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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
JUST ADDED: Margaret Peterson Haddix
JUST ADDED: Anna Dewdney
JUST ADDED: Robert Sabuda
JUST ADDED: Fierce Reads 2013 featuring Gennifer Albin, Leigh Bardugo, Jessica Brody and Ann Aguirre
JUST ADDED: Jan Brett
JUST ADDED: Loren Long and Jon Agee
Great New Books arrive this Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

 

Jeff Guinn, Tuesday, August 27

 

Daniel Woodrell, Tuesday, September 3

 

Marisha Pessl, Tuesday, September 10

 

Maggie Stiefvater, Tuesday, September 17

 

Mark Lee Gardner, Wednesday, September 18

 

Tracey Garvis Graves, Wednesday, September 18

 

Michael Chabon, Thursday, September 19

 

Kate White, Monday, September 23

 

Margaret Peterson Haddix, Thursday, September 26 

 

Thomas Keneally, Thursday, September 26

 

Bill McKibben, Friday, September 27

 

Anna Dewdney, Tuesday, October 1

 

Terry McMillan, Thursday, October 3

 

Garrison Keillor, Tuesday, October 8

 

Nicholas Sparks, Thursday, October 10

 

Stephen Jimenez, Thursday, October 17

 

Robert Sabuda, Wednesday, October 23

 

Fierce Reads 2013, featuring Gennifer Albin, Leigh Bardugo, Jessica Brody, Ann Aguirre, Tuesday, November 5

 

Jared Diamond,

Wednesday, November 13

 

Pat Conroy, Thursday, November 14

 

Jan Brett, Sunday, November 17

 

Jon Agee and Loren Long, Tuesday, November 19

Volume 649                    August 19, 2013

Greetings! ,

 

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Susannah Cahalan, Author of The New York Times Number 1 Bestselling Memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness gave a most compelling and inspirational interactive presentation to adults and children alike.  Families came from as far away as Omaha, Nebraska to experience our Author Event.  Susannah Cahalan Author Autographed extra Softcovers of Brain on Fire for us to sell and mail globally.  Books make great Gifts that keep on giving and they can be opened again and again. 
 

It is our joy to bring the gift of reading to readers of all ages, so please note our Author Event Calendar additions below, 

 

Vivien & Roger 

JUST ADDED:  Margaret Peterson Haddix will present her Newest Book Risked: The Missing: Book Six 

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Margaret Peterson Haddix, Author of numerous Bestselling Books for middle-grade and teenage readers will present her Newest Middle-Grade Novel Risked: The Missing: Book Six

This Event is Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 4:00 PM at Village Presbyterian Church, Friendship Hall, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208.

 
JUST ADDED:  Anna Dewdney will present her New Book Llama Llama and the Bully Goat

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Anna Dewdney, Author and Illustrator of numerous picture Books for young readers will present her Newest Llama Llama Series Book Llama Llama and the Bully Goat.

 

This Event is Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 4:00 PM at Village Presbyterian Church, Friendship Hall, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208.

 
JUST ADDED:  Robert Sabuda will present his New Pop-Up Book The Little Mermaid

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Robert Sabuda, the world's most inventive and original Pop-Up Book Designer will appear for his New Book The Little Mermaid.

 

This Event is Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

 
JUST ADDED:  FIERCE READS 2013 featuring Gennifer Albin, Leigh Bardugo, Jessica Brody and Ann Aguirre

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Four stars of young adult fiction together on one stage: Fierce Reads 2013!
 
Featuring:
Gennifer Albin, Author of the Bestselling Book Crewel and the upcoming sequel Altered.
 
Leigh Bardugo, Author of the Bestselling Book Shadow and Bone and the New Sequel Siege and Storm.
 
Jessica Brody, Author of the New Book Unremembered.
 
Ann Aguirre, Author of the upcoming Book Horde, the triumphant end of her Bestselling Trilogy that started with Enclave and continued with Outpost.
 

This Event is Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

 
JUST ADDED:  Beloved Bestselling Author & Illustrator Jan Brett will present her New Book Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella

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Beloved Bestselling Author & Illustrator Jan Brett will present her New Book Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella.
 

This Event is Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

 
JUST ADDED:  Two Picture Book Stars, together for the holidays!  Jon Agee and Loren Long will present their Newest Creations Little Santa and An Otis Christmas

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Two of our favorite Picture Book Authors, together for the holidays with New Books!
 
Beloved Author & Illustrator Jon Agee will present his New Book Little Santa.

Beloved Author & Illustrator
Loren Long will present his New Book An Otis Christmas.

This Event is Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 4:00 PM at Village Presbyterian Church, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208.

  

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

Night Film

Night Film

Marisha Pessl

Random House

 

Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics. On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova-a man who hasn't been seen in public for more than thirty years. For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova's dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova's eerie, hypnotic world. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.

 

The Daughters of Mars

The Daughters of Mars

Thomas Keneally

Atria

 

From the acclaimed author of Schindler's List comes the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first on a hospital ship near Gallipoli, then on the Western Front. Yet amid the carnage, the sisters become the friends they never were at home and find them�selves courageous in the face of extreme danger and also the hostility from some on their own side. There is great bravery, humor, and compassion, too, and the inspiring example of the remarkable women they serve alongside. In France, where Naomi nurses in a hospital set up by the eccen�tric Lady Tarlton while Sally works in a casualty clearing station, each meets an exceptional man: the kind of men for whom they might give up some of their newfound independence-if only they all survive. At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars brings World War I vividly to life from an uncommon perspec�tive. Thomas Keneally has written a remarkable novel about suffering and transcendence, despair and triumph, and the simple acts of decency that make us human even in a world gone mad.

 

Tamarack County

Tamarack County

William Kent Krueger

Atria

 

Like many men and women who ve worn a badge for a good part of their lives, Corcoran Liam O Connor was cursed. Twice cursed, in reality. Cursed with memory and cursed with imagination. Tamarack County, Minnesota, the gateway to the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Within its borders lie a million acres of deep forest, a thousand crystal clear lakes, and a few quiet towns. This is the place that, for most of his life, sheriff-turned-private investigator Cork O Connor has called home. As a blizzard swells just days before Christmas, the car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on a rural road. After days without any leads, the search-and-rescue team, assisted by O Connor, has little hope of finding her alive, if at all. Early on, Cork notices small details about the woman s disappearance that tell a disturbing story. And when the beloved pet dog of a friend is found decapitated, he begins to detect a startling pattern of ominous incidents throughout the area. Then Cork s son is nearly killed, and he knows this is no trick of his imagination. Someone is spinning a deadly web in Tamarack County. At the center is a murder more than twenty years old for which an innocent man may have been convicted. Cork remembers the case only too well. He was the deputy in charge of the investigation that sent the man to prison. As the threat of violence continues, so does life in the O Connor household. Anne, Cork s younger daughter, comes home, having determined that she s going to leave her religious order. Teenaged Stephen is in love for the first time, and Cork is being courted as well, even as he struggles to redefine life without his wife, killed several years ago. What they all discover is that love, too, can be a curse. It can cause the greatest euphoria and the most profound despair. It can inspire forgiveness and understanding, passion and desire. It can provoke jealousy and rage. It can bring on betrayal and even murder. With the darkest days of the year at hand, the storms of winter continue to isolate Tamarack County. Somewhere behind the blind of all the darkness and drifting snow, a vengeful force is at work, and Cork has only hours to stop it before his family and his friends will be forced to pay the ultimate price for the sins of others.

 

A Fatal Likeness

A Fatal Likeness

Lynn Shepherd

Delacorte Press

 

When his great-uncle, the master detective who schooled him in the science of "thief taking," is mysteriously stricken, Charles Maddox fears that the old man's breakdown may be directly related to the latest case he's been asked to undertake. Summoned to the home of a stuffy nobleman and his imperious wife, Charles finds his investigative services have been engaged by no less than the son of celebrated poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his famed widow, Mary, author of the gothic classic Frankenstein. Approached by a stranger offering to sell a cache of rare papers allegedly belonging to the legendary late poet, the Shelley family seeks Maddox's aid in discovering whether the precious documents are authentic or merely the work of an opportunistic charlatan. But the true identity of his quarry is only the first of many surprises lying in wait for the detective. Hardly a conniving criminal, Claire Clairmont is in fact the stepsister of Mary Shelley, and their tortured history of jealousy, obsession, and dark deceit looms large over the affair Maddox must untangle. So, too, does the shadow of the brilliant, eccentric Percy Shelley, who found no rest from the private demons that pursued him. With each new detail unearthed, the investigation grows ever more disturbing. And when shocking evidence of foul play comes to light, Maddox's chilling hunt for the truth leads him into the blackest reaches of the soul.

 

Compound Fractures

Compound Fractures

Stephen White

Dutton Adult

 

For more than twenty years, in nearly a score of bestselling crime novels, New York Times bestselling author Stephen White's stories of Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory have captivated millions of readers. Now Compound Fractures provides a riveting last chapter to the series. In Line of Fire, the tantalizing prelude to this final book, Dr. Gregory found himself assailed by danger from every direction as he struggled with circumstances beyond his control. Authorities were closing in on Alan and his friend Sam Purdy for their role in a woman's death years earlier. Alan was struggling to deal with the emotional collapse of his longtime friend Diane after she discovered evidence of her husband's infidelity. By the end, Alan's personal life and his career were in danger of complete collapse. But Line of Fire merely set the stage. In Compound Fractures, the explosive conclusion to the decades-long saga, Alan is forced to acknowledge that the perils that may bring him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they orchestrated by the nemesis he has long feared. Instead he is confronted by unexpected threats from unanticipated adversaries and by intimate betrayal from those who have been closest to him. He is compelled to reconsider what he has long believed about trust and about love while he is trying to cope with overwhelming loss and grief. To protect himself he must revisit the cruel ethical dilemma that turned his life upside down as a young psychologist. He has to judge whether the people reentering his life after long absences are friends or foes. He has to make sense of echoes of distant tragedies while he decides if there is anyone he can really trust. Mostly, as the clock ticks down, he must solve a deadly mystery in Eldorado Springs that has been brewing for more than a decade. At times full of pathos, at other times replete with White's distinctive wry humor, Compound Fractures delivers the entrancing characters, the suspense, the intricately plotted storylines, and the unexpected twists that readers have come to expect. Compound Fractures promises to be a jaw-dropping and satisfying last act in Stephen's beloved series.

 

The Girl You Left Behind

The Girl You Left Behind

Jojo Moyes

Pamela Dorman Books

 

Jojo Moyes's bestseller, Me Before You, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim and has struck a chord with readers everywhere. "Hopelessly and hopefully romantic" (Chicago Tribune), Moyes returns with another irresistible heartbreaker that asks, "Whatever happened to the girl you left behind?" France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War I, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer's dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything-her family, her reputation, and her life-to see her husband again. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young husband shortly before his sudden death. A chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth, and a battle begins for who its legitimate owner is-putting Liv's belief in what is right to the ultimate test.

 

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The Good Lord Bird

James McBride

Riverhead Hardcover

 

From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's antislavery crusade-and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town-with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry-whom Brown nicknames Little Onion-conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859-one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

 

Sweet Thunder

Sweet Thunder

Ivan Doig

Riverhead Hardcover

 

In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer, who debuted in Doig's bestselling The Whistling Season, promises to be less windfall than money pit. And the town itself, with its polyglot army of miners struggling to extricate themselves from the stranglehold of the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems-like the couple's fast-diminishing finances-on the verge of implosion. These twin dilemmas catapult Morrie into his new career as editorialist for the Thunder, the fledgling union newspaper that dares to play David to Anaconda's Goliath. Amid the clatter of typewriters, the rumble of the printing presses, and a cast of unforgettable characters, Morrie puts his gift for word-slinging to work. As he pursues victory for the miners, he discovers that he is enmeshed in a deeply personal battle as well-the struggle to win lasting love for himself.

 

Art Made from Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed

Art Made from Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed

Laura Heyenga, Brian Dettmer, Alyson Kuhn

Chronicle Books

 

Artists around the world have lately been turning to their bookshelves for more than just a good read, opting to cut, paint, carve, stitch or otherwise transform the printed page into whole new beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. Art Made from Books is the definitive guide to this compelling art form, showcasing groundbreaking work by today's most showstopping practitioners. From Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up landscapes to the stacked-book sculptures of Kylie Stillman, each portfolio celebrates the incredible creative diversity of the medium. A preface by pioneering artist Brian Dettmer and an introduction by design critic Alyson Kuhn round out the collection. Presented in an unusual, tactile package with an exposed spine, this is an essential addition to the libraries of book lovers and art aficionados.

 

The Infinite Moment of Us

The Infinite Moment of Us

Ivan Doig

Amulet Books

 

For as long as she can remember, Wren Gray's goal has been to please her parents. But as high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now not so much. Wren needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesn't even know what they are? Charlie Parker, on the other hand, is painfully aware of his heart's desire. A gentle boy with a troubled past, Charlie has loved Wren since the day he first saw her. But a girl like Wren would never fall for a guy like Charlie--at least not the sort of guy Charlie believes himself to be. And yet certain things are written in the stars. And in the summer after high school, Wren and Charlie's souls will collide. But souls are complicated, as are the bodies that house them. Sexy, romantic, and oh-so-true to life, this is an unforgettable look at first love from one of young adult fiction's greatest writers.

 

Al Capone Does My Homework

Al Capone Does My Homework

Gennifer Choldenko

Dial

 

Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose's dad gets promoted to Associate Warden, despite being an unlikely candidate, it's a big deal. But the cons have a point system for targeting prison employees, and his dad is now in serious danger. After a fire starts in the Flanagan's apartment, Natalie is blamed, and Moose bands with the other kids to track down the possible arsonist. Then Moose gets a cryptic note from the notorious Al Capone himself. Is Capone trying to protect Moose's dad too? If Moose can't figure out what Capone's note means, it may be too late.

 

The Gumazing Gum Girl! Book 1 Chews Your Destiny

The Gumazing Gum Girl! Book 1 Chews Your Destiny

Rhode Montijo

Disney Hyperion

 

Gabby Gomez loves to chew bubble gum even though her mother has warned her against it. It's not like she will turn into gum...except, that's exactly what happens! With her new, stretch-tastic powers Gabby can help save the day, but she will have to keep her gummy alter-ego a secret from her mother or else she'll find herself in a really sticky situation.

 


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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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We look forward to seeing you soon!

 

Vivien Jennings & Roger Doeren  


Vivien, Roger, and all of your friends at Rainy Day Books