Spring into reading: Book Bingo underway

Join Chapters through June 20, 2023 for a fun in-person and online game of Spring Book BINGO. Each square represents a book you’ve read this spring. (Honor system, please.) Mark your square and fill in the title and author of the book you’ve read that fulfills its criteria. If you need more room, a fill-in-the-blank format is available below. BINGO […]

Introducing “Staff Picks”

Chapters is pleased to introduce “Staff Picks,” a new revolving feature and display at the shop. Each month Chapters & The Wine Cellar at Chapters staff will choose a few of our current favorite books to recommend to you. We hope to spark conversations around our love for books and to build even more, and closer, relationships with our customers. […]

Book talk, signing with Emily Nunn set Friday, Nov. 24

Join us for a reading, talk, and book signing featuring Emily Nunn, author of The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart. The event kicks off 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24, with a reading and discussion at Chestnut Creek School of the Arts, immediately followed by a book signing at Chapters Bookshop. We’ll […]

Local romance author to visit Chapters Bookshop

Chapters Bookshop is hosting Zoe M. McCarthy, local author of inspirational contemporary romances, Gift of the Magpie and Calculated Risk, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30. Chapters Bookshop is located at 101 E. Grayson Street in Galax. McCarthy will be signing books, which will be available for purchase. A full-time writer and speaker, McCarthy writes contemporary inspirational romances involving […]

Book signing with E. Fred Carlisle set noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 5

Most Grayson County, Virginia residents understand how a person can be shaped by their home. This relationship is the subject of a new book, Hollow and Home, by E. Fred Carlisle, who was inspired by a Galax native’s deep, complicated love for Grayson County. As part of the book’s launch, Carlisle will be signing copies at Chapters Bookshop from noon […]

Chapters Bookshop launches book club

Chapters Bookshop will host its new book club, Friday’s Book, beginning 5:30 p.m. June 30. This month’s book choice is The Book Thief, a New York Times bestseller by Marcus Zusak. Set in Nazi, Germany, The Book Thief takes readers on a journey of one little girl’s love affair with words. Readers will be faced with a paradox–that words used to […]

BOOK REVIEW: Britt-Marie Was Here leaves lasting impression

A woman’s ability to find her voice can be quite the journey. Join Britt-Marie as she travels to Borg, a little no-nothing town, rattled by a severe economic crisis, that has nothing to offer–or so it seems. As unexpected relationships begin to form, Britt-Marie realizes that she has more in common with this miserable little town then she ever imagined….they […]

Celebrate the freedom to read

Through Oct. 1, book lovers and first amendment supporters are observing Banned Books Week, which celebrates our freedom to read and highlights the value of free and open access to information Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have […]

Chapters Bookshop hosts photographer for book signing 5-7 p.m. Friday

Renowned Appalachian photographer and writer Tim Barnwell will sign copies of his new book, Great Smoky Mountains Vistas: A Guide, 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9 at Chapters Bookshop. The book combines panoramic photos from overlooks with useful information about activities near each overlook. The new Smoky Mountains book is a comprehensive guide that lays out each roadside vista […]