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Helianthus Books

Helianthus Books is a popup bookstore in the Kansas City area offering a curated collection of books for all ages with authentic representation of the Disability, Black, Asian, Indigenous, Hispanic, LatinX, Intersectional Feminist, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design Drown On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
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Helianthus Books Book Club Picks

Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera The Poet X Poet X
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KC Latina Book Club

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
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Adult Nonfiction Books for Disability Pride Month

Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love
The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-Being
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens (Third Edition, Revised)
Por Amor a Mí Elígete a Diario Y Mejora Tu Salud Mental / For the Love of Me: Choose Yourself Every Day
The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex Ptsd for People of Color
Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera
I Am Diosa: A Journey to Healing Deep, Loving Yourself, and Coming Back Home to Soul
I Am Diosa \ Yo Soy Diosa (Spanish Edition): Un Viaje de Profunda Sanación, Amor Propio Y Regreso Al Alma
Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming Our Mindsets And Rising Together
Latinas Descolonizadas: Transformando Nuestra Mentalidad Para Crecer Juntas
Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
A Black Women's History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States
A Disability History of the United States
Asian American Histories of the United States
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
The Message
Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
The Sixth Extinction (Young Readers Adaptation): An Unnatural History
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
The Uninhabitable Earth (Adapted for Young Adults): Life After Warming
Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me: The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist (Adapted for Young Adults)
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir: Adapted for Young Adults
I'm Still Here (Adapted for Young Readers): Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation
The Far Away Brothers (Adapted for Young Adults): Two Teenage Immigrants Making a Life in America
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition (Young Readers)
Overground Railroad (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
Read Think Vote 2024 Tote Bag
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera
The Creative ACT: A Way of Being
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Lunar New Year
Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair
Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
Eartheater
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy
Tu Casa Mi Casa: Mexican Recipes for the Home Cook
Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
The Glass Girl Buffalo Dreamer The Ballad of Cactus Joe
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Reading The West

Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai
Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
Plastic: An Autobiography
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything--And Endangered the World
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
Earth Detox
Herbicides: Chemistry, Efficacy, Toxicology, and Environmental Impacts
Pollution Is Colonialism
The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man's Search for Justice
The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America's Unsung Environmental Movement
Every Breath We Take: A Book about Air
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
Clearing the Air: Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019
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