Paul Dorrell, Artist, Author, and Owner of Leopold Gallery, will Present an abbreviated Version of his Career Workshop based on his Updated & Revised Book Living the Artist's Life.

This Event is Monday, September 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

Read full details about this Event on our Website.

Jeffrey Toobin, Senior Legal Analyst for CNN and Author of the Bestselling Book The Nine: Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court, appears In Conversation for his New Book The Oath: The Obama White House v. The Supreme Court.

It is one of the central issues of the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.  It will determine the course of legal history for decades.  It is the story of two men, both students of Constitutional history, and both commanding a branch of the federal government.  Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin now takes us inside the Beltway, inside the inner circles of power, behind The Oath.

This Event is Next Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

Read full details about this Event on our Website.

Our upcoming Author Event with William Kent Krueger has to be Cancelled on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 7:00 PM due to a death in his family.  We all send our deepest condolences and prayers to William and his family. 

Adriana Trigiani, New York Times Bestselling author of Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia and more appears for her New Book The Shoemaker's Wife.

Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career, a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again.  Still one of the most lively and engaging authors we have ever hosted, it is a genuine pleasure to welcome her back to Rainy Day Books!

This Event is Next Monday, October 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

Read full details about this Event on our Website.

Greg Kincaid, Bestselling author of A Dog Named Christmas and Christmas With Tucker, returns for his New Book A Christmas Home. 

This Event is Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.

Read full details about this Event on our Website.

Alex Danchev, author of the New Book C�zanne: A Life,discusses the artist's life and work accompanied by a Multimedia Presentation.

This Event is Friday, November 9, 2012 at 7:00 PM at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111.

Read full details about this Event on our Website.

Camille Paglia, America's premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that brought her fame, the great themes of Western art.  Camille will discuss her New Book Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt To Star Wars. 

This Event is Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111.

Read full details about this Event on our Website.

Laini Taylor, the Bestselling Author of Daughter of Smoke & Bone appears for the highly anticipated sequel Days of Blood & Starlight. 

This Event is Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

Read full details about this Event on our Website.

Waging Heavy Peace

Neil Young

Blue Rider Press 

An iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Neil Young has written his eagerly awaited memoir: 'I felt that writing books fit me like a glove; I just started and I just kept going'. Young offers a kaleidoscopic view of his personal life and musical career, spanning his time in bands like Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crazy Horse; moving from the snows of Ontario through the LSD-laden boulevards of 1966 Los Angeles to the contemplative paradise of Hawaii today. Candid, witty and revealing, this book takes its place beside the classic memoirs of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards.

Panorama City

Antoine Wilson

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Oppen Porter, a self-described "slow absorber," thinks he's dying. He's not, but from his hospital bed, he unspools into a cassette recorder a tale of self-determination, from village idiot to man of the world, for the benefit of his unborn son. Written in an astonishingly charming and wise voice, Panorama City traces forty days and nights navigating the fast food joints, storefront churches, and home-office psychologists of the San Fernando Valley. Ping-ponging between his watchful and sharp-tongued aunt and an outlaw philosopher with the face "of a newly hatched crocodile," Oppen finds himself constantly in the sights of people who believe that their way is the only way for him.

Listening in: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy, Ted Widmer

Hyperion

In July 1962, in an effort to preserve an accurate record of Presidential decision-making in a highly charged atmosphere of conflicting viewpoints, strategies and tactics, John F. Kennedy installed hidden recording systems in the Oval Office and in the Cabinet Room. The result is a priceless historical archive comprising some 265 hours of taped material. JFK was elected president when Civil Rights tensions were near the boiling point, and Americans feared a nuclear war. Confronted with complex dilemmas necessitating swift and unprecedented action, President Kennedy engaged in intense discussion and debate with his cabinet members and other advisors. Now, in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy presidency, the John F. Kennedy Library and historian Ted Widmer have carefully selected the most compelling and important of these remarkable recordings for release, fully restored and re-mastered onto two 75-minute CDs for the first time. Listening In represents a uniquely unscripted, insider account of a president and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Accompanied by extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings, and with a foreword by Caroline Kennedy, Listening In delivers the story behind the story in the unguarded words and voices of the decision-makers themselves. Listening In covers watershed events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, Vietnam, and the arms race, and offers fascinating glimpses into the intellectual methodology of a circumspect president and his brilliant, eclectic brain trust.

The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks

Kathleen Flinn

Penguin Books

After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for healthy, easy meals. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers' culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking.

Nightsong

Ari Berk, Loren Long

Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers

Sense is the song you sing out into the world, and the song the world sings back to you. With these words, Chiro's mother sends him off into the night for the first time alone. It's an adventure, but how will he find his way? And how will he find his way home? As the young bat discovers, navigating the world around him is easy as long as he uses his good sense.

Red Cat, Blue Cat

Jenni Desmond

Blue Apple Books

Fur flies and feline friendships form as two cats of different colors find that, with a little effort, they can be themselves and make a perfect blend