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Rainy Day Books
Rainy Day Books is located in
The Fairway Shops
2706 W 53rd Street
Fairway, Kansas 66205-1705
Phone: 913-384-3126

Store Hours:
Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri      10-6
Thursday                   10-7
Saturday                    10-5
Sunday we rest and read! 

In This Newsletter
Tuesday evening: Phoebe Unterman
Wednesday evening: Rebecca Skloot
Friday/Saturday: a Special Energy Medicine Event
A Heartland Dinner featuring Judith Fertig
Wendy McClure discusses The Wilder Life
Francisco Goldman discusses Say Her Name
Jennifer Weiner discusses Fly Away Home
At a glance, our other upcoming author events
For an insightful look at the power of waves and tsunamis, we recommend THE WAVE
Wave
The Wave

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal,  ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis missed these stories-waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something scary was brewing in the planet's waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea-including several that approached 100 feet.

As scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon, others view the giant waves as the ultimate challenge. These are extreme surfers who fly around the world trying to ride the ocean's most destructive monsters. The pioneer of extreme surfing is the legendary Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board suicidally large waves of 70 and 80 feet. Casey follows this unique tribe of peo ple as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100 -foot wave.

In this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves-from the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740-foot-wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast.

Like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, The Wave brilliantly portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious.



RECOMMENDED NEW RELEASE!
A top pick by Vivien, Geoffrey, and Elizabeth
Tiger's Wife
The Tiger's Wife

In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Z�ra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.

 

But Natalia is also confronting a private, hurtful mystery of her own: the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. After telling her grandmother that he was on his way to meet Natalia, he instead set off for a ramshackle settlement none of their family had ever heard of and died there alone. A famed physician, her grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Why he left home becomes a riddle Natalia is compelled to unravel.

 

Grief struck and searching for clues to her grandfather's final state of mind, she turns to the stories he told her when she was a child. On their weeklytrips to the zoo he would read to her from a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, which he carried with him everywhere; later, he told her stories of his own encounters over many years with "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal and appeared never to age. But the most extraordinary story of all is the one her grandfather never told her, the one Natalia must discover for herself. One winter during the Second World War, his childhood village was snowbound, cut off even from the encroaching German invaders but haunted by another, fierce presence: a tiger who comes ever closer under cover of darkness. "These stories," Natalia comes to understand, "run like secret rivers through all the other stories" of her grandfather's life. And it is ultimately within these rich, luminous narratives that she will find the answer she is looking for.

 

Newsletter Volume 523March 14, 2011

Greetings!

 

Good morning! 

 

Well, one more taste of winter before Spring. Today's forecast calls for snow, Thursday's for a high of 70 degrees. There's always something wonderful about the Land of Oz.

 

Spring Breaks are starting. Stop in and our staff will help you find just the right escape for beach or backyard. Check out our complete author schedule below. Some big names are coming to town. We hope you'll spread the word. We've also added some very unique smaller events sure to inspire, delight, or change your life.

 

Watch our Weekly E-Newsletters and our Website for the latest updates. 

PhoebeUnterman

Tuesday Evening in Kansas City: Phoebe Unterman

 

Phoebe Unterman discusses Through Eva's Eyes, a true Holocaust story, in conversation with her grandmother Eva Unterman.

This Event is Tuesday, March 15, 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch.

Rebecca Skloot

Wednesday Evening in Kansas City:

Rebecca Skloot

 

Rebecca Skloot appears to discuss her bestselling true story The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks.

 

This Event is Wednesday, March 16, 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W. 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
 

Order Admission Packages in advance by calling 913-384-3126. Admission packages will be available at the door of this event beginning at 6:15 PM.

 

Complete details at www.RainyDayBooks.com/RebeccaSkloot

DonnaDavid

Starting Friday Evening in Kansas City: A Special Energy Medicine Event featuring Donna Eden and David Feinstein

 

Join wellness practitioners, students and individuals from all over the Midwest for an experience that will transform your life! Experience the power of Energy Medicine with two of the most sought after, dynamic and joyous spokespersons in the field.

This event begins Friday, March 18, 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W. 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

 JudithFertig

A Heartland Dinner featuring Judith Fertig

 

Judith Fertig, chef and author of Heartland: The Cookbook, celebrates the release of her new work with an evening of local food and conversation.
  
This Event is Monday, May 2, 6:30 PM at Jasper's Restaurant.
  
WendyMcClure Wendy McClure    

Wendy McClure appears to share her new book The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie.

This Event is Saturday, April 16, 2:00 p.m. at Johnson County Central Resource Library.

FranciscoGoldman

Francisco Goldman

 

Acclaimed novelist Francisco Goldman appears for his powerful new novel Say Her Name.

This Event is Monday, June 6, at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books.

JenniferWeiner

Jennifer Weiner

 

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, author of Good In Bed and In Her Shoes, appears for her latest novel Fly Away Home.

This Event is Friday, July 15, at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

At a glance, our other upcoming Author Events:

Suze Orman, author of The Money Class, appears on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Lorraine Massey, author of The Curly Girl Handbook, appears on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Geneen Roth, author of Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money appears on Wednesday March 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

APRIL

Jacques d'Amboise, author of I Was A Dancer, appears on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Sarah Vowell, author of Unfamiliar Fishes, appears on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Frances Mayes, author of Every Day In Tuscany, appears on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM at Brio Tuscan Grille.

Jaimy Gordon, author of the 2010 National Book Award winning novel Lord of Misrule, appears on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Anne Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds, appears on Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Community Christian Church.

Wendy McClure, author of The Wilder Life, appears on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Johnson County Central Resource Library.

Manuel Munoz, author of What You See In The Dark, appears on Tuesday, Paril 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch.

Rainbow Rowell, author of Attachments, appears on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 6:30 PM at Rainy Day Books.

Jennet Conant, author of A Covert Affair, appears on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Tom Watson, author of The Timeless Swing, appears on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Arthur Phillips, author of The Tragedy of Arthur, appears on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch, Helzberg Auditorium.

Meg Cabot, author of Abandon, appears on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza. 

MAY

Judith Fertig, author of Heartland: A Cookbook, appears on Monday, May 2, 2011 at 6:30 PM at Jasper's Restaurant.

Bill James, author of Popular Crime, appears on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch.

Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, appears on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Wade Rouse, author of It's All Relative, appears on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books.

Erik Larson, author of In The Garden of Beasts, appears on Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Jen Lancaster, author of If You Were Here, appears on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

JUNE

Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name, appears on Monday, June 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books.

Tessa Gratton, author of Blood Magic, appears on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books.

Emma Donoghue, author of Room, appears on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

JULY

Georgette Jones, author of The Three Of Us, appears on Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

Jennifer Weiner, author of Then Came You, appears on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

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Thank You for supporting Your Community Bookseller, Rainy Day Books

We celebrated 35 years of bookselling on November 4, 2010.  It is a celebration of our Legacy of Literacy: 35 years of helping match readers to great books, bringing famous and soon-to-be-famous names to Kansas City, and enjoying the excitement of sharing so many experiences.

Take the time to tell someone new about Rainy Day Books.  Each book that you purchase at Rainy Day Books makes Rainy Day Books a place authors ask to visit, a vibrant part of Kansas City's arts community, and a bookstore where people love books enough to talk about them all day long.  Please encourage your fellow readers to sign up for this E-Newsletter.  We have an exciting schedule of upcoming Author Events, and this is the first place to hear about them!  We also take Orders for Author Autographed Books, so your friends far and wide can share in the experience.

 

Rainy Day Books is located in The Fairway Shops, at the intersection of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Belinder Road.  Our address is 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas (KS) 66205.

 

Get directions to Rainy Day Books and our Event venues by clicking here. 

 

Store Hours: Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri 10 AM to 6 PM, Thu 10 AM to 7 PM, Sat 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sundays we rest and read.

 

When you shop at Rainy Day Books you're a part of our Legacy of Literacy for Kansas City.  We provide full service, knowledgeable recommendations and priceless Author Event experiences, all at a fair price.  To our customers, thank you for your support. 
We look forward to seeing you soon!

Vivien Jennings & Roger Doeren  


Vivien, Roger, and all of your friends at Rainy Day Books