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Next Tuesday: Curtis Sittenfeld!
Next Wednesday: Chris Bohjalian and Stephen Kiernan!
Great New Books arriving this Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

 

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 642                        July 1, 2013

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This Weekend, 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.

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Sahar Delijani
and her husband Massimo Leone celebrated their debut International Author & Book Tour at Rainy Day Books for Children of the Jacaranda Tree in Hardcover that is on the July 2013 Indie Next List!  Rainy Day Books has Author Autographed Hardcovers of Children of the Jacaranda Tree that can be shipped globally and will make wonderful gifts that can be opened again and again!

 

Enjoy a safe and Happy Independence Day Holiday, 

 

Vivien & Roger 

Next Tuesday Night:  Curtis Sittenfeld will appear for her New Novel Sisterland

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Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times Bestselling Author of Prep and American Wife, will return to Kansas City to present her New Novel Sisterland.

 

Curtis Sittenfeld is the Bestselling Author of the Novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams and American Wife, which have been translated into twenty-five languages.  Her nonfiction has been published by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Allure and Glamour, and broadcast on Public Radio's This American Life.  She graduated from Stanford and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

 

The New York Times reads: "Sisterland ends up being a lot closer, in terms of emotional chiaroscuro, to two classics about pairs of sisters, The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett and The Easter Parade by Richard Yates [Sittenfeld] manages to make their day-to-day relationship palpably real, capturing the alternating waves of loyalty and passive-aggressive competition that animate their every exchange.  She shows us the anxieties and insecurities that underlie the choices the sisters have made throughout their lives, and makes us feel the weight of shared history that they carry in their hearts Ms. Sittenfeld proves equally adept at capturing the rhythms of Kate's daily life with her husband and their children: the joy and exhaustion of caring for two toddlers, the sense of safety and sexual electricity Jeremy still inspires in her, his stoic patience with her bouts of anxiety and dread.  The Author gives us an Updikean portrait of life in Kate and Jeremy's comfortable Saint Louis suburb that is every bit as well observed as the world of private school evoked in Prep, and she credibly evokes the ever-shifting arithmetic of their relationship with their best friends, Hank and Courtney Wheeling, who live down the street.  [Sittenfeld's] portrait of Kate - much like her portrait of the Laura Bush-like heroine of American Wife - is psychologically vivid Sisterland is a testament to the author's growing depth and assurance as a writer." ~ Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

 

This Event is Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112. 

Next Wednesday Night:  Vermont natives Chris Bohjalian and Stephen Kiernan will appear together for their New Novels!

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Novelists Chris Bohjalian and Stephen P. Kiernan will discuss their careers and New Novels.  Join us for "A Trip to Tuscany with Chris Bohjalian", featuring a Multimedia Presentation with prizes and surprises.  And Chris will welcome a special guest, his fellow Vermont Author and friend Stephen P. Kiernan, Author of The Curiosity, to the Event. 

 

Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed Author of sixteen Books, including New York Times Bestsellers The Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, and Midwives.  His novel Midwives was a number one New York Times Bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club.  His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and three of his novels have become movies (Secrets of Eden, Midwives and Past the Bleachers).  He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. Visit him at www.ChrisBohjalian.com or on Facebook. 

 

Award-winning Journalist Stephen P. Kiernan is a graduate of Middlebury College, and has earned a MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop.   He has written two works of Nonfiction: Last Rights and Authentic Patriotism, that promote civic engagement.  He lives in Vermont with his two sons.  The Curiosity is his first novel.

 

This Event is Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112. 

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

The Bat: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel

The Bat: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel

Jo Nesbo

Vintage

 

Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together, they discover that this is only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the country. As they circle closer and closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the case.

 

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

Emma Straub

Riverhead Trade

 

In 1920, Elsa Emerson is born to the owners of the Cherry County Playhouse in Door County, Wisconsin. Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her acting becomes more than a child's game of pretend. While still in her teens, Elsa marries and flees to Los Angeles. There she is discovered by Hollywood mogul Irving Green, who refashions her as an exotic brunette screen siren and renames her Laura Lamont. But fame has its costs, and while Laura tries to balance career, family, and personal happiness, she realizes that Elsa Emerson might not be gone completely. Ambitious and richly imagined, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures is as intimate-and as bigger-than-life-as the great films of the golden age of Hollywood.

 

Five Star Billionaire

Five Star Billionaire

Tash Aw

Spiegel and Grau

 

 

Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job-but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn't exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family's real estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harbored a crush on Yinghui, a poetry-loving, left-wing activist who has reinvented herself as a successful Shanghai businesswoman. Yinghui is about to make a deal with the shadowy Walter Chao, the five star billionaire of the novel, who with his secrets and his schemes has a hand in the lives of each of the characters. All bring their dreams and hopes to Shanghai, the shining symbol of the New China, which, like the novel's characters, is constantly in flux and which plays its own fateful role in the lives of its inhabitants.

 

Summertime All the Cats Are Bored

Summertime All the Cats Are Bored

Philippe Georget

Europa Editions

 

It's the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore. The town is full of tourists and the at the Perpignan police headquarters, Sebag and Molino, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day's misdemeanors and petty complaints without a trace of enthusiasm. But out of the blue a young Dutch woman is brutally murdered on a beach at Argel�s, and another disappears without a trace in the alleys of the city. A serial killer obsessed with Dutch women? Maybe. The media goes wild. Gilles Sebag finds himself thrust into the middle of a diabolical game. If he intends to salvage anything. He will have to put aside his domestic cares, forget his suspicions about his wife's faithfulness, ignore his heart murmur, and get over his existential angst. He waits joylessly, patiently, and lets himself go. The stone house may end up being his grave. Who's doing what, who's chasing who?

 

The Humans

The Humans

Matt Haig

Simon and Schuster

 

When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned him and hurry back home to the utopian world of his own planet, where everyone enjoys immortality and infinite knowledge. He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, and is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. Disguised as Martin, he drinks wine, reads poetry, develops an ear for rock music and a taste for peanut butter. Slowly, unexpectedly, he forges bonds with Martin's family, and in picking up the pieces of the professor's shattered personal life, he begins to see hope and beauty in the humans' imperfections and begins to question the mission that brought him there.

 

The Unknowns

The Unknowns

Gabriel Roth

Reagan Arthur Books

 

Eric Muller has been trying to hack the girlfriend problem for half his life. As a teenage geek, he discovered his gift for programming computers-but his attempts to understand women only confirm that he's better at writing code than connecting with human beings. Brilliant, neurotic, and lonely, Eric spends high school in the solitary glow of a screen. By his early twenties, Eric's talent has made him a Silicon Valley millionaire. He can coax girls into bed with ironic remarks and carefully timed intimacies, but hiding behind wit and empathy gets lonely, and he fears that love will always be out of reach. So when Eric falls for the beautiful, fiercely opinionated Maya Marcom, and she miraculously falls for him too, he's in new territory. But the more he learns about his perfect girlfriend's unresolved past, the further Eric's obsessive mind spirals into confusion and doubt. Can he reconcile his need for order and logic with the mystery and chaos of love?

 

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations

Peter Evans, Ava Gardner

Simon and Schuster

 

Jaw-dropping anecdotes about film legends and the studio system in its heyday make this an irresistible read. Even seasoned fans will learn fresh tidbits about ex-husbands Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, as well as her tumultuous relationships with Howard Hughes and George C. Scott. Gardner is funny and frank, and Evans's diligence makes the book not only one of the more revealing celebrity autobiographies published recently, but a candid glimpse into the world of a ghostwriter, star handler, and late-night confidante.

 

What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World

What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World

Henry Clark

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

 

When River, Freak, and Fiona discover a mysterious sofa sitting at their bus stop, their search for loose change produces a rare zucchini-colored crayon. Little do they know this peculiar treasure is about to launch them into the middle of a plot to conquer the world! The kids' only hope is to trap the plot's mastermind when he comes to steal the crayon. But how can three kids from the middle of nowhere stop an evil billionaire? With the help of an eccentric neighbor, an artificially intelligent domino, a DNA-analyzing tray, two hot air balloons, and a cat named Mucus, they just might be able to save the planet.

 

SYLO

SYLO

D.J. MacHale

Harper

 

THEY CAME FROM THE SKY parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on the sidelines when the high school running back dropped dead with no warning. He saw the bizarre midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that travel like shadows through the night sky. He tasted the Ruby, and experienced the powers it gave him, for himself. What all this means, SYLO isn't saying. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery. LOOK TO THE SKY because Pemberwick is only the first stop.

 

The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail

The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail

Richard Peck, Kelly Murphy

Dial

 

The smallest mouse in London's Royal Mews is such a little mystery that he hasn't even a name. And who were his parents? His Aunt Marigold, Head Needlemouse, sews him a uniform and sends him off to be educated at the Royal Mews Mouse Academy. There he's called "Mouse Minor" (though it's not quite a name), and he doesn't make a success of school. Soon he's running for his life, looking high and low through the grand precincts of Buckingham Palace to find out who he is and who he might become. Queen Victoria ought to be able to help him, if she can communicate with mice. She is all-seeing, after all, and her powers are unexplainable. But from her, Mouse Minor learns only that you do not get all your answers from the first asking. And so his voyage of self-discovery takes him onward, to strange and wonderful places.

 


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