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.

How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Tu Casa Mi Casa: Mexican Recipes for the Home Cook
Yes! No!: A First Conversation about Consent
Together
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything
Book of Questions
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved
Eartheater
I Will Die on This Hill: Autistic Adults, Autism Parents, and the Children Who Deserve a Better World
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Felix Ever After
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
Meet Cute Diary
Light from Uncommon Stars
Gender Euphoria
Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
The Thirty Names of Night
Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love
Gender Queer: A Memoir
A Dream of a Woman
The Third Person
Summer Fun
Manywhere: Stories
Manhunt
Shining a Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
Chloe's Lunar New Year
Dim Sum, Here We Come!
Anzu the Great Listener
Milloo's Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women's Education
This Is Not My Home
Everyone Loves Lunchtime But Zia
Rainbow Shopping
Wei Skates on
Finding Papa
Ramen for Everyone
Love Makes a Garden Grow
Farah Loves Mangos
Danbi's Favorite Day
The Moon Within (Scholastic Gold)
A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
Dealing in Dreams
Brown Neon
Amigas Y Amantes: Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family
Beyond the Gender Binary
Cemetery Boys
Felix Ever After
Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces
Born Both: An Intersex Life
Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry
Watercress Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids A Snake Falls to Earth
Helianthus Books

Reading The West

Chicano Bakes: Recipes for Mexican Pan Dulce, Tamales, and My Favorite Desserts
Earth Medicines: Ancestral Wisdom, Healing Recipes, and Wellness Rituals from a Curandera
In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries That Touch the Indian Ocean [A Cookbook]
Jew-Ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch
Katie Chin's Global Family Cookbook: Internationally-Inspired Recipes Your Friends and Family Will Love!
Parsi: From Persia to Bombay: Recipes & Tales from the Ancient Culture
Pizza Quest: My Never-Ending Search for the Perfect Pizza
Pulutan! Filipino Bar Bites, Appetizers and Street Eats: (Filipino Cookbook with Over 60 Easy-To-Make Recipes)
The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs: 100+ Sweet and Savory Recipes That You'll Love to Bake, Share and Eat!
The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs: 100+ Recipes That You'll Love to Cook and Eat
The Food of Malaysia: 62 Delicious Recipes from the Crossroads of Asia
Women's Libation!: Cocktails to Celebrate a Woman's Right to Booze
The Autism-Friendly Cookbook
Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook, Facsimile Edition
Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for a New Normal
Dark Water
Silver Under Nightfall
Jackal
Zone One
Motherthing
House of Hunger
Such Sharp Teeth
Lilith's Brood
Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror
The Gilda Stories (Anniversary, Expanded)
The Hole
The Last House on Needless Street
Wickedly Abled: Sci-Fi. Horror and Dark Fantasy by Disabled Authors
White Is for Witching
We Are All the Same in the Dark
Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future
Clarity & Connection
Inward
I Am the Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
Canopy: Poems
Body of Render
Ramadan
Lunar New Year
Diwali
Little Heroes of Color: 50 Who Made a Big Difference
Counting on Community
Together
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror!
All of Baby, Nose to Toes
Baby Goes to Market
Curls
We Are Little Feminists: Hair
Cool Cuts
Besos for Baby: A Little Book of Kisses
How We Eat
An ABC of Equality