Events for Book Readings and Signings

The NYT bestselling author and TikTok sensation Mercury Stardust (AKA the Trans Handy Ma'am) returns to Salt Lake City! Join us for a special comedy performance, Q&A, and signing and photo opportunity celebrating the release of Lost and Found: A Compassionate Guide to Homeownership at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday, September 24 at 6pm! 
This event is ticketed. 
Get your tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mercury-stardust-lost-and-found-tickets-1993715825704

Voter Rights Celebration Join the League of Women Voters on September 24 at 6:00 p.m. for an evening celebrating the right to vote and Utah’s rich voting history. Featured speaker: Neylan McBaine, author of Pioneering the Vote, will share the history of voting and the suffrage movement in Utah. Weber County Clerk Ricky Hatch will explain how our ballots are secured and the process they follow from the voter to the final count. The evening will conclude with an interactive experience featuring famous suffragists, bringing Utah’s voting history to life.

The public is invited! Come celebrate, learn, and honor the right to vote.

Join us the first Tuesday of every month this fall for a mystical series of evenings celebrating Sufi Poetry. The Rumi Poetry Club was founded by Rasoul Shams in 2007, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Jalâluddin Rumi’s birth. Since then, they have celebrated the poetry, inspiration, and perennial teachings of Rumi and other poets of the heart, nature, and spiritual life from around the world. Rasoul Shams first learned of Rumi's poems in his Persian classes as a young boy in Iran. The works of Rumi and other Persian poets have been his spiritual companions for decades. He has studied and lived in India, Japan, and the USA. His books include Rumi: The Art of Loving, Rumi Essays: On the Life, Poetry, and Vision of the Greatest Persian Sufi Poet, The Words of Rumi, and Through Love Pain is Healed. 
https://www.goldenbraidslc.com/events/autumn-with-rumi-october-2026

When Meaulnes first arrives in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring, and charisma. But when he attends a strange party at a mysterious house with a beautiful girl hidden inside, he is changed forever. Published here in the first new English translation since 1959, this evocative novel has at its center both a Peter Pan in provincial France-a kid who refuses to grow up-and a Parsifal, pursuing his love to the ends of the earth. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain- Fournier's narrator compellingly carries the reader through this indelible portrait of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence. Join us on Friday night, October 9th, for an evening of good company, some good snacks, and a discussion of this early 20th Century coming-of-age masterpiece of French Literature. 
We'll have copies of The Lost Estate on display and for sale in the store, but purchase is not necessary to attend. 
This event is free, open to the public, and will begin just after 7:00 p.m.

Join us the first Tuesday of every month this fall for a mystical series of evenings celebrating Sufi Poetry. The Rumi Poetry Club was founded by Rasoul Shams in 2007, on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Jalâluddin Rumi’s birth. Since then, they have celebrated the poetry, inspiration, and perennial teachings of Rumi and other poets of the heart, nature, and spiritual life from around the world. Rasoul Shams first learned of Rumi's poems in his Persian classes as a young boy in Iran. The works of Rumi and other Persian poets have been his spiritual companions for decades. He has studied and lived in India, Japan, and the USA. His books include Rumi: The Art of Loving, Rumi Essays: On the Life, Poetry, and Vision of the Greatest Persian Sufi Poet, The Words of Rumi, and Through Love Pain is Healed. 
https://www.goldenbraidslc.com/events/autumn-with-rumi-november-2026