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This past Week Vivien Jennings gave her Holiday Reading Recommendations to several Book Clubs that met at Rainy Day Books.  Vivien gives in-depth reviews of each of the Books that she wholeheartedly Recommends.

 

David Von Drehle, Bestselling Author of Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year, was the Special Guest Speaker at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association 129th Annual Awards Luncheon at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, Count Basie Ballroom for a SOLD OUT crowd of 1,000+ Attorneys, Judges, Justices and Legislators.

 

Vivien read Christmas Books at the Breakfast with Santa and Gingerbread Lane® at The Crestwood Shops to Benefit the Children's Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI).   

 

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Join Rainy Day Books on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM for a Special Advance Screening of:

 

Text POPPINS and your ZIP Code to 43KIX (43549) for a chance to Win Advance Screening Passes to see Disney's Saving Mr. Banks on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM.
 
There is no charge to Text 43KIX (43549).  Message and Data Rates from your Wireless Carrier may apply.
 
5 Winners will be chosen.  The Winner Draw Date will be Tuesday, December 10, 2013.  (Deadline to Enter is Tonight, 12:00 AM, Midnight, Monday, December 09, 2013)

 

The Winners will receive a Text Message providing them with their Mobile Pass, Location and Instructions. 

Synopsis:  Two-time Academy Award®-Winner Emma Thompson and fellow double Oscar®-Winner Tom Hanks topline Disney's Saving Mr. Banks, inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney's classic Movie Mary Poppins made it to the screen.

 
When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a Movie of their favorite Book, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins, he made them a promise-one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep.  In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising Author who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical Nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine.  But, as the Books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation.
 
For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops.  Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly Author doesn't budge.  He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.
 
It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing Movies in Cinematic History.
 
Disney presents Saving Mr. Banks, Directed by John Lee Hancock, Produced by Alison Owen, Ian Collie and Philip Steuer, and Written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith.  Executive Producers are Paul Trijbits, Christine Langan, Andrew Mason and Troy Lum.

 

This Movie will OPEN in Select U.S. Theaters on December 13, 2013, and OPEN Everywhere on December 20, 2013.

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We applaud when Great Movies are made about Great Books,