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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
Wednesday Night: Alex Grecian and Will Thomas
Sunday Afternoon: Jim Butcher
SPECIAL EVENT: Dr. Maya Angelou at Kauffman Center
Join Lisa Ball, Vivien & Roger on a Magical Literary Tour of England this Summer!
Great Books arrive each Week! Check out what's New!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

Alex Grecian and Will Thomas, Wednesday, May 28

 

Jim Butcher, Sunday, June 01

 

Rachel Renee Russell, Friday, June 6

 

Rainy Day Books Book Club discussion of Fin and Lady, Monday, June 9

 

Jeff Shaara, Tuesday, June 17

 

Graeme Simsion, Thursday, June 19

 

Lisa See, Wednesday, June 25

 

Damien Echols and Lorri Davis, Tuesday, July 1

Volume 689                          May 26, 2014

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Rainy Day Books will honor Memorial Day with our Families & Friends and we will be away from our Bookstore Today, Monday, May 26.  Rainy Day Books will be OPEN again Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 27 at 10:00 AM.  www.RainyDayBooks.com is OPEN 24/7.  We hope you rest and reflect on the pleasures of life as we will.  Memorial Day is for remembering our heroes.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28:  An Evening of Mystery featuring two Bestselling Authors: Alex Grecian, Author of The Devil's Workshop; and Will Thomas, Author of Fatal Enquiry
An Evening of Mystery featuring two Bestselling Authors: Alex Grecian, Author of The Devil's Workshop; and Will Thomas, Author of Fatal Enquiry.
 
Join us as these two Midwestern Writers share their New Books, and the stories behind their craft! 
 
This Event is Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
 
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1:  Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author will celebrate the Publication of his New Book Skin Game: A Novel of The Dresden Files
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Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author will celebrate the Publication of his New Book Skin Game: A Novel of The Dresden Files.
 
Join us for a discussion and Booksigning of the New Harry Dresden adventure!
 
This Event is Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 3:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
 
SPECIAL EVENT:  Dr. Maya Angelou will speak at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, June 10, 2014.  Purchase your Tickets now!
Dr. Maya Angelou
Dr. Maya Angelou will speak at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 7:30 PM.
 
Dr. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature.  Her words have been a source of comfort, encouragement and strength for millions of people around the world.  Dr. Angelou is a poet, playwright, director, actor, best-selling author, social activist, and so much more.  Experience this inspiring evening with a living legend!
 
This Event is Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 7:30 PM at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Muriel Kauffman Theatre, 1601 Broadway Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64108.
 
Rainy Day Books will provide Dr. Maya Angelou's Books for Sale at this Special Event.
 
Order your Tickets by calling 816-994-7222 or Online at www.KauffmanCenter.org
JOIN LISA BALL, VIVIEN & ROGER ON A MAGICAL LITERARY TOUR OF ENGLAND THIS SUMMER! 
 
Rainy Day Books & Lisa Ball Travel Design, LLC 
Partner for a Custom Literary Tour of England! 

"The World is a Book and those who do not Travel 
read only One Page." ~ St. Augustine

Tour Highlights:  An 11-Night Trip showcasing London and the English countryside discovering great English Authors of the past and meeting today's popular Authors in exclusive, intimate Dinner settings!  We'll be Traveling to Oxford, the Cotswolds, Hay-on-Wye, Stonehenge, Salisbury, London, and lots of historic and scenic places in between. 

 

Tour Dates:  Tuesday, July 22, 2014
through Sunday, August 03, 2014

Our Literary Tour Reservations are Filling Up Fast!
Make Your Reservations While There Is Still Time! 

 

Lisa Ball will Answer your Questions at 816-820-4351
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Lisa Ball, Vivien & Roger welcome you on a Literary Adventure of a Lifetime!

 

Vivien Jennings & Roger Doeren

Great Books arrive on our shelves each Tuesday!  Check out what's New!

Funny Once: Stories

Funny Once: Stories

Antonya Nelson

Bloomsbury USA

 

Michael Chabon once said, "I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again." And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son's relationship with a bad-news girlfriend. In the novella "Three Wishes," siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brother's too-early departure from the world. The landscape of this book is the wide open spaces of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Throughout, there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget, to have sex with the wrong people, to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night. These characters are aging, regretting actions both taken and not, inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of America's best short story writers.

 

Sniper's Honor: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel

Sniper's Honor: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel

Stephen Hunter

Simon and Schuster

 

In this tour de force, part historical thriller, part modern adventure--from the New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why WWII's greatest sniper was erased from history...and why her disappearance still matters today. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was once the most hunted woman on earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. But Kathy Reilly of "The" "Washington Post" doesn't know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have vanished from history. Reilly enlists former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to parse out the scarce details of Mili's military service. The more Swagger learns about Mili's last mission, the more he's convinced her disappearance was no accident--but why would the Russian government go to such lengths to erase the existence of one of their own decorated soldiers? And why, when Swagger joins Kathy Reilly on a research trip to the Carpathian Mountains, is someone trying to kill them before they can find out?

 

The One and Only

The One and Only

Emily Giffin

Ballantine Books

 

Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas-a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker's legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea's comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life she's chosen is really enough for her. As she finally gives up her safety net to set out on an unexpected path, Shea discovers unsettling truths about the people and things she has always trusted most-and is forced to confront her deepest desires, fears, and secrets.

 

My Real Children

My Real Children

Jo Walton

Tor Books

 

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War-those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles?

 

Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty

Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty

Daniel Schulman

Grand Central Publishing

 

Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse." Fred's legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons-Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill-who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind in 1967. Against a backdrop of scorched-earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world-bigger than Boeing and Disney-and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet. Influenced by the sentiments of their father, who was present at the birth of the John Birch Society, Charles and David have spent decades trying to remake the American political landscape and mainline their libertarian views into the national bloodstream. They now control a machine that is a center of gravity within the Republican Party. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. To their detractors, they are political "contract killers," as David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's chief strategist, put it during the 2012 campaign. Bill, meanwhile, built a multi-billion dollar energy empire all his own, and earned notoriety as an America's Cup-winning yachtsman, a flamboyant playboy, and as a litigious collector of fine wine and Western memorabilia. Frederick lived an intensely private life as an arts patron, refurbishing a series of historic homes and estates. SONS OF WICHITA traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions. No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of our era, but so little is publicly known about this family, their origins, how they make their money, and how they live their lives. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, relatives, business associates, and many others, SONS OF WICHITA is the first major biography about this wealthy and powerful family-warts and all.

 

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

Geoff Dyer

Pantheon

 

As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of "carrier-world," from the elaborate choreography of the flight deck through miles of walkways and hatches to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the deafening complexity of catapult and arresting gear. Meeting the Captain, the F-18 pilots and the dentists, experiencing everything from a man-overboard alert to the Steel Beach Party, Dyer guides us through the most AIE (acronym intensive environment) imaginable. A lanky Englishman (could he really be both the tallest and the oldest person on the ship?) in a deeply American world, with its constant exhortations to improve, to do better, Dyer brilliantly records the daily life on board the ship, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity, dedication and optimism, become forms of self-expression. In the process it becomes clear why Geoff Dyer has been widely praised as one of the most original-and funniest-voices in literature.

 

Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have

Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have

Bill Geist, Willie Geist

Grand Central Publishing

 

Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of the best-selling American Freak Show--have begun an extended conversation between father and son on areas of mutual interest, agreement, and disagreement. Told in a unique back-and-forth banter style, the hilarious father-son team will laugh together at the shared journey of their relationship. They'll riff on fatherhood, religion, music, sports, summer camp disasters, driving lessons gone horribly wrong, being on TV, and their wonderfully odd family life. The Geists decided to write this book so their children and grandchildren would have a record of their unusual father-son relationship. The book is remarkably funny, as well as poignant and sincere, especially in light of Bill's announcement that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's. With its lighthearted look at the crazy things fathers and sons go through and the unique bond those experiences forge, the book is sure to be a must-have gift for Father's Day.

 

Dog vs. Cat

Dog vs. Cat

Chris Gall

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

 

Dog and Cat do not get along. But when they're forced to share a room, they agree to be on their best behavior...until Dog won't stop sniffing. Cat won't stop primping. Dog won't stop howling. Cat won't stop scratching. And when it comes to the litter-box...sharing is not an option! What will it take to bring Dog and Cat together? Find out in Chris Gall's comic clash that brings out the best (and worst) in two very different pets.

 

 
Thank You for Supporting Your Community Bookseller, Rainy Day Books, Since 1975!

Since November 04, 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 Northwest corner of the intersection of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Belinder Road.  Our address is 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas (KS) 66205.  Our Phone Number is 913-384-3126. 
 
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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 Reading Recommendations and priceless Author Event experiences, all at a fair price.  To our faithful loyal Customers, we say Thank You for your Support!  We look forward to seeing again you soon!
 

We look forward to seeing you soon!

 

Roger & Vivien at Home

 

Life is Good and it just keeps getting Better, 

 

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