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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
Wednesday: Book Club Evening Event featuring Karen Thompson Walker and Kate Alcott
Thursday: Conscious Capitalism Panel Discussion
Monday, February 11: Dine with Bobby Deen, Food Network Star!
Great New Books arriving this Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our world-famous Author Events Calendar!
 

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

 

John Mackey and Raj Sisodia, Panel Discussion, Thursday, January 31 

 

Bobby Deen, Dinner, 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

Volume 620                   January 28, 2013

Greetings! , 

 

From the Cover of People Magazine and TV News Magazines, Bobby Deen, Food Network Star comes to Rainy Day Books and Seasons 52 Fresh | Grill on The Country Club Plaza on Monday, February 11, 2013 at 6:30 PM.

 

Remember, Valentine's Day is coming up!  Our Bobby Deen Dinner Event will make a great Dinner Date!  Also, Bobby is an Eligible Bachelor.  

 

 

Be happy & be well, 

 

Vivien & Roger

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM:  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 Softcover 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, Inc., 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 Softcover Reading Recommendations for Book Clubs, Presented by Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books, Inc.  This portion of the Presentation will be 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, 2013 at 7:00 PM:  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.

 

Event:  Thursday, January 24, 2013, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM 

Reception:  8:00 PM to 9:00 PM 

 

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 President 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.

 

John McDonald of Boulevard Brewing Company and Danny O'Neill of The Roasterie collaborated and created a New Brew:  Coffee Ale!  The Story is on KCTV 5. 

 

Read full Author Event details on our Website. 

Monday, February 11:  Dine with Bobby Deen!  Join the Food Network Star and Author of the New Book From Mama's Table to Mine: Everybody's Favorite Comfort Foods at 350 Calories or Less.
 
 

Bobby Deen Event 

Bobby Deen, Food Network Star, will co-host a healthy low calorie dinner celebrating the Publication of his New Cookbook From Mama's Table to Mine: Everybody's Favorite Comfort Foods at 350 Calories or Less.

 

Dinner Time:  Monday, February 11, 2013 at 6:30 PM

 

Restaurant:  Seasons 52 Fresh | Grill on The Country Club Plaza, 340 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

 

Admission Reservations:  Call Seasons 52 at 816-531-0052 

 

Co-Sponsored by Rainy Day Books and Seasons 52.

 

Read all about Bobby Deen and his family in this Week's People Magazine. 

 

Read full Author Event details on our Website. 

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

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

Broadway

 

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh's sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegie's birthplace to Harvard Business School, from a Tony Robbins seminar to an evangelical megachurch, Susan Cain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal in the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects. She talks to Asian-American students who feel alienated from the brash, backslapping atmosphere of American schools. She questions the dominant values of American business culture, where forced collaboration can stand in the way of innovation, and where the leadership potential of introverts is often overlooked. And she draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to reveal the surprising differences between extroverts and introverts. Perhaps most inspiring, she introduces us to successful introverts--from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Finally, she offers invaluable advice on everything from how to better negotiate differences in introvert-extrovert relationships to how to empower an introverted child to when it makes sense to be a "pretend extrovert."

 

Susan Cain will discuss her Book Quiet on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 7:00 PM.

 

Speaking from Among the Bones: A Flavia de Luce Novel

Speaking from Among the Bones: A Flavia de Luce Novel

Alan Bradley

Delacorte Press

 

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they're found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters' diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred's death, the English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint's tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there's never such thing as an open-and-shut case.

 

 

Insane City

Insane City

Dave Barry

Putnam Adult

 

Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way you could imagine, which is why it continued to astonish him that he was on the plane now for their destination wedding in Florida. The Groom Posse had already sprung an airport prank on him, and he'd survived it, and if that was the worst of it, everything should be okay. Smooth sailing from now on. Seth has absolutely no idea what he's about to get into. In the next several hours, he and his friends will become embroiled with rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, a pimp as big as the Death Star, a very desperate Haitian refugee on the run with her two children from some very bad men, and an eleven-foot albino Burmese python named Blossom. And there're still two days to go before the wedding. As it turns out, it's not smooth sailing, it's more like a trip on the Titanic. And the water below him is getting deeper every minute. By the end, amid gunfire, high-speed chases, and mayhem of the most unimaginable sort, violent men will fall, heroes will rise, and many lives will change.

 

The Safety of Objects: Stories

The Safety of Objects: Stories

A. M. Homes

Penguin Books

 

The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation Originally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes confronts the real and the surreal on even terms to create a disturbing and sometimes hilarious vision of the American dream. Included here are "Adults Alone," in which a couple drops their kids off at Grandma's and gives themselves over to ten days of Nintendo, porn videos, and crack; "A Real Doll," in which a girl's blond Barbie doll seduces her teenaged brother; and "Looking for Johnny," in which a kidnapped boy, having failed to meet his abductor's expectations, is returned home. These stories, by turns satirical, perverse, unsettling, and utterly believable, expose the dangers of ordinary life even as their characters stay hidden behind the disguises they have so carefully created.

 

Here I Go Again

Here I Go Again

Jen Lancaster

NAL Hardcover

 

Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn't understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was worshipped...beloved...feared. Present day, not so much. She's been pink-slipped from her high-paying job, dumped by her husband and kicked out of her condo. Now, at thirty-seven, she's struggling to start a business out of her parents' garage and sleeping under the hair-band posters in her old bedroom. Lissy finally realizes karma is the only bitch bigger than she was. Her present is miserable because of her past. But it's not like she can go back in time and change who she was...or can she?

 

Good Kids

Good Kids

Benjamin Nugent

Scribner

 

At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh's father and Khad ijah's mother kissing in a natural foods store. As both of their families fall apart, the teenagers sign a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow-until they meet again at twentyeight, both struggling with career and identit y, and both engaged to other people. Acclaimed author Benjamin Nugent's fiction debut is a hilarious, sad, handsomely plotted story of love and class. Stylistically adventurous but always accessible, Nugent trains a keen ear on the vernaculars of Generation Y and the baby boomers, as the young and middle-aged try to decide what parenting, background, and loyalty mean in an America struggling to redefine virtue.

 

Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do

Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do

Meredith Maran

Plume

 

Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life. Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most-and least-about their vocation.

 

Hitmaker: The Man and His Music

Hitmaker: The Man and His Music

Tommy Mottola

Grand Central Publishing

 

Much has been written about Tommy Mottola, one of the most powerful, visionary, and successful executives in the history of the music industry. He discovered, developed and launched the careers of many superstars, including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez and Gloria Estefan, and is credited with creating the "Latin Explosion." He has had the privilege of working alongside Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Barbara Streisand, the Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, Aerosmith, Tony Bennett, and Ozzy Osbourne, amongst other music giants. This is his story--a story of the modern music industry, from Elvis to the iPod--through the eyes of the man who made much of it happen.

 

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War

Paul Kennedy

Random House

 

In January 1943, FDR and Churchill convened in Casablanca and established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan's imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting, tactical detail, Engineers of Victory reveals how. Paul Kennedy recounts the inside stories of the invention of the cavity magnetron, a miniature radar "as small as a soup plate," and the Hedgehog, a multi-headed grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to overcome the threat to their convoys crossing the Atlantic; the critical decision by engineers to install a super-charged Rolls-Royce engine in the P-51 Mustang, creating a fighter plane more powerful than the Luftwaffe's; and the innovative use of pontoon bridges (made from rafts strung together) to help Russian troops cross rivers and elude the Nazi blitzkrieg. He takes readers behind the scenes, unveiling exactly how thousands of individual Allied planes and fighting ships were choreographed to collectively pull off the invasion of Normandy, and illuminating how crew chiefs perfected the high-flying and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that would drop the atomic bombs on Japan. The story of World War II is often told as a grand narrative, as if it were fought by supermen or decided by fate. Here Paul Kennedy uncovers the real heroes of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies, tactics, and organizational decisions that made the lofty Allied objectives into a successful reality. In an even more significant way, Engineers of Victory has another claim to our attention, for it restores "the middle level of war" to its rightful place in history.

 

I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies

I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies

Jeanine Basinger

Knopf

 

As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them-perhaps because, unlike any other genre of film, the marriage movie resonates directly with the experience of almost every adult coming to see it. Here is "happily ever after"-except when things aren't happy, and when "ever after" is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy . . . or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how movies-and audiences-work, Jeanine Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with this tricky subject, explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation, from Tracy and Hepburn to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one) to Coach and his wife in Friday Night Lights.

 

Prodigy: A Legend Novel

Prodigy: A Legend Novel

Marie Lu

Putnam Juvenile

 

June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request-June and Day must assassinate the new Elector. It's their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long. But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she's haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood-what if the Patriots are wrong? In this highly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Legend, Marie Lu delivers a breathtaking thriller with high stakes and cinematic action.

 

Emeraldalicious

Emeraldalicious

Victoria Kann

HarperCollins

 

When Pinkalicious and Peter decide to visit their favorite park, they find that it's no longer their favorite place-the park is now filled with stinky trash! So, Pinkalicious decides to make an extra-special wand out of a stick and some flowers. Now whenever Pinkalicious makes a wish, adds a little love, and recites a pinkatastic rhyme, something amazing happens: It's pinkerrific magic! Join Pinkalicious as she turns an ordinary place into an Emeraldalicious world.


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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.

 

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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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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