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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!
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| At a glance, our complete author events schedule, watch for changes and updates! | |
MAY
Judith Fertig, author of Heartland: A Cookbook, appears on Monday, May 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Jasper's Restaurant.
Bill James, author of Popular Crime, appears on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM 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.
NEW LOCATION: Marianne Leone, author of Jesse: A Mother's Story, appears on Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
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.
S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of The Summer Moon, appears on Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Johnson County Central Resource Branch.
Mary Alice Monroe, author of The Butterfly's Daughter, appears on Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books.
NEW DATE AND LOCATION: Emma Donoghue, author of Room, appears on Friday, May 20, 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.
Maria Menounos, author of The EveryGirl's Guide to Life, appears on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
Jeff Guinn, author of The Last Gunfight, appears on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Johnson County Central Resource Branch.
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.
Sapphire, author of The Kid, appears on Thursday, July 14, 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.
Jim Butcher, author of Ghost Story, appears on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
Maggie Stiefvater, author of Forever, appears on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
And watch for details soon on Julie Garwood, Calvin Trillin, Martha Stewart, and more! |
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Greetings!
We'd like to say special thanks to longtime customer Joe Posnanski for participating in our event last week with golfer Tom Watson. We received many compliments from those who attended, and Joe was a big part of helping make the evening memorable. We wish Joe, Margo and family a safe and successful move to North Carolina this June.
It's another full week of author events, plus some of our latest suggestions for Mother's Day reading below. Need something special for mom? Our staff has the answer, come on by! We also offer complimentary gift wrap.
This week also marks the beginning of our month-long Book Drive for Head Start of Shawnee Mission. The public is encouraged to purchase books that will be donated to Head Start of Shawnee Mission children and families. Rainy Day Books will provide a collection bin in the store at 2706 W. 53rd Street in Fairway, KS. Very gently used infant/toddler/preschool books will be accepted. Patrons may purchase a favorite book for a Head Start child by calling the store (913-384-3126) or going online at www.rainydaybooks.com/HeadStart
Watch our Weekly E-Newsletters and our Website for the latest updates. Want to support Rainy Day Books with just a few clicks? Use the links at the top of this newsletter or at the bottom of an event page to help us spread the word. |
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TONIGHT, Monday Evening: Judith Fertig
Chef Judith Fertig, co-hosts a dinner celebrating the release of her new cookbook: Heartland: The Cookbook
This Event is Monday, May 2, at 7:00 PM at Jasper's Restaurant. Call Jasper's directly at 816-941-6600 to make reservations.
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Wednesday Evening: Bill James
Bill James discusses his new book Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence.
This Event is Wednesday, May 4, at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch.
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Thursday Evening: A Conversation with Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help
New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Stockett discusses her book The Help in conversation with Vivien Jennings. The program will last approximately one hour.
This Event is Thursday, May 5, at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
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Thursday Evening: humorist Wade Rouse
Humorist Wade Rouse will discuss his latest book, It's All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine (A Memoir).
This Event is Thursday, May 5, at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books. Please arrive early for this event, seating is limited.
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Next Monday: Marianne Leone
Marianne Leone shares her powerful memoir Jesse: A Mother's Story.
This Event is Monday, May 9, at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza. 707 W. 47th Street, Kansas City, MO 64112.
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Just added: Maggie Stiefvater, author of Shiver and Linger, appears for the final book in the trilogy: Forever.
Mark your calendars, Wolves Of Mercy Falls fans! We welcome Maggie Steifvater, appearing for her new book, Forever.
This Event is Wednesday, July 27 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
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NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS,
ON OUR SHELVES NOW!
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Friendship Bread
by Darien Gee
Ballantine Books
One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch: a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Bread and a simple note: I hope you enjoy it. Also included are a bag of starter, instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others.
Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life. She'd just as soon toss the anonymous gift, but to make Gracie happy, she agrees to bake the bread. When Julia meets two newcomers to the small town of Avalon, Illinois, she sparks a connection by offering them her extra bread starter. Widow Madeline Davis is laboring to keep her tea salon afloat while Hannah Wang de Brisay, a famed concert cellist, is at a crossroads, her career and marriage having come to an abrupt end. In the warm kitchen of Madeline's tea salon, the three women forge a friendship that will change their lives forever. In no time, everyone in Avalon is baking Amish Friendship Bread. But even as the town unites for a benevolent cause and Julia becomes ever closer to her new friends, she realizes the profound necessity of confronting the painful past she shares with her sister.
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Lost In Shangri-La
by Mitchell Zuckoff
HarperCollins Books
On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.
But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend's shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound. Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside--a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man--or woman. Drawn from interviews, declassified U.S. Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivor's diary, a rescuer's journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the determined trio--dehydrated, sick, and in pain--traversed the dense jungle to find help; how a brave band of paratroopers risked their own lives to save the survivors; and how a cowboy colonel attempted a previously untested rescue mission to get them out.
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Becoming George Sand
by Rosalind Brackenbury
Mariner Books
Maria Jameson is having an affair-a passionate, lifechanging affair. She asks: Is it possible to love two men at once? Must this new romance mean an end to love with her husband?
For answers, she reaches across the centuries to George Sand, the maverick French novelist who took many lovers. Immersing herself in the life of this revolutionary woman, Maria struggles with the choices women make and wonders if women in the nineteenth century might have been more free, in some ways, than their twenty-first-century counterparts. Here, Rosalind Brackenbury creates a beautiful portrait of the ways in which women are connected across history. Two narratives delicately intertwine-following George through her affair with Frederic Chopin, following Maria through her affair with an Irish professor-and bring us a novel that explores the personal and the historical, the demands of self and the mysteries of the heart.
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The Hottest Dishes Of The Tartar Cuisine
by Alina Bronsky
Europa Editions, distributed by Penguin Books
Rosa Achmetowna, the frightening narrator of Bronsky's dark and wily latest (after Broken Glass Park), is a difficult person to like, much less love. She lives in a cramped Soviet apartment with her husband, teenage daughter Sulfia, and a nosy, disagreeable roommate. Brusque, brimming with bile, and ever judgmental, she is less than pleased when the "rather stupid" Sulfia winds up pregnant. Rosa immediately tries a variety of crude home remedies for aborting Sulfia's babybut nine months later, Aminat, is born. Rosa is fundamentally nasty, yes, but she instantly falls in love with Aminat (who coincidentally bears a striking resemblance to Rosa), tries to wrestle Aminat away from Sulfia, and enjoys watching Aminat grow into a wild, willful thing as Rosa and Sulfia kidnap the little girl back and forth. Rosa's machinations grow increasingly devious until Aminat matures and comes to a crossroads of her own. Rosa is absolutely outrageous, a one-woman wrecking crew with no remorse, an acid tongue, and a conniving opportunist's sense of drive and desperation. Bronsky lands another hit with this hilarious, disturbing, and always irreverent blitz.
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The Best Advice I Ever Got
by Katie Couric
Random House
What was the tipping point for Malcolm Gladwell? What unscripted event made Meryl Streep who she is? How did Mario Batali cook up his recipe for success? In this inspiration-packed book, Katie Couric reports from the front lines of the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports, philanthropy, the arts, and business-distilling the ingenious, hard-won insights of leaders and visionaries, who tell us all how to take chances, follow our passions, cope with criticism, and, perhaps most important, commit to something greater than ourselves.
Among the many voices to be heard here are financial guru Suze Orman on the benefits of doing what's right, not what's easy; director Steven Spielberg on listening rather than being listened to; quarterback Drew Brees on how his (literal) big break changed his life; and novelist Curtis Sittenfeld on the secrets of a great long-term relationship (she suggests marrying someone less neurotic than you), and many others. Along the way, Couric reflects on the good advice-and the missteps-that have guided her from her early days as a desk assistant at ABC to her groundbreaking role as the first female anchor of the CBS Evening News. She reveals how the words of Thomas Jefferson helped her deal with her husband's tragic death from cancer, and what encouraged her to leave the security of NBC's Today show for a new adventure at CBS. Delightful, empowering, and moving, The Best Advice I Ever Got is the perfect book for anyone who is thinking about the future, contemplating taking a risk, or daring to make a leap into the great unknown. This book is for all of us, young or old, who want to see how today's best and brightest got it right, got it wrong, and came out on top.
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999 Tadpoles
by Ken Kimura
illustrated by Yasunari Murakami
NorthSouth Books, IPS
"We'll have to move," says Mother, after realizing the pond is too small. But moving a family of 999 young frogs is fraught with danger! Hungry snakes are crawling through the grass. Hungry hawks are flying through the sky. A young frog makes a mighty tasty morsel.
Never underestimate the quick wits of 999 young frogs!
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This Plus That: Life's Little Equations
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
illustrated by Jen Corace
HarperCollins
What comes after 1 + 1?
Just about anything! In this fanciful collection, Amy Krouse Rosenthal puts together unexpected combinations that always add up to something special. Whether it's "wishes + frosting = birthday" or "birds + buds = spring," each equation is a small delight. This Plus That shows again and again that life's total experience is always greater than the sum of its parts.
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A Long Walk To Water
by Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way.
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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, Roger, and all of your friends at Rainy Day Books
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