Book & Barrel

06/04/2026

Yall go see this new shop!!

06/04/2026

SINGO THIS SATURDAY!!! 630-8

Big celebration for our one year anniversary ♥️

Free pizza!

06/03/2026

☕📚 A summer evening, a new book, and an author visit... what could be better?

Join us at Book & Barrel on Friday, July 18th from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM as we welcome Miranda Smith for the release of her latest novel, Scary Movie Night.

Browse the shelves, meet the author, and have your book personally signed. Copies are available for pre-order through the QR code and will also be available for purchase during the event.

Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering her work for the first time, we'd love to see you there for an evening celebrating books, stories, and community.

📍 Book & Barrel 📅 Friday, July 18 🕔 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

See you at the bookstore!

06/02/2026

Come see us tomorrow!

Rhonda is back and we have TONS of new books!!

4pm get a free glass of lemonade wine with every book purchase!

ALL journals are 30% off. New 20% off book table!

See you tomorrow!

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

Join us! Get here early for parking and grab a cold beverage from us❤️

Something new is coming to downtown Ringgold every Friday this summer. 🎶

Front Porch Fridays at Benton Coal is a FREE live acoustic music series happening every Friday night in June and July. No tickets. No cover. Just great music, great company, and a slow Friday evening in the heart of downtown.

We kick things off THIS Friday, June 5th with the Daly Special Trio. 7 PM. 96 Depot Street. Free.

Where Friday nights slow down. 🌙


Mark your calendar & share with a friend! Learn More 👉 https://shorturl.at/IRNDG
Courtney Daly & The Daly Grind

06/02/2026

In honor of pride month and fantastic artists....Come join us for a celebration of fantastic music and fantastic authors.❤️♥️💜🧡💛💗🧡

Lots of books on sale for 20% off that night along with free pizza and drink specials!

06/02/2026

Writer's meet up!

June 9th 6:30

Bring your favorite journal (or buy one from us for 30% off)
Your favorite pens

Let's write❤️

06/02/2026

📚🚨 JUNE HAS ESCAPED CONTAINMENT AT BOOK & BARREL 🚨📚

We tried to schedule a quiet month.
Instead, June showed up with bestselling authors, Bunco, Dungeons & Dragons, knitting needles, SINGO, and enough bookish chaos to fill several novels.
Here's what's happening:

Mahjong EVERY TUESDAY 2:00
Book clubs listed in a separate post

📖 June 4 – Sherry Hamby Author Event & Signing Meet an author. Get a book signed.

🎲 June 5 – Dungeons & Dragons
Also... 🎉 ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY! We've survived 365 days without being buried under our TBR piles.

📚 June 6 – Book Club Book Exchange (12–2) Trade books you swear you'll miss.

✍️ June 6 – Local Author Symposium (2–4) Proof that writers do occasionally leave the house.

🖋️ June 9 – Writers Meet-Up 6:30
Come stare dramatically into the distance and call it research.

🎲 June 10 & June 23 – Bunco Nights No experience necessary. Mild competitiveness encouraged.

🧶 June 11 – Granny Hobby Club Grandma energy. Any age welcome.

🧵 June 19 – Crochet & Knitting Club Turning yarn into masterpieces and occasional knots since forever.

🎤 June 20 – SINGO It's bingo. It's music. It's a surprisingly intense sport.

🎂 June 22- Prince's Birthday Party and celebration of LGBTQ+ author sale 6:30

💜 June 24 – Role Models Bunco Same Bunco. Extra awesome people.

📚 June 27 – Renee Regent Book Signing Meet the author. Buy the book. Add to the pile. No regrets.

📍 Book & Barrel 96 Depot Street, Ringgold
If anyone asks, reading is a perfectly reasonable personality trait. See you in June!

🤣📚🎲🧶🍷 (Okay, maybe not the wine—we're mostly fueled by caffeine and book recommendations.)

06/02/2026

Stronger Than You Think is out!

Come hear the author Sherry Hamby this Thursday 6:00

✨ We’ve never been in greater need of resilience. We’ve also never misunderstood it more.✨

At one point or another, life will break us open. This is when we need resilience most—but as psychologist Dr. Sherry Hamby reveals, many of us are going about it the wrong way. Resilience isn’t something you either have or don’t. Instead, it is a modifiable process—meaning anyone can learn, practice, and benefit from it across every stage of life.

Drawing on more than thirty years studying violence, trauma, and recovery, Dr. Hamby reveals that the key to becoming more resilient lies in harnessing the necessary resources and assets to thrive after hardship. She calls this your resilience portfolio. The more and different kinds of strengths in your portfolio—in the form of internal assets like meaning-making and regulatory skills, and external resources like supportive social networks and physical environments—the more quickly you can bounce back from adversity, and the better prepared you’ll be to weather future hardship.

Accessing and nurturing these strengths is simpler than you think. Through client stories and her own journey of resilience, Dr. Hamby walks readers step-by-step through evidence-backed tools and strategies for regulating impulses and emotions, modifying your social and physical ecologies to promote greater wellbeing, and infusing your day-to-day with a deeper sense of purpose.

Loss, betrayal, and suffering might break us open, but it is never too late to put together the pieces of a good life. Stronger Than You Think invites us to access the kinds of strengths that stand the test of time.