Hi. Nice to see you again. As we sloooowly begin to re-open to our guests, it feels like a good time to (re)introduce ourselves. We have some new faces and new titles for ‘old’ faces. Get to know our passionate, …
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My Dear White Friends,
By 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 …
Black Booksellers Matter
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.
BookBar Turns 7: Ch-Ch-Changes (Turn and Face the Strange)
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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Peeking Around the Corner
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 …
A Short History of Mystery and Some Indubitably Great Reads
I love most books—as an English major and a bookseller, that comes with the territory. I’m drawn to different books for different reasons: some create beautiful images and scenes, some have complex twisting plots, and others grab me with their …
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Bookbar’s Pneu Business Model
March 1, 2020 Businesses throughout the world have been required to change their models almost overnight due to Covid-19 and BookBar is no exception. We closed the store to the public initially, filling orders online and to-go only. Soon after, …
THE ANSWER IS YES! DEFINITELY YES!
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! Yes! You need to preorder it from BookBar so you …
BookBar in the Time of Covid
BookBar was built on a vision of our community socializing through literature and a common love of books and reading. That has been our business model for the past seven years. We’ve witnessed countless touching moments of collaborations, partnerships, friendships, …
Reading Help is Here for YOU: Parents & Your Kids
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 …
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