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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!

In This Newsletter
SAVE THESE DATES! Our Spring 2016 Author Events Details are Coming Soon!
Alexandra Fuller will discuss Leaving Before The Rains Come
Ian Rankin will discuss the 20th Inspector Rebus Mystery: Even Dogs In The Wild
Literary Tour of Scotland in the Summer of 2016
Autographed Books make unique Gifts!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

Alexandra Fuller, Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Ian Rankin, Tuesday, February 02, 2016
Holiday Hours & Merry Christmas!
Volume 774                      December 21, 2015
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For your Shopping convenience, Rainy Day Books will be OPEN
on Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24th until 5:00 PM!


We offer high quality Complimentary Gift Wrapping Service!

Holiday Wreath

Our Holiday Hours for the Next 2 Weeks:
  • Thursday, December 24, on Christmas Eve, we will wrap up our OPEN Hours at 5:00 PM.
  • Friday, December 25; Saturday, December 26; and Sunday, December 27, we will be at our Homes celebrating a Merry Christmas with our Families & Friends!
  • Monday, December 28, we will be back to normal OPEN Hours.
  • Tuesday, December 29, we will be back to normal OPEN Hours.
  • Wednesday, December 30, we will be back to normal OPEN Hours.
  • Thursday, December 31, on New Year's Eve, we will wrap up our OPEN Hours at 5:00 PM.
  • Friday, January 01, 2016, Happy New Year!  We will be at our Homes celebrating with our Families & Friends!
  • Saturday, January 02, 2016; and Sunday, January 03, 2016, we will be at our Homes celebrating with our Families & Friends!
  • Monday, January 04, 2016, we will be back to normal OPEN Hours.
 We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Vivien, Roger & Our Staff
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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!
Save these Dates!
Upcoming Spring Author Events; details coming soon!
Gretchen Rubin for Better Than Before 12202015
Gretchen Rubin, Bestselling Author of The Happiness Project, will present her New Book Better Than Before.  Tuesday, February 09, 2016.  Special Event for Kansas University Hospital Girls' Night In at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
 

Melanie Benjamin for The Swans of Fifth Avenue 122012015 
Melanie Benjamin, Bestselling Author of The Aviator's Wife, for her New Novel The Swans of Fifth Avenue.  Thursday, February 11, 2016, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Nell Hill's in Briarcliff Village.
 

William Anderson for The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder 12202015 
Wilder biographer Bill Anderson for his New Book The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Wednesday, March 23, 2016.  Location to be announced.
 

Thomas Frank for Listen_ Liberal 12202015 
Thomas Frank, Bestselling Author of What's The Matter With Kansas? for his New Book Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?  Thursday, March 24, 2016.  Location to be announced.
 

Helen Simonson for The Summer Before the War 12202015 
Helen Simonson, Bestselling Author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, for her New Novel The Summer Before the War.  Thursday, April 07, 2016 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza.
 
 
Lesley Stahl for Becoming Grandma 12202015
Lesley Stahl from CBS News 60 Minutes for her New Book Becoming Grandma: The Joys & Science of the New Grandparenting.  Friday, April 29, 2016, Special Event at Books & Boutiques Luncheon.
  

Scott Simon for Unforgettable 12202015
Scott Simon from National Public Radio (NPR), for his New Memoir Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a LifetimeTuesday, May 03, 2016, Special Event for the Center for Practical Bioethics.
 

Richard Russo for Everybody_s Fool 12202015 
Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Empire Falls and Bestselling Author of Nobody's Fool, for his New Novel Everybody's Fool.  Friday, May 17, 2016, 7:00 PM.  Location to be announced.
 
 
Stewart O_Nan for City of Secrets 12202015
Stewart O'Nan, Author of Last Night at the Lobster and West of Sunset, for his New Novel City of Secrets.  Late April/Early May 2016.  Location to be announced.
Alexandra Fuller
will discuss her New Bestselling Softcover Memoir
Leaving Before The Rains Come
Alexadra Fuller for Leaving Before The Rain Comes 12202015

Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Bestselling Author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, will discuss her New Bestselling Softcover Memoir Leaving Before The Rains Come.
 
This Event is Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

Ian Rankin
will discuss the 20th Inspector Rebus mystery 
Even Dogs in the Wild
Ian Rankin for Even Dogs in the Wild 12202015

Ian Rankin, will travel from his home in the United Kingdom to discuss his New Hardcover Even Dogs in the Wild, the 20th installment of the Internationally Bestselling Mystery Series featuring Inspector Rebus.
 
This Event is Tuesday, Febuary 02, 2016 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctaury, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

Literary Tour of Scotland in the Summer of 2016 
Literary Tour of Scotland with Rainy Day Books _ Lisa Ball Travel Design June 19 to July 02_ 2016

Rainy Day Books & Lisa Ball Travel Design
present a
Literary Tour of Scotland! 

Tour Dates:  June 19 to July 02, 2016 

Castles, Lochs, Highlands, Whisky Distilleries, Pilgrimages to Authors of the past such as Scotland's National Bard, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott and visits to Scotland's great cities: Glasgow and Edinburgh where you will meet today's Authors!  And, during the Tour we will stay in a fabulous Castle Hotel!
 
Please come to a Multimedia Presentation on Tuesday, December 30, 2016 at 7:00 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops, 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas 66205.  For more Tour details, please send your inquiry to Lisa@LisaBallTravelDesign.com
Author Autographed Books make unique holiday Gifts!
Check out our In-Store Wall of Author Autographed Books!

My Life On The Road

My Life on the Road

Gloria Steinem

 

Gloria Steinem: writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Destiny and Power

Destiny and Power

Jon Meacham

 

In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

Brief Candle In The Dark

Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science

Richard Dawkins

 

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his bravura intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century The God Delusion. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

 

Purity by Jonathan Franzen 12202015

Purity

Jonathan Franzen

 

Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

The Aeronaut's Windlass

The Aeronaut's Windlass

Jim Butcher

 

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors: The Cinder Spires.  Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Secret Chord

The Secret Chord

Geraldine Brooks

 

A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

Palace of Treason

Palace of Treason

Jason Matthews

 

From the bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author of the "terrifically good" (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash in a desperate race to the finish. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lake House

The Lake House

Kate Morton

 

One of People magazine's Best Books of Fall! Kate Morton's moody, suspenseful latest is the perfect page-turner for a chilly night. From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

 

 

 

The Muralist

The Muralist

B.A. Shapiro

 

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 New York's art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American school of Abstract Expressionism. As she did in her bestselling novel The Art Forger, B. A. Shapiro tells a gripping story while exploring provocative themes. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

Slade House

Slade House

David Mitchell

 

The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian. Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story as only David Mitchell could imagine it. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 


The Japanese Lover

The Japanese Lover

Isabel Allende

 

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. Author Autographed First Edition Hardcover!

 

  

  

  

 

 

Check out our In-Store Wall of Author Autographed Books and our Website Section of Author Autographed Books for even more Great Gifts!

Wall of Author Autographed Books 12132015 
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!

 

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