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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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Volume 836
Monday, February 27
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On Thursday, February 23, 2017,
Alex George, British Solicitor (Lawyer) & Author of
A Good American was In Conversation with
Vivien Jennings of
Rainy Day Books for an engaging discussion about Alex's New Hardcover Novel
Setting Free The Kites at
Mid-Continent Public Library, Woodneath Library Center.
Read and share our Weekly Author Events Newsletters!
We work smart & hard to create exciting and unique opportunities as we celebrate 41 Years of bringing Authors, Books and Customers together for memorable experiences!
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Wednesday Night: Amy Ephron will Present her
Debut Children's Hardcover Novel The Castle in the Mist
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Amy Ephron is the Internationally Bestselling Author of several Books written for adults, including the Award-Winning
A Cup of Tea. She is also a Film Producer, an Essayist, and a Contributor to
Vogue and Vogue.com
The Castle in the Mist is her first Book for children. Amy lives in Los Angeles, California with her family.
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 at 6:30 PM
LOCATION: Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops, 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas 66205.
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Join us for a Special Evening! Kate T. Parker will Present her New Book Strong Is the New Pretty
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Kate T. Parker will Present her New Hardcover & Softcover
Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
. This Event is Sponsored by Rainy Day Books & Girl Scouts of NE Kansas & NW Missouri.
Real beauty isn't about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clothes, or having your hair done (or even brushed). Real beauty is about being your authentic self and owning it.
Kate T. Parker is a professional photographer who finds the real beauty in girls, capturing it for all the world to see in candid and arresting images. A celebration, a catalog of spirit in words and smiles, an affirmation of the fact that it's what's inside you that counts,
Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves conveys a powerful message for every girl, for every mother and father of a girl, for every coach and mentor and teacher, for everyone in the village that it takes to raise a strong and self-confident person.
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION: A Rainy Day Books Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112.
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Literally Experience Canada Tour 2017!
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You are Invited to attend our
Literally Experience Canada Tour 2017 future Multimedia Presentations by
Lisa Ball Travel Design at
Rainy Day Books
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Lisa Ball was Scouting Locations in Canada for the past 2 Weeks and she returned Home to Kansas City with exciting news about what she has found for us and where we will go on our Tour this Summer!
We're looking forward to seeing you at our Presentations, and as we Tour Canada! If you are interested in our Tour and cannot attend our Presentations, then please E-mail Lisa Ball:
Join us for our
Literally Experience Canada Tour 2017 from
Tuesday, June 13 through Monday, June 26, 2017, as we explore the beauties of our neighbor Nation to our North! We will experience Canada's culture, art, literary connections, food & gorgeous vistas!
We will travel to French-Speaking Quebec and discover the wonders of Old Montreal and historic Quebec City! You will think we are in Europe! We will experience the majestic St. Lawrence River Area, and see artsy villages, and go out on a Whale-Watching Cruise! We will ride a fun and scenic train that will connect us to Maritime Canada, where we will see the charm and romance of Prince Edward Island, the Home of Lucy Maud Montgomery's endearing Anne of Green Gables, and sea-faring Nova Scotia from its coastal lighthouses, and Scottish influence, to eclectic Halifax!
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Great New Books that arrive this Week!
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Viking
Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. His one respite is his time spent nestled in the library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. But when a beautiful young American named Bethany Davis arrives in Barchester charged with the task of digitizing the library's manuscripts, Arthur's tranquility is broken. Appalled by the threat modern technology poses to the library he loves, he sets out to thwart Bethany, only to find in her a kindred spirit with a similar love for knowledge and books--and a fellow Grail fanatic. Bethany soon joins Arthur in a quest to find the lost Book of Ewolda, the ancient manuscript telling the story of the cathedral's founder. And when the future of the cathedral itself is threatened, Arthur and Bethany's search takes on grave importance, leading the pair to discover secrets about the cathedral, about the Grail, and about themselves.
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Europa Editions
Overpopulation, nuclear war, fascism, contemporary capitalism, and climate crisis all play roles in this epistolary novel in which a young philosopher grapples with the life of Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning German physicist. As he examines the dark historical events of the early 20th century alongside the luminous elegance of Heisenberg's theoretical work, the narrator provides an intimate account of his own youthful struggles and desperate attempts to make sense of a fractured, globalized world. How could a man with such a beautiful mind have participated in such atrocities? Jerome Ferrari offers a compelling, unflinching vision of the failings of European culture.
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St. Martin's Press
Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West.
Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset.
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Vintage
Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father's college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work "with both the heart and the hands." She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.
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Knopf Publishing Group
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, creating a language for madness that was new and arresting. As Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story, she illuminates not only the relationships among mania, depression, and creativity but also the details of Lowell's treatment and how illness and treatment influenced the great work that he produced (and often became its subject). Lowell's New England roots, early breakdowns, marriages to three eminent writers, friendships with other poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, his many hospitalizations, his vivid presence as both a teacher and a maker of poems--Jamison gives us the poet's life through a lens that focuses our understanding of his intense discipline, courage, and commitment to his art. Jamison had unprecedented access to Lowell's medical records, as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems, and she is the first biographer to have spoken with his daughter, Harriet Lowell. With this new material and a psychologist's deep insight, Jamison delivers a bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was--both despite and because of mental illness--a passionate, original observer of the human condition.
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Doubleday Books
Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology--our senses, intelligence, and lifespans--in the hopes that, with technology, we can become something better, something other, than ourselves. For decades, transhumanism has been quietly exerting its influence, but in the last few years it has achieved critical mass, finding support among Silicon Valley billionaires and some of the world's biggest businesses. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering possibilities that present themselves when you of think of your body as an outmoded device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, enhancing their senses by implanting electronics under their skin. He meets a team of scientists urgently investigating how to protect mankind from artificial superintelligence. Where is our obsession with technology leading us? What does the rise of AI mean not only for our offices and homes, but for our humanity? Could the technologies we create to help us eventually bring us to harm? Addressing these questions and more, O'Connell presents a thoughtful, provocative, often hilarious look at a growing movement. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.
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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; 42 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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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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