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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
American Sniper Fundraiser Advance Screening!
A Preview of our 2015 Author Events Calendar!
Literary Tour to Italy 2015
Great New Reads arrive on our shelves each Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

Watch for Author Events in 2015!
Volume 724                     January 12, 2015

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On Tuesday, January 6th, Lisa Ball of Lisa Ball Travel Design gave our Customers at Rainy Day Books a taste of Italy with her Multimedia PowerPoint Presentation of our upcoming Literary Tour of Italy in Florence, Venice, Tuscany and Rome from June 22 through July 05, 2015.  Our Literary Tour of England in the Summer of 2014 was phenomenal!  We were treated like Royalty! 

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On Friday, January 9th, Leigh Gallagher, Assistant Managing Editor at Fortune Magazine, the Keynote Speaker at the Downtown Council of Kansas City Annual Luncheon at the Kansas City Convention Center, Grand Ballroom, explained how the migration back to the Urban Core and the redevelopment of buildings, markets and transportation systems is good news for the future of Cities all across America.  "Walkablity" is the operative Word and the key to success in the Urban Core.  Leigh Gallagher is the Author of The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving.  Leigh Autographed extra Softcovers of The End of the Suburbs for us to sell in our Bookstore and Website. 

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American Sniper Special Benefit Preview Screening!
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Warner Bros. Pictures is joining forces with The Chris Kyle Frog Foundation on Special Benefit Preview Screenings of American Sniper, Directed by Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle and Sienna Miller as his wife, Taya Kyle.  Based on Chris Kyle's Autobiography, American Sniper, the Book and Movie recount the personal story of the most lethal Sniper in U.S. Military history.

Eight Cities have been chosen to host The Chris Kyle Frog Foundation Special Benefit Preview Screenings of American Sniper on Wednesday, January 14, 2015:  Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Norfolk/Virginia Beach, San Antonio and San Diego.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM, CST
AMC Studio 30
13075 S Strang Line Road
Olathe, Kansas 66062

The Chris Kyle Frog Foundation was launched on Veterans Day 2014, with Taya Kyle presenting the organization's vision of establishing a Nationwide connection of Service Members and First Responder families.

Tickets for the Kansas City Special Benefit Preview Screening can be purchased at http://www.Eventbrite.com/e/american-sniper-movie-benefit-preview-screening-kansas-city-tickets-14933696087

Tickets for these Multi-City Special Benefit Preview Screenings can be purchased at http://www.ChrisKyleFrogFoundation.org/american-sniper/
A Preview of our 2015 Author Events Calendar!

Another Year of great Author Event experiences ahead!
 
We're making updates and upgrades throughout the store and to our Website.  Our 2015 Author Events Calendar is starting to fill up, and we expect to make many announcements in mid-January when our new Website goes live.
 
Watch for more news about:
 
Erik Larson, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts, will return with his new book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
 
Joseph Kanon, The New York Times Bestselling Author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage, will return with his new novel Leaving Berlin.
 
Emily Giffin, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Something Borrowed, will return with her new novel The One & Only.
 
Sara Gruen, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Water for Elephants and Ape House, will return with her new novel At the Water's Edge.
 
Philip Kerr, The New York Times Bestselling Author of the Bernie Gunther Mystery Series, will celebrate the Publication of the 10th Bernie Gunther Novel The Lady from Zagreb.  Philip will travel from his home in London, England for our Special Author Event.
 
Steve Berry, The New York Times Bestselling Author of the Cotton Malone Mystery Series, will celebrate the Publication of the 10th Cotton Malone Novel The Patriot Threat.  Steve will present a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program followed by a Special Author Reception.
 
Elizabeth Berg, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Range of Motion and The Last Time I Saw You, will return with her New Novel The Dream Lover.
 
Laura McBride, The New York Times Bestselling Author of We Are Called To Rise, will appear as the Special Guest Speaker for the 2015 Books & Boutiques Luncheon.
 
Plus many more opportunities for amazing experiences!  Watch our Weekly E-mail Newsletters and look for more details in mid-January on our updated Website!
 
Rainy Day Books & Lisa Ball Travel Design present: Literary Tour to Italy 2015

Rainy Day Books & Lisa Ball Travel Design present:

Literary Tour to Italy: June 22 through July 05, 2015

Travel with Vivien, Roger & Lisa and Discover Authors of the past & present inspired by the spectacular beauty of Italy!
Enjoy magnificent scenery, great art and architecture, gourmet foods & wines and explore ancient and modern Italy!

A Custom Tour encompassing the Best of Italy!

Venice
(4 Nights)

Tuscany Countryside and Florence
(5 Nights)

Rome
(3 Nights)

For a detailed Itinerary and more information about
our Literary Tour of Italy, please contact Lisa Ball.

Lisa Ball Travel Design
Tele/Text:  816-820-4351
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Great New Reads arrive on our shelves each Week!

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Riverhead Hardcover

 

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life-as she sees it-is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

 

Everlasting Lane

Everlasting Lane

Andrew Lovett

Melville House

 

In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett's Everlasting Lane tells the story of what happens when nine-year-old Peter's father dies and his mother moves them from the city to a house in the countryside, for what seem to Peter to be mysterious reasons. He's soon distracted, though, by the difficulties of being the new, shy kid at school, and he befriends the other two kids who seem to be outcasts: overweight Tommie and too-smart-for-her-own-good Anna-Marie. Together they try to weather the storm of bullying teachers and fellow students, by escaping into explorations of the seemingly bucolic countryside. There, though, they find other outcasts from society such as cranky Mr. Merridew, who won't leave his cottage in the woods, and Scarecrow Man, who stands in the fields searching the skies. And meanwhile, Peter is disturbed by the growing awareness that his own mother may be some sort of outcast, too-and that she's hiding something from him in a locked room in the attic, a room she's expressly forbidden him from entering.

 

Saint Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Saint Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Dean Koontz

Bantam

 

Odd Thomas is back where it all started . . . because the time has come to finish it. Since he left his simple life in the small town of Pico Mundo, California, his journey has taken him to places strange and wonderful, mysterious and terrifying. Across the land, in the company of mortals and spirits alike, he has known kindness and cruelty, felt love and loss, saved lives and taken them-as he's borne witness to humanity's greatest good and darkest evil. Again and again, he has gone where he must and done what he had to do-for better or worse-with his courage and devotion sorely tested, and his soul forever changed. Every triumph has been hard won. Each sacrifice has taken its toll. Now, whatever destiny drives him has finally steered his steps home, where those he cares for most surround him, the memory of his tragically lost true love haunts him, and one last challenge-vast and dreadful-awaits him. For Odd Thomas, born to serve a purpose far greater than himself, the wandering is done. Only the reckoning remains.

 

The Last American Vampire

The Last American Vampire

Seth Grahame-Smith

Grand Central Publishing

 

In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Henry's will be an expansive journey that first sends him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Along the way, Henry goes on the road in a Kerouac-influenced trip as Seth Grahame-Smith ingeniously weaves vampire history through Russia's October Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, and the JFK assassination.

 

The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters

The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters

Wes Moore

Spiegel and Grau

 

The Work is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to find his life's purpose. Wes Moore graduated from a difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore to an adult life that would find him at some of the most critical moments in our recent history: as a combat officer in Afghanistan; a White House fellow in a time of wars abroad and disasters at home; and a Wall Street banker during the financial crisis. In this insightful book, Moore shares the lessons he learned from people he met along the way-from the brave Afghan translator who taught him to find his fight, to the resilient young students in Katrina-ravaged Mississippi who showed him the true meaning of grit, to his late grandfather, who taught him to find grace in service. Moore also tells the stories of other twenty-first-century change-makers who've inspired him in his search, from Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND, to Esther Benjamin, a Sri Lankan immigrant who rose to help lead the Peace Corps. What their lives-and his own misadventures and moments of illumination-reveal is that our truest work happens when we serve others, at the intersection between our gifts and our broken world. That's where we find the work that lasts.

 

Publishing: A Writer's Memoir

Publishing: A Writer's Memoir

Gail Godwin

Bloomsbury USA

 

Publishing is a personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1958, Godwin met with Knopf scouts who came to campus every spring in search of new talent. Though her five pages of Windy Peaks were turned down and the novel never completed, she would go on to publish two story collections and fourteen novels, three of which were National Book Award finalists, five of which were New York Times bestsellers. Publishing reflects on the influence of her mother's writing hopes and accomplishments, and recalls Godwin's experiences with teachers Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Coover at the Iowa Writers' Workshop; with John Hawkins, her literary agent for five decades; with John Irving and other luminaries; and with her editors and publishers. Recollecting her long and storied career, Godwin maps the publishing industry over the last fifty years, a time of great upheaval and ingenuity. Her eloquent memoir is illuminated by Frances Halsband's evocative black-and-white line drawings throughout. There have been memoirs about writing and memoirs about being an editor, but there is no other book quite like Publishing for aspiring writers and book lovers everywhere.

 

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

Since November 04, 1975, we have pursued our Legacy of Literacy:  40 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 with their Books

 

Life is Good and it just keeps getting Better, 


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