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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
Wednesday Girls' Night Out with Delia Ephron for Siracusa!
Just Added: George R.R. Martin and The Wild Cards!
Just Added: Liz Pryor!
Just Added: Stacy Schiff!
Just Added: Charlaine Harris!
Just Added: Maria Semple!
Great New Books arrive on our Shelves each Week!
HERE THEY COME!
Our World-Famous Author Events Calendar!

Delia Ephron, Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Bryn Greenwood, Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Laura McHugh, Thursday, August 11, 2016

Michael Swanwick, Tuesday, August 16, 2016

George R.R. Martin and The Wild Cards, Friday, August 19, 2016

Louise Penny, Thursday, September 01, 2016

Erich Wurster, Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Margaret Peterson Haddix, Thursday, September 15, 2016

Jonathan Safran Foer, Friday, September 16, 2016

Candice Millard, Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Loren Long, Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Liane Moriarty, Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Monday, September 26, 2016

Sue Lowell Gallion, Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Gayle Forman, Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Jamie Metzl, Saturday, October 01, 2016

Sunday, October 02, 2016

Ridley Pearson, Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Thursday, October 06, 2016

Ann Patchett, Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Friday, October 21, 2016

Tuesday, October 15, 2016
Volume 805                            July 25, 2016
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Rainy Day Books welcomes you, your family & friends to our Wednesday Girls' Night Out with Delia Ephron for Siracusa with Prizes & Surprises!

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We work smart & hard to create exciting and unique opportunities as we celebrate the beginning of 41 Years of bringing Authors, Books and Customers together for memorable experiences!
Wednesday Girls' Night Out
with Delia Ephron for Siracusa
with Prizes & Surprises!
Delia Ephron will be In Conversation with Vivien Jennings & Lonita Cook about Delia's New Hardcover Novel Siracusa.  A Drawing for Prizes, a Booksigning & Surprises will follow the Presentation.

Delia Ephron is a Bestselling Author and Screenwriter.  Her Movies include: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You've Got Mail, Hanging Up (based on her Novel), and Michael.  Her most recent Book of Essays Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc.) was a New York Times Bestseller.  Her hit Play Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Co-Written with her sister Nora Ephron) ran for more than 2 Years Off-Broadway and has been performed all over the World.

Delia Ephron will discuss her life and work In Conversation with Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books, and Lonita Cook, Co-Vice President of Kansas City Women in Film and Television (KCWIFT), and Board Member of CinemaKC, Inc. 

This Event is Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

SPECIAL EVENT JUST ADDED!
George R.R. Martin and The Wild Cards
will Celebrate the release of
 High Stakes: Wild Cards #13 
George R.R. Martin will Celebrate the Publication of the New Hardcover High Stakes: A Wild Cards Novel with a Gathering and Booksigning by Wild Cards Contributing Authors. 

George R.R. Martin, New York Times Bestselling Author of A Song of Ice and Fire Series (adapted into the Television Series Game of Thrones), and Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Awards-Winning Author; and Co-Editor of the Wild Cards Series Melissa M. Snodgrass, High Stakes Contributors Carrie Vaughn, Max Galdston, David D. Levine, Ian Tregillis, plus Special Guests: David Anthony Durham, Stephen Leigh, John Jos. Miller, Caroline Spector, Saladin Ahmed, Parris, Pat Cadigan, Marko Kloos, Gail Gerstner Miller, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Diana Rowland, Walton (Bud) Simons, Bob Wayne, Walter Jon Williams, and Michael Cassutt will all appear together at one SPECIAL EVENT!

This SPECIAL EVENT is Friday, August 19, 2016 beginning at 5:00 PM at Kansas City Marriott Downtown, Count Basie Ballroom, 200 W 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64105. 

JUST ADDED!
Liz Pryor will Present her Memoir 
 Look At You Now:
My Journey from Shame to Strength 
Liz Pryor will Present her New Hardcover Memoir Look At You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength.

Liz Pryor, Good Morning America's Life Advice Guru, will share her riveting and powerful true story!

This is a Complimentary OPEN House Event on Wednesday, August 03, 2016 at 6:30 PM at Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops, 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas 66205.  Reservations are Requested.

JUST ADDED!
Stacy Schiff will Present her New Softcover 
The Witches: Salem, 1962
Stacy Schiff will Present her New Softcover The Witches: Salem, 1962.  A Booksigning will follow the Presentation. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Stacy Schiff will return to Kansas City with her Bestselling New Book about the Salem Witch Trials!

This is a Complimentary OPEN House Event on Monday, September 26, 2016 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64112.  Reservations are Required.  Rainy Day Books will have Stacy Schiff's Books for Sale at this Event.

JUST ADDED!
Charlaine Harris will Present her New Hardcover 
 All the Little Liars:
An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
Charlaine Harris will be In Conversation with Vivien Jennings about Charlaine's New Hardcover All the Little Liars: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery.  A Booksigning will follow the Presentation. 

Charlaine Harris, #1 Bestselling Author of the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, the Shakespeare Mysteries, the Harper Connelly Mysteries, the Cemetery Girl Mysteries, and the Sookie Stackhouse Urban Fantasy Series, which is the basis for the HBO show True Blood, will discuss her life and work, and answer your burning questions!

This Event is Thursday, October 06, 2016 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

JUST ADDED!
Maria Semple will Present her New Hardcover Novel 
Today Will Be Different 
Maria Semple will be In Conversation with Vivien Jennings about Maria's New Hardcover Novel Today Will Be DifferentA Booksigning will follow the Presentation.

Maria Semple, New York Times Bestselling Author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, will travel from her home in Seattle to discuss her life, work, and her highly anticipated New Novel!

This Event is Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:00 PM at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

Great New Books arrive on our Shelves each Week! 

Truly Madly Guilty

Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty

Flatiron Books

 

Liane Moriarty will travel all the way from her home in Australia to Present her New Hardcover Truly Madly Gulity at an Author Event on Wednesday, September 21, 2016!

  

Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there's anything they can count on, it's each other. Clementine and Erika are each other's oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don t hesitate. Having Tiffany and Vid's larger than life personalities there will be a welcome respite. Two months later, it won t stop raining, and Clementine and Sam can t stop asking themselves the question: "What if we hadn t gone"?

 

My Name Is Leon

My Name Is Leon

Kit De Waal

Simon & Schuster

 

A sparkling, big-hearted, page-turning debut set in the 1970s about a young black boy's quest to reunite with his beloved white half-brother after they are separated in foster care. Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and his beautiful, golden-haired baby brother. When Jake is born, Leon pokes his head in the crib and says, I m your brother. Big brother. My. Name. Is. Leon. I am eight and three quarters. I am a boy. Jake will play with no one but Leon, and Leon is determined to save him from any pain and earn that sparkling baby laugh every chance he can. But Leon isn t in control of this world where adults say one thing and mean another, and try as he might he can t protect his little family from everything. When their mother falls victim to her inner demons, strangers suddenly take Jake away; after all, a white baby is easy to adopt, while a half-black nine-year-old faces a less certain fate. Vowing to get Jake back by any means necessary, Leon's own journey on his brand-new BMX bike will carry him through the lives of a doting but ailing foster mother, Maureen; Maureen's cranky and hilarious sister, Sylvia; a social worker Leon knows only as The Zebra; and a colorful community of local gardeners and West Indian political activists.

 

Heroes of the Frontier

Heroes of the Frontier

Dave Eggers

Knopf Publishing Group

 

Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancee's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization.

 

 Eva Sleeps

Eva Sleeps

Francesca Melandri

Europa Editions

 

A bestselling novel in Italy, soon to be a motion picture directed by Edoardo Winspeare, and Elle magazine's book of the year, Eva Sleeps is a sweeping modern story about family, forgiveness, and conflict. At its heart is the story of a woman searching for the truth about her origins. This literary page-turner will delight fans of Elena Ferrante. Out of the struggles and conflicts in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria and the rich history that has resulted from this meeting of cultures, comes a family story that embodies the history of nations. Eva, a forty-year-old public relations professional living in Northern Italy, receives an unexpected message from Southern Italy. Vito, a man she briefly knew as a child as a friend of her mother's, is very ill and would like to see her one last time. He is a retired police officer who was stationed in the north during the late-sixties, a period rife with tension, protest, and violence. These troubles, however, did not stop a young hapless policeman from falling in love with the "wrong" woman, a girl named Gerda from Austrian Tyrol, an inventive and accomplished cook, a single mother with a rich family history of her own, a northerner, the sister of a terrorist, and Gerda's mother. Vito's affair with Gerda was a passionate one, but what was the nature of their love? And if he loved her so passionately why did he return to Calabria? What scars did those years leave on Vito, and on Gerda? It's time for Eva to find out.

 

You Will Know Me

You Will Know Me

Megan E. Abbott

Little, Brown and Company

 

How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits--until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself irresistibly drawn to the crime itself. What she uncovers--about her daughter's fears, her own marriage, and herself--forces Katie to consider whether there's any price she isn't willing to pay to achieve Devon's dream.

 

Breaking Cover

Breaking Cover

Stella Rimington

Bloomsbury USA

 

A new cold war is coming, and Liz Carlyle is about to find herself on very thin ice. Still reeling from the loss of the man she loved in a botched antiterrorist operation in Paris, Carlyle has been posted to MI5's counter-espionage desk, where her bosses hope the relative quiet might give her the chance to find her feet again. However, they hadn't counted on the aftershocks of Russia's incursions into Crimea and President Putin's determination to silence those who would oppose him, wherever they may be living in the world. As a result, Liz soon finds herself on the hunt for a Russian spy on British soil--a spy whose intentions are unknown, and whose presence is a threat not only to Russian dissidents living in England but also to the security of the nation itself. And with MI5 and MI6 coming under painful public scrutiny in the post-Edward Snowden world, for Liz and her team, security is something that is beginning to feel increasingly remote.

 

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

Crown Publishing Group

 

Are you happy with your life? Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, Welcome back, my friend. In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

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

Since November 04, 1975, we have pursued our Legacy of Literacy:  41 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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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