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In This Newsletter
Thursday night: Jeff Guinn
Friday night: Discover The Gift
Staff picks of the week!
At a glance, our complete author events schedule, watch for changes and updates!

 JUNE


Jeff Guinn, author of The Last Gunfight, appears on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Johnson County Central Resource Branch.

Discover The Gift, a special evening with Demian Lichtenstein and Shajen Joy Aziz on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza. 

Tom Wilson appears to celebrate the 40th Annniversary of the comic strip Ziggy on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza 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 Storyappears 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.

AUGUST

Julie Garwood, author of The Ideal Man, appears on Tuesday, August 9, 2011.

 

And watch for details soon on Calvin Trillin, Martha Stewart, and more!

 
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Volume 536June 13, 2011

Greetings!


What happened to spring? Well, summer's here and we're ready to read anyway. Whether heading off on vacation or heading to the pool, we've got some great ideas to keep you and your family entertained.  

 

We're also working on a BIG schedule of events this fall. As soon as we confirm the details, we'll be announcing a whole list of big names just after the 4th of July.

 

Every book you buy from Rainy Day Books means one more vote for independence!

Jeff Guinn 

Thursday night: Jeff Guinn 

 

Jeff Guinn discusses his new book The Last Gunfight.

 

On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a West populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones, and where law enforcement largely consisted of sheriffs and outlaws facing off at high noon on the main streets of dusty, desolate towns where every man packed at least one six-shooter on his hips. It's colorful stuff--but the truth is even better

 

As The Last Gunfight makes clear, the real story of the O.K. Corral and the West is far different from what we've been led to believe by countless TV Westerns and Hollywood films. Drawing on new material from private collections--including diaries, letters, and Wyatt Earp's own hand-drawn sketch of the shootout's conclusion--as well as documentary research in Tombstone and Arizona archives and dozens of interviews, award-winning author Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what the West was like, who the Earps and Doc Holliday and their cowboy adversaries really were, what actually happened on that cold day in Tombstone, and why.

 

The gunfight did not actually occur in the O.K. Corral, and it was in no way a defining battle between frontier forces of good and evil. Combining newfound facts with cinematic storytelling, Guinn depicts an accidental if inevitable clash between competing social, political, and economic forces representing the old West of ruggedly independent ranchers and cowboys and the emerging new West of wealthy mining interests and well-heeled town folk.

With its masterful storytelling, fresh research, and memorable characters -- the Earps, cattle rustlers, frontier prostitutes, renegade Apaches, and Tombstone itself, a beguiling hybrid of elegance and decadence -- The Last Gunfight is both hugely entertaining and illuminating, and the definitive work on the Wild West's greatest shootout.  

 

This event is Thursday, June 16 at 7:00 PM at Johnson County Library, Central Resource Branch. 

 

Complete details at www.RainyDayBooks.com/JeffGuinn 

 

Discover The Gift 

Friday night: Discover The Gift 

 

Rainy Day Books & Cornerstone Foundation invite you to preview the movie Discover The Gift and hear creators Demian Lichtenstein and Shajen Jones Aziz discuss their book to film project and sign the Discover The Gift book.

 

A twenty minute preview of Discover The Gift will be shown, followed by a discussion session and booksigning.  

 

Take the first steps toward your destiny and begin living the life you were meant to live today. From brother and sister team Demian Lichtenstein and Shajen Joy Aziz comes an inspiring book that explores the basic but vital reality that we are each given a unique Gift, a purpose in our life that is always seeking to express itself. Find that Gift and you can experience joy, power, fulfillment, freedom and unconditional love in ways beyond your imagination. Discover the Gift presents a simple roadmap to a journey of self-discovery that will, undoubtedly, change your life forever. Sharing their own heartfelt, personal stories of tragedy and redemption, Demian and Shajen introduce us to eight fundamental steps that will help you discover the gift within you-and prepare you to share that gift with others. Along the way you will receive both direction and support from a wide range of the world's most influential transformational leaders, people from all walks of life who not only live their Gift every day, but who have made it their purpose to help you do the same. Among them: His Holiness the Dalai Lama; His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar; Mark Victor Hansen; Dr. Sonia Powers; Mary Manin Morrissey; Dr. Barbara De Angelis, Jack Canfield, and Michael Bernard Beckwith, to name just a few. Inspiring as well as practical, Discover the Gift illuminates that place inside each of us where an extraordinary Gift awaits to come alive. Your Destiny Awaits. Discover the Gift. It's Why You're Here.


This Event is Friday, June 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza. Admission is complimentary, all are welcome.

 

 

Complete details at

www.RainyDayBooks.com/DiscoverTheGift

 

 

Something To Read About 

 

NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS,
ON OUR SHELVES NOW!

Great ideas for summer reading! 



Fiction

 

The Summer Of The BearThe Summer Of The Bear    
Bella Pollen

Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Press


In her moving, beautifully written fifth novel, Bella Pollen serves up an improbable mix that, on the face, seems as if it shouldn't work. The main strand of narrative is something out of Cold War thrillerdom: Letty Fleming's diplomat husband, posted to Berlin a decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall, dies there, a victim of accident, murder or suicide - and, as their daughter Georgie notes, "In the matter of her father, the government had boxes to tick and files to close." But which is it? ... Read more.

 

Lime CreekLime Creek

Joe Henry   

Hardcover, Random House

 

Spencer Davis, his wife, Elizabeth, and their sons, Luke, Whitney, and Lonny, work with horses and with their hands. They spend long relentless days cutting summer hay and feeding it to their cattle through fierce Wyoming winters. The family bears witness to the cycle of life, bringing foals into the world and deciding when to let a favored mare pass on to the next. As Luke grows older, falls in love, and begins to assert his independence, Spencer strives to impart the wisdom of this way of life to his headstrong son, whatever the cost. Read more. 


 

The Girl In The GardenThe Girl In The Garden

Kamala Nair   

Hardcover, Grand Central

 

The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret. Read more. 



Two Deaths Of Daniel HayesThe Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
Marcus Sakey

Hardcover, Dutton   

 

A man wakes up naked and cold, half-drowned on an abandoned beach. The only sign of life for miles is an empty BMW. Inside the expensive car he finds clothes that fit perfectly, shoes for his tattered feet, a Rolex, and a bank envelope stuffed with cash and an auto registration in the name of Daniel Hayes, resident of Malibu, California. None of it is familiar. What is he doing here? How did he get into the ocean? Is he Daniel Hayes, and if so, why doesn't he remember? While he searches for answers, the world searches for him-beginning with the police that kick in the door of his dingy motel, with guns drawn. Lost, alone, and on the run, the man who might be Daniel Hayes flees into the night. ...Read more.


Before I Go To SleepBefore I Go To Sleep
S.J. Watson

Hardcover, HarperCollins   

 

"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me. . . ." Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love-all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story. Welcome to Christine's life...Read more.


Nonfiction

 

The Post American World 2.0The Post-American World: Release 2.0 

Fareed Zakaria

Hardcover, W.W. Norton

 

Fareed Zakaria's international bestseller The Post-American World pointed to the "rise of the rest"-the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, and others-as the great story of our time, the story that will undoubtedly shape the future of global power. Since its publication, the trends he identified have proceeded faster than anyone could have anticipated. The 2008 financial crisis turned the world upside down, stalling the United States and other advanced economies. Meanwhile emerging markets have surged ahead, coupling their economic growth with pride, nationalism, and a determination to shape their own future. In this new edition, Zakaria makes sense of this rapidly changing landscape. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, he draws on lessons from the two great power shifts of the past 500 years-the rise of the Western world and the rise of the United States-to tell us what we can expect from the third shift, the "rise of the rest." Read more. 

 

 

Wonder Girl Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Dirdrikson Zaharias  

Don Van Natta

Hardcover, Little Brown  

 

This is the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete. Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world. . Read more.  

 

 

Beekeeper's Lament The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America  

Hannah Nordhaus

Paperback, Harper  

 

The honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America's agricultural industry. But never before has its survival been so unclear-and the future of our food supply so acutely challenged. Enter beekeeper John Miller, who trucks his hives around the country, bringing millions of bees to farmers otherwise bereft of natural pollinators. Even as the mysterious and deadly epidemic known as Colony Collapse Disorder devastates bee populations across the globe, Miller forges ahead with the determination and wry humor of a true homespun hero. The Beekeeper's Lament tells his story and that of his bees, making for a complex, moving, and unforgettable portrait of man in the new natural world.  Read more. 

 

 

Children's Books: 

 

Beauty QueensBeauty Queens

Libba Bray   

Hardcover, Scholastic  

 

Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count... Read more. 

 

 

Get HappyGet Happy

Malachy Doyle, Caroline Uff   

Hardcover, Walker Children's Books  

 

Tease less . . . tickle more! Shout less . . . sing more! Worry less . . . wonder more! With a cheerful message about sharing, giving, and being kind to others, Get Happy will show any child how to turn a frown into a giggle, spread the joy around, and live life to the fullest. Perfect for the youngest of readers, it won't be long before everyone knows how to get happy! Read more. 

 

  





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.

 

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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