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You can find Helianthus Books at:
Monarca Art Space
1225 Union Ave Ste 100 KCMO
ParaMi
10701 E Winner Rd #240, Independence, MO
The Sunflower Market
5847 Merriam Dr
Merriam KS.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter at our website www.HelianthusBooks.com and I’ll see you at the next popup 🌻
Monarca Art Space
1225 Union Ave Ste 100 KCMO
ParaMi
10701 E Winner Rd #240, Independence, MO
The Sunflower Market
5847 Merriam Dr
Merriam KS.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter at our website www.HelianthusBooks.com and I’ll see you at the next popup 🌻
🔥Calling all romance lovers! Heat things up with @libro.fm ‘s audiobook sale, all in support of our bookshop!
Between now and August 20, find hundreds of great romance audiobooks on sale.
Start shopping: libro.fm/sale?bookshop=helianthusbooks 🌻❤
Between now and August 20, find hundreds of great romance audiobooks on sale.
Start shopping: libro.fm/sale?bookshop=helianthusbooks 🌻❤
August 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🔥Calling all romance lovers! Heat things up with @libro.fm ‘s audiobook sale, all in support of our bookshop!
Between now and August 20, find hundreds of great romance audiobooks on sale.
Start shopping: libro.fm/sale?bookshop=helianthusbooks 🌻❤
Between now and August 20, find hundreds of great romance audiobooks on sale.
Start shopping: libro.fm/sale?bookshop=helianthusbooks 🌻❤
One of the reasons we LOVE partnering with Libro.fm is their ALC Program for educators and librarians.
As we head into Back To School season, please share this with all of the teachers in your life 🫶🏻🌻
libro.fm/alcprogram
As we head into Back To School season, please share this with all of the teachers in your life 🫶🏻🌻
libro.fm/alcprogram
August 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of the reasons we LOVE partnering with Libro.fm is their ALC Program for educators and librarians.
As we head into Back To School season, please share this with all of the teachers in your life 🫶🏻🌻
libro.fm/alcprogram
As we head into Back To School season, please share this with all of the teachers in your life 🫶🏻🌻
libro.fm/alcprogram
It’s #MarginsBookselling Month! Tell us your favorite audiobook for a chance to win 3 audiobooks of your choice from @libro.fm!
Giveaway is not sponsored or endorsed by Bluesky & no purchase is necessary and will close midnight 7/31/25. Winners announced on all our social media pages. Good luck!
Giveaway is not sponsored or endorsed by Bluesky & no purchase is necessary and will close midnight 7/31/25. Winners announced on all our social media pages. Good luck!
July 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s #MarginsBookselling Month! Tell us your favorite audiobook for a chance to win 3 audiobooks of your choice from @libro.fm!
Giveaway is not sponsored or endorsed by Bluesky & no purchase is necessary and will close midnight 7/31/25. Winners announced on all our social media pages. Good luck!
Giveaway is not sponsored or endorsed by Bluesky & no purchase is necessary and will close midnight 7/31/25. Winners announced on all our social media pages. Good luck!
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This Prime Day (& every day):
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
July 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This Prime Day (& every day):
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
Bookshop.org's Anti-Prime Sale is HERE: FREE STANDARD SHIPPING from Tuesday, July 8–Friday, July 11 🥳
Make the switch away from monopoly ✊💙📚
Thank you for supporting Indie Bookstores 🌻
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Make the switch away from monopoly ✊💙📚
Thank you for supporting Indie Bookstores 🌻
bookshop.org/a/22454/9781...
July 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Bookshop.org's Anti-Prime Sale is HERE: FREE STANDARD SHIPPING from Tuesday, July 8–Friday, July 11 🥳
Make the switch away from monopoly ✊💙📚
Thank you for supporting Indie Bookstores 🌻
bookshop.org/a/22454/9781...
Make the switch away from monopoly ✊💙📚
Thank you for supporting Indie Bookstores 🌻
bookshop.org/a/22454/9781...
July book club pick is Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes.
Wednesday July 30th, 2025 7-9pm
TheSunflowerMarket
5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
www.bookshop.org/a/22454/9780262539487
Wednesday July 30th, 2025 7-9pm
TheSunflowerMarket
5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
www.bookshop.org/a/22454/9780262539487
July 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
July book club pick is Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes.
Wednesday July 30th, 2025 7-9pm
TheSunflowerMarket
5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
www.bookshop.org/a/22454/9780262539487
Wednesday July 30th, 2025 7-9pm
TheSunflowerMarket
5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
www.bookshop.org/a/22454/9780262539487
Juneteenth
Cowtown Vintage & Arts Exchange
El Torreón
3101 Gillham Plaza
Kansas City, MO
6/19/2025
6-11pm
#KansasCity
#Booksky
Cowtown Vintage & Arts Exchange
El Torreón
3101 Gillham Plaza
Kansas City, MO
6/19/2025
6-11pm
#KansasCity
#Booksky
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Juneteenth
Cowtown Vintage & Arts Exchange
El Torreón
3101 Gillham Plaza
Kansas City, MO
6/19/2025
6-11pm
#KansasCity
#Booksky
Cowtown Vintage & Arts Exchange
El Torreón
3101 Gillham Plaza
Kansas City, MO
6/19/2025
6-11pm
#KansasCity
#Booksky
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Remember Colombo. Be slow, methodical, inconvenient. Ask too many questions. Insist on rules being followed and just be slow and frustrating. That's a great way to gum up what they're trying to do.
100% this. Remember that every damned thing you do to gum up the works, however small, feels like this to them.
You don’t have to stand and fight. You can interfere, disrupt, slow down, and then walk away once the cost gets too high. Enough people doing that may matter MORE.
You don’t have to stand and fight. You can interfere, disrupt, slow down, and then walk away once the cost gets too high. Enough people doing that may matter MORE.
The protests & slowdowns & leaks & refusals to comply & boycotts & strikes & antifascist art & gumming up the works & sanctuary projects & all the other stuff that we’ve got to run all at once have to feel like that too.
Break their hold bit by bit.
Here, there, & over here too, until - whoosh.
Break their hold bit by bit.
Here, there, & over here too, until - whoosh.
June 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Remember Colombo. Be slow, methodical, inconvenient. Ask too many questions. Insist on rules being followed and just be slow and frustrating. That's a great way to gum up what they're trying to do.
I’ve been seeing a lot of takes about the South and I just want to say, before you talk about the South and election results, please read Carol Anderson’s One Person, No Vote.
It’s 2025 and we need to know this stuff.
#BookSky
bookshop.org/a/22454/9781...
It’s 2025 and we need to know this stuff.
#BookSky
bookshop.org/a/22454/9781...
June 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I’ve been seeing a lot of takes about the South and I just want to say, before you talk about the South and election results, please read Carol Anderson’s One Person, No Vote.
It’s 2025 and we need to know this stuff.
#BookSky
bookshop.org/a/22454/9781...
It’s 2025 and we need to know this stuff.
#BookSky
bookshop.org/a/22454/9781...
June is Caribbean American Heritage Month and our June Book Club Pick is Drown by Junot Díaz. We will meet for discussion on Wednesday June 25th, 2025 from 7-9pm at The Sunflower Market, 5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
#KansasCity #BookSky
#KansasCity #BookSky
June 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
June is Caribbean American Heritage Month and our June Book Club Pick is Drown by Junot Díaz. We will meet for discussion on Wednesday June 25th, 2025 from 7-9pm at The Sunflower Market, 5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
#KansasCity #BookSky
#KansasCity #BookSky
Saturday May 31st 2025
11am until 4pm
Shop with us at the 2nd Annual Asiatica Bazaar.
4824 Rainbow Blvd
Westwood KS
#KansasCity
11am until 4pm
Shop with us at the 2nd Annual Asiatica Bazaar.
4824 Rainbow Blvd
Westwood KS
#KansasCity
May 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Saturday May 31st 2025
11am until 4pm
Shop with us at the 2nd Annual Asiatica Bazaar.
4824 Rainbow Blvd
Westwood KS
#KansasCity
11am until 4pm
Shop with us at the 2nd Annual Asiatica Bazaar.
4824 Rainbow Blvd
Westwood KS
#KansasCity
You can find If The Boot Fits at our satellite store in The Sunflower Market in Merriam KS. It is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
#KansasCity #Booksky
#KansasCity #Booksky
Need a sexy cowboy romance to keep you company while we wait for the concert movie? Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast, with a contemporary cowboy twist!
🌵 ebook: amzn.to/4cYLaUd / www.kobo.com/us/en/s...
🌵 print: bookshop.org/contrib...
#blacksky #booksky #romancesky
🌵 ebook: amzn.to/4cYLaUd / www.kobo.com/us/en/s...
🌵 print: bookshop.org/contrib...
#blacksky #booksky #romancesky
May 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You can find If The Boot Fits at our satellite store in The Sunflower Market in Merriam KS. It is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
#KansasCity #Booksky
#KansasCity #Booksky
Through the end of May, 2025 get 20%* off 100+ titles by AAPI authors when using code AAPI25 at checkout. There are children's books, middle grade & young adult books, adult fiction and non-fiction, cookbooks, & poetry books too! #BookSky
*List price, excludes ebooks
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*List price, excludes ebooks
bookshop.org/lists/aapi-h...
May 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Through the end of May, 2025 get 20%* off 100+ titles by AAPI authors when using code AAPI25 at checkout. There are children's books, middle grade & young adult books, adult fiction and non-fiction, cookbooks, & poetry books too! #BookSky
*List price, excludes ebooks
bookshop.org/lists/aapi-h...
*List price, excludes ebooks
bookshop.org/lists/aapi-h...
Friday, May 2, 5–10 PM
Saturday, May 3, 12–10 PM
Hola, KC! Mark your calendars for the evening of May 2nd and all-day May 3rd for our 103rd annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, free admission!
Local Vendors • Artists • Live Music • Authentic Food • Petting Zoo • Bounce Houses
#KansasCity #BookSky
Saturday, May 3, 12–10 PM
Hola, KC! Mark your calendars for the evening of May 2nd and all-day May 3rd for our 103rd annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, free admission!
Local Vendors • Artists • Live Music • Authentic Food • Petting Zoo • Bounce Houses
#KansasCity #BookSky
May 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Friday, May 2, 5–10 PM
Saturday, May 3, 12–10 PM
Hola, KC! Mark your calendars for the evening of May 2nd and all-day May 3rd for our 103rd annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, free admission!
Local Vendors • Artists • Live Music • Authentic Food • Petting Zoo • Bounce Houses
#KansasCity #BookSky
Saturday, May 3, 12–10 PM
Hola, KC! Mark your calendars for the evening of May 2nd and all-day May 3rd for our 103rd annual Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, free admission!
Local Vendors • Artists • Live Music • Authentic Food • Petting Zoo • Bounce Houses
#KansasCity #BookSky
May is Jewish American Heritage Month and our May Book Club Pick in On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg. We will meet for discussion on Wednesday May 28th, 2025 from 7-9pm at The Sunflower Market, 5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
#KansasCity #Booksky
#KansasCity #Booksky
May 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
May is Jewish American Heritage Month and our May Book Club Pick in On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg. We will meet for discussion on Wednesday May 28th, 2025 from 7-9pm at The Sunflower Market, 5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam KS.
#KansasCity #Booksky
#KansasCity #Booksky
Experience the blockbuster romantasy sensation from the beginning with the first book in the Lightlark Saga by
Alex Aster.
Limited quantities available for this Independent Bookstore Day Exclusive!
Come see us at The Sunflower Market in Merriam Kansas 🌻
#IndieBookstoreDay #Booksky
Alex Aster.
Limited quantities available for this Independent Bookstore Day Exclusive!
Come see us at The Sunflower Market in Merriam Kansas 🌻
#IndieBookstoreDay #Booksky
April 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Experience the blockbuster romantasy sensation from the beginning with the first book in the Lightlark Saga by
Alex Aster.
Limited quantities available for this Independent Bookstore Day Exclusive!
Come see us at The Sunflower Market in Merriam Kansas 🌻
#IndieBookstoreDay #Booksky
Alex Aster.
Limited quantities available for this Independent Bookstore Day Exclusive!
Come see us at The Sunflower Market in Merriam Kansas 🌻
#IndieBookstoreDay #Booksky
Indie Bookstore Day is coming up soon! Join us at The Sunflower Market, 5847 Merriam Dr Merriam KS on Saturday April 26th, 2025 from 10am until 4pm
There will be snacks, giveaways, exclusives, a local children’s author, Ashley Donegan with her new book, and lots more fun stuff #KCMO #Booksky
There will be snacks, giveaways, exclusives, a local children’s author, Ashley Donegan with her new book, and lots more fun stuff #KCMO #Booksky
April 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Come explore Tower East District for the 6th Annual Wanderfest!
Sunday April 27th, 2025 from 10am until 4pm, join us for a fun day of art, crafts, music, food & drinks!
Helianthus Books will be at
EL TORREON
3101 Gillham Plaza KCMO
Sunday April 27th, 2025 from 10am until 4pm, join us for a fun day of art, crafts, music, food & drinks!
Helianthus Books will be at
EL TORREON
3101 Gillham Plaza KCMO
April 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Come explore Tower East District for the 6th Annual Wanderfest!
Sunday April 27th, 2025 from 10am until 4pm, join us for a fun day of art, crafts, music, food & drinks!
Helianthus Books will be at
EL TORREON
3101 Gillham Plaza KCMO
Sunday April 27th, 2025 from 10am until 4pm, join us for a fun day of art, crafts, music, food & drinks!
Helianthus Books will be at
EL TORREON
3101 Gillham Plaza KCMO
Cowtown Vintage is held every third Thursday at 3101 Gillham Plaza KCMO from 6-11pm. This is a FREE TICKETED indoor event. There will be music, food, art, vintage, flash tattoos, and so much more. I hope to see you there 🌻
💙📚
#KansasCity
Poster by @fk_menace
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💙📚
#KansasCity
Poster by @fk_menace
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April 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Cowtown Vintage is held every third Thursday at 3101 Gillham Plaza KCMO from 6-11pm. This is a FREE TICKETED indoor event. There will be music, food, art, vintage, flash tattoos, and so much more. I hope to see you there 🌻
💙📚
#KansasCity
Poster by @fk_menace
www.eventbrite.com/e/cowtown-vi...
💙📚
#KansasCity
Poster by @fk_menace
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National Volunteer Week and Earth Day Call To Action 🌻
Thanks to Bookshop and Commons, please choose any of the select titles from our Bookshop page bookshop.org/shop/Heliant... and receive 20% OFF the List Price at checkout with code: "Community25"
Valid through April 22, 2025. excludes Ebooks
💙📚
Thanks to Bookshop and Commons, please choose any of the select titles from our Bookshop page bookshop.org/shop/Heliant... and receive 20% OFF the List Price at checkout with code: "Community25"
Valid through April 22, 2025. excludes Ebooks
💙📚
April 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
National Volunteer Week and Earth Day Call To Action 🌻
Thanks to Bookshop and Commons, please choose any of the select titles from our Bookshop page bookshop.org/shop/Heliant... and receive 20% OFF the List Price at checkout with code: "Community25"
Valid through April 22, 2025. excludes Ebooks
💙📚
Thanks to Bookshop and Commons, please choose any of the select titles from our Bookshop page bookshop.org/shop/Heliant... and receive 20% OFF the List Price at checkout with code: "Community25"
Valid through April 22, 2025. excludes Ebooks
💙📚
March Best Sellers at the Popups:
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
April 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
March Best Sellers at the Popups:
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
I Am My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
by Tanisia Moore
Robert Paul
Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
by Ruby Bridges
John Jay Cabuay
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hermosa
by Yesika Salgado
Eres increíble: Diario de empoderamiento
by Pragya Tomar
#Booksky
March 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
You can find Helianthus Books at:
Monarca Art Space
1225 Union Ave Ste 100 KCMO
ParaMi
10701 E Winner Rd #240, Independence, MO
The Sunflower Market
5847 Merriam Dr
Merriam KS.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter at our website www.HelianthusBooks.com and I’ll see you at the next popup 🌻
Monarca Art Space
1225 Union Ave Ste 100 KCMO
ParaMi
10701 E Winner Rd #240, Independence, MO
The Sunflower Market
5847 Merriam Dr
Merriam KS.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter at our website www.HelianthusBooks.com and I’ll see you at the next popup 🌻
March 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
You can find Helianthus Books at:
Monarca Art Space
1225 Union Ave Ste 100 KCMO
ParaMi
10701 E Winner Rd #240, Independence, MO
The Sunflower Market
5847 Merriam Dr
Merriam KS.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter at our website www.HelianthusBooks.com and I’ll see you at the next popup 🌻
Monarca Art Space
1225 Union Ave Ste 100 KCMO
ParaMi
10701 E Winner Rd #240, Independence, MO
The Sunflower Market
5847 Merriam Dr
Merriam KS.
Be sure to sign up for the newsletter at our website www.HelianthusBooks.com and I’ll see you at the next popup 🌻
Join us for Kansas City’s first street cup, Copa de Calle!!
March 29th & 30th. Ages 10-15 & 16+ are eligible to play in teams of two!
Games will be at City Market (11am-2pm) and Made Mobb (4pm-7pm).
There will be goodie bags, cash prizes, food trucks, and local vendors both days & locations. 1/
March 29th & 30th. Ages 10-15 & 16+ are eligible to play in teams of two!
Games will be at City Market (11am-2pm) and Made Mobb (4pm-7pm).
There will be goodie bags, cash prizes, food trucks, and local vendors both days & locations. 1/
March 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Join us for Kansas City’s first street cup, Copa de Calle!!
March 29th & 30th. Ages 10-15 & 16+ are eligible to play in teams of two!
Games will be at City Market (11am-2pm) and Made Mobb (4pm-7pm).
There will be goodie bags, cash prizes, food trucks, and local vendors both days & locations. 1/
March 29th & 30th. Ages 10-15 & 16+ are eligible to play in teams of two!
Games will be at City Market (11am-2pm) and Made Mobb (4pm-7pm).
There will be goodie bags, cash prizes, food trucks, and local vendors both days & locations. 1/
The Outside by Ada Hoffmann is our April Book Club pick. We will be meeting on Wednesday April 30th, 2025 from 7-9pm at The Sunflower Market, 5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam, KS for discussion.
Copies are available for purchase at The Sunflower Market and our Bookshop and Libro fm pages.
#BookSky 💙📚
Copies are available for purchase at The Sunflower Market and our Bookshop and Libro fm pages.
#BookSky 💙📚
March 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Outside by Ada Hoffmann is our April Book Club pick. We will be meeting on Wednesday April 30th, 2025 from 7-9pm at The Sunflower Market, 5847 Merriam Dr. Merriam, KS for discussion.
Copies are available for purchase at The Sunflower Market and our Bookshop and Libro fm pages.
#BookSky 💙📚
Copies are available for purchase at The Sunflower Market and our Bookshop and Libro fm pages.
#BookSky 💙📚