We’ve decided to approach 2021 like Punxsutawney Phil and not just because every day seems like every other day lately. We feel conflicted by the current statistics that are showing Colorado is heading in the right direction with Covid cases …
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Giving Thanks for all the Giving
Can you stand another post about all of the reasons to feel grateful in such a horrid year? This isn’t the post I intended to write as I fell asleep last night, worrying about the future: the state of small …
Happy 10th Anniversary Denver Book Exchange!
This is kinda where it all began. Ten years ago I was in the midst of a seven year stint as a stay-at-home mother to our two young children. I began craving adult collaboration and missing the satisfaction of working …
People of BookBar
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, …
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, …
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