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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/Thu/Fri 10 to 6 and Saturdays 10 to 5
Sundays we are Home with our families and friends when we read and rest!

In This Newsletter
Tuesday: Linda Rodriguez
Next Friday, May 4: Victoria Moran
JUST ADDED: Dorothy Wickenden, Frank Deford, Gillian Flynn, Rachael Ray, Timothy Gay, Jeff Shaara
Great new Books arriving this Week!
At a glance, our complete Author Events Calendar, watch for changes and updates!

 

APRIL

 

4/24  Linda Rodriguez

 

MAY

 

5/1  Jean Carnahan

 

5/3  Alice Medrich

 

5/7  Anna Quindlen

 

5/9  W. Bruce Cameron

 

5/15  Dee Snider

 

5/20  Ted Allen

 

5/17  Timothy Gay

 

5/30  Dorothy Wickenden

 

5/31  Frank Deford

 

JUNE

 

6/10  Rachael Ray

 

6/11  Gillian Flynn

 

6/14  Jeff Shaara

Volume 581April 24, 2012
Loyal Customer 

Last Night we celebrated World Book Night!  All across America, thousands of volunteers generously gave away Books to share the joy of reading.  Thanks to all the Authors & Publishers and all of the givers for helping start a literary movement.

We are fortunate that every day we share Books that we love with our customers.  We are pleased to share a kindred spirit of literacy with our community.  If you'd like to learn more about World Book Night, and how you can be involved next year, visit www.WorldBookNight.org
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Today is the On Sale & Publication Date of Anna Quindlen's New Book Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake!  Purchase your Hardcover from Rainy Day Books Today and receive your Admission Package to our Author Event on Monday, May 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM.

 

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6:30 PM: Linda Rodriguez discusses Every Last Secret: A Mystery
Linda Rodriguez

Rainy Day Books celebrates the debut release of Every Last Secret, written by Kansas City's own Linda Rodriguez!

 

Kansas City native Linda Rodriguez, author of the debut novel Every Last Secret: A Mystery, appears at the Kansas City Public Library, Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6:30 PM.  A 6:00 PM public reception precedes this Event.

 

Read full details about this Event on our Website

Next Friday, May 4, 2012 at 7:00 PM: Cornerstone Foundation and Unity Temple presents Victoria Moran, author of Main Street Vegan
Victoria Moran

Cornerstone Foundation and Unity Temple on The Plaza invite you to attend an evening with Victoria Moran.

 

FROM KC CARNIVORE TO MAIN STREET VEGAN: Bestselling author Victoria Moran returns to her cowtown hometown for a lively and informative evening of practical advice and insights from her new Book filled with everything you need to know to eat healthfully and live compassionately in the real world.  Presented by Cornerstone Foundation.  This Event is Next Friday, May 4th at 7:00 PM, Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Read full details about this Event on Victoria Moran's Website

JUST ADDED! Look who's coming to Kansas City NOW
Timothy Gay
Dorothy Wickenden
Frank Deford
Rachael Ray
Gillian Flynn
Jeff Shaara

Great new Books arrive on our shelves every Week!  Be the first to discover something new and wonderful!

Prague Fatale

Prague Fatale

Philip Kerr

Marian Wood Book/Putnam 

 

Geoffrey says: How do you identify a murderer in a house full of murderers? It's a tantalizing premise, and it's well-executed in Philip Kerr's latest Bernie Gunther novel PRAGUE FATALE. PRAGUE FATALE brings Bernie Gunther right into the heart of darkness. Tasked with identifying a would-be assassin by a high-ranking general, Gunther suddenly finds deeper trouble when a member of the general staff is murdered in the same house. Surrounded by the worst offenders in the Third Reich as suspects, Gunther must find the real villain. With the wit and twisting talent of Michael Connelly combined with the historical precision of Erik Larson, Philip Kerr's latest demands your investigation.

 

An Unexpected Guest

An Unexpected Guest

Anne Korkeakivi

Little, Brown and Company

 

Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband's career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter with a Turkish man, whom she discovers is a suspected terrorist. Like Virginia Woolf did in Mrs. Dalloway, Anne Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party. 

 

 

Waiting for Sunrise

Waiting for Sunrise

William Boyd

Harper

 

Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is stunned, and his few months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully plotted escape--with the help of two mysterious British diplomats--saves him from trial. But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander's life as he knows it. He returns to a London on the cusp of war, hoping to win back his onetime fiancEe and banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad, but Vienna haunts him at every turn. The men who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the brutal murder of a complete stranger. His lover from Vienna shows up nonchalantly at a party, ready to resume their liaison. Unable to live an ordinary existence, he is plunged into the dangerous theater of wartime intelligence--a world of sex, scandal, and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code that is threatening Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep this murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life.

 

A Wedding in Haiti

A Wedding in Haiti

Julia Alvarez

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

 

Julia Alvarez has been called "a one-woman cultural collision" by the "Los Angeles Times Book Review," and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most personal relationships--with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti. A teenager when Julia and her husband, Bill, first met him in 2001, Piti crossed the border into the Dominican Republic to find work. Julia, impressed by his courage, charmed by his smile, has over the years come to think of him as a son, even promising to be at his wedding someday. When Piti calls in 2009, Julia's promise is tested.To Alvarez, much admired for her ability to lead readers deep inside her native Dominican culture, "Haiti is like a sister I've never gotten to know." And so we follow her across the border into what was once the richest of all the French colonies and now teeters on the edge of the abyss--first for the celebration of a wedding and a year later to find Piti's loved ones in the devastation of the earthquake. As in all of Alvarez's books, a strong message is packed inside an intimate, beguiling story, this time about the nature of poverty and of wealth, of human love and of human frailty, of history and of the way we live now.

 

No Time Like the Present

No Time Like the Present

Nadine Gordimer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

In No Time Like the Present, Nadine Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a lecturer at a university; Jabulile trains to become a lawyer; there is another child, a boy this time. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself post-apartheid.

 

The Inquisitor

Mark Allen Smith

Henry Holt and Co.

 

Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business-called "information retrieval" by its practitioners-that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on the market. Geiger's clients count on him to extract the truth from even the most reluctant subjects. Unlike most of his competitors, Geiger rarely sheds blood, but he does use a variety of techniques-some physical, many psychological-to push his subjects to a point where pain takes a backseat to fear. Because only then will they finally stop lying. One of Geiger's rules is that he never works with children. So when his partner, former journalist Harry Boddicker, unwittingly brings in a client who demands that Geiger interrogate a twelve-year-old boy, Geiger responds instinctively. He rescues the boy from his captor, removes him to the safety of his New York City loft, and promises to protect him from further harm. But if Geiger and Harry cannot quickly discover why the client is so desperate to learn the boy's secret, they themselves will become the victims of an utterly ruthless adversary.

 

Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls

Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls

Mary Downing Hahn

Clarion Books

 

This fictional re-creation of a crime that happened in Mary Downing Hahn's Maryland hometown in 1955-the murder of two teenage girls-is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. Told from several perspectives, including that of the murderer, this latest work from the award-winning and best-selling author is sure to captivate readers. 

 

 

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/Thu/Fri 10 AM to 6 PM, Sat 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sundays we read, rest and enjoy our families and friends.

 

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