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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
Rilla Askew presents Kind of Kin
Next Wednesday: Book Club Evening with Karen Thompson Walker and Kate Alcott
Next Thursday: Conscious Capitalism, a panel discussion
World Book Night wants YOU to help us give away ONE MILLION BOOKS!
Great new books arriving this week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our world-famous Author Events Calendar!

 

Rilla Askew, Tuesday, January 22

 

Jim Butcher, Thursday, January 24 

 

Book Club Evening featuring Karen Thompson Walker and Kate Alcott, Wednesday, January 30

 

John Mackey, Thursday, January 31

 

Bobby Deen, Monday, February 11

 

Susan Cain, Tuesday, February 12

 

Tim Dorsey, Monday, February 18

 

Ernest Freeberg, Tuesday, March 12

 

Richard Ford, Thursday, March 14

 

Jenny Lawson, AKA, The Bloggess, Thursday, March 21

 

Anne Lamott, Thursday, April 4.

 

M.L. Stedman, Tuesday, April 9

 

Cheryl Strayed, Tuesday, April 23

 

Michael Pollan, Friday, May 10

 

Rick Atkinson, Monday, May 20

 

Jennie Fields, Thursday, June 6

Urgent Update              January 20, 2013

Greetings! , 

 

Jim Butcher is Well enough Now to Reschedule and Book our Cold Days Event!

 

Jim Butcher and Cold Days 

Jim Butcher, The New York Times Bestselling Author of his New Book Cold Days: A Novel of The Dresden Files.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:  Harry Dresden Lives!  And so does Jim Butcher!  

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Jim Butcher is a full-time writer who lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife, son and ferocious guard dog.  On Thursday, November 29, 2012, the Date of our previous Jim Butcher Author Event, Jim flew Home from Los Angeles and became deathly ill and had to be immeditely Hospialized.  Jim remained very ill and was in and out of the Hospital through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.  Now, Jim is Well enough to Meet & Greet his Readers and Fans for our Rescheduled and Booked Author Event!  It reads like Cold Days will be Hot Days after all!  Let's all give Jim a warm Heartland Welcome when he returns to our Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza!  Remember to tell your Family & Friends the Good News about Jim Butcher!

 

DATE & TIME:  Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 7:00 PM

 

Your Previous JIM BUTCHER Admission Tickets that are Dated for Thursday, November 29, 2012 will be Valid for this Rescheduled and Booked Author Event!  

  

Read full Author Event details on our Website.

 

Be a Goodwill Ambassador and forward this Urgent Update onto your Family & Friends, 

 

Vivien & Roger

TUESDAY NIGHT:  Rilla Askew will present her New Novel Me Before You

Rilla Askew 

Rilla Askew will present her New Novel Kind of Kin on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.  Admission Packages are Available.  Seating is Limited to 40 People. 

 

Join us as Oklahoma native Rilla Askew shares her brilliant, hilarious, and heartfelt novel.  Kind of Kin follows a handful of complicated lawmakers and lawbreakers as workers are exiled, friends turn informers, and families are torn apart in a statewide exodus of Hispanics.  In the end, Kind of Kin reveals how an ad hoc family, and an entire town, will unite to do anything necessary to protect its own.

 

Read full Author Event details on our Website. 

Wednesday, January 30:  BOOK CLUB EVENING EVENT with Karen Thompson Walker, Author of The Age of Miracles and Kate Alcott, Author of The Dressmaker together In Conversation with Vivien Jennings!

Walker Alcott 

Our 1st BOOK CLUB EVENING EVENT of 2013!  Join us as 2 of 2012's Bestselling Authors celebrate the Trade Paperback Publication of their Books.  Karen Thompson Walker, Author of The Age of Miracles and Kate Alcott, Author of The Dressmaker, will appear together In Conversation with Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.

 

This Book Club Evening Event will begin with a Special Presentation of Paperback Reading Recommendations for Book Clubs, Presented by Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books, Inc.  This portion of the Presentation will last from 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM.

 

The 1st 100 Attendees will receive a Special Tote Bag with Book Club Goodies inside!

 

Read full Author Event details on our Website. 

Thursday, January 31:  John Mackey, Co-Author and Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and Raj Sisodia, Co-Author and Co-Founder & Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute will present their New Book Conscious Capitalism

John Mackey 

John Mackey, Co-Author and Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and Raj Sisodia, Co-Author and Co-Founder & Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute will present their New Book Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business.

 

Co-Sponsored by Rainy Day Books, Whole Foods Market, Country Club Bank, KC Magazine, The Roasterie, Boulevard Brewing Company and Indigo Wild

 

Join us for a Panel Discussion featuring John Mackey and Raj Sisodia, lead by Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books, Inc., and joined by Dara Macan, President & Group Publisher of Anthem Publishing Inc., Danny O'Neill, Founder, President & "Bean Baron" of The Roasterie and John McDonald, Founder & President of Boulevard Brewing Company, all Kansas City entrepreneurs that embrace the Conscious Capitalism movement.

 

Read full Author Event details on our Website. 

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The Expats

The Expats

Chris Pavone

Broadway

 

Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew. She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn't speak, doing the housewifely things she's never before done-playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she's not allowed to know. He's becoming distant and evasive; she's getting lonely and bored. Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she's terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.

 

Suspect

Suspect

Robert Crais

Putnam Adult

 

LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well. Eight months ago, a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty-until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who survived three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan sniffing explosives before losing her handler to an IED, her PTSD is as bad as Scott's. They are each other's last chance. Shunned and shunted to the side, they set out to investigate the one case that no one wants them to touch: the identity of the men who murdered Stephanie. What they begin to find is nothing like what Scott has been told, and the journey will take them both through the darkest moments of their own personal hells. Whether they will make it out again, no one can say.

 

 

The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories

The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories

Simon Rich

Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown

 

In "Center of the Universe," God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In "Magical Mr. Goat," a young girl's imaginary friend yearns to become "more than friends." In "Unprotected," an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy's wallet. The stories in Simon Rich's new book are bizarre, funny, and yet...relatable. Rich explores love's many complications-losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it-and turns the ordinary into the absurd. With razor-sharp humor and illustrations, and just in time for Valentine's Day, Rich takes readers for an exhilarating, hilarious ride on the rollercoaster of love.

 

The Antagonist

The Antagonist

Lynn Coady

Knopf

 

A piercing epistolary novel, The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our perceptions of ourselves and our very nature. Gordon Rankin Jr., aka "Rank," thinks of himself as "King Midas in reverse"-and indeed misfortune seems to follow him at every turn. Against his will and his nature, he has long been considered-given his enormous size and strength-a goon and enforcer by his classmates, by his hockey coaches, and, not least, by his "tiny, angry" father. He gamely lives up to their expectations, until a vicious twist of fate forces him to flee underground. Now pushing forty, he discovers that an old, trusted friend from his college days has published a novel that borrows freely from the traumatic events of Rank's own life. Outraged by this betrayal and feeling cruelly misrepresented, he bashes out his own version of his story in a barrage of e-mails to the novelist that range from funny to furious to heartbreaking.

 

Truth in Advertising

Truth in Advertising

John Kenney

Touchstone

 

Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he's a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He's recently called off a wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he's forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write, produce, and edit a Superbowl commercial for his diaper account in record time. Fortunately, it gets worse. He learns that his long-estranged and once-abusive father has fallen ill. And that neither of his brothers or his sister intend to visit. It's a wake-up call for Fin to re-evaluate the choices he's made, admit that he's falling for his co-worker Phoebe, question the importance of diapers in his life, and finally tell the truth about his life and his past.

 

The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

Edward Ball

Doubleday

 

One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity.

 

Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America

Sam Roberts

Grand Central

 

In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebration of the one hundred year old terminal, Sam Roberts of The New York Times looks back at Grand Central's conception, amazing history, and the far-reaching cultural effects of the station that continues to amaze tourists and shuttle busy commuters. Along the way, Roberts will explore how the Manhattan transit hub truly foreshadowed the evolution of suburban expansion in the country, and fostered the nation's westward expansion and growth via the railroad. Featuring quirky anecdotes and behind-the-scenes information, this book will allow readers to peek into the secret and unseen areas of Grand Central -- from the tunnels, to the command center, to the hidden passageways. With stories about everything from the famous movies that have used Grand Central as a location to the celestial ceiling in the main lobby (including its stunning mistake) to the homeless denizens who reside in the building's catacombs, this is a fascinating and, exciting look at a true American institution.

 

Private Berlin

Private Berlin

James Patterson, Mark Sullivan

Little, Brown and Company

 

Private, the world's most respected investigation firm, has branches around the world, each staffed with the smartest, fastest, and most advanced agents, who have cutting-edge forensic tools that not even the most powerful governments possess. At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. Chris had taken a secretive personal leave and hadn't spoken to anyone from the office in days. The Private team retraces his footsteps to the cases he was investigating before his disappearance: a billionaire suspected of cheating on his wife, a world-famous soccer player accused of throwing games, and the owner of a seedy nightclub. They were the last people to see Chris--and they're all suspects. And someone is lying. The Private team is led to an abandoned Nazi slaughterhouse where all hope vanishes. As Private digs further into Chris's past, a terrifying history is revealed, and they begin to suspect that someone very dangerous and very depraved is responsible for Chris's disappearance. And he's not finished in Berlin. PRIVATE BERLIN has more twists, action, and deception than any other James Patterson thriller ever.

 

1Q84

1Q84

Haruki Murakami

Vintage

 

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 -"Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a question." Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector. A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's-1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

 

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Adam Phillips

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the story of our lives: an elegy to unmet needs and sacrificed desires. We become haunted by the myth of our own potential, of what we have in ourselves to be or to do. And this can make of our lives a perpetual falling-short. But what happens if we remove the idea of failure from the equation? With his flair for graceful paradox, the acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips suggests that if we accept frustration as a way of outlining what we really want, satisfaction suddenly becomes possible. To crave a life without frustration is to crave a life without the potential to identify and accomplish our desires. In this elegant, compassionate, and absorbing book, Phillips draws deeply on his own clinical experience as well as on the works of Shakespeare and Freud, of D. W. Winnicott and William James, to suggest that frustration, not getting it, and and getting away with it are all chapters in our unlived lives-and may be essential to the one fully lived.

 

Hey, Duck!

Hey, Duck!

Carin Bramsen

Random House Books for Young Readers

 

An adorable little duckling is trying to befriend another "duck." However, he is oblivious to the fact that his potential pal is, in fact, a cat. Though resistant and stubborn at first, the cat soon realizes labels don't matter in the least-and before you know it, meowing and quacking are one and the same.

 

Time-Out for Sophie

Time-Out for Sophie

Rosemary Wells

Viking Juvenile

 

Sophie means to be a good little mouse, but she just can't resist testing the limits with her patient parents and grandmother. Eat supper? More fun to throw it on the floor. Fold the laundry? More fun to knock over the pile. Read with Grandma? More fun to steal her glasses. And then it's time out for Sophie! Rosemary Wells has created a memorable new character, ready to take her place next to Max and Ruby, Yoko, and Noisy Nora. Sophie's adorable antics will strike a chord with children and parents alike.

 


Thank You for supporting Your Community Bookseller, Rainy Day Books!

Since 1975, we have pursued our Legacy of Literacy: 38 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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Vivien Jennings & Roger Doeren  


Vivien, Roger, and all of your friends at Rainy Day Books