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This week we welcome biographer Walter Isaacson to discuss in detail his New Bestselling Book Steve Jobs.

We are finalizing details for our 2012 Author Events Calendar now.  Watch for details in next week's E-Newsletter!

Walter Isaacson           

Steve Jobs            

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

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The Doors will Open at 5:30 PM.  The Steve Jobs and Apple Multimedia Documentaries will begin at 5:45 PM and run before our Conversation starts at 7:00 PM! 

Our entire Staff will move from Rainy Day Books on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 at 5:00 PM to Unity Temple on The Plaza in order to better serve our Customers that will be attending our Author Event.  

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, Country Club Bank, Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, River City Solutions and Rockhurst University.

Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs, the Co-Founder & Chairman of Apple Inc., is the most talked-about 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.

Every week our staff select new and noteworthy titles that they they think you'll find interesting.:

Fiction

Love and Shame and Love

Peter Orner 

Hardcover,  

Little, Brown and Company

Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal grandparents, Seymour and Bernice, once high fliers, now mourn for long lost days; his father, a lawyer and would-be politician obsessed with his own success, fails to see that the family is falling apart; and his college girlfriend, the fiercely independent Kat, wrestles with impossible choices.

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The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt  

Caroline Preston  

Hardcover, Ecco

For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father's old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie's dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau. Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalog pages, fabric swatches, candy wrappers, fashion spreads, menus, and more, we meet and follow Frankie on her journey in search of success and love. Once at Vassar, Frankie crosses paths with intellectuals and writers, among them "Vincent" (alumna Edna St. Vincent Millay), who encourages Frankie to move to Greenwich Village and pursue her writing. When heartbreak finds her in New York, she sets off for Paris aboard the S.S. Mauritania, where she keeps company with two exiled Russian princes and a "spinster adventuress" who is paying her way across the Atlantic with her unused trousseau. In Paris, Frankie takes a garret apartment above Shakespeare and Company, the hub of expat life, only to have a certain ne'er-do-well captain from her past reappear. But when a family crisis compels Frankie to return to her small New England hometown, she finds exactly what she had been looking for all along.  Read more. 

Food

American Flavor

Andrew Carmellini 

Hardcover,  

Ecco

For most of his life, Andrew Carmellini has been hitting the road, tasting the best of American flavors. Whether on childhood trips escaping from the hard-bitten winters of Ohio to sunny Florida and its fresh citrus fruit, cross-country trips in pursuit of the Great American Breakfast, or five-meal-a-day swings through barbecue country, he absorbed everything he could about regional cooking, American-style, at every stop. In American Flavor, Carmellini shares the lessons of his culinary life on the road in recipes and stories that get at the soul of how we eat today. Using the traditional regional foodways and the multicultural neighborhoods, global eateries, and ethnic groceries that dot the American landscape as his inspiration, he introduces delectable, enticing dishes that deliver maximum impact yet are surprisingly simple to make. In the book, you'll find cheese pierogies inspired by the Polish church ladies of Carmellini's native Cleveland right next to his take on savory-sweet barbecued beef short ribs from L.A.'s Korea Town; seriously smoky southwestern mole alongside savory lamb stew that takes its flavors from Astoria, the historically Greek neighborhood in Queens, New York. Every recipe reflects Carmellini's laid-back style, midwestern roots, big-city palate, and dedication to great ingredients and serious flavor.

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Fun For Young Readers 

Happy Pig Day!

Mo Willems    

Hardcover, Hyperion Children's   

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In Happy Pig Day! Piggie celebrates her favorite day of the year! But will Gerald the Elephant be included in the festivities? Using vocabulary that is perfect for beginning readers (and vetted by an early-learning specialist), Mo Willems has crafted a heartfelt story about celebrating the special occasions in life. Fans of the Geisel Award-winning duo will want to join the party! Read more. 

Good Little Wolf

Nadia Shireen    

Hardcover, Knopf Young Readers   

Rolf, a small, gentle wolf, lives with Mrs. Boggins, who tells him he is a good little wolf. But when he meets up with a large, ferocious wolf, he is told that he isn't a real wolf. Wolves aren't little and good-they are big and bad. To prove he is a real wolf, the old wolf tells Rolf he must perform certain tasks, such as blowing down a little pig's house. Rolf is a total failure . . . until the big bad wolf urges him to do something unspeakable to old Mrs. Boggins. Then the good little wolf proves that he can stand up to the big bad bully. Or so it seems. Read more. 

The Adventures of Tintin: A Novel

Alex Irvine    

Hardcover, Little Brown Books for Young Readers   

Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market. Only it isn't any model ship--it holds a piece of the puzzle to finding the resting place of Red Rackham's treasure! But Tintin isn't the only ones after the notorious pirate's booty. With dangerous treasure seekers at their heels, Tintin and his dog, Snowy, are on a high-stakes thrill ride, that takes them from land to sea, from open air to the ocean floor! Read more.