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The Fairway Shops
2706 W 53rd Street
Fairway, Kansas 66205-1705
Phone: 913-384-3126

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In This Newsletter
Wednesday Night: Sahar Delijani!
Great New Books arriving this Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

 

Sahar Delijani, Wednesday, June 26

 

Curtis Sittenfeld, Tuesday, July 9

 

Chris Bohjalian and Stephen Kiernan, Wednesday, July 10

 

Mary Pipher, Tuesday, July 16

 

Tim O'Mara, Wednesday, July 17

 

B.A. Shapiro, Tuesday, July 23

 

Julie Garwood, Tuesday, August 6

 

Susannah Cahalan, Wednesday, August 14

 

Kate White, Monday, September 23

 

Bill McKibben, Friday, September 27

 

Nicholas Sparks, Thursday, October 10

Volume 641                        June 24, 2013

Greetings! ,

  

Our Staff will be away celebrating the Independence Day Holiday on Thursday, July 4th; Friday, July 5th, Saturday, July 6th and Sunday, July 7th with families and friends!  Our Staff will be back at Rainy Day Books on Monday, July 8th and ready to serve you when we OPEN at 10:00 AM.  Our Website www.RainyDayBooks.com is OPEN 24/7.  Thank You for being faithful loyal Rainy Day Books Customers.

This past Week Jeanette Walls inspired readers with the presentation of her New Book The Silver Star.  Many readers of The Glass Castle attended our Event, including a number of Teachers who commented that their "reluctant reader students" related to Jeannette's memoir and became active and interested readers.  Jeanette Walls Author Autographed Hardcovers of The Silver Star for us to sell and ship globally.

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Gwen Cooper collaborated with Rainy Day Books and Wayside Waifs: A No Kill Shelter to increase pet adoptions, pet appreciation and awareness of Kittens that want to grow up and live with loving people in a loving Home.  Gwen Cooper Author Autographed Hardcovers of Love Saves the Day and Softcovers of Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat and they make loving Gifts that will keep on giving as they are read and opened again and again!

 

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Adopt a Kitten from Wayside Waifs for a Special $25.00 Kitten Adoption Fee and receive a complimentary Litter Genie™, a $22.00 Value.  Buy a Love Saves the Day Hardcover at Rainy Day Books and receive a complimentary Litter Genie™, while supplies last on a first come, first served basis. 

 

Litter Genie

 

Calling All David Sedaris Fans!

 

The Santaland Diaries  

 

Rainy Day Books and Kansas City Repertory Theatre, in exclusive partnership, invite you to a Private Sale for the Rep's upcoming production of The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris.  To Order Tickets before they go on Sale to the General Public, Call the Rep's Box Office at 816-235-2700 or Order Online at www.KCRep.org before Friday, June 28, 2013.  Be sure to use the Promo Code RAINYDAY.  Tickets start at just $20.00 Per Person, so Order Yours Today!

 

Read great Books and inspire others, 

 

Vivien & Roger 

Wednesday Night:  Sahar Delijani will appear for her New Novel Children of the Jacaranda Tree

Sahar Delijani  

Sahar Delijani will travel to Kansas City to present her New Novel Children of the Jacaranda Tree.

 

Sahar Delijani is a Pushcart Prize nominee, was born in Tehran's Evin Prison in 1983 and grew up in California, where she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her husband in Turin, Italy.

 

This Event is Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops, 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas 66205. 

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

The Lost Prince

The Lost Prince

Selden Edwards

Plume

 

Recently returned from fin de siècle Vienna, where she tragically lost the first great love of her life, Eleanor Burden settles into her expected place in Boston society, marries a suitable husband, and waits for life to come to her. Eleanor's story is not unlike that of the other young women she grew up with in 1890's Boston, except for one difference: Eleanor believes herself to have advance knowledge of every major historical event to come in her lifetime. But soon Eleanor's script of events begins to unravel, and she must find the courage of her deepest convictions, discover the difference between predetermination and free will, find faith in her own sanity, and decide whether she will allow history to unfold come what may - or use her extraordinary gifts to bend history and deliver the life she is meant to have.

 

Second Honeymoon

Second Honeymoon

James Patterson, Howard Roughan

Hachette

 

A walk down the aisle, a resort hotel, a drink on the beach...for these unlucky couples, the honeymoon's over. A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite--and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners, and it's anyone's guess which happy couple is next on the list. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into solving the case, while Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims all have one chilling thing in common. As wedding hysteria rises to a frightening new level, John and Sarah work ever more closely together in a frantic attempt to decipher the logic behind two rampages. SECOND HONEYMOON is James Patterson's most mesmerizing, most exciting, and most surprising thriller ever.

 

Sisterland

Sisterland

Curtis Sittenfeld

Random House

 

Meet Curtis Sittenfeld on Tuesday July 9 

 

Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Prep, returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity, loyalty and deception, and the delicate line between truth and belief. From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar "senses"-innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people's secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them. Now, years later, their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St. Louis. Vi has pursued an eccentric career as a psychic medium, while Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. But when a minor earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the normal life Kate has always wished for begins to shift. After Vi goes on television to share a premonition that another, more devastating earthquake will soon hit the St. Louis area, Kate is mortified. Equally troubling, however, is her fear that Vi may be right. As the date of the predicted earthquake quickly approaches, Kate is forced to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister and to face truths about herself she's long tried to deny. Funny, haunting, and thought-provoking, Sisterland is a beautifully written novel of the obligation we have toward others, and the responsibility we take for ourselves. With her deep empathy, keen wisdom, and unerring talent for finding the extraordinary moments in our everyday lives, Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the most exceptional voices in literary fiction today.

 

The Goliath Stone

The Goliath Stone

Larry Niven, Matthew Joseph Harrington

Macmillan

 

Doctor Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with the use of nanotechnology. But Glyer's controversial nanites are more than just the latest technological advance, they are a new form of life-and they have more uses than just medical. Glyer's nanites also have the potential to make everyone on Earth rich from the wealth of asteroids. Twenty-five years ago, the Briareus mission took nanomachinery out to divert an Earth-crossing asteroid and bring it back to be mined, only to drop out of contact as soon as it reached its target. The project was shut down and the technology was forcibly suppressed. Now, a much, much larger asteroid is on a collision course with Earth-and the Briareus nanites may be responsible. While the government scrambles to find a solution, Glyer knows that their only hope of avoiding Armageddon lies in the nanites themselves. On the run, Glyer must track down his old partner, William Connors, and find a way to make contact with their wayward children. As every parent learns, when you produce a new thinking being, the plans it makes are not necessarily your plans. But with a two-hundred-gigaton asteroid that rivals the rock that felled the dinosaurs hurtling toward Earth, Glyer and Connors don't have time to argue. Will Glyer's nanites be Earth's salvation or destruction?

 

Chocolates for Breakfast

Chocolates for Breakfast

Pamela Moore

Harper Perennial

 

This rediscovered classic is an internationally bestselling novel, back in print and available in the U.S. for the first time in 45 years. Published in 1956 by Moore at age 18, this is the astonishingly candid story of a young girl's sudden, urgent awakening to love and desire.

 

Beautiful Day

Beautiful Day

Elin Hilderbrand

Hachette

 

The Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a wedding. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every detail of her youngest daughter's future nuptials. Everything should be falling into place for the beautiful event--but in reality, things are far from perfect. While the couple-to-be are quite happy, their loved ones find their own lives crumbling. In the days leading up to the wedding, love will be questioned, scandals will arise, and hearts will be broken and healed. Elin Hilderbrand takes readers on a touching journey in BEAUTIFUL DAY--into the heart of marriage, what it means to be faithful, and how we choose to honor our commitments.

 

The Cleaner of Chartres

The Cleaner of Chartres

Salley Vickers

Viking Books

 

From the author of Miss Garnet's Angel, a story of the redemptive power of love and community in the famous French cathedral town. There is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can be found cleaning the famed medieval cathedral each morning and doing odd jobs for the townspeople. No one knows where she came from or why. Not Abbé Paul, who discovered her one morning twenty years ago, sleeping on the north porch, and not Alain Fleury, the irreverent young restorer who works alongside her each day and whose attention she catches with her tawny eyes and elusive manner. She has transformed each of their lives in her own subtle way, yet no one suspects the dark secret Agnès is hiding. When an accidental encounter dredges up a series of tragic incidents from Agnès's youth, the nasty meddling of town gossips threatens to upend the woman's simple, peaceful life. Her story reveals a terrible loss, a case of mistaken identity, and a cruel and violent act that haunts her past. Agnès wrestles with her own sense of guilt and enduring heartbreak while the citizens piece together the truth about her life.

 

The Shadow Tracer

The Shadow Tracer

Meg Gardiner

Dutton

 

An explosive stand-alone thriller from the Edgar Award-winning writer Stephen King called "the next suspense superstar" Can a person ever really disappear for good by going off the grid? And what happens when vanishing is no longer an option? Sarah Keller is a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in Oklahoma. She's also a skip tracer, an expert in tracking people who've gone on the lam to avoid arrest, prosecution, or debt-pinpointing their locations to bring them to justice. When a school bus accident sends Zoe to the ER, their quiet life explodes. Zoe's medical tests reveal what Sarah has been hiding: Zoe is not her daughter. Zoe's biological mother-Sarah's sister, Beth-was murdered shortly after the child's birth. And Zoe's father is missing and presumed dead. With no way to prove her innocence, Sarah must abandon her carefully constructed life and go on the run. Chased by cops, federal agents, and the group responsible for Beth's murder, Sarah embarks on a desperate journey. Can her knowledge as a skip tracer help her stay off the grid, remain one step ahead of her pursuers, and find a way to save her daughter? Meg Gardiner is acclaimed for her richly drawn characters, propulsive plotting, relentless suspense, and shocking twists. The Shadow Tracer delivers on those fronts and more.

 

Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life

Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life

Henri J. Nouwen

Harper

 

Led by the writing of a beloved author and a late world-renowned spiritual guide and counselor, two of Nouwen's students return in the third book in this popular, practical spirituality series on how to discover God's will in daily life in order to know what next to do.

 

In the After

In the After

Demitria Lunetta

Harper Teen

 

In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, 17-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.

 

Diary of a Worm: Teacher's Pet

Diary of a Worm: Teacher's Pet

Doreen Cronin, Harry Bliss, John Nez

Harper

 

Children already know and love Worm from the hilarious bestselling picture book by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bills. Worm is all about having fun, respecting the earth, and never taking baths. Now he's the star of a series of I Can Read books with full-color illustrations. In Diary of a Worm: Teacher's Pet, Worm makes a surprising discovery--teachers have birthdays That means Worm and his friends have to find the perfect present for their teacher, Mrs. Mulch. Diary of a Worm: Teacher's Pet is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it is perfect for kids learning to sound out words and sentences.

 

The Lost Sun: Book 1 of United States of Asgard

The Lost Sun: Book 1 of United States of Asgard

Tessa Gratton

Random House

 

Fans of Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Holly Black's The Curse Workers will embrace this richly drawn, Norse-mythology-infused alternate world: the United States of Asgard. Seventeen-year-old Soren Bearskin is trying to escape the past. His father, a famed warrior, lost himself to the battle-frenzy and killed thirteen innocent people. Soren cannot deny that berserking is in his blood--the fevers, insomnia, and occasional feelings of uncontrollable rage haunt him. So he tries to remain calm and detached from everyone at Sanctus Sigurd's Academy. But that's hard to do when a popular, beautiful girl like Astrid Glyn tells Soren she dreams of him. That's not all Astrid dreams of--the daughter of a renowned prophetess, Astrid is coming into her own inherited abilities. When Baldur, son of Odin and one of the most popular gods in the country, goes missing, Astrid sees where he is and convinces Soren to join her on a road trip that will take them to find not only a lost god, but also who they are beyond the legacy of their parents and everything they've been told they have to be.

 


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