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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
THURSDAY NIGHT: Greg Kincaid
NEXT MONDAY NIGHT: Rebecca Rotert
NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Great Books arrive each Week! Check out what's New!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

 

Greg Kincaid, Thursday, August 7

 

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

 

Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Wednesday, August 13

 

Jessie Burton, Tuesday, September 16

 

Matthew Thomas, Tuesday, September 23

 

Nancy Horan, Thursday, September 25

 

Jane Smiley, Thursday, October 9

 

W. Bruce Cameron, Tuesday, October 28

 

Billy Collins, Thursday, October 30

 

Jim Gaffigan, Sunday, November 2

 

Anna Quindlen, Tuesday, November 11

 

Volume 699                    August 4, 2014

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Vivien & Roger returned on Sunday, August 3rd from their 12 Day Literary Tour of England with Lisa Ball of Lisa Ball Travel Design and 15 faithful loyal Customers from Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.  They all had the times of their lives!  Here are some of our travel photos.

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MORE NEWS TO COME!
Read and Forward our Weekly E-mail Newsletters!  Read our Website!  More exciting Author Event announcements are coming soon!  Many of our Author Events are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities!

November 4, 2014 will be the Anniversary of our 40th Year as Independent Booksellers and Author Event Producers.  We are having the times of our lives and we want our faithful loyal Customers to join in our Year long celebration starting then!
THURSDAY NIGHT:  Greg Kincaid, New York Times Bestselling Author and Kansas City native, will celebrate the Publication of his New Book Tantric Coconuts 
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Greg Kincaid, New York Times Bestselling Author of A Dog Named Christmas, will celebrate at a Launch Party the Publication of his New Book Tantric Coconuts.  Greg will Meet & Greet readers and fans, answer questions and Author Autograph Hardcovers of Tantric Coconuts.

Houlihan's in Fairway would like to offer you One Free Appetizer with the Purchase of an Entr�e, before or after our Author Event Launch Party.

This Event is Thursday, August 7, 2014 from 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.

NEXT MONDAY NIGHT:  Rebecca Rotert, Omaha, Nebraska native and Novelist, will join our Book Club Discussion of her Debut Novel Last Night at the Blue Angel 

Rebecca Rotert, Omaha, Nebraska native and Novelist, will join our Book Club Discussion of her Debut Novel Last Night at the Blue Angel.

Rebecca Rotert will participate in a Book Club Discussion about her New Book Last Night at the Blue Angel led by Mary McBride, Book Club Coordinator.  A Booksigning will follow the discussion.  We highly recommend that Patrons Pick-Up and read their Books ahead of time!  Hardcovers of Last Night at the Blue Angel are available for purchase now!
 
This Event is Monday, August 11, 2014 at 6:30 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.

NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT:  Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Author and traveler, will appear for his New Memoir Travels with Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country 

Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Author and traveler, will appear for his New Memoir Travels with Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country.
 
This Event is Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.

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

Painted Horses

Painted Horses

Malcolm Brooks

Grove Press

 

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape, in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her-a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar-the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past. Painted Horses sends a dauntless young woman on a heroic quest, sings a love song to the horseman's vanishing way of life, and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and the future, often make strange bedfellows.

 

Secrets of the Lighthouse

Secrets of the Lighthouse

Santa Montefiore

Simon and Schuster

 

Set in Ireland on the wild coast of Connemara, this hauntingly romantic novel tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of her family's past and ends up discovering her future. Ellen Trawton is running away from it all. She hates her job, she doesn't love the aristocratic man to whom she is engaged, and her relationship with her controlling mother is becoming increasingly strained. So Ellen leaves London, fleeing to the one place she knows her mother won't find her, her aunt's cottage in Connemara. Cutting all her ties with chic London society, Ellen gives in to Ireland's charm and warmth, thinking her future may lie where so much of her past has been hidden. Her imagination is soon captured by the compelling ruins of a lighthouse where, five years earlier, a young mother died in a fire. The ghost of the young wife, Caitlin, haunts the nearby castle, mourning the future she can never have there. Unable to move on, she watches her husband and children, hoping they might see her and feel her love once more. But she doesn't anticipate her husband falling in love again. Can she prevent it? Or can she let go and find a way to freedom and happiness? The ruggedly beautiful Connemara coastline with its tightknit community of unforgettable characters provides the backdrop for this poignant story of two women seeking the peace and love they desperately need. For each, the key will be found in the secrets of the past, illuminated by the lighthouse.

 

The Lost Island: A Gideon Crew Novel

The Lost Island: A Gideon Crew Novel

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Grand Central Publishing

 

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security. Accomplishing the impossible, Gideon steals the parchment--only to learn that hidden beneath the gorgeously illuminated image is a treasure map dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. As they ponder the strange map, they realize that the treasure it leads to is no ordinary fortune. It is something far more precious: an amazing discovery that could perhaps even save Gideon's life. Together with his new partner, Amy, Gideon follows a trail of cryptic clues to an unknown island in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. There, off the hostile and desolate Mosquito Coast, the pair realize the extraordinary treasure they are hunting conceals an even greater shock-a revelation so profound that it may benefit the entire human race . . . if Gideon and Amy can survive.

 

What We See When We Read

What We See When We Read

Peter Mendelsund

Vintage

 

A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading-how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page-a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so-and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved-or reviled-literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature-he considers himself first and foremost as a reader-into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading.

 

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides

Doubleday

 

In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island at the top of the world. National glory would fall to whoever could plant his flag upon its shores. James Gordon Bennett, the eccentric and stupendously wealthy owner of The New York Herald, had recently captured the world's attention by dispatching Stanley to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone. Now he was keen to re-create that sensation on an even more epic scale. So he funded an official U.S. naval expedition to reach the Pole, choosing as its captain a young officer named George Washington De Long, who had gained fame for a rescue operation off the coast of Greenland. De Long led a team of 32 men deep into uncharted Arctic waters, carrying the aspirations of a young country burning to become a world power. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever." The ship sailed into uncharted seas, but soon was trapped in pack ice. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew abandoned the ship. Less than an hour later, the Jeannette sank to the bottom,and the men found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies. Thus began their long march across the endless ice-a frozen hell in the most lonesome corner of the world. Facing everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths, the expedition battled madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival.

 

Reckless: The Racehorse Who Became a Marine Corps Hero

Reckless: The Racehorse Who Became a Marine Corps Hero

Tom Clavin

NAL Hardcover

 

From the racetracks of Seoul to the battlegrounds of the Korean War, Reckless was a horse whose strength, tenacity, and relentless spirit made her a hero amongst a regiment of U.S. Marines fighting for their lives on the front lines. Her Korean name was Ah-Chim-Hai-Flame-of-the-Morning. A four-year-old chestnut-colored Mongolian racehorse with a white blaze down her face and three white stockings, she once amazed the crowds in Seoul with her remarkable speed. But when war shut down the tracks, the star racer was soon sold to an American Marine and trained to carry heavy loads of artillery shells up and down steep hills under a barrage of bullets and bombs. The Marines renamed her Reckless. Reckless soon proved fearless under fire, boldly marching alone through the fiery gauntlet, exposed to explosions and shrapnel. For months, her drive and determination kept the Marines' guns blazing, while inspiring them with her singular charm. During one day of battle alone, she made fifty-one trips up and down a crucial hill, covering at least thirty-five miles in the heat of combat. On some of her uphill treks, Reckless shielded human reinforcements. The Chinese, soon discovering the unique bravery of this magnificent animal, made a special effort to kill her. But Reckless never slowed. As months passed and the enemy grew bolder, the men came to appreciate her not just as a horse but as a weapon, and eventually, as a fellow Marine.

 


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.
 
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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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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