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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
Special PreSale for Malcolm Gladwell!
Just Added: Nick Offerman!
Just Added: Joe Posnanski!
NEXT MONDAY: Joshua Ferris
Great New Reads arrive on our shelves each Week!
Literary Tour to Italy 2015
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

Joshua Ferris, Monday, March 16

Erik Larson, Thursday, March 26

Emily Giffin, Tuesday, March 31

Joseph Kanon, Tuesday, March 31

Scott Martelle, Wednesday, April 1

Sara Gruen, Thursday, April 9

Philip Kerr, Sunday, April 12

Malcolm Gladwell, Wednesday, April 15

Elizabeth Berg, Thursday, April 23

Jan-Philipp Sendker, Tuesday, May 5

Peter Slevin, Thursday, May 6

Jen Lancaster, Wednesday, May 13

Nick Offerman, Thursday, June 4

Joe Posnanski, Thursday, June 11

Annie Barrows, Wednesday, June 17
Volume 732                             March 09, 2015

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Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 10, 2015, we will send out an E-mail Newsletter Announcement of an upcoming Major Author Event! 

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Read our Weekly Author Events Newsletters!  We work smart & hard to create exciting and unique opportunities as we celebrate 40 Years of bringing Author, Books and Customers together for memorable experiences!
Special PreSale for Malcolm Gladwell!
Special PreSale begins Monday, March 09, 2015.  Order Tickets NOW through Kauffman Center Box Office.  Tickets will go on Sale to the general public on Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

 
 
 
Rainy Day Books and Ink's Middle of the Map Fest Forum invite you to an evening with Malcolm Gladwell, whose Books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers have become cultural touchstones, their ideas reshaping how millions understand the world. 
 
The evening will celebrate the Softcover (Paperback) Publication of David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, as Malcolm turns his attention to the surprising truth about what happens when ordinary people confront giants that include powerful opponents of all kinds-from armies and mighty warriors to disability, misfortune and oppression. 
 
This Event is Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 7:00 PM at Kauffman Center for The Performing Arts, Helzberg Hall, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri 64108.
 
JUST ADDED:  Nick Offerman!

 
Nick Offerman, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Paddle Your Own Canoe will appear In Conversation about his New Book Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers.
 
The star of NBC's Parks and Recreation will share his wisdom and wit.  There may be music.
 
This Event is Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
 
JUST ADDED:  Joe Posnanski!

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Joe Posnanski, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Paterno, will discuss his New Book The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. 
 
Loosely focused on the period from the "Duel in the Sun" at Turnberry in 1977 to Watson's near-miraculous victory at Turnberry as he approached sixty, and informed by extensive interviews with both players over many years, The Secret of Golf is Joe Posnanski's intimate account of the most remarkable rivalry and (eventual) friendship in modern golf.
 
This Event is Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
 
COMING NEXT MONDAY:  Joshua Ferris!

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Joshua Ferris, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Then We Came to the End, will discuss his new novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. 
 
"Gut-bustingly funny... its wit is so sharp, its fake-biblical texts ... so clever and its reach so big ... It's an eminently worthy nominee for the Booker Prize or any other... a major achievement." -
Janet Maslin, New York Times
 
"To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is beautifully written. It's also funny, thought-provoking, and touching. One hesitates to call it the "Catch-22" of dentistry, but it's sort of in that ballpark. Some books simply carry you along on the strength and energy of the author's invention and unique view of the world. This is one of those books." - Stephen King 
 
This Event is NEXT Monday, March 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops.
 
Great New Reads arrive on our shelves each Week!

World Gone by

World Gone By

Dennis Lehane

William Morrow

 

Late spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe Coughlin now works as a consigliere to the infamous Bartolo Crime Family, effortlessly handling its interests in Tampa, Boston, and Cuba. In the decade since he lost his wife in a cascade of bullets, Joe has made a home for himself and his son, and once again forged everything out of nothing: money, power, a relationship with a beautiful woman, and a privileged place in Tampa's shadowy underworld. But a rumor surfaces that someone wants Joe dead. And he has only days to figure out who, or he will die. And then there's the ghost--a young boy who appears on the fringes of Joe's vision and seems to be trying to tell him something. Racing against time and fate, Joe hurtles through a violent yet intoxicating world on the brink of total collapse or epic triumph, a world on the cusp of reinvention and rebirth--where the old codes, the old sins, and the old dreams may soon be swept away once and for all.

 

Soil

Soil

Jamie Kornegay

Simon and Schuster

 

A darkly comic debut novel by an independent bookseller about an idealistic young farmer who moves his family to a Mississippi flood basin, suffers financial ruin--and becomes increasingly paranoid he's being framed for murder. It all began with a simple dream. An ambitious young environmental scientist hoped to establish a sustainable farm on a small patch of river-bottom land nestled among the Mississippi hills. Jay Mize convinced his wife Sandy to move their six-year-old son away from town and to a rich and lush parcel where Jacob could run free and Jay could pursue the dream of a new and progressive agriculture for the twenty-first century. He did not know that within a year he'd be ruined, that flood and pestilence would invade his fledgling farm or that his wife and son would leave him to pick up the pieces by himself. When Jay Mize discovers a corpse on his property, he is sure his bad luck has come to a head and he is being framed. Were Jay in his right mind, he might have reported the body to the police at the very same moment they were searching for a missing tourist from Ohio. He might have not dragged the body back to his farm under the cover of night and spent hours disposing of it. But Jay Mize is not in his right mind. His mounting paranoia is accelerated by a hot-rod local deputy, nosing around with questions about the missing tourist and making dark comments about Jay's estranged wife Sandy. It's enough to make an honest man a maniac.

 

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson

Crown Publishing Group

 

On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the "Lusitania" was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds"--the fastest liner then in service--and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of "Unterseeboot"-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the "Lusitania" made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.

 

The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

William Debuys

Little Brown and Company

 

In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola in the wild before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos. The team endured a punishing trek, up and down whitewater rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, THE LAST UNICORN is deBuys's look deep into one of the world's most remote places. As in the pursuit of the unicorn, the journey ultimately becomes a quest for the essence of wildness in nature, and an encounter with beauty.

 

17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History

17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History

Andrew Morton

Grand Central Publishing

 

Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the duke's relations with Hitler. From the alleged affair between Simpson and the German foreign minister to the discovery of top secret correspondence about the man dubbed "the traitor king" and the Nazi high command, this is a saga of intrigue, betrayal, and deception suffused with a heady aroma of sex and suspicion. For the first time, Morton reveals the full story behind the cover-up of those damning letters and diagrams: the daring heist ordered by King George VI, the smooth duplicity of a Soviet spy as well as the bitter rows and recriminations among the British and American diplomats, politicians, and academics. Drawing on FBI documents, exclusive pictures, and material from the German, Russian, and British royal archives, as well as the personal correspondence of Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Windsors themselves, 17 CARNATIONS is a dazzling historical drama, full of adventure, intrigue, and startling revelations, written by a master of the genre.

 

What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

Kim Cross

Atria Books

 

April 27, 2011, marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through twenty-one states in three days, seven hours, and eighteen minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history, which saw 348 people killed, entire neighborhoods erased, and $11 billion in damage. The biggest of the tornadoes left scars across the land so wide they could be seen from space. But from the terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes, neighbors and strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth. With powerful emotion and gripping detail, Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters--including three college students, a celebrity weatherman, and a team of hard-hit rescuers--to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America. No, it's not Oklahoma or Kansas; it's Alabama, where there are more tornado fatalities than anywhere in the US, where the trees and hills obscure the storms until they're bearing down upon you. For some, it's a story of survival, and for others it's the story of their last hours.

 

House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

Michael Gross

Atria Books

 

In this "stunning" (CNN) and "deliciously detailed" ("Booklist," starred review) "New York Times "bestseller, journalist Michael Gross turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that's sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with hilarious social comedy, Gross "takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust" (Sam Roberts, "The New York Times)," which" "includes Denzel Washington, Sting, Norman Lear, top executives, and Russian and Chinese oligarchs, to name a few. And he recounts the legendary building's inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially declasse Manhattan neighborhood. More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York's rich and famous--and is a bellwether of the city's changing social and financial landscape.

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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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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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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Roger & Vivien at Home with their Books

 

Life is Good and it just keeps getting Better, 

 

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