific losses and disproportionate Black mortality across time, and yet remembers the resilience of love and transformative possibility of self-actualization from inside tragedy.
In addition to his debut collection, Greater Ghost, Collier is also the author of the chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade, the 2021 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. His works have appeared in December, Hayden’s Ferry Review, North American Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2022 Porch Prize in Poetry and the 2020 ProForma Contest from Grist Journal. More about him and his work can be found at www.christianjcollier.com. Electric Lit did a cover reveal feature on Greater Ghost in May. You can access the article here: https://electricliterature.com/exclusive-cover-reveal-of-greater-ghost-by-christian-collier/.
Collier's work has also earned praise from many authors in the field, including Ruben Quesada, Melissa Studdard, Gabrielle Bates, and many others:
Christian Collier's evocative poetry collection, Greater Ghost, invites readers on a journey that touches upon themes of faith, hope, and the search for meaning. In "Sauna," he describes breath as a temporary beast, “a frightened deer sometimes sprinting / away & out of view" to underscore the transient nature of life and our constant quest for sustenance and survival. With poignant and vivid imagery, Collier captures fleeting moments of happiness and shadows that often lurk behind them. He writes, "Loss is the language living pours between our teeth. / In a way, we are what sits between two broken bones." This body as a vessel underscores the tension between the internal self and external forces. Don’t wait. Dive into a world where every poem is a discovery. Christian Collier's poems are tender and haunting.
—Ruben Quesada
If “the wound remains an open border,” as Christian J. Collier tells us in Greater Ghost, so, too, does the heart. How else could a poet so brilliantly transmute suffering into metaphor, lamentation into beauty, and the ghosts of his dead into an otherworldly wisdom? I could quote line after line after line of astoundingly gorgeous writing, but the thing I really want you to know is that grief has transformed Collier into someone “perforated and new,” someone who through his own openness has become a portal to truth, and I, for one, hope to never miss another word of that truth.
—Melissa Studdard
With ominous insights and images that provoke both horror and awe, Collier explores the vulnerable ecotones where beings encounter and belong to one another, in love and in grief. When I read this book, I feel the boundaries overflow; I feel mourning’s relentless parade and accept its invitation to a tender ongoingness. Greater Ghost is an incredibly moving collection, both nightmarish and beautiful. Here are poems populated by the dead, pulsing with life.
—Gabrielle Bates
Join us for a special story time with children’s book author Christina Soontornvat reading her book Leo’s First Vote! The author's father became a citizen when she was seven and she was excited he could now vote. It's easy to feel helpless, but this accessible view of the voting process acknowledges that the world's big problems can make you feel small; but your actions matter and have an impact!
Folks from League of Women Voters will also be at the shop helping folks register to vote!
Join us for an afternoon with author Natalie Lloyd as we celebrate the publication of her newest middle grade novel The Witching Wind. Light refreshment and merriment and books!
Join us at The Daily Ration as The Book & Cover hosts Alexandria Bellefleur & Ashley Herring Blake in convo for Bookstore Romance Day 2024!
The Book & Cover is so excited to welcome Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, on her book tour for her new and beautifully illustrated collection of essays about food and memory, Bite by Bite. This highly readable set of essays offers a poignant and reflective look at the ways food connects and defines our world and our experiences, and is sure to be a great read for fans of nonfiction and food writing. This is a ticketed event.
It wouldn’t be an event for essays about food without treats, so expect some tasty treats as well, including bites taken from the pages of the book and a special sip designed by our neighbors at Rosecomb Bar!
Author Aimee Nezhukumatathil will be in conversation with The Book & Cover Co-founder Emily Lilley and Assistant Manager Jewel Thongnopnua. Get your tickets here.
Join The Book & Cover as we celebrate the pub day launch of local author Matthew Hubbard’s charming debut novel, The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge!
Matthew will be joined by author Julian Winters in conversation about the book and the writing process, and will sign copies of the gorgeous novel afterwards.
This engaging YA novel, called a “glitter-dusted revolution of a book” by Becky Alberthall, author of New York Times bestselling novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, is a fantastic queer story full of heart and verve.
Visit this link to RSVP, or simply join us for what promises to be a fun and uplifting time!
Register/purchase tickets here!
The Book & Cover is thrilled to welcome readers and neighbors back for the third annual Ink Drink and Independent Bookstore Day celebration. We invite you to venture with us into a curious realm of literary and community wonder.
There will be events throughout the day, only some of which are ticketed.
7 am - *Reserve a spot* Audiobook Run/Walk starting at the shop
10 am - Storytime Tea Party party with Alice in Wonderland and her friends (children are invited to wear their favorite costume from any story!)
11 am - 1 pm - Free face painting available at the shop with Andrea Zoppo!
12 pm - Poetry Pizza Picnic (join us on the grounds, where you can order lunch from the Pizzeria Cortile truck and enjoy live readings from local poets!)
4 pm - *Reserve a spot* Author Panel at Daily Ration feat. Kevin Wilson, Meredith Garrett, Natalie Lloyd, and Matthew Hubbard
6 pm - *Ticketed* Books & Covers Afterparty
Audiobook Run/Walk
This fun event has become one of our favorites! Whether you’d like to stroll with the walking group or get your heart rate up with the running group, let us know you’ll be joining us. This year the Audiobook Run/Walk is sponsored by our friends at Fastbreak and Libro.fm!
Libro.fm is offering up to 50 free audiobook credits for participants (1 per person), and these will be first come first serve so be sure to sign up so you don’t miss your chance!
All participants will also be entered in a drawing courtesy of our friends at Fast Break for a pair of After Shokz Bone Conduction headphones — if you want to know how great these are, just ask Sarah!
Signup is free. Let us know you’re joining us!
Author Panel
We’re so excited to gather some of our favorite southern writers to talk about writing in the South, how authors support each other, and so much more. This event will be held around the corner at The Daily Ration, and they’ll have the bar open for sips and snacks for attendees!
This event is free, but please let us know if you plan to attend so we know how many seats we’ll need:
Books & Covers After Party
The Ink Drink Cocktail party is always a marvelous time, and this year we’re so excited that we’ll be joined by soft pressed, who will be playing Taylor Swift and boygenius covers! We’ll also have an on-site friendship bracelet vendor, Bird’s Beads, and your ticket will include charcuterie and two free drinks. There will also be a cash bar, and the Pizzeria Cortile truck will be open.
Tickets are $35, limit two per purchaser.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Join us each Saturday for Storytime in the Storybook Forest! The first Saturday is bilingual storytime in partnership with Chattanooga School of Language.
Join us each Saturday for Storytime in the Storybook Forest! The first Saturday is bilingual storytime in partnership with Chattanooga School of Language.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry (encouraged by a 15% off poetry sale) and jewelry inspired by poetry crafted by local jewelry artisan Sister Homage (also available for a discount!). This pop-up is free to attend and folks can enjoy treats & sips while they browse.
Starfall Ball Midnight Release of House of Flame and Shadow
Ticket REQUIRED - purchase HERE.
Join us at The Book & Cover for an enchanting evening of magic (and agonizing anticipation).
Celebrate the midnight release of House of Flame and Shadow, the latest installment in the Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas with fellow fae fans & stans.
Don a gown worthy of Starfall & leave your spoilers at home - this will be a magical evening you do not want to miss.
Ticket includes a copy of the indie exclusive House of Flame and Shadow, a themed cocktail, charcuterie, & the company of other eager readers.
There are also ticket options for folks who have already pre-ordered the book with The Book & Cover (and even an option to bring a plus one this time!).
Kait Makes x The Book & Cover Holiday Soirée
Join us for a festive evening at The Book & Cover! Get ready for a night full of creativity, merriment, and holiday cheer.
Kait Makes will be live stitching Out of Print Library Card totes - you can pre-order your tote here or plan to purchase your tote that evening. Tote purchasers get 10% off their book purchase that evening only so plan to stock up for all the literary lovers in your life (and don't forget yourself).
We will have seasonal sips & snacks and Catherine Campbell will be in the house crooning indie holiday classics.
RSVP here and start planning for a merry time!
Join us Monday, November 6 for an outdoor evening with Margaret Renkl as she discusses her new book, The Comfort of Crows.
The Book & Cover is proud to announce an evening with New York Times bestselling author, columnist, and Tennessean Margaret Renkl on Monday, November 6, 2023 at the Ampitheathre in Riverview Park with seats opening at 6pm EST and the event to begin at 6:30pm EST.
Renkl, author of bestselling books Late Migrations and Graceland at Last, will read from and discuss her new book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. The Comfort of Crows is described as a literary devotional comprising of 52 essays centered around the flora and fauna of her own backyard in her trademark lyrical, reflective prose. She will also sign books at the conclusion of the event.
Tickets are limited and must be reserved to attend the event. Your ticket includes one copy of The Comfort of Crows. Copies of Late Migrations and Graceland at Last will be available for purchase at the event.
