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Michael Gates Gill discusses How To Save Your Own Life

Start: 01/19/2010 6:30 pm

End: 01/19/2010 8:00 pm

Michael Gates Gill discusses How To Save Your Own Life

Time: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Location: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, Kansas City, MO 64112
Phone: 913-384-3126 to order books in advance, 816-701-3407 to make reservations to attend.

Author: Michael Gates Gill is the son of "New Yorker" writer Brendan Gill and he was a creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising where he was employed for over 25 years. He currently lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works, and has no plans to retire from what he calls the best job he's ever had. His previous book was the bestselling memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life.

Title: How To Save Your Own Life, $20.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9781592405213, On Sale Date: December 29, 2009

Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including:
A-Leap...With Faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim).
A-Let Yourself...Be Helped: Pride is even more paralyzing than fear.
A-Look...with Respect at Every Individual You See: Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path.
A-Lose...Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness.
Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, "How to Save Your Own Life" provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves.

What: Michael Gates Gill will discuss his new work, answer audience questions and he will autograph copies of his books purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event.

When: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 6:30 PM

Where: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at The Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112

Admission Package: This event is open to the general public. Call 816-701-3407 to make reservations to attend.

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