Community Calendar

Bookmarx is beyond excited to invite everyone to check out our new expanded Bookmarx! On July 24 at 5:00 pm, we will be having Ms Cyrano CUT THE RIBBON to open up the other side.

Dress up!

To celebrate, we are having a literary costume party! Dress like your favorite author or character!

Bring a donation for The Kitchen!

We want to fill our new stage in The Footnote with donations for The Kitchen, so bring physical donations of any item or items from The Kitchen’s Need List and get 20% off your entire Bookmarx purchase!

Write a postcard!

Write a postcard for a friend (or enemy!) from our postcard writing station and we will mail it for you!

Join us on July 25th as we kickoff our Expansion week of events with our first Local Author Showcase in The Footnote at Bookmarx! Featuring local literary voices reading from and discussing their work. Whether you’re a fellow writer or a reader, this is an event you won’t want to miss!

Featuring:
Andie Kern
Andrew Dietz
Daniel Cochran
Mar the Ghost
Eletha Thompson
Eve Peregrine
See you at 5:30 pm on Saturday July 25th in the Footnote

Bookmarx July book club will be discussing Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel “Yesteryear”. Join us on Thursday July 30 at 7:00 pm for a lively discussion in The Footnote (the new performance and discussion space inside Bookmarx)! They’ll have traditional book club snacks and drinks as they talk tradwives, influencers, and hauling firewood.

New copies available now.

“My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.

Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.

Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.”

Bookmarx is excited to welcome Devin Thomas O’Shea on Saturday July 31 at 7:00 PM to discuss his new book “The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis”.

Copies will be available for purchase and signing.

Book description:

“Devin Thomas O’Shea’s The Veiled Prophet is the definitive history of the Veiled Prophet Society in all its violence and pageantry, offering a colorful alternate history of the United States through the lens of the Midwestern elite. O’Shea follows the Veiled Prophet Society from its origins in the wake of the 1877 general strike, through the 1904 World’s Fair, to the height of the Prophet’s―and St. Louis’s―influence during the Cold War. The Veiled Prophet examines the unexpected ways this secret society has shaped the course of history, from the CIA to the Vietnam War to the assassination of Martin Luther King.

Yet the power wielded by the Veiled Prophet has not gone uncontested. Since the Gilded Age, the Prophet has faced resistance from orphans armed with pea-shooters, Communist Party organizers during the Depression, Civil Rights icons, and renegade debutantes. The Ferguson uprising of 2014 was only the most recent challenge to the Prophet’s influence.

As the fight for the soul and streets of St. Louis intensifies, it’s more critical than ever that we expose the sordid history of these powerful, masked figures and their control over our democracy.”