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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
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!
In case you missed our announcement at our Author Event with Kathryn Stockett last week, there is a film version of The Help releasing this fall and we're working on a sneak preview. Watch our Weekly E-newsletters for updates!
Thanks to everyone who helped make last week's Kathryn Stockett Event a big kickoff for our Book Drive. We'd particularly like to thank all those who donated at the door, our volunteers from Johnson County Library and Head Start of Shawnee Mission, and everyone else who helped up put on a great event. We appreciate THE HELP!
Our May Book Drive for Head Start of Shawnee Mission continues. 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, Kansas. Very gently used infant/toddler/preschool books will be accepted. Patrons may purchase a favorite book for a Head Start child by calling our Bookstore at 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 E-newsletter or at the bottom of an Event page to help us spread the word.
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Tonight: 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, Missouri 64112.
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Thursday Evening: New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson
Erik Larson, author of Devil in the White City and Isaac's Storm, discusses his new book In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.
This Event is Thursday, May 12, at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
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Friday Evening: Girls' Night Out featuring Jen Lancaster
Join us for a laugh-out-loud evening with New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster, author of Bitter is the New Black and Pretty in Plaid. Jen will discuss her first novel If You Were Here.
Check out a preview video of Jen Lancaster!
This Event is Friday, May 13, 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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The Coffins of Little Hope
by Timothy Schaffert
Unbridled Books
Timothy Schaffert has created his most memorable character yet in Essie, an octogenarian obituary writer for her familys small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reported to be missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photographer, Essie stumbles onto the story of her life. Or, it all could be simply a hoax, or a delusion, the child and child-thief invented from the desperate imagination of a lonely, lovelorn woman. Either way, the story of the girl reaches far and wide, igniting controversy, attracting curiosity-seekers and cult worshippers from all over the country to this dying rural town. And then it is revealed that the long awaited final book of an infamous series of ya gothic novels is being secretly printed on the newspapers presses.
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Caleb's Crossing
by Geraldine Brooks
Viking Books
The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.
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The Year We Left Home
by Jean Thompson
Simon and Schuster Books
Over the course of a thirty-year career, Jean Thompson has been celebrated by critics as "a writer of extraordinary intelligence and sensitivity" (O, The Oprah Magazine), "an American Alice Munro" (The Wall Street Journal), and "one of our most lucid and insightful writers" (San Francisco Chronicle). Her peers have been no less vocal, from Jennifer Egan ("bracing . . . boldly unconventional") to David Sedaris ("if there are 'Jean Thompson characters,' they're us, and never have we been as articulate and worthy of compassion").
Now, in The Year We Left Home, Thompson brings together all of her talents to deliver the career-defining novel her admirers have been waiting for: a sweeping and emotionally powerful story of a single American family during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century. It begins in 1973 when the Erickson family of Grenada, Iowa, gathers for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Anita. Even as they celebrate, the fault lines in the family emerge. The bride wants nothing more than to raise a family in her hometown, while her brother Ryan watches restlessly from the sidelines, planning his escape. He is joined by their cousin Chip, an unpredictable, war-damaged loner who will show Ryan both the appeal and the perils of freedom. Torrie, the Ericksons' youngest daughter, is another rebel intent on escape, but the choices she makes will bring about a tragedy that leaves the entire family changed forever.
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NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK!
The Singer's Gun
by Emily St John Mandel
Unbridled Books
Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career is a partnership venture with his cousin Aria selling forged passports and social security cards to illegal aliens. Anton longs for a less questionable way of living in the world and by his late twenties has reinvented himself as a successful middle manager. Then a routine security check suggests that things are not quite what they appear. And Aria begins blackmailing him to do one last job for her. But the seemingly simple job proves to have profound and unexpected repercussions.
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NOW IN TRADE PAPERBACK!
Girl in Translation
by Jean Kwok
Riverhead Books
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but also herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
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Our Kind of Traitor
by John Le Carre
Penguin Books
In this new, exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies. In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple become helpless pawns in a game of nations that reveals the unholy alliances between the Russian mafia, the city of London, the government, and the competing factions of the British Secret Service.
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The Umbrella
by Dieter Schubert
Lemniscaat USA, IPS
A little dog finds an umbrella in the garden on a windy day. The moment the dog picks up the umbrella, it catches the wind and pulls the dog skywards. This is the start to fantastic journey around the world. The wind carries the umbrellas and the dog all over the world, from the desert to the sea, from the jungle to the north pole.
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Blink and Caution
by Tim Wynne-Jones
Candlewick Press
Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly, but instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping and a cell phone dropped by an "abducted" CEO, giving Blink a link to his perfect blonde daughter. Now Blink is on the run, but it's OK as long as he's smart enough to stay in the game and keep Captain Panic locked in his hold. Enter a girl named Caution. As in "Caution: Toxic." As in "Caution: Watch Your Step." She's also on the run, from a skeezy drug-dealer boyfriend and from a nightmare in her past that won't let her go. When she spies Blink at the train station, Caution can see he's an easy mark. But there's something about this naïve, skinny street punk, whom she only wanted to rob, that tugs at her heart, a heart she thought deserved not to feel. Charged with suspense and intrigue, this taut novel trails two deeply compelling characters as they forge a blackmail scheme that is foolhardy at best, disastrous at worst - along with a fated, tender partnership that will offer them each a rare chance for redemption.
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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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