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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 to 6
Thursday                   10 to 7
Saturday                    10 to 5
Sunday we rest and read! 

In This Newsletter
Just added: Scott Westerfeld
Just added: Christopher Paolini
IndieNext Book of The Week: The Adjustment
Staff picks of the week!
At a glance, our complete Author Events Calendar, watch for changes and updates!

 

AUGUST

Julie Garwood, author of The Ideal Man, appears on Tuesday, August 9, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

SEPTEMBER

Nina Revoyr, author of Wingshooters, appears on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at Johnson County Library.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers, appears on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

David Stokes, author of The Shooting Salvationist, appears on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at Johnson County Library.

Ellen Hopkins, author of Perfect, appears on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at Johnson County Library.

Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life, appears on Thursday, September 15, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Scott Westerfeld, author of Goliath, appears on Thursday, September 22, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Calvin Trillin, author of Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, appears on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

OCTOBER

Candice Millard, author of The Destiny of The Republic, appears on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus, appears on Thursday, October 6, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Daniel Woodrell, author of Outlaw Album, appears on Saturday, October 8, 2011 at Johnson County Library.

Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, appears on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at Linda Hall Library.

NOVEMBER

Christopher Paolini, author of Inheritance, appears on Monday, November 21, 2011, at 7:00 PM, at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

 

Plus watch for details on Stephan Pastis, Bobby Flay, Alton Brown, Tony Horwitz, Adam Winkler, Robert Morgan, Martha Stewart, Jim Lehrer and many more!  

 

   
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Volume 543August 1, 2011

Greetings!

 

The long hot summer is here.  On behalf of the staff, thank you for sharing your E-mails from places near and far.  We always like to hear that the Books we recommend are making your day, it makes OUR day!

 

Lots of activity on the Event Calendar, we will be announcing many, many Fall Events in the next several weeks.  You can always check the complete list on our Website if you've missed an E-newsletter.  Many of our upcoming Events are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.  We want you and any other fans to be well informed of Author Events Calendar!

 

Just added: Scott Westerfeld!   


   

Scott Westerfeld  

Scott Westerfeld 

Goliath: The Leviathan Trilogy Book Three 

Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

 

Scott Westerfeld, New York Times Bestselling author of Leviathan, Behemoth, The Uglies series, and many more, returns with Goliath, the final Book in the Leviathan trilogy.

 

Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run.  His own people have turned on him.  His title is worthless.  All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.

Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service.  She's a brilliant airman.  But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. 

 

With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected ways, taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.

 

Full details available on our Website.

 

Just added: Christopher Paolini returns!   



Christopher Paolini  

Christopher Paolini for Inheritance

 

Monday, November 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

 

Christopher Paolini, New York Times Bestselling author of Eragon, Eldest, and Brsinger,  returns with the final chapter in the Inheritance cycle, Inheritance.   

 

Not so very long ago, Eragon-Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider-was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest.  Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.

Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss.  And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix.  When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him.  And if they cannot, no one can.  There will be no second chances.

The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope.  But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alaga�sia?  And if so, at what cost?

This is the much-anticipated, astonishing conclusion to the worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.   

 

Full details available on our Website.

 

   

 IndieNext Book of the Week

Each week we spotlight one book from the month's IndieNext List (a collection of recommendations by indie booksellers across the country). Ask for a copy of the IndieNext newsletter at our front counter or click to browse them online

 

Adjustment The Adjustment
Scott Phillips

Hardcover, Counterpoint IndieNext

 

"Wayne Ogden has returned home from WWII, working as a caretaker and procurer for his debauched boss, while itching for the same action he had as a shady supply sergeant. It doesn't take long before he gets involved in blackmail, pornography, and murder even as he receives a bunch of mysterious letters from someone aware of his criminal past. Playing fast and loose with the dark side of the 'Greatest Generation,' Scott Phillips once again creates a tight, funny noir that's rich in character, and makes the profane sacred." -- Scott Montgomery, Book People, Austin, TX

 

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Staff Picks of the week

Each week we like to showcase a few of the great books on our shelves. Here are just a few titles we think are special:

 

Fiction

 

Rules Of Civility

Rules of Civility

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Amor Towles

Hardcover, Viking 

 

Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent.  Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.

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The Pianist In The Dark The Pianist in the Dark 

Michele Halberstadt  

Hardcover, Pegasus Books

 

Maria-Theresa von Paradis, the only daughter of the secretary of the empress of Austria, was an exceptionally gifted child. By the age of seventeen, she was a full-fledged virtuoso, playing for the royal family, acclaimed for her beauty and talent . . . and because she was blind.  Her father, unable to accept her condition despite her soaring musical gifts, enlists the help of Franz Anton Mesmer, the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism, where Maria-Theresa discovers the passions and emotions from which her blindness had previously protected her. Read more. 

 

 

CorrespondenceCorrespondence: An Adventure in Letters 

N. John Hall   

Hardcover, David R. Godine

 

Suppose that a retired bank clerk from New Jersey has inherited a mass of valuable letters to his great-great-grandfather.  Let's imagine this ancestor was a Bookseller in Victorian London who had corresponded at length with the leading writers of his generation.  To Dickens and Thackeray, Eliot and Trollope, Butler and Hardy, he put such questions as Why did you write?  How do you write?  From what sources did you get their characters and ideas?  What do you see as the purpose or usefulness of illustrations to your novel?  What do you think of the books of your peers and competitors?  An intriguing conceit, no? Read more. 

 

 

Call Me Princess

Call Me Princess

Sara Blaedel

Hardcover, Pegasus Books   

 

A young woman in Copenhagen, Susanne Hansson, becomes the victim of an unusually brutal rape attack in her own home.  Detective Inspector Louise Rick is summoned to talk to the victim, where she quickly determines that Susanne met the rapist via a dating website, a fact that Susanne shamefully tries to hide, especially from her domineering mother.  The police suspect that the rapist may have been caught on video in the subway, so Louise and a colleague go through the tapes.  They re lucky enough to find him, but unfortunately the image is blurry and shows him only in profile. While the police investigation is making progress, things take a negative turn for Susanne, who tries to commit suicide.  The rape is not the only reason. In the meantime Louise becomes more and more immersed in the online dating world.  In her search she comes across the Website nightwatch.dk, which allows her to upload images that show people out in the night-time scene and who they re with.  She finds a picture of the man, who is now calling himself Prinzz.  She contacts him using the name "Princess," and they agree to meet.  With a climax as suspenseful as it is shocking, Sara Blaedel's American debut confirms her as one of the brightest stars in the new wave of Scandinavian crime novelists that has riveted the attention of readers around the worldRead more.

 

Captivity

Captivity

Deborah Noyes

Paperback, Unbridled   

 

Noyes takes the true story of the Fox sisters and the false promise their spiritualist tricks could offer a broken heart, and weaves a story that asks, What is the difference between the real and the unreal when people react precisely the same to each? Read more.

 

Nonfiction

 

Anatomy of AddictionAn Anatomy of Addiction 

Howard Markel

Hardcover, Pantheon

 

From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of When Germs Travel, the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon.  Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it-or because of it.  One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery. Read more. 

 

 

Sex On The Moon

Sex on the Moon  

Ben Mezrich

Hardcover, Doubleday  

 

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea-a romantic, albeit crazy, idea.  He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally.  Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA-past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallways-and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks.  But what does one do with an item so valuable that it's illegal even to own?  And was Thad Roberts-undeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable, a possible astronaut-really what he seemed? Read more.  

 

 

Fur, Fortune and Empire

Fur, Fortune and Empire  

Jay Dolan

Paperback, Norton  

 

As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient.  What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and good furs was that Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing.  The news of Hudson s 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources.  The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations.  In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, Bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was get the furs while they last. Read more.  

 

 

Children's Books: 

 

Always Listen To Your MotherAlways Listen to Your Mother 

Florence Parry Heide, Kyle M. Stone   

Hardcover, Hyperion  

 

Ernest is good boy.  He does what his mother asks, helps her with household chores, and never has any fun.  When a new boy moves in next door, Ernest's mother encourages her son to make friends.  Nice children always do.  But the new neighbors seem a little bit, strange. In fact, you might call them downright monstrous.  And listening to his new friend Vlapid's mother means Ernest must do things he'd never dare try at home.  And it's fantastic! Read more. 

 

  

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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.

 

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We look forward to seeing you soon!

 

Vivien Jennings & Roger Doeren  


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