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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
Next Tuesday Night: Caroline Kennedy!
Great New Books arriving this Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

 

Caroline Kennedy, Tuesday, April 2

 

Anne Lamott, Thursday, April 04

 

M.L. Stedman, Tuesday, April 09

 

Christina Schwarz, Monday, April 15

 

Curtis Stone, Wednesday, April 17

 

Cheryl Strayed, Tuesday, April 23

 

Vali Nasr, Tuesday, April 30

 

Robert Edsel, Friday, May 3

 

Jackson Galaxy, AKA Cat Daddy, Wednesday, May 8

 

Michael Pollan, Friday, May 10

 

Rick Atkinson, Monday, May 20

 

Jennie Fields, Thursday, June 06

 

Alex Grecian, Tuesday, June 11

 

B.A. Shapiro, Tuesday, July 23

 

Kate White, Monday, September 23

Volume 628                     March 25, 2013

Greetings! ,  

 

This Week, we will take a moment and recognize the passing of two longtime members of Kansas City's Literary Community:

  

John Mark Eberhart, Poet, Former Book Review Editor at The Kansas City Star, beloved "Book Doctor" on NPR affiliate KCUR 89.3 FM and Reader's Advisory Coordinator for the Johnson County Library passed away Tuesday.  John Mark was a passionate advocate for Books and the power of reading, a good friend, a valued partner of ours, and always had a story to tell.

Walt Bodine, "The Voice of Kansas City," longtime Reporter and Host of "The Walt Bodine Show" on NPR affiliate KCUR 89.3 FM passed away Saturday.  Over the years, many of the authors that we hosted for our Author Events were also on Walt's show.  Through his broadcast interviews, Kansas City met the famous, the infamous, and the soon-to-be-famous.  Always complimentary of our spirit, his own exuberance was rarely matched.

 

We are thankful to have shared many experiences with John Mark and Walt and send our sincere condolences to their families.  Both these amazing gentlemen will remain with us in spirit.

 

Faithfully,  

 

Vivien & Roger 

Next Tuesday Night: Caroline Kennedy will appear for her New Collection titled Poems to Learn by Heart

Caroline Kennedy 

Caroline Kennedy will appear for her New Collection titled Poems to Learn by Heart on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112. 

 

Co-Sponsored by Rainy Day Books and The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City

 

Are you unable to attend our Author Event?  Order an Author Autographed Book and/or make a Donation to The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City to support Events like this. 

 

Caroline Kennedy will appear In Conversation with Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books, Inc., and discuss Caroline's New Collection titled Poems to Learn by Heart.  In addition, five local Winners of the Young Voices competition will read their winning original Poems as part of Poetry Out Loud.

 

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!

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

Vintage

 

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State-and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

 

The Burgess Boys

The Burgess Boys

Elizabeth Strout

Random House

 

Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan-the Burgess sibling who stayed behind-urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever.

 

 

Ordinary Grace

Ordinary Grace

William Kent Krueger

Atria Books

 

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family- which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother- he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

 

New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Charles Simic

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

 

Charles Simic was born in Belgrade and emigrated to the United States in 1954. He is the author of many books of poetry and prose. Among other honors, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and served as the Poet Laureate of the United States in 2007-2008. This is the first ever volume of new and selected poetry from one of our most celebrated and acclaimed poets, Charles Simic.

 

The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death

The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death

Jill Lepore

Vintage

 

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? "All anyone can do is ask," Lepore writes. "That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity." Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life-from board games to breast pumps-Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. "New worlds were found," she writes, and "old paradises were lost." As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.

 

Death of Yesterday

Death of Yesterday

M.C. Beaton

St. Martin's Press

 

When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn't remember what happened the previous evening, he doesn't begin to worry. She had been out drinking, after all, and he'd prefer not to be bothered with such an arrogant and annoying woman. But when her body is discovered, Hamish is forced to investigate a crime that the only known witness--now dead--had forgotten.

 

Angelopolis

Angelopolis

Danielle Trussoni

Viking Adult

 

A New York Times bestseller and global sensation, Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind's greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound. A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology, he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to capture, imprison, and eliminate her kind. But when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street, Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues, casting him into a spiral of doubt and confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by a creature who has topped the society's most-wanted list for more than a century. The ensuing chase drives Verlaine and his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St. Petersburg and deep into the provinces of Siberia and the Black Sea coast, where the truth of Evangeline's origins-as well as forces that could restore or annihilate them all-lie in wait. Conceived against an astonishing fresh tableau of history and science, Angelopolis plumbs Russia's imperial past, modern genetics, and ancient depictions of that most potent angelic appearance-the Annunciation of Gabriel-in a high-octane tale of abduction, treasure seeking, and divine warfare as the fate of humanity once again hangs in the balance.

 

Magic Tree House #49: Stallion by Starlight

Magic Tree House #49: Stallion by Starlight

Mary Pope Osborne

Random House Books for Young Readers

 

If kids get hooked on Magic Tree House, they're hooked on reading! This is one series that kids, teachers, librarians, and parents all agree on. A perfect blend of magic, adventure, history, science, danger, and cuteness-the topics range from kid pleasers (pirates, the Titanic, pandas) to curriculum perfect (rain forest, American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln) to seasonal shoe-ins (Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving). Magic Tree House #49 features Jack and Annie heading back to ancient Greece and an adventure with Alexander the Great when he was a child and his famous stallion: Bucephalus.

 

Ribbit!

Ribbit!

Rodrigo Folgueira, Poly Bernatene

Knopf Books for Young Readers

 

A group of frogs are living happily in a peaceful pond, until they discover a surprise visitor: a little pink pig. Sitting contentedly on a rock in the middle of their pond, the pig opens his mouth and says: RIBBIT! The frogs are bewildered at first, and then a bit annoyed-"What did that little pig just say?", "Does he think he's a frog?", "Is he making fun of us?" Soon the pig draws the attention of all the nearby animals; everyone is curious to know what he wants! After much guessing (and shouting) and a visit to the wise old beetle, the animals realize that perhaps the pig was not there to mock them afterall-maybe he just wanted to make new friends! But is it too late? This is a warm, funny, and beautifully illustrated story of friendship, with boisterous RIBBIT!s throughout-perfect for reading aloud.

 


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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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