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By Marilyn Robbins

Raising a reader is one of the most important gifts you can give your child.  Learning to read is not easy. It takes a lot of hard work for several years for any child to master reading independently.  Educators can teach students to read, but the love of reading is learned at home. And, it’s important to get a jump on the process before kindergarten begins.

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Here are some of the new titles we’re excited for you to read in September!...read more

by Becky LeJeune

by Becky LeJeune

If you’ve followed the club, then you know that this month we’ve been cooking from Ford Fry’s Tex-Mex: Traditions, Innovations, and Comfort Foods From Both Sides of the Border... read more. 

By Becky LeJeune

In the food world Tex-Mex is an entity all of its own. Mexican cuisine, brought north to Texas in the early nineteenth century, adapted according to ingredients more at home in Texas than across the border and the railroad expanded those ingredients further. Flour tortillas, cheese, even cumin were all additions that came from this blend of cultures. And while crispy tacos, chile gravy, and queso may not be authentic Mexican, they are true Tex-Mex!

By Becky LeJeune

If you’ve followed the club, then you know that this month we’ve been cooking from Stephen and Jessica’s Rose’s The Peach Truck Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes for All Things Peach.

By Becky LeJeune

July in Colorado means peaches! Which is why, for our July Cookbook Club pick, we’ve selected a peachtastic cookbook full of recipes perfect for showcasing Colorado’s Palisade peaches: The Peach Truck Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes for All Things Peach by Jessica N. Rose and Stephen K. Rose...

After our Drag Queen Storytime was targeted by white supremacists this week, we received an outpouring of support from our community. We also received some negative comments via phone messages, email, social media, and in response to the news reporting of the incidents. We took the time to answer your questions and reply to your comments. We're including some book recommendations because we are booksellers and Just. Can't. Help.

By Becky LeJeune

If you’ve followed the club, then you know that this month we’ve been cooking from Alana Kysar’s excellent debut, Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai’i.

Well, in addition to choosing a new cookbook each month, we’re taking it one step further with themed book club reading and snacking suggestions to go along with the club pick. Today we’ve got reading ideas and a menu suggestion for the perfect Aloha Kitchen  themed book club meeting!

by Chris Moncaleiden

As a student of counseling, I have read many books that stray deep into theories of human growth. I have noticed that while fields such as "self-help" are flourishing, there are few books that pull back the curtain on such a vital resource as psychotherapy. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb is that book...  READ MORE

By Becky LeJeune

Our June Cookbook Club pick is Alana Kysar’s Aloha Kitchen: Recipes from Hawai’i.

You might wonder what constitutes Hawaiian cooking. You might even suspect that it’s just Spam and/or pineapple heavy cuisine - but you would be sorely mistaken. Yes, there’s Spam and pineapple. But there’s so much more to Hawaiian food...

By Sarah Dealy

Being a woman is scary and hard. You have to hold your keys in between your fingers as you walk to your car, make sure you dress pretty (not sexy, sexy is asking for it), have 911 pre dialed if the cab driver creeps you out, smile and nod but also be fierce, don't make anyone angry (they could be a future stalker). Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark know this well.

BookBar’s non-profit organization, BookGive, is providing complimentary copies of The Mueller Report, published by our friends at Melville House Publishing. Regardless of which side of the political divide you may fall, we can all probably agree on the importance of this report. We recognize that, for some, purchasing books is a luxury.

by Becky LeJeune

BookBar is launching a new cookbook club!

Each month, BookBar will highlight a different cookbook, inviting our community to cook alongside us throughout the month, sharing pictures and comments about the recipes they try on social media!

Sign up: https://readtribe.com/bookclub/cookbook-bookclub