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By guest blogger Rahem Mulatu

I want to come to you with my raw feelings of pain, anguish, tears, and a heavy heart. I want you to feel and see my vulnerability. I plead with you to not disregard or diminish my sorrow. I am grieving My Dear White Friends! You are My White Friends that welcomed me with an open heart when you saw me at the office, grocery store, library, school, park, church, movie theater, community center, gym, City Hall, and restaurants. Even though I could not show you my vulnerability because I did not want you to think

by Nicole Sullivan

This is my fourth letter in three months. I hope you don't mind that this is turning into a personal blog series. Extraordinary times call for ever greater honesty and transparency.

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by Nicole Sullivan

Chapter 7:

Every person, business, and organization has handled this Covid situation differently. For me, roughly half-way through the shut-down and quarantine, I resolved to come out of this a better person and to make BookBar a better business.

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BookGive, our nonprofit organization, has been stocking Little Free Libraries each weekend in an effort to get more books to more communities. 9news tagged along with us last weekend. Check out the story HERE if you missed it.

It has been a month since my last post. So much and also nothing has happened since then. On March 27th, I had just come out of a couple of weeks of mourning for my business that I knew would never be the same, not to mention society itself. Whatever the stages of grief are during this time, I had reached my Optimism with a Healthy Does of Realism stage where I could hesitantly see some possibilities.

by Eilidh Spery

by Marilyn Robbins

Let me start by immediately answering the question I know you are already thinking.

“YES!”

Yes!  THE ONE AND ONLY BOB is as good as THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN!

BookBar owner Nicole Sullivan shares her thoughts on her social distance, sudden free time, and the future of BookBar... READ MORE

by Marilyn Robbins

BookBar has two books that are wonderful resources for parents and their children during the COVID-19 pandemic.  These can be ordered online from us with free shipping.  Both books offer extensive lists of books for your child to read and ideas to keep us all reading during our self-isolation.  Remember you can read to your children, read with your children, and read alongside your children.

We’re shaking things up and doing December a little different with the cookbook club. First, we’re recommending not one, but two books this month. Second, they’re a little different from our previous fare. But rest assured, both are amazing titles that we know you’re going to love!...read more

Followers of Tieghan Gerard’s crazy popular Half Baked Harvest blog will be excited to see that she finally has a second cookbook out! If you haven’t heard of her, now is the time to introduce yourself to this fantastic Colorado cook’s amazing dishes...read more

Guest post by Kevin Simpson from The Colorado Sun

Disruption in the media industry has claimed many casualties, including thousands of jobs nationally and hundreds in Colorado. Avid readers of literature probably have noticed something else in short supply: coverage of books and their authors.

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Ted Allen may have left some big shoes to fill in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, but Antoni Porowski has taken on the job and made the position of food and wine expert his own. It’s not surprising considering he came to the show on Allen’s own recommendation! And after four seasons, Porowski has debuted his very first cookbook, Antoni in the Kitchen...read more 

The BookBar BookWorms present the 8 favorite new books of the fall for kids and teens. See what the cool kids are reading and stop by to pick up the best new read for the season!

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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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