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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
A Season to Remember!
Great New Books arrive each Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

 

Jessie Burton, Tuesday, September 16

 

Kathy Wakile, Wednesday, September 17

 

Matthew Thomas, Tuesday, September 23

 

Nancy Horan, Thursday, September 25

 

Jane Smiley, Thursday, October 9

 

Gary Shteyngart, Wednesday, October 15

 

Jackson Galaxy, Friday, October 17

 

Cary Elwes, Sunday, October 19

 

Sandra Dallas, Wednesday, October 22

 

W. Bruce Cameron, Tuesday, October 28

 

Billy Collins, Thursday, October 30

 

Jim Gaffigan, Sunday, November 2

 

Anna Quindlen, Tuesday, November 11

 

Colonel Chris Hadfield, Tuesday, November 11

 

John Cleese, Wednesday, November 12

 

Anne Lamott, Wednesday, November 19

 

Volume 703               September 1, 2014

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We will enjoy some well earned and much needed rest and relaxation with our families and friends this Happy Labor Day Holiday! 

 

Happy Labor Day!

We will Reopen for Business Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 2nd, at 10:00 AM, CDT.

Our Website www.RainyDayBooks.com is OPEN 24/365.
 
We hope you have a safe and relaxing Happy Labor Day Holiday as well!  We look forward to sharing stories about great Holiday Reads!
 
Making Time to Read is a joy worth sharing,
 
Vivien & Roger
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Special Advance Screening of "The Drop"
Rated:  R

Monday, September 08, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Glenwood Arts Theatre
9575 Metcalf Avenue
Overland Park, Kansas 66212
913-642-4404
 
Rainy Day Books Customers can receive a Limited Number of 25 Advance Screening Passes for Sets of 2 People!


Please keep in mind the Special Advance Screening will be overbooked to ensure a full house.  Please arrive early.
 

The Drop
OPENS to the Public on Friday, September 12, 2014.

Synopsis:

The Drop is a new crime drama from Micha�l R. Roskam, the Academy Award-Nominated Director of Bullhead.  Based on a Screenplay from Bestselling Author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, and Gone Baby Gone), The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters "money drops" in the underworld of Brooklyn bars.  Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), Bob finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living, no matter the cost.

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A SEASON TO REMEMBER, CELEBRATE WITH US

On November 04, 2014, we will begin of our 40th Year as Independent Booksellers and Author Event Producers.  We are having the time of our lives and we want our faithful loyal Customers to join in our year long celebration!
AUTHOR EVENTS CALENDAR PREVIEW


We've built an Author Events Calendar filled with exciting and unique opportunities to hear Authors across the spectrum.

  

Great Fiction:

  

Jessie Burton, currently a Bestselling Author in the UK, her Debut Novel The Miniaturist will arrive on shelves in the US this Week.  Read more about the international appeal of Jessie Burton in The Wall Street Journal.

  

  

Matthew Thomas, his Debut Novel We Are Not Ourselves is an Independent Bookseller's IndieNext Top Pick for September, has already received rave reviews in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and is the powerful centerpiece of this article in The New Yorker.  NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!  Congratulations Matthew!

  

  

Nancy Horan, Bestselling Author of Loving Frank, will return with her New Book Under the Wide and Starry Sky, "a Novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance." ~ The New York Times

  

  

Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of A Thousand Acres and Bestselling Author of Moo, will return with her New Novel Some Luck, the first Novel in a Trilogy about an Iowa farm family.

  

  

Sandra Dallas, Bestselling Author of Tallgrass and The Persian Pickle Club, will return with her New Holiday Novel A Quilt for Christmas, a Civil War-Era Novel set in Kansas.

  

  

W. Bruce Cameron Author EventBruce Cameron, Bestselling Author of A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Journey, will return with his New Novel The Midnight Plan of The Repo Man, a story Nelson Demille calls "suspenseful, action-packed, romantic, and above all, truly funny. I loved it!"

  

  

Anna Quindlen, Bestselling Author of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake and Rise and Shine, will return with her New Novel Still Life with Bread Crumbs.  The New York Times calls this Book a "marvelous romantic comedy of errors."

  

 

Amazing Life Stories:

 

Gary Shteyngart, Bestselling Author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, reveals his life in Little Failure: A Memoir.  The toughest Book Critic in the World writes: "[A] keenly observed tale of exile, coming-of-age and family love: It's raw, comic and deeply affecting, a testament to Mr. Shteyngart's abilities to write with both self-mocking humor and introspective wisdom, sharp-edged sarcasm and aching-and yes, Chekhovian-tenderness."

~ Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 

  

  

Jackson Galaxy, AKA Cat Daddy, Cat Behaviorist and Animal Planet Star, will return to share tips and tricks for making your home and life more cat-friendly with his new book Catification: Designing a Happy and Stylish Home for Your Cat (and You).  "Mr. Galaxy--shaved head, arms full of tattoos--seems physically at odds with his gentle voice and gentle approach to animals. . . . But though he may be dealing with humans who have been terrorized and even bloodied by their out-of-control pets, he's a model of consistency.  The cats, not the people, are his No. 1 priority." ~ The New York Times 

  

  

Cary Elwes, Actor and iconic Star (yes, Westley himself!) of the beloved motion picture The Princess Bride, reveals behind-the-scenes stories and laughs in As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride. Celebrate 25 years of this amazing comedy classic with this delightful and charming memoir.

  

  

Colonel Chris Hadfield, one of the world's most seasoned and accomplished Astronauts, he gained worldwide acclaim for his breathtaking photographs and educational videos about life in space.  His online videos, including a zero-gravity version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity", have collectively received more than 50,000,000 views.  Fly around the Earth as he shows us You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station.

  

  

John Cleese, Author, Actor and Star of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, A Fish Called Wanda, and countless more, tells many stories in his new memoir So Anyway...  The legendary Actor travels all the way from the United Kingdom to spend an evening In Conversation and sharing tales of dead parrots, live performances, exciting adventures in the world of film and television, and quite possibly an argument.

  

 

Great Inspiration:

  

Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States, "America's favorite poet" ~ The Wall Street Journal, will read from his first volume of New and Selected Poems in twelve years, Aimless Love.  In the Poet's own words, he hopes that his Poems "begin in Kansas and end in Oz."

  

  

Jim Gaffigan, Stand-up Comedian, Actor, Author, and World-famous Food Critic will sit down for a lively and pointed discussion about his timely new obsession, Food: A Love Story.

  

  

Anne Lamott, Bestselling Author and Essayist, known for her powerful Prose and keen insight into the human condition, appears just before the Holidays to remind us all of the importance of Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace.


Great New Books arrive on our shelves each Week!

Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel

Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

Delacorte Press

 

You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher-and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA. Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott-an American marksman gone bad-is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he's out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G-8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin. If anyone can stop Kott, it's the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he'd rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they're facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses-and no backup if they're caught. All the while Reacher can't stop thinking about the woman he once failed to save. But he won't let that that happen again. Not this time. Not Nice.

 

The Secret Place

The Secret Place

Tana French

Viking Adult

 

The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption saysI KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad-and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why. But everything they discover leads them back to Holly's close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival clique-and to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen's links to the Mackey family. St. Kilda's will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Holly's father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined.

 

The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell

Random House

 

Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics-and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves-even the ones who are not yet born. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list-all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.

 

Murder 101

Murder 101

Faye Kellerman

William Morrow

 

As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now, he and his devoted wife Rena Lazarus are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children and their foster son. But working for the Greenbury Police department isn't as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed and frustrated by his new partner, Tyler McAdams, a former Harvard student and young buck with a bad 'tude. Just when he thinks he's made a mistake, Decker is called to his first real crime here--a possible break-in at the local cemetery. At first, it seems like a false alarm until it's discovered that a mausoleum's stunning Tiffany panels have been replaced by forgeries. Then, a coed at one of the exclusive local colleges is brutally murdered. Poking into the hallowed halls of academia to find a killer, Decker and McAdams are drawn deep into a web of dark secrets, cold case crimes, international intrigue, and ruthless people who kill for sport. Suddenly, the job is anything but boring. This case just might be too much to handle and Decker will have to draw on every ounce of experience that he has garnered in the past thirty years as a Homicide cop. And then again, even that might not be enough.

 

The Gray Man

The Gray Man

Mark Greaney

Berkley Trade

 

Courtland Gentry is a good man. But he's a great assassin. To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive...

 

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend

Bob Drury, Tom Clavin

Simon and Schuster

 

An acclaimed "New York Times "bestseller, selected by "Salon" as a best book of the year, the astonishing untold story of the life and times of Sioux warrior Red Cloud: "a page-turner with remarkable immediacy...and the narrative sweep of a great Western" ("The Boston Globe"). Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to the rediscovery of a lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the nineteenth century's most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told. In "The Heart of Everything That Is," Bob Drury and Tom Clavin restore Red Cloud to his rightful place in American history in a sweeping and dramatic narrative based on years of primary research. As they trace the events leading to Red Cloud's War, they provide intimate portraits of the many lives Red Cloud touched--mountain men such as Jim Bridger; US generals like William Tecumseh Sherman, who were charged with annihilating the Sioux; fearless explorers, such as the dashing John Bozeman; and the memorable warriors whom Red Cloud groomed, like the legendary Crazy Horse. And at the center of the story is Red Cloud, fighting for the very existence of the Indian way of life.

 

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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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!

 

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Life is Good and it just keeps getting Better, 

 

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