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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

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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
TUESDAY NIGHT: Amanda Lindhout
JUST ADDED: Jim Gaffigan
JUST ADDED: Nancy Horan
JUST ADDED: Jane Smiley
JUST ADDED: Billy Collins
JUST ADDED: Anna Quindlen
Great Books arrive each Week! Check out what's New!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

 

Rainy Day Books Book Club discussion of The Rosie Project, Monday, July 14

 

Amanda Lindhout, Tuesday, July 15

 

Julie Garwood, Tuesday, July 29

 

Greg Kincaid, Thursday, August 7

 

Rainy Day Books Book Club featuring Rebecca Rotert, Monday, August 11

 

Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Wednesday, August 13

 

Nancy Horan, Thursday, September 25

 

Jane Smiley, Thursday, October 9

 

Billy Collins, Thursday, October 30

 

Jim Gaffigan, Sunday, November 2

 

Anna Quindlen, Tuesday, November 11

Volume 696                           July 14, 2014

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On Sunday, July 27, 2014 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM, the FULL 90 Minute Video Recording of the Interview of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Vivien Jennings about Hillary's #1 Bestselling Hardcover Hard Choices: A Memoir can be viewed on KCPT Public Television 19.1 HD.  The Author Event took place on June 22nd at Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vivien Jennings

 

On Thursday, July 10, Vivien Jennings was In Conversation with Jack Devine, former Head of the CIA Directorate of Operations about his New Book Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story.  Jack answered all of Vivien's intriguing questions as well as those from the audience.  Vivien & Roger extended an open invitation to all Law Enforcement Personnel as their gift to be guests to listen & learn. 

Jack Devine Event 07102014
 

Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland is a Co-Sponsor and a Partner for some of our Major Events and we want you to know that Group Sales & Discounts are Available for The Fab Four and Garrison Keillor as well as other top Acts and Authors.

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TUESDAY NIGHT:  Amanda Lindhout will give a Multimedia Presentation about her powerful true story A House in the Sky: A Memoir 
Amanda Lindhout will give a Multimedia Presentation about her powerful true story A House in the Sky: A Memoir.

As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales.  At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe.  Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan.  In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter.

And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia, "the most dangerous place on earth."  On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.  Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory, every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity, and on strategy, fortitude, and hope.  When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark.  Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is "a searingly unsentimental account.  Ultimately it is compassion for her naive younger self, for her kidnappers that becomes the key to Lindhout's survival." (O, The Oprah Magazine)

 
This Event is Tuesday, July 15, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

JUST ADDED, ADMISSION PACKAGES FOR SALE NOW!:   New York Times Bestselling Author & Comedian Jim Gaffigan will appear In Conversation for his New Book Food: A Love Story 
Jim Gaffigan, NewYork Times Bestselling Author of Dad Is Fat and comedian, returns to Kansas City for a Conversation with Vivien Jennings about Jim's New Book Food: A Love Story.
 
This Event is Sunday, November 2, 2014 at 1:30 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

PLEASE NOTE:  Food will not be served at this Event.  Food is not permitted inside the Unity Temple Sanctuary.  Please do not bring Food to this Event.

JUST ADDED:  New York Times Bestselling Author Nancy Horan will appear for her New Book Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Nancy Horan, New York Times Bestselling Author of Loving Frank will appear for her New Book Under the Wide and Starry Sky.
 
This Event is Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

JUST ADDED:  Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jane Smiley will appear In Conversation for her New Novel Some Luck
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of A Thousand Acres will appear In Conversation for her New Novel Some Luck. 
 
This Event is Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

JUST ADDED:  Poet Billy Collins will appear for his new collection Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
Poet Billy Collins will appear for his New Collection Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems.
 
"America's favorite poet." ~ The Wall Street Journal
 
In the poet's own words, he hopes that his poems "begin in Kansas and end in Oz."
 
This Event is Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

JUST ADDED:  New York Times Bestselling Author Anna Quindlen will appear for her New Novel Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Anna Quindlen, New York Times Bestselling Author of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, A Short Guide to a Happy Life and many other beloved works will appear for her New Novel Still Life with Bread Crumbs.  Co-sponsored by Rainy Day Books and Young Women On The Move.

We're delighted to welcome Anna back for yet another inspiring Event.  Listen to Anna describe her New Book on National Public Radio (NPR).  
 
This Event is Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

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

The Queen of the Tearling

The Queen of the Tearling

Erika Johansen

Harper

 

GEOFFREY SAYS: "READ THIS."

 

An untested young princess must claim her throne, learn to become a queen, and combat a malevolent sorceress in an epic battle between light and darkness in this spectacular debut--the first novel in a trilogy. Young Kelsea Raleigh was raised in hiding after the death of her mother, Queen Elyssa, far from the intrigues of the royal Keep and in the care of two devoted servants who pledged their lives to protect her. Growing up in a cottage deep in the woods, Kelsea knows little of her kingdom's haunted past . . . or that its fate will soon rest in her hands. Long ago, Kelsea's forefathers sailed away from a decaying world to establish a new land free of modern technology. Three hundred years later, this feudal society has divided into three fearful nations who pay duties to a fourth: the powerful Mortmesne, ruled by the cunning Red Queen. Now, on Kelsea's nineteenth birthday, the tattered remnants of the Queen's Guard--loyal soldiers who protect the throne--have appeared to escort the princess on a perilous journey to the capital to ascend to her rightful place as the new Queen of the Tearling. Though born of royal blood and in possession of the Tear sapphire, a jewel of immense power and magic, Kelsea has never felt more uncertain of her ability to rule. But the shocking evil she discovers in the heart of her realm will precipitate an act of immense daring, throwing the entire kingdom into turmoil--and unleashing the Red Queen's vengeance. A cabal of enemies with an array of deadly weapons, from crimson-caped assassins to the darkest blood magic, plots to destroy her. But Kelsea is growing in strength and stealth, her steely resolve earning her loyal allies, including the Queen's Guard, led by the enigmatic Lazarus, and the intriguing outlaw known simply as "the Fetch." Kelsea's quest to save her kingdom and meet her destiny has only just begun. Riddled with mysteries, betrayals, and treacherous battles, Kelsea's journey is a trial by fire that will either forge a legend . . . or destroy her.

 

A Man Called Ove

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

Atria Books

 

In this bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations. A feel-good story in the spirit of "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry "and "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand," Fredrik Backman's novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful and charming exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others.

 

Evergreen: A novel

Evergreen: A novel

Rebecca Rasmussen

Knopf

 

From the celebrated author of The Bird Sisters, a gorgeously rendered and emotionally charged novel that spans generations, telling the story of two siblings, raised apart, attempting to share a life. It is 1938 when Eveline, a young bride, follows her husband into the wilderness of Minnesota. Though their cabin is rundown, they have a river full of fish, a garden out back, and a new baby boy named Hux. But when Emil leaves to take care of his sick father, the unthinkable happens: a stranger arrives, and Eveline becomes pregnant. She gives the child away, and while Hux grows up hunting and fishing in the woods with his parents, his sister, Naamah, is raised an orphan. Years later, haunted by the knowledge of this forsaken girl, Hux decides to find his sister and bring her home to the cabin. But Naamah, even wilder than the wilderness that surrounds them, may make it impossible for Hux to ever tame her, to ever make up for all that she, and they, have lost. Set before a backdrop of vanishing forest, this is a luminous novel of love, regret, and hope.

 

The Catch

The Catch

Taylor Stevens

Crown

 

Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done-often dangerous and not quite legal things. The adrenaline-fueled work has left her with blood on her hands and a soul stained with guilt. Having borne the burden of one death too many, Munroe has fled to Djibouti, Africa. There, where her only responsibility is greasing the wheels of commerce for a small maritime security company, she finds stillness-until her boss pressures her to join his team as an armed transit guard on a ship bound for Kenya. Days into the voyage, Munroe discovers the security contract is merely cover for a gunrunning operation of which she wants no part. The ship is invaded off the Somali coast and in a moment of impulse while fighting her way out, she drags the unconscious captain with her. But nothing about the hijacking is what it seems. The pirates were never after the ship; they'd come for the captain. In chasing him, they make their one mistake: targeting Munroe raises the killer's instinct she's tried so hard to bury. Wounded and on the run, Vanessa Michael Munroe will use the life of her catch as bait and bartering chip to manipulate every player with a stake in the ship's outcome, and find a way to wash her conscience clean.

 

The Book of Life

The Book of Life

Deborah Harkness

Viking Adult

 

The highly anticipated finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Discovery of Witches After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches-with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy's final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.

 

Wayfaring Stranger

Wayfaring Stranger

James Lee Burke

Simon and Schuster

 

In his most ambitious novel, master storyteller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life--connecting a fateful encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the Battle of the Bulge to the merciless frontier justice of the Wild West. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart--a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific--and Roy's wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita's life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon's grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon's plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all.

 

Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Vicki Croke

Random House

 

The remarkable story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world's largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill Billy Williams came to colonial Burma in 1920, fresh from service in World War I, to a job as a "forest man" for a British teak company. Mesmerized by the intelligence, character, and even humor of the great animals who hauled logs through the remote jungles, he became a gifted "elephant wallah." Increasingly skilled at treating their illnesses and injuries, he also championed more humane treatment for them, even establishing an elephant "school" and "hospital." In return, he said, the elephants made him a better man. The friendship of one magnificent tusker in particular, Bandoola, would be revelatory. In Elephant Company, Vicki Constantine Croke chronicles Williams's growing love for elephants as the animals provide him lessons in courage, trust, and gratitude. But Elephant Company is also a tale of war and daring. When Imperial Japanese forces invaded Burma in 1942, Williams joined the elite Force 136, the British dirty tricks department, operating behind enemy lines. His war elephants would carry supplies, build bridges, and transport the sick and elderly over treacherous mountain terrain. Now well versed in the ways of the jungle, an older, wiser Williams even added to his stable by smuggling more elephants out of Japanese-held territory. As the occupying authorities put a price on his head, Williams and his elephants faced his most perilous test. In a Hollywood-worthy climax, Elephant Company, cornered by the enemy, attempted a desperate escape: a risky trek over the mountainous border to India, with a bedraggled group of refugees in tow. Elephant Bill's exploits would earn him top military honors and the praise of famed Field Marshal Sir William Slim. Part biography, part war epic, and part wildlife adventure, Elephant Company is an inspirational narrative that illuminates a little-known chapter in the annals of wartime heroism.

 


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

Since November 04, 1975, we have pursued our Legacy of Literacy:  39 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 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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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!
 

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Life is Good and it just keeps getting Better, 

 

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