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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

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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
Just Added: Theodora Ross, M.D., Ph.D., will Present her New Hardcover, A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance
Just Added: Cassandra Clare will Present her New Hardcover, Lady Midnight!
Literary Tour of Scotland Update this Summer!
Great New Books arrive each Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

Theodora Ross, M.D., Ph.D., Thursday, March 03, 2016

Amber Tamblyn, Friday, March 11, 2016

Matthew Desmond, Monday, March 14, 2016

Cassandra Clare, Tuesday, March 15, 2016

William Anderson, Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Thomas Frank, Thursday, March 24, 2016

Helen Simonson, Thursday, April 07, 2016

Lesley Stahl, Friday, April 29, 2016

Stewart O'Nan, Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Scott Simon, Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Susan Branch, Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Whitney Terrell, Thursday, June 02, 2016
Volume 782                          February 15, 2016
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On Tuesday, February 9th, Gretchen Rubin Presented her New Softcover Better Than Before at The University of Kansas Hospital Girls' Night In 2016 to a FULL House at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium.
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On Thursday, February 11th, Melanie Benjamin was at Nell Hill's at The Village at Briarcliff with Rainy Day Books for a Booksigning & Reception to celebrate her New Hardcover The Swans of Fifth Avenue.  A portion of the proceeds from this Event Benefited Children's Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI).
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We work smart & hard to create exciting and unique opportunities as we celebrate the beginning of 41 Years of bringing Author, Books and Customers together for memorable experiences!
JUST ADDED! 
Theodora Ross, M.D., Ph.D., will Present her New Hardcover 
A Cancer in the Family: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance 
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This Complimentary OPEN House Event is Thursday, March 03, 2016 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.  Reservations are Required through www.RainyDayBooks.com

JUST ADDED!
Cassandra Clare will appear for her New Hardcover 
Lady Midnight: The Dark Artifices: Book One
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Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Mortal Instruments Series, will appear for her New Hardcover Lady Midnight: The Dark Artifices: Book OneThis Author Event is Co-Sponsored by Rainy Day Books & The Kansas City Public Library.

This Event is Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.  Reservations are Required.

Cassandra Clare will Author Autograph Books purchased exclusively at this Author Event.  Rainy Day Books will have Cassandra Clare's Books for Sale in the Library Lobby before and after the Author Event.

Literary Tour of Scotland Update this Summer!  
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Rainy Day Books & Lisa Ball Travel Design
Present a
Literary Tour of Scotland! 

Sunday, June 19 through Saturday, July 02, 2016 

Scotland, home of the rugged, with a multitude of Castles, and of Internationally Bestselling Authors, like Ian Rankin!  Come Travel with us this Summer in Scotland for a rare adventure where Castles and great scenery merge with History & Literature!

During our Literary Tour of Scotland we will:
  • Visit the Home of Scotland's National Bard, Robert Burns in Ayrshire.
  • Walk in the footsteps of Claire & Jamie from The Outlander TV Series.
  • Stay 3 Nights in the Palatial Glenapp Castle Hotel with glorious Gardens near the beautiful Ayrshire Coast.
  • Ride the "Harry Potter Hogwarts Express" Jacobite Steam Train in the Highlands, and also visit a renowned Scotch Whiskey Distillery.
  • Tour the spectacular Eileen Donan Castle and Balmoral Castle!
  • Visit Scotland's magnificent Cities of Glasgow, and Edinburgh, the City of Literature, with Exclusive Author Events!
  • Stay 4 Nights at The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh where JK Rowling completed her Internationally Bestselling Harry Potter Series.
  • Please note most of the 26 Gourmet Meals during our Tour are included in the Base Tour Cost as well as Round-Trip Airfare from Kansas City or your Home Airport to & from Scotland.
  For Tour details, please inquire to [email protected]
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Great New Books arrive on our shelves each Week! 

A Doubter's Almanac

A Doubter's Almanac

Ethan Canin

Random House

 

Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michigan in the 1950s, he gives little thought to his own talent. But with his acceptance at U.C. Berkeley he realizes the extent, and the risks, of his singular gifts. California in the seventies is a seduction, opening Milo's eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there and the rival he meets alongside her will haunt him for the rest of his life. For Milo's brilliance is entwined with a dark need that soon grows to threaten his work, his family, even his existence. Spanning seven decades as it moves from California to Princeton to the Midwest to New York, A Doubter's Almanac tells the story of a family as it explores the way ambition lives alongside destructiveness, obsession alongside torment, love alongside grief. It is a story of how the flame of genius both lights and scorches every generation it touches.

 

 Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun

Jo Nesbo

Knopf Publishing Group

 

The internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls himself Ulf as good a name as any, he thinks and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won t be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in Kasund, on Norway's far northeastern border, he sees a flat, monotonous, bleak landscape . . . the perfect hiding place. Hopefully. The locals native Sami and followers of a particularly harsh Swedish version of Christianity seem to accept Ulf's explanation that he's come to hunt, even if he has no gun and the season has yet to start. And a bereaved, taciturn woman and her curious, talkative young son supply him with food, the use of a cabin deep in the woods, a weapon and companionship that stirs something in him he thought was long dead. But the agonizing wait for the inevitable moment when the Fisherman's henchmen will show the midnight sun hanging in the sky like an unblinking, all-revealing eye forces him to question if redemption is at all possible or if, as he's always believed, hope is a real bastard.

 

The Girl in the Red Coat

The Girl in the Red Coat

Kate Hamer

Melville House Publishing

 

Newly single mom Beth has one constant, gnawing worry: that her dreamy eight-year-old daughter, Carmel, who has a tendency to wander off, will one day go missing. And then one day, it happens: On a Saturday morning thick with fog, Beth takes Carmel to a local outdoor festival, they get separated in the crowd, and Carmel is gone. Shattered, Beth sets herself on the grim and lonely mission to find her daughter, keeping on relentlessly even as the authorities tell her that Carmel may be gone for good. Carmel, meanwhile, is on a strange and harrowing journey of her own to a totally unexpected place that requires her to live by her wits, while trying desperately to keep in her head, at all times, a vision of her mother

 

The Blue Hour

The Blue Hour

Douglas Kennedy

Atria Books

 

Robin knew Paul wasn t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. She is a meticulous accountant, almost forty. He is an artist and university professor, twenty years older. When Paul suggests a month in Morocco, where he once lived and worked, a place where the modern meets the medieval, Robin reluctantly agrees. Once immersed into the swirling, white hot exotica of a walled city on the North African Atlantic coast, Robin finds herself acclimatizing to its wonderful strangeness. Paul is everything she wants him to be passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But then Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry. As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape.

 

Tender

Tender

Belinda McKeon

Lee Boudreaux Books

 

A searing novel about longing, intimacy and obsession from the award-winning author of Solace. When they meet in Dublin in the late nineties, Catherine and James become close friends. She is a sheltered college student, he an adventurous, charismatic young artist. In a city brimming with possibilities, he spurs her to take life on with gusto. But as Catherine opens herself to new experiences, James's life becomes a prison, walled off by a truth he feels unable to share. When crisis hits, Catherine finds herself at the mercy of uncontrollable feelings, leading her to jeopardize everything. By turns exhilarating and devastating, Tender is an exploration of human relationships, of the lies we tell ourselves and others. A high-wire act with psychological insights, this daring novel confirms McKeon as a major voice in Irish fiction, alongside the masterful Edna O'Brien and Anne Enright.

 

The Quality of Silence

The Quality of Silence

Rosamund Lupton

Crown Publishing Group

 

The gripping, moving story of a mother and daughter's quest to uncover a dark secret in the Alaskan wilderness, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sister and Afterwards. Thrillingly suspenseful and atmospheric, The Quality of Silence is the story of Yasmin, a beautiful astrophysicist, and her precocious deaf daughter, Ruby, who arrive in a remote part of Alaska to be told that Ruby's father, Matt, has been the victim of a catastrophic accident. Unable to accept his death as truth, Yasmin and Ruby set out into the hostile winter of the Alaskan tundra in search of answers. But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realizes that a very human danger may be keeping pace with them. And with no one else on the road to help, they must keep moving, alone and terrified, through an endless Alaskan night.

 

Back Blast

Back Blast

Mark Greaney

Berkley Books

 

Court Gentry was the CIA's best agent. Until the day the Agency turned against him and put out a kill on sight order. That's when the enigmatic international assassin called the Gray Man was born and Court has been working for himself ever since Now, Court is back in Washington looking for answers. He's determined to find out what happened all those years ago that made the Agency turn against him. On his list to interrogate are his former partners and the men who sent him on his last mission. What he doesn't realize is that the questions that arose from that mission are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence community, and he's stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps. And now, they have Court in their crosshairs. Court Gentry is used to having people on his trail, but this time, it's on U.S. soil the last place he wants to be. Now, he ll have to find the answers to his fate while evading capture and avoiding death

 

Cometh the Hour

Cometh the Hour

Jeffrey Archer

St. Martin's Press

 

Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.

 

Interior Darkness: Selected Stories

Interior Darkness: Selected Stories

Peter Straub

Doubleday Books

 

Peter Straub has spent forty years at the forefront of modern literary horror. The stories assembled here represent his astonishing range and his ability to terrify, transport, and hold a reader hostage. "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" is a darkly comic masterpiece in which a stern estate lawyer known as the Deacon hires a pair of "Private Detectives Extraordinaire" to investigate and seek revenge on his unfaithful wife. In "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine," a man and his much younger lover explore their decadent and increasingly sinister fantasies on a luxurious yacht in the remotest stretch of the Amazon River. "Blue Rose" finds violence and power in the hands of the most innocent among us, leading to a conclusion that is fully surprising and devastating. Each story cracks the foundation of our reality and opens our eyes, taking us further and further into the darkness that normally remains deeply, and safely, hidden. Interior Darkness is the gold standard of literary horror.

 

 Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir

Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir

Joel Grey

Flatiron Books

 

Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children's theater and then moving to the main stage. He was hooked, and his seven decades long career charts the evolution of American entertainment - from Vaudeville performances with his father, Mickey Katz to the seedy gangster filled nightclubs of the forties, the bright lights of Broadway and dizzying glamour of Hollywood, to juggernaut musicals like "Cabaret," "Chicago," and "Wicked."  Master of Ceremonies is a memoir of a life lived in and out of the limelight, but it is also the story of the man behind the stage makeup. Coming of age in a time when being yourself tended to be not only difficult but also dangerous, Joel has to act both on and off the stage. He spends his high school years sleeping with the girls-next-door while carrying on a scandalous affair with an older man. Romances with to-die-for Vegas Showgirls are balanced with late night liaisons with like-minded guys, until finally Joel falls in love and marries a talented and beautiful woman, starts a family, and has a pretty much picture perfect life. But 24 years later when the marriage dissolves, Joel has to once again find his place in a world that has radically changed. Drawing back the curtain on a career filled with show-stopping numbers, larger-than-life stars and even singing in the shower with Bjork, Master of Ceremonies is also a portrait of an artist coming to terms with his evolving identity.

 

Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man

Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man

William Shatner

Thomas Dunne Books

 

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner first crossed paths as actors on the set of "The Man" "from U.N.C.L.E." Little did they know that their next roles, in a new science fiction television series, would shape their lives in ways no one could have anticipated. In seventy-nine television episodes and six feature films, they grew to know each other more than most friends could ever imagine. Over the course of half a century, Shatner and Nimoy saw each other through personal and professional highs and lows. In this powerfully emotional book, Shatner tells the story of a man who was his friend for five decades, recounting anecdotes and untold stories of their lives on and off set, as well as gathering stories from others who knew Nimoy well, to present a full picture of a rich life. As much a biography of Nimoy as a story of their friendship, Leonard is a uniquely heartfelt book written by one legendary actor in celebration of another.

 

Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

Pamela D. Toler, PhD

Little Brown and Company

 

Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded. These women saw casualties on a scale Americans had never seen before, and medicine was at a turning point. Heroines of Mercy Street follows the lives of women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney, Anne Reading, and more before, during, and after their epic struggle in Alexandria and reveals their personal contributions to this astounding period in the advancement of medicine.

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.
 
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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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Roger & Vivien at Home with their Books

 

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