Rainy Day Books, Inc.

Update Your Profile and E-mail Address

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

In This Newsletter
This Wednesday: Lincoln Peirce
Just added: Rosemary Wells
Just added: A Kitchen Table Conversation
Just added: Jim Lehrer
IndieNext Book of The Week: Everything Beautiful Began After
Staff picks of the week!
At a glance, our complete Author Events Calendar, watch for changes and updates!

 

SEPTEMBER

Nina Revoyr, author of Wingshooters, appears on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at Johnson County Library, Central Resource 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, Blue Valley Branch.

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

Jillian Maas Backman, author of Beyond the Pews, appears on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

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

The Casserole Queens appear on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

NEW TIME: Scott Westerfeld, author of Goliath, appears on Thursday, September 22, 2011, at 4:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Bobby Flay, author of Bobby Flay's Bar Americain Cookbook, appears on Monday September 26, 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.

Anne Burrell, author of Cook Like A Rock Star, appears on Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM at the Overland Park Convention Center. 

Daniel Woodrell, author of Outlaw Album, appears on Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Johnson County Library, Central Resource Library.

Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, appears on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Linda Hall Library.

Karl Marlantes, author of What It's Like To Go To War, appears on Monday, October 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Stephan Pastis, author of Larry in Wonderland, appears on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Alton Brown, author of Good Eats 3: The Later Years, appears on Monday, October 24, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America appears on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

NOVEMBER

Robert Morgan, author of Lions of The West, appears on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Johnson County Library, Central Resource Library.

Jennifer Chiaverini, author of The Wedding Quilt, appears on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Buddy Valastro, author of Baking with The Cake Boss, appears on Monday, November 7, 2011 at 12:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Tony Horwitz, author of Midnight Rising: John Brown and The Raid That Started The Civil War appears on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Martha Stewart, author of Martha's Entertaining: A Year of Celebrations, appears on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

Colby and Meghan Garrelts, authors of bluestem: the cookbook, appear on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 5:30 PM at Studio Dan Meiners. 

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

 

 

   
Support your local Independent Bookseller; Shop for competitively priced E-Books for your E-Reader from Rainy Day Books.  Shop local, read mobile.
Rainy Day Books offers you E-Books through our partnership with Google eBooks. All our E-Books are competitively priced.

GoogleeBooksColumnGraphic
Volume 547August 29, 2011

Greetings!

 

We're taking a much-needed Holiday this Holiday weekend.  We're getting ready for our busiest fall Event season ever! 

 

We will be with family and friends celebrating the Labor Day Holiday on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.  We will reopen for Business on Tuesday, at 10:00 AM, CDT.  Our Website www.RainyDayBooks.com is Open 24/365.

 

We hope you have a safe and relaxing Holiday.  We look forward to sharing stories about great weekend reads! 

 

This Wednesday afternoon at Rainy Day Books: Lincoln Peirce signs Big Nate On A Roll


Lincoln Peirce  

Lincoln Peirce    

Big Nate on a Roll    

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 4:00 PM at Rainy Day Books. 

 

Lincoln Peirce is the creator of the comic strip Big Nate, that debuted in 1991 and appears in over 250 newspapers in the US and online daily at www.GoComics.com and is featured on the website Poptropica, www.PopTropica.com 

 

Purchase a copy of Big Nate on a Roll and meet Lincoln Peirce this Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 4:00 PM! 

 

Full details available on our Website. 

Just added: Rosemary Wells signs Kindergators: Hands Off, Harry! 


   

Rosemary Wells  

Rosemary Wells    

Kindergators: Hands Off, Harry!   

Monday, September 19, 2011 at 4:00 PM at Rainy Day Books.

 

Rosemary Wells is the creator of many unforgettable children's book characters, including Max and Ruby, McDuff, and Yoko, each of whom stars in their own book series.  

 

Purchase a copy of Kindergators: Hands Off, Harry and meet Rosemary Wells as she signs for her readers and fans! 

 

Full details available on our Website.

 

Just added! A Kitchen Table Conversation: Uncle Dan's Report Card 


   

Kitchen Table Conversation  

Barbara and Bob Unell     

Uncle Dan's Report Card 

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

 

Rainy Day Books' Founder and President, Vivien Jennings, will join co-authors Barbara and Bob Unell in leading a first-ever "Kitchen Table Conversation" on getting back to teaching the simple, basic timeless healthy habits and values to children at home from toddlers to teens, at the heart of their new book, Uncle Dan's Report Card.

A taste of nostalgia will be yours with a jar of locally-grown jelly to sweeten your night compliments of The Berry Nutty Farm.  The authors hope this free gift of your own kitchen-table goodness, as well as the stories of Uncle Dan's Report Card, will inspire you to start your own "Kitchen Table Conversation" anew with your families and educators in your neighborhoods throughout our community.

 

Full details available on our Website.

 

Just added! A Conversation with Jim Lehrer - Tension City: Inside The Presidential Debates 


   

Jim Lehrer 2011  

Jim Lehrer      

Tension City: Inside The Presidential Debates  

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary.

 

From the man widely hailed as "the Dean of Moderators" comes a lively and revealing book that pulls back the curtain on more than forty years of televised political debate in America.  A veteran newsman who has presided over eleven presidential and vice-presidential debates, Jim Lehrer gives readers a ringside seat for some of the epic political battles of our time, shedding light on all of the critical turning points and rhetorical faux pas that helped determine the outcome of America's presidential elections-and with them the course of history.

 

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

 

Everything Beautiful Began After Everything Beautiful Began After
Simon van Booy

Paperback, Harper IndieNext

 

"Simon van Booy's heart-stopping novel takes place predominantly in Athens in the summertime, a hot, dizzying place where three characters forge a brief and unforgettable connection.  This book will completely sweep you away. It brims over with small, perfect details and plot twists that must be read to be believed.  I can't imagine a better summer read!" ~ Kat Bailey, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California.

 

Click here for more about this Book.

NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS,
ON OUR SHELVES NOW!

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

 

The Submission

The Submission

Bookseller Seal

Amy Waldman

Hardcover, FSG

 

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack.  Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name-and discover he is an American Muslim.  Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam.  Their conflicted response is only a preamble to the country's. The memorial's designer is an enigmatic, ambitious architect named Mohammad Khan.  His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the self-possessed and mediagenic Claire Burwell.  But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, she finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself-as unknowable as he is gifted.  In the fight for both advantage and their ideals, all will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy.

Read more. 

 

 

Only Time Will Tell Only Time Will Tell 

Jeffrey Archer  

Hardcover, St Martin's Press

 

The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war."  A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school.  But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again.  As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father?  Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? Read more. 

 

 

LuminariumLuminarium 

Alex Shakar   

Hardcover, Soho Press

 

"Luminarium is dizzyingly smart and provocative, exploring as it does the state of the present, of technology, of what is real and what is ephemeral.  But the thing that separates Luminarium from other books that discuss avatars, virtual reality and the like is that Alex Shakar is committed throughout with trying, relentlessly, to flat-out explain the meaning of life.  This book is funny, and soulful, and very sad, but so intellectually invigorating that you'll want to read it twice." - Dave Eggers Read more. 

 

 

The Language of Flowers

The Language of Flowers

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Hardcover, Random House   

 

The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude.  After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.  Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own.  Soon a local florist discovers her talents, and Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them.  But a mysterious vendor at the flower market has her questioning what's been missing in her life, and when she's forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness. Read more.

Nonfiction

 

Sex On Six LegsSex on Six Legs 

Marlene Zuk

Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

 

Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries.  They are capable of incredibly complex behavior, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity- personality, language, childcare-with completely different pathways from our own?  What is going on inside the mind of those ants that march like boot-camp graduates across your kitchen floor?  How does the lead ant know exactly where to take her colony, to that one bread crumb that your nightly sweep missed?  Can insects be taught new skills as easily as your new puppy? Read more. 

 

 

How To Love An American Man

How to Love an American Man  

Kristin Gasbarre

Paperback, Harper   

 

Kristine Gasbarre made a New York career of dating driven, inaccessible men.  When she realizes her love life will never result in happiness if she continues on the same path, she makes a big decision-relocating to Italy to discover her roots and find out what defines her adoring grandpa.  But upon receiving the news of his sudden passing, she is lured away.  With nowhere left to go, Krissy returns to her small hometown for the first time in a decade to help care for her grandmother-a refined, private matriarch suffering from early dementia along with the loss of her husband.  In her reluctant agreement to share the nearly lost love stories and transformative lessons from her rich sixty-year marriage, Krissy's grandma becomes the one offering comfort as she coaches her granddaughter through the fear of loving.  Grandma's unapologetic femininity and secret giving spirit opens Krissy's eyes about relationships, teaching her the single most important requisite for loving a man: first a woman has to learn the power of her own inner beauty. Read more.  

 

 

Children's Books: 

 

Big Nate On A RollBig Nate on a Roll 

Lincoln Peirce   

Hardcover, Harper  

 

Nate's a big deal in his scout troop, until Artur-aka Mr. Perfect-joins up.  Now Nate's stuck in second place.  And Artur means business.  Will Nate take the grand prize?  Or wipe out, big time?  Read more. 

 

  

Would you like even more book news, plus weekly review of books? Subscribe to Shelf Awareness! 


Shelf Awareness  





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