WE WANNA ROCK!  Rainy Day Books welcomes rocker Dee Snider to celebrate the publication of his new memoir Shut Up and Give Me the Mic.

In this "twisted" memoir, Dee Snider, Rock 'n' Roll Legend, writes: "This story is mine.  I'm the guy that gave it all to beat the odds, left everything he had on the stage each night, didn't screw around on his woman, took care of his kids, and was sober enough to remember it all and write about it . . .  myself.  The one thing that has surprised and confused me, though, is my unlikely transformation into a "beloved public figure."  How did the unpopular kid, who grew up to be the angry young man, who became the '80s poster boy for the evils of Rock 'n' Roll, arrested for profanity and assault, and boycotted by parents and religious groups, become the likeable mensch he is today?"

Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books will be In Conversation with Dee Snider and ask him the questions and we'll hear the answers that we wanna know.

This Event is Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

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Timothy M. Gay appears to discuss his new book Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle.

THEIR WORK ON THE FRONT LINES MADE HEADLINES.  In February 1943, a group of journalists-including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney-clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany.  Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England.  A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of The New York Herald Tribune, asked Walter Cronkite if he'd thought through a lede.  "I think I'm going to say," mused Cronkite, "that I've just returned from an assignment to hell."  During his esteemed career Walter Cronkite issued millions of words for public consumption, but he never wrote or uttered a truer phrase.  Assignment to Hell tells the powerful and poignant story of the war against Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters.  Crisscrossing battlefields, they formed a journalistic band of brothers, repeatedly placing themselves in harm's way to bring the war home for anxious American readers.  Cronkite crashed into Holland on a glider with U.S. Paratroopers.  Rooney dodged mortar shells as he raced across the Rhine at Remagen.  Behind enemy lines in Sicily, Bigart jumped into an amphibious commando raid that nearly ended in disaster.  The New Yorker's A. J. Liebling ducked sniper fire as Allied troops liberated his beloved Paris.  The Associated Press' Hal Boyle barely escaped SS storm troopers as he uncovered the massacre of U.S. Soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.  Assignment to Hell is a stirring tribute to five of World War II's greatest correspondents and to the brave men and women who fought on the front lines against fascism-their generation's "assignment to hell."

This Event is Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Johnson County Library, Central Resource Library, 9875 W 87th Street, Overland Park, Kansas.

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Food Network star Ted Allen, host of "Chopped" and regular commentator on "Iron Chef America" appears In Conversation to celebrate the release of his new cookbook In My Kitchen.

Congratulations to Ted Allen!

Winner of Two (2) 2012 James Beard Awards this past Week:

WINNER: Television Program, In Studio or Fixed Location: "Chopped" Host: Ted Allen and judges WINNER: Media Personality & Host: Ted Allen, Show, "Chopped."

Rainy Day Books welcomes Food Network star Ted Allen for an afternoon of conversation about cooking, competition and fun.  Ted will be In Conversation with Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books.  The Presentation will last approximately One Hour.  Ted will personalize and sign Books for patrons immediately following the Presentation. 

Ted Allen is the host of the top Food Network show Chopped, now in its seventh season (and which to date has taped a network record 174 episodes in just three years), and frequently appears on The Best Thing I Ever Ate.  The food and wine specialist on Bravo's Emmy Award-Winning Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, he was also a judge on the first four seasons of Bravo's show Top Chef and of Food Network's show Iron Chef America.  A contributing editor to Esquire Magazine, Ted lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his longtime partner, interior designer (and serious baker) Barry Rice.

This Event is Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

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