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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!
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HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!
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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
Daniel Woodrell, Tuesday, September 3
Marisha Pessl, Tuesday, September 10
Mark Lee Gardner, Wednesday, September 18
Tracey Garvis Graves, Wednesday, September 18
Michael Chabon, Thursday, September 19
Kate White, Monday, September 23
Thomas Keneally, Thursday, September 26
Bill McKibben, Friday, September 27
Terry McMillan, Thursday, October 3
Garrison Keillor, Tuesday, October 8
Nicholas Sparks, Thursday, October 10
Stephen Jimenez, Thursday, October 17
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Greetings! ,
We are all well rested and well read after the Independence Day Holiday Weekend and we hope you are as well!
Our Autumn Author Events Calendar is filling up nicely, so check out our updated lineup below!
Vivien & Roger
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Tuesday Night: Curtis Sittenfeld will appear for her New Novel Sisterland |
Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Prep and American Wife, which have been translated into 25 languages, will return to Kansas City to present her New Novel Sisterland.
Curtis' 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.
This Event is Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Chapel, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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NEW VENUE: Wednesday Night: Vermont natives Chris Bohjalian and Stephen Kiernan will be In Conversation about their New Novels with a Multimedia Presentation of "A Trip to Tuscany"! |
Novelists Chris Bohjalian and Stephen P. Kiernan will be In Conversation with Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books, Inc., to 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.
NEW VENUE: This Event is Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.
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JUST ADDED: Missouri native Daniel Woodrell will present his New Novel The Maid's Version |
Daniel Woodrell, the Bestselling Author of Winter's Bone and Outlaw Album will discuss his triumphant New Book The Maid's Version.
This Event is Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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JUST ADDED: Marisha Pessl will present her New Novel Night Film |
Marisha Pessl, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics, will present her highly-anticipated New Novel Night Film.
This Event is Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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JUST ADDED: Mark Lee Gardner will present his New Book Shot All To Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape |
Mark Lee Gardner will present his New Book Shot All To Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape.
This Event is Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Johnson County Library, Central Resource Library, 9875 W 87th Street, Overland Park, Kansas 66212.
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JUST ADDED: Tracey Garvis Graves will present her New Novel Covet |
Tracey Garvis Graves, The New York Times Bestselling Author of On The Island, will present her New Novel Covet.
This Event is Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.
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JUST ADDED: Michael Chabon will discuss his New Novel Telegraph Avenue |
Michael Chabon, Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, will discuss his New Novel Telegraph Avenue.
This Event is Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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JUST ADDED: Thomas Keneally will discuss his New Novel The Daughter of Mars |
Thomas Keneally, Author of the International Bestselling Book Schindler's List that Steven Spielberg made into a 7 Times OSCAR-Winning Movie of the same Name, will discuss his New Novel The Daughter of Mars.
This Event is Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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JUST ADDED: Terry McMillan will discuss her New Novel Who Asked You? |
Terry McMillan, Author of the Bestselling Book Waiting to Exhale will discuss her New Novel Who Asked You?
This Event is Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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JUST ADDED: Garrison Keillor will present his new Poetry Collection O, What A Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound |
Garrison Keillor will present his New Poetry Collection O, What A Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound.
This Event is Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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JUST ADDED: Stephen Jimenez will discuss his New Book The Book of Matt |
Stephen Jimenez will discuss his New Book The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About The Murder of Matthew Shepard.
This Event is Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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Great New Books arrive on our shelves every Tuesday! Be the first to discover something New and Wonderful! | |
The Light in the Ruins
Chris Bohjalian
Doubleday
1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends her days swimming in the pool, playing with her young niece and nephew, and wandering aimlessly amid the estate's gardens and olive groves. But when two soldiers, a German and an Italian, arrive at the villa asking to see an ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis' bucolic tranquility is shattered. A young German lieutenant begins to court Cristina, the Nazis descend upon the estate demanding hospitality, and what was once their sanctuary becomes their prison. 1955: Serafina Bettini, an investigator with the Florence police department, has her own demons. A beautiful woman, Serafina carefully hides her scars along with her haunting memories of the war. But when she is assigned to a gruesome new case, a serial killer targeting the Rosatis, murdering the remnants of the family one-by-one in cold blood, Serafina finds herself digging into a past that involves both the victims and her own tragic history.
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The Curiosity
Stephen Kiernan
William Morrow & Company
Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. As a scientist in a groundbreaking project run by the egocentric and paranoid Erastus Carthage, Kate has brought small creatures--plankton, krill, shrimp--back to life for short periods of time. But the team's methods have never been attempted on larger life-forms. Heedless of the potential consequences, Carthage orders that the frozen man be brought back to the lab in Boston and reanimated. The endeavor is named "The Lazarus Project." As the man begins to regain his memories, the team learns that he was--is--a judge, Jeremiah Rice, and the last thing he remembers is falling overboard into the Arctic Ocean in 1906. When news of the project and Jeremiah Rice breaks, it ignites a media firestorm and protests by religious fundamentalists. Thrown together by fate, Kate and Jeremiah grow closer. But the clock is ticking and Jeremiah's new life is slipping away. With Carthage planning to exploit Jeremiah while he can, Kate must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the man she has come to love.
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Freud's Mistress
Karen Mack, Jennifer Kaufman
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
It is fin-de-si�cle Vienna and Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady's companion with a sharp, wry wit, is abruptly fired, yet again, from her position. She finds herself out on the street and out of options. In 1895, the city may be aswirl with avant-garde artists and revolutionary ideas, yet a woman's only hope for security is still marriage. But Minna is unwilling to settle. Out of desperation, she turns to her sister, Martha, for help. Martha has her own problems-six young children and an absent, disinterested husband who happens to be Sigmund Freud. At this time, Freud is a struggling professor, all but shunned by his peers and under attack for his theories, most of which center around sexual impulses. And while Martha is shocked and repulsed by her husband's "pornographic" work, Minna is fascinated. Minna is everything Martha is not-intellectually curious, engaging, and passionate. She and Freud embark on what is at first simply an intellectual courtship, yet something deeper is brewing beneath the surface, something Minna cannot escape.
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Hidden Order
Brad Thor
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
The most secretive organization in America operates without any accountability to the American people. Hiding in the shadows, pretending to be part of the United States government, its power is beyond measure. Control of this organization has just been lost and the future of the nation thrust into peril. When the five candidates being considered to head this mysterious agency suddenly go missing, covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is summoned to Washington and set loose on the most dangerous chase ever to playout on American soil. But as the candidates begin turning up murdered, the chase becomes an all-too-public spectacle, with every indicator suggesting that the plot has its roots in a shadowy American cabal founded in the 1700s. With the United States on the verge of collapse, Harvath must untangle a web of conspiracy centuries in the making and head off the greatest threat America has ever seen.
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Big Girl Panties
Stephanie Evanovich
William Morrow
Holly didn't expect to be a widow at thirty-two. She also didn't expect to be so big. After her husband's death, food was the one thing she could always count on. Now, those extra pounds make flying coach feel like medieval torture--especially when she's squished next to Logan Montgomery. A personal trainer to famous pro athletes, her seatmate is so hot that he makes Holly sweat in all the right (and so embarrassingly wrong ) places. Though Holly doesn't make the grade on Logan's first-impression meter, he finds himself intrigued by her sharp wit and keen insights--a welcome change from the high-maintenance models he dates--so he impulsively offers to get her back in shape. A little skeptical but ready to make at least one positive change in her life, Holly agrees. To Logan's (and her own) surprise, Holly turns out to be a natural in the gym, slimming down into a bona fide looker with killer curves--and a new kind of hunger. Before either of them can stop it, the easy intimacy of their training sessions leads to even more steamy workouts away from the gym. Logan's best friends, professional baseball player Chase Walker and his wife, Amanda, see that this is more than a fling, even if Logan and Holly don't. But can a man whose whole life depends on looks commit himself to a woman who doesn't fit his ideal? Now that Holly's turning other men's heads, does she even need Logan anymore? Are they a couple built to last or destined to fizzle?
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Fin & Lady
Cathleen Schine
Sarah Crichton Books
It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady-giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free-is as much his responsibility as he is hers. So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the '60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War-Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.
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The Last Word: A Spellman Novel
Lisa Lutz
Simon and Schuster
The sixth installment of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Edgar- and Macavity-nominated and Alex Award-winning series by Lisa Lutz, finds our intrepid heroine of the series, Isabel Spellman, PI, at a crossroads. Izzy is used to being followed, extorted, and questioned-all occupational hazards of working at her family's firm, Spellman Investigations. Her little sister, Rae, once tailed Izzy for weeks on end to discover the identity of Izzy's boyfriend. Her mother, Olivia, once blackmailed Izzy with photo�graphic evidence of Prom Night 1994. It seemed that Spellman vigilance would dis�sipate after Izzy was fired for breaching client confidentiality, but then Izzy avenged her dismissal by staging a hostile takeover of the company. She should have known better than to think she could put such she�nanigans behind her. In The Last Word, Izzy's troubles are just beginning. After her takeover of Spellman Investigations, her employees are the fur�thest thing from collegial...and Izzy finds herself struggling to pay the bills. But when she is accused of embezzling from a former client, the ridiculously wealthy Mr. Slayter, the stakes become immense. If Izzy gets indicted, she could lose her PI license and the Spellman family's livelihood, not to mention her own freedom. Is this the end of Izzy Spellman, PI?
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Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
Kate Christensen
Doubleday
"To taste fully is to live fully." For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and world-"a subterranean conduit to sensuality, memory, desire." Her appetites run deep; in her own words, she spent much of her life as "a hungry, lonely, wild animal looking for happiness and stability." Now, having found them at last, in this passionate feast of a memoir she reflects upon her journey of innocence lost and wisdom gained, mistakes made and lessons learned, and hearts broken and mended. In the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher, Laurie Colwin, and Ruth Reichl, Blue Plate Special is a narrative in which food-eating it, cooking it, reflecting on it-becomes the vehicle for unpacking a life. Christensen explores her history of hunger-not just for food but for love and confidence and a sense of belonging-with a profound honesty, starting with her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a mercurial legal activist who ruled the house with his fists. After a whirlwind adolescent awakening, Christensen strikes out to chart her own destiny within the literary world and the world of men, both equally alluring and dangerous. Food of all kinds, from Ho Hos to haute cuisine, remains an evocative constant throughout, not just as sustenance but as a realm of experience unto itself, always reflective of what is going on in her life. She unearths memories-sometimes joyful, sometimes painful-of the love between mother and daughter, sister and sister, and husband and wife, and of the times when the bonds of love were broken. Food sustains her as she endures the pain of these ruptures and fuels her determination not to settle for anything less than the love and contentment for which she's always yearned.
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Still Star-Crossed
Melinda Taub
Delacorte Press
Romeo and Juliet are gone. Will love live on? Despite the glooming peace that's settled on Verona after the recent tragedy, Montagues and Capulets are brawling in the streets. Faced with more bloody battles, Prince Escalus concludes that the only way to truly marry the fortunes of these two families is to literally marry them together. Everyone is skeptical, but none more so than the pair selected, for the most eligible Montague bachelor is Benvolio, Romeo's best friend, still anguished by the loss of his companions, and the chosen Capulet maid is Juliet's older cousin Rosaline, the girl Romeo first loved and whose refusal of Romeo's affection paved the way for bloodshed. Contrary to their late cousins, there's no love lost between Benvolio and Rosaline, yet they forge a bond to end the renewed feud not only to escape their forced betrothal, but to save their lives and the city of Verona itself.
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Falcon in the Glass
Susan Fletcher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
In Venice in 1487, the secrets of glassblowing are guarded jealously. Renzo, a twelve-year-old laborer in a glassworks, has just a few months to prepare for a test of his abilities, and no one to teach him. If he passes, he will qualify as a skilled glassblower. If he fails, he will be expelled from the glassworks. Becoming a glassblower is his murdered father s dying wish for him, and the means of supporting his mother and sister. But Renzo desperately needs another pair of hands to help him turn the glass as he practices at night. One night he is disturbed by a bird a small falcon that seems to belong to a girl hiding in the glassworks. Soon Renzo learns about her and others like her the bird people, who can communicate with birds and are condemned as witches. He tries to get her to help him and discovers that she comes with baggage: ten hungry bird-kenning children who desperately need his aid. Caught between devotion to his family and his art and protecting a group of outcast children, Renzo struggles for a solution that will keep everyone safe in this atmospheric adventure.
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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. 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. Get directions to Rainy Day Books and our Event venues by clicking here. 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, Roger, and all of your friends at Rainy Day Books
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