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2706 W 53rd Street
Fairway, Kansas 66205-1705
Phone: 913-384-3126

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Saturdays                     10 to 5
Sundays we are away with our families and friends when we read and rest!

In This Newsletter
Tonight: Christopher Paolini discusses Inheritance
THE MOST TALKED ABOUT BOOK OF THE YEAR! Tuesday, December 6: Walter Isaacson In Conversation about Steve Jobs
IndieNext Book of The Week: The Tiger's Wife
Staff Picks of the Week!
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At a glance, our complete Author Events Calendar, watch for changes and updates!

 

NOVEMBER

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

 

DECEMBER 

Walter Isaacson, author of the new authorized biography, Steve Jobs, In Conversation on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.  CONFIRMED EVENT DATE.

   
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Volume 559November 21, 2011

Greetings!

 

This Thanksgiving week we would like to thank you for shopping at Rainy Day Books. This year has been most special for all of us. We are thankful that you give us the opportunity to keep the conversation about books alive and well in Kansas City.

 

Please note, our staff will spend this Thursday, November 24 with their families. We will open at our normal time on Friday November 25 at 10:00 AM. 

 

From all of us, we wish you a safe and happy holiday!

 

Tonight at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza: Christopher Paolini appears for Inheritance


   

Christopher Paolini  

Christopher Paolini           

Inheritance

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

 

Christopher Paolini is the author of the New York Times Bestselling Books: Eragon, Eldest, and Brsinger.  He lives in Montana.

 

The final chapter of the Inheritance Cycle is here!  Join us as we welcome back the delightful Christopher Paolini.  If you are about to start reading the Book, Christopher will preserve the secrets and surprises!  Come join us to celebrate the finale of the Internationally Bestselling Series.

 

 

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza: Walter Isaacson will be In Conversation about his highly anticipated new authorized biography, Steve Jobs 


   

Walter Isaacson  

Walter Isaacson           

Steve Jobs            

CONFIRMED EVENT DATE:  Tuesday, December 06, 2011 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza

 

Walter Isaacson is the President & Chief Executive Officer of The Aspen Institute, the former Chairman of CNN, and the former Managing Editor of Time Magazine.  He is the Bestselling author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the Co-Author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.

 

Walter Isaacson will be interviewed on Stage by Vivien Jennings, Founder & President and Roger Doeren, Chief Operations Officer of Rainy Day Books, Inc., in a Multimedia Celebration of Steve Jobs.  Co-Sponsored by Rainy Day Books, The Apple Stores, AT&T Mobility, River City Solutions, Country Club Bank, Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, and Rockhurst University.

 

Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs, the Co-Founder & Chairman of Apple Inc., is the most highly anticipated nonfiction book of the year.  Based on more than forty interviews with Steve conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, Walter has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for precision and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

 

Be the lucky Winner of a State-of-the-Art and Top-of-the-Line Apple iPad 2, Black, Wi-Fi + 3G, AT&T, 64GB Model from AT&T Mobility.

 

Full details available on our Website

 

Give your clients, customers or favorite employees something truly original this holiday season! 

Looking for something above and beyond the usual fruitcake or festive gift for your colleagues or clients? Give them a story they'll share forever!

 

Inquire today about quantity pricing.

 

Thought-Provoking

 

Practical WisdomPractical Wisdom  

Barry Schwartz  

Paperback, Riverhead

 

A reasoned and urgent call to embrace and protect the essential human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom. In their provocative new book, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe explore the insights essential to leading satisfying lives. Encouraging individuals to focus on their own personal intelligence and integrity rather than simply navigating the rules and incentives established by others, Practical Wisdom outlines how to identify and cultivate our own innate wisdom in our daily lives.  Read more. 

 

 

FlourishFlourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being  

Martin Seligman  

Hardcover, Free Press

 

What is it that enables you to cultivate your talents, to build deep, lasting relationships with others, to feel pleasure, and to contribute meaningfully to the world? In a word, what is it that allows you to flourish?  Read more. 

 

 

Enlightening

 

A Little History of The World

A Little History of the World

E.H. Gombrich 

Hardcover,  

Yale

 

 

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. "In simple, vivid prose, Gombrich surveys the human past from pre-history to his own time. . . . Lucky children will have this book read to them. Intelligent adults will read it for themselves and regain contact with the spirit of European humanism at its best." - Anthony Grafton, Wall Street Journal. This beautiful gift edition features four-color illustrations throughout the text.

Read more. 

 

 

 

Style

 

Martha's Entertaining Martha's Entertaining

Martha Stewart    

Hardcover, Clarkson Potter  

 

In this exquisite and very personal book, Martha Stewart welcomes you into her world, where she entertains in the expressive and beautiful style that she has made so famous. Whether a simple blueberry breakfast on a Sunday morning in Maine or a more lavish holiday dinner at Bedford, each of the gatherings is equally memorable, for what Martha cherishes above all is spending time and sharing delicious food with her family and friends. Set among Martha's dining rooms, kitchens, gardens, and patios, this is her most intimate book yet, a new classic for hosts and home cooks of every generation. This special edition is personally autographed by Martha Stewart. Read more. 

 

  

 IndieNext Book of the Week - now in paperback!

Each week we spotlight one book from the 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

 

The Tiger's Wife The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht

Paperback, Random House IndieNext

 

In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with "the deathless man." But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her-the legend of the tiger's wife.

 

Click here for more about this Book.

NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS,
WE RECOMMEND!

Staff Picks

Every week our staff choose a selection of new and interesting books recently arrived on our shelves:

 

Fiction

 

420 Characters

420 Characters

Bookseller Seal

Lou Beach 

Hardcover,  

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

 

Alternately surreal, funny, ominous, and lyrical, Lou Beach's 420 Characters offers an experience as dazzling as any in contemporary fiction. Revealing worlds of meaning in single paragraphs, these crystalline miniature stories began as Facebook status updates, and mark a new turn in an acclaimed artist and illustrator's career. 420 Characters features original collages by the author.

Read more. 

 

 

The Exegis of Philip K. DickThe Exegis of Philip K. Dick  

Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem  

Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

 

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.  Read more. 

 

 

Nonfiction

 

Thinking Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman 

Hardcover,  

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Read more. 

 

 

Kitchen On Fire

Kitchen On Fire

Oliver Said

Hardcover, Chronicle

    

The wildly popular basics course at Berkeley's famed Kitchen on Fire! culinary school teaches students ultimate confidence in the kitchen. In this new book, Chefs Olivier Said and MikeC. combine their many years of experience cooking in professional kitchens and classrooms to present all the basic techniques necessary to create great food-complete with full-color illustrations and step-by-step photos throughout. You'll explore the underlying methodology and alchemy of cooking, from ingredients to prep to heat. You'll get all the skills to navigate your kitchen with ease and the knowledge to put that cookbook back on the shelf and create your own recipes with whatever ingredients you have on hand. Read more. 

 

 

 

For Young Readers 

 

Neville Neville

Norton Juster    

Hardcover, Schwartz and Wade   

 

Written by the acclaimed author of The Phantom Tollbooth, this is a simply told story about a boy who moves to a new neighborhood and finds a unique way to make friends. With whimsical illustrations by award-winning illustrator G. Brian Karas, here is a read-aloud that's great for storytime, and is sure to be a hit among fans of Juster, Karas, and anyone who is "the new kid on the block." 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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Store Hours: Mon/Tue/Wed/Thurs/Fri 10 AM to 6 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