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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 to read and rest!
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HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!
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When Vivien Jennings was 10 Years Old and in 4th Grade in Little Rock, Arkansas, she discovered Books in the School Library and empowered her passion for Reading. Her lifelong purpose is to share her Love of Reading with everybody, here, there and everywhere. When she grew up, she founded Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops of Kansas City on November 04, 1975 with encouragement from her family & friends. This Wednesday, November 4th, we will be celebrating the 40th Anniversary of her Dream Come True. Rainy Day Books is the wellspring of her passion & purpose to share her Love of Reading near & far!
Please share your memories, photos and stories with us! Please E-mail your content to us at Mailbox@RainyDayBooks.com Thank You!
We will select some of your submissions and share them in a future extra Special E-mail Newsletter.
________________________________________________________ On Monday, October 26th, Geraldine Brooks was In Conversation with Reverend Robert Lee Hill, AKA as Dr. Bob Hill, Author and Minister Emeritus of Community Christian Church, about Geraldine's New Hardcover The Secret Chord at Unity Temple on The Plaza.On Tuesday, October 27th, Elias Weiss Friedman, AKA The Dogist met with fans for BAR[K]: a Happy Hour for Dogs to benefit Great Plains SPCA, [Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals] at Kansas City Bier Company. That night, the Kansas City Royals were playing in the World Series and diehard The Dogist Fans came to first meet Elias on the way to the game at Kauffman Stadium. On Tuesday, October 27th, Susan Elia MacNeal discussed her New Softcover Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante: A Maggie Hope Mystery, with Vivien Jennings at our Rainy Day Books Mystery Book Club.On Wednesday, October 28th, Karl Marlantes was the Kick-Off Speaker and In Conversation with Steve Kraske at the Pathways to Hope for Moral Injury and Other Invisible Wounds Conference at Community Christian Church on The Plaza. Karl spoke in depth about his 2 Bestselling Books: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, and What It Is Like to Go to War. Dr. H.C. Palmer put his heart & soul into launching this much needed Conference of expression and healing. On Thursday, October 29th, Ree Drummond, AKA The Pioneer Woman was In Conversation with Vivien Jennings about Ree's New Cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinner for a FULL HOUSE SOLD OUT audience of her fans that traveled from all across America to meet Ree and buy Author Autographed Hardcovers of her New Book. The capacity crowd of 1,255 fans lined up around the block to get in. Our good friend, Louise Meyers, Proprietor of Pryde's Kitchen & Necessities provided the Set Decorations and some great Prizes!
On Sunday, November 1st, The Kansas City Royals won the World Series again after 30 Years! Congratulations to their Great Teamwork! This New Softcover will be available soon and will SELL OUT quickly!
________________________________________________________ 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!
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Friday Night:
David Mitchell, Internationally Bestselling Author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, will discuss
Slade House
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David Mitchell, Internationally Bestselling Author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, will discuss his New Novel Slade House.
"Entertainingly eerie . . . Slade House boils down to Mitchell's take on the classic ghost story, complete with his version of a haunted house. . . . The last thing we expected from Mitchell is simplicity, but here it is, burnished to a hellish bronze." ~ Chicago Tribune
"A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson's Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's The Shining, Slade House is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come." ~ San Francisco Chronicle
"Like Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious." ~ The Guardian (U.K.)
"Slade House, the tricky new confection by David Mitchell, is a haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them." ~ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The joy in Slade House is in the discovery. It's in seeing different people make the same mistakes over and over again. . . . It's in thinking that you'd be smarter, of course. That you'd see through all this B-movie schlock (like creepy portraits, sad ghosts and stairways that go nowhere), find the secret door, and escape. Only to find that you're already trapped." ~ NPR
This Event is Friday, November 06, 2015 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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Next Monday Night:
T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize and National Book
Award-winning Author of
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt will discuss
Custer's Trials: A Life on The Frontier of a New America
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From the masterful and Award-Winning Historian, a revealing new look at one of the most controversial figures in Frontier America: George Armstrong Custer.
This Complimentary OPEN HOUSE Event is Monday, November 09, 2015 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
Registration is Required. Visit www.KCLibrary.org to Register or Call the Library at 816-701-3407. Seating is General Admission. Rainy Day Books will have T. J. Stiles Books for Sale at this Event.
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SPECIAL EVENT Next Monday Night:
Eben Alexander, M.D., Author of Proof of Heaven will discuss his Softcover at a Healthy Happy Hour!
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Eben Alexander, M.D., New York Times Bestselling Author will discuss his Softcover Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife. This Healthy Happy Hour is Sponsored by Saint Luke's Health System Cardio Health and Wellness Center, and will feature a discussion with Saint Luke's Preventive Cardiologist James O'Keefe, M.D.; "Your Faith Has Saved You: Surprising Health Benefits from Following Traditional Religious Rules."
Rainy Day Books will have Eben Alexander, M.D.'s Books for Sale at this Author Event.
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Coming Monday, November 23rd:
Jackson Galaxy, AKA Cat Daddy & Animal Planet Star will celebrate his New Softcover
Catify to Satisfy
at a Special Event promoting Cat Adoption and Rescue
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OUR SPECIAL EVENT!
Come learn cat behavioral tips from the Cat Daddy himself, AND learn more about how you can get involved in the cat rescue/foster/adoption community from leading cat advocates in Kansas City. Help us find Shelter Cats forever homes this Holiday Season!
About Purrfect Pets:
Purrfect Pets is a Non-Profit, No-Kill Cat Rescue and Adoption Agency, dedicated to helping orphaned cats and kittens in need throughout the greater Kansas City area. We rescue hundreds of cats each year from shelters and the general public. In July 2015, Purrfect Pets opened a brand new adoption center inside the Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas. This new space features a shopping boutique (all proceeds directly benefit our cats), a kitten room, an adult cat room, and plenty of space where visitors can watch and visit with the cats in a bright, fun and upbeat environment.
About Help Humane:
HELP Humane was incorporated in 1996 and established a foster/rescue/adoption program in our own homes. In 2005, we opened our true No-Kill shelter in a rented facility. In December 2012, we purchased our own building and moved in. We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary with a brick and mortar facility! We specialize in cats and many special needs cats that were turned away. Seniors, diabetic cats, disabled, Feline Leukemia and FIV+ cats but many many highly adoptable cats also. Our shelter is innovative in being free roaming rooms for people to directly interact with the cats for adoption.
KC Pet Project is a 501c3, Non-Profit Charitable Organization operating the Kansas City, Missouri Animal Shelter. As the largest No-Kill Animal Shelter in Kansas City and the 3rd largest open admission, No-Kill Animal Shelter in the United States we care for more than 10,000 animals a year and work collaboratively with Animal Control and other animal welfare organizations to increase the number of homeless pets adopted, and focus on lifesaving programs promoting pet retention, identification, lost pet reunions, and pet ownership education throughout the community. We operate several adoption centers across the metropolitan area, including our Zona Rosa Pet Adoption Center, a Pet Adoption Center in the Petco store at W 95th Street & Quivira Road, and have additional cats and kittens available for adoption in 4 other local Petco stores, including W 75th Street and Metcalf Avenue, Independence, W 136th and Stateline Road, and in Olathe, Kansas. The KC Pet Project is creating a No-Kill Kansas City, we're passionate about lifesaving!
This Event is Monday, November 23, 2015 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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Great New Books arrive on our shelves each Week!
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Atria Books
From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.
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Crown Publishing Group
Gillian Flynn's Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.
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Simon and Schuster
John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what "has" happened, as opposed to what "will, " Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you. Lupe doesn't know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future? As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older most of all, in what we remember and what we dream we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past in Mexico collides with his future.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression fueled by hours spent watching C-SPAN-her obsession with politics a holdover from a childhood interrupted by her father's involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. "I don't know whether to think of him as a coconspirator or a complicit bystander or just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Though the rest of the world has forgotten that scandal, the Atherton family never quite recovered. While living with her father in her childhood home, Helen tries to piece together the political moves that pulled her family apart.
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Grand Central Publishing
Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and writing a novel that used the scant historical record of their relationship as a starting point for a more detailed fictional account. It was a labor of love for Hijuelos, who worked on the project for more than ten years, publishing other novels along the way but always returning to Twain and Stanley; indeed, he was still revising the manuscript the day before his sudden passing in 2013. The resulting novel is a richly woven tapestry of people and events that is unique among the author's works, both in theme and structure. Hijuelos ingeniously blends correspondence, memoir, and third-person omniscience to explore the intersection of these Victorian giants in a long vanished world.
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Little Brown and Company
Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it's a setup. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch takes the case. With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself a target.
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Other Press
An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn t understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers.
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Twelve
Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five bestselling books (What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic), her column in The Wall Street Journal is a must-read for millions of Americans. Witty, incisive and always original, Peggy Noonan is a conservative intellectual with wide reaching appeal across the political spectrum. Now, for the first time, the best of Noonan's writing will be collected in one indispensible volume. With a special, original introduction, she chronicles her career in journalism, the Reagan White House, and the political arena. Annotated and analyzed throughout, Peggy expands a lifetime of wonderful writing into an astute examination of American life.
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Knopf Publishing Group
Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (recently released in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema. Now he offers his most inventive exploration of the medium yet: guiding us through each element of the viewing experience, considering the significance of everything from what we see and hear on-screen actors, shots, cuts, dialogue, music to the specifics of how, where, and with whom we do the viewing. With customary candor and wit, Thomson delivers keen analyses of a range of films from classics such as "Psycho" and "Citizen Kane" to contemporary fare such as "12 Years a Slave" and "All Is Lost, " revealing how to more deeply appreciate both the artistry and (yes) manipulation of film, and how watching movies approaches something like watching life itself.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
B.A. Shapiro will discuss The Muralist on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 7:00 PM!
From B.A. Shapiro, the Author of the New York Times Bestseller The Art Forger comes a thrilling new novel of art, history, love, and politics that traces the life and mysterious disappearance of a brilliant young artist on the eve of World War II. Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and political turmoil. No one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at Christie's auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind recently found works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters, and moving between the past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into the divisiveness of prewar politics and the largely forgotten plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States. It captures both the inner workings of today's New York art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American school of Abstract Expressionism. B.A. Shapiro is a master at telling a gripping story while exploring provocative themes. In Alizée and Danielle she has created two unforgettable women, artists both, who compel us to ask, What happens when luminous talent collides with inexorable historical forces? Does great art have the power to change the world? And to what lengths should a person go to thwart evil?
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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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Store Hours:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM; Saturdays: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM; and Sundays we read, rest and enjoy time with 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!
Life is Good and it just keeps getting Better,
Vivien & Roger and all of your friends at Rainy Day Books
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