Events

Cornerstone Foundation at Unity Temple on The Plaza welcomes Donna Eden, a pioneer in the field of holistic healing. Donna is among the world’s most sought after, most joyous, and most authoritative spokespersons for energy medicine. Her abilities as a healer are legendary and her invigorating presentations are rich with audience participation and stunning demonstrations.

Friday evening's event is a Hands-On Introduction. Tickets are $20.00. For more information, visit Cornerstone Foundation online.

Cornerstone Foundation at Unity Temple on The Plaza welcomes Donna Eden, a pioneer in the field of holistic healing. Donna is among the world’s most sought after, most joyous, and most authoritative spokespersons for energy medicine. Her abilities as a healer are legendary and her invigorating presentations are rich with audience participation and stunning demonstrations.

Saturday's event is an all-day Experiential Workshop. Tickets are $119.00. For more information, visit Cornerstone Foundation online.

Jodi Picoult discusses House Rules

Time: Saturday, March 13, 2010 1:30 P.M.
Location: Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, MO 64112
Phone: 913-384-3126 for more information. A limited number of Admission Packages will be available at the door of this event beginning at 12:30 PM.

Author: Jodi Picoult is the author of seventeen novels, including "Handle With Care, Change of Heart," "Nineteen Minutes," and" My Sister's Keeper, "now a major motion picture. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at www.JodiPicoult.com

Title: House Rules , $28.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9780743296434, On Sale Date: March 2, 2010

HOUSE RULES is about Jacob Hunt, a teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject – in his case, forensic analysis. He’s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do…and he’s usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger’s – not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, inappropriate affect – can look a heck of a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel -- and suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder. HOUSE RULES looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way – but lousy for those who don’t.

What: Jodi Picoult will discuss her powerful new Novel, answer audience questions and she will autograph copies of her books purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.

When: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 1:30 PM

Where: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112

Admission Package: $28.00 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of House Rules(Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation. All advance orders will be available for pickup at Unity Temple beginning at 12:30 PM today. A limited number of Admission Packages will be available for sale at the door beginning at 12:30 PM. If you have already placed a phone or online order, or need an Admission Package, go directly to Unity Temple today. All books and tickets will be available at Unity Temple beginning at 12:30. Do not go to Rainy Day Books in Fairway to pickup or place event orders. Preordering by phone and online is now closed for this event.

All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Author:  Ray Young Bear has performed his song-poems of contemporary and traditional Meskwaki culture, from the Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa. "I am not exaggerating," writes Sherman Alexie, "when I say that Ray Young Bear is the best poet in Indian Country." Young Bear's books include The Rock Island Hunting Club (poems, U. of Iowa Press, 2001), Remnants Of The First Earth (fiction, Grove, 1996), Black Eagle Child (fiction, Iowa, 1992), Winter Of The Salamander (poems, Harper & Row, 1980) and others. He began writing poetry as a teenager with the Upward Bound program, writing in his native Meskwaki and translating into English. His poems retain the heightened formal style of Meskwaki oratory, and Young Bear often includes hand-drum performance. He has served as visiting artist for elementary and high schools and has taughter at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M.

The Midwest Poets Series, sponsored by The Center for Arts & Letters and The College Of Arts and Sciences at Rockhurst University, has been designed to enhance the literary and intellectual lives of Rockhurst University, its neighbors in Kansas City and the surrounding region.

Where:  Rockhurst University, Sedgwick Hall, Mabee Theater

When:  Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 PM. A 6:00 PM Reception precedes this event.

Admission:  $3.00 at the door.

Roy Morris discusses Lighting Out For The Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West And Became Mark Twain

Time: Thursday, March 23, 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: Roy Morris Jr., is the editor of Military Heritage and the author of Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company and Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan. He lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Title: Lighting Out For The Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West And Became Mark Twain, $26.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9781416598664, On Sale Date: March 2, 2010

The action-packed, hilarious story of how Samuel Clemens went west in 1861, reinvented himself as a writer, and returned 6 years later as Mark Twain.

What: Roy Morris, Jr. 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: Thursday, March 23, 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.

All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

UMKC Cockefair Chair Writer-In Margot Livesey discusses her career in conversation with Angela Elam, host of UMKC's New Letters on the Air

Time: Wednesday March 24, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Location: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, Kansas City, MO 64112
Phone: 816-701-3407 to make reservations to attend.

Author: Margot Livesey grew up in a boys' private school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught, and her mother, Eva, was the school nurse. After taking a B.A. in English and philosophy at the University of York in England she spent most of her twenties working in shops and restaurants and learning to write. Her first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then Margot has published six novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street.
Margot has taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Cleveland State, Emerson College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Tufts University, the University of California at Irvine, the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers, and Williams College. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists' Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Margot is currently a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College. She lives with her husband, a painter, in Cambridge, MA, and goes back to London and Scotland whenever she can.
Alice Sebold says, "Every novel of Margot Livesey's is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery.".

What: Margot Livesey will discuss her career in conversation with Angela Elam, and answer audience questions. She will autograph copies of her books purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event.

When: Wednesday, March 24, 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.

All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Author: John McPhee is an award-winning writer and renowned nonfiction writing instructor at Princeton University. McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with the New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. The same year he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with FSG, and soon followed with The Headmaster (1966), Oranges (1967), The Pine Barrens (1968), A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles (collection, 1968), Levels of the Game (1968), The Crofter and the Laird (1970), Encounters with the Archdruid (1971), The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973), The Curve of Binding Energy (1974), Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975), and The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975). Both Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards. Selections from these books make up The John McPhee Reader (1976).Since 1977, the year in which McPhee received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the bestselling Coming into the Country appeared in print, Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published Giving Good Weight (collection, 1979), Basin and Range (1981), In Suspect Terrain (1983), La Place de la Concorde Suisse (1984), Table of Contents (collection, 1985), Rising from the Plains (1986), Heirs of General Practice (in a paperback edition, 1986), The Control of Nature (1989), Looking for a Ship (1990), Assembling California (1993), The Ransom of Russian Art (1994), The Second John McPhee Reader (1996), Irons in the Fire (1997), Annals of the Former World (1998). Annals of the Former World, McPhee’s tetralogy on geology, was published in a single volume in 1998 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. The Founding Fish was published in 2002. His most recent work Uncommon Carriers was published in 2006.

What: John McPhee will discuss his career, his works, and answer audience questions. This event is part of the Writers At Work speaker series organized by Kansas City novelist Whitney Terrell and co-sponsored by Chris Davis and the English Department at the University Of Missouri - Kansas City.

Where: Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W 10th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64105

When: Monday, March 29, 2010, 6:30 PM.

Admission: Complimentary and open to the public. Reservations requested, please call the Kansas City Public Library at (816) 701-3407.

Writers' books are available for purchase at events from Rainy Day Books.

Harlan Coben discusses Caught

Time:  Tuesday, March 30, 2010 7:00 p.m.
Location:  Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, MO 64112
Phone:  913-384-3126 to Order Admission Packages or for more information.

Author:  Harlan Coben is the bestselling author of fourteen previous novels, including Tell No One, No Second Chance, The Woods, Promise Me, and The Innocent, and is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. He lives in New Jersey with his family.

Title:  Caught: A Novel, $27.95 Hardcover, ISBN 9780525951582, On Sale Date:  March 23, 2010

An explosive new stand-alone thriller from #1 New York Times Bestseller Harlan Coben.
Wendy is a reporter on a mission: She's chasing down the lowest of the low-sexual predators-and exposing them on national television. Her big break comes when she nails a child advocate who works with abused and underserved children. She's there, cameras rolling, when the cops cuff him and the guy realizes his life is well and truly over. Three months later, the perp is off the grid, missing and presumed dead after the father of a victim claims to have killed him. Wendy, proud to have taken the man down in front of a shocked television audience, has moved on to the story of a missing girl, Erin, in a nearby suburb. The whole country is obsessed with finding this child, and Wendy should be well on her way to journalistic superstardom. Then is all comes unhinged: Wendy gets a phone call that changes everything. A group of local fathers, out of work and not above vigilante justice, begins to take matters into their own hands on Erin's behalf. Secrets long-buried rise to the surface and Wendy begins to wonder if her assumptions that fateful night three months ago were based on solid investigative journalism-or if she has unwittingly been part of a grand manipulation aiming to destroy and innocent man.

What:  Harlan Coben will discuss his new novel, 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, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.
When:  Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 7:00 PM

Where:  A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112

Admission Package:  $27.95 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of Caught (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation.

All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Howard Frank Mosher discusses his new novel Walking To Gatlinburg

Time: Tuesday March 30, 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: Howard Frank Mosher is the author of ten books, including Waiting for Teddy Williams, The True Account, and A Stranger in the Kingdom, which, along with Disappearances, was corecipient of the New England Book Award for fiction. He lives in Vermont.

Title: Walking To Gatlinburg, $25.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9780307450678, On Sale Date: March 2, 2010

A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war.
Morgan Kinneson is both hunter and hunted. The sharp-shooting 17-year-old from Kingdom County, Vermont, is determined to track down his brother Pilgrim, a doctor who has gone missing from the Union Army. But first Morgan must elude a group of murderous escaped convicts in pursuit of a mysterious stone that has fallen into his possession. It's 1864, and the country is in the grip of the bloodiest war in American history. Meanwhile, the Kinneson family has been quietly conducting passengers on the Underground Railroad from Vermont to the Canadian border. One snowy afternoon Morgan leaves an elderly fugitive named Jesse Moses in a mountainside cabin for a few hours so that he can track a moose to feed his family. In his absence, Jesse is murdered, and thus begins Morgan's unforgettable trek south through an apocalyptic landscape of war and mayhem. Along the way, Morgan encounters a fantastical array of characters, including a weeping elephant, a pacifist gunsmith, a woman who lives in a tree, a blind cobbler, and a beautiful and intriguing slave girl named Slidell who is the key to unlocking the mystery of the secret stone. At the same time, he wrestles with the choices that will ultimately define him - how to reconcile the laws of nature with religious faith, how to temper justice with mercy. Magical and wonderfully strange, Walking to Gatlinburg is both a thriller of the highest order and a heartbreaking odyssey into the heart of American darkness.

What: Howard Frank Mosher 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, March 30, 2010, 6:30 PM

Where: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at The Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Main Floor, 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.

All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Thinking Bigger Media and Rainy Day Books present a Thinking Bigger Speaker Series Event featuring Doug Merrill, former Chief Information Officer of Google.

Doug Merrill, Google's former CIO who helped spearhead Google's effort to "organize the world's information," offers a wealth of tips and strategies for how to use a myriad of amazing new digital tools and technologies to become more organized, efficient, and successful than ever.
Merrill doesn't deliver traditional, rigid, one-size-fits-all strategies; instead, he draws on his intimate knowledge of how the brain works to help us develop fresh, innovative, and flexible systems of organization tailored to our individual goals, constraints, and lifestyles.
Learn how to harness the amazing power of search, how to get the most out of cloud computing and techniques for filtering through the enormous avalanche of information that assaults us at every turn. Getting Organized in the Google Era is full of practical, invaluable and often counterintuitive advice for anyone who wants to be more organized and productive—and less stressed—our 21st-century world.

Date and Time:  Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Lunch begins at 11:30 AM
(Doors open at 11:00 AM)

Admission Package:  $55.00 includes lunch and a copy of Doug's new book Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff Out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right.

Register online for this event.

David Laskin discusses The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War

Time: Thursday April 8, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Location: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Main Floor, Kansas City, MO 64112
Phone: 913-384-3126 to order books in advance, 816-701-3407 to make reservations to attend.

Author: David Laskin is the author of The Children's Blizzard, Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals and Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Preservation, and Smithsonian. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Title: The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War t , $26.99 Hardcover, ISBN 9780061233333, On Sale Date: March 1, 2010

This look at the immigrant experience in the early 1900s traces the lives of a dozen men from their childhoods in Europe through their arrival at Ellis Island, their challenges in a strange new land, and their struggles during the Great War.

What: David Laskin 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: Thursday, April 8, 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.

All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.

Andrew Clements unveils We the Children: Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School #1

Time:  Thursday, April 8, 2010 6:30 PM
Location:  The Village Presbyterian Church, Friendship Hall, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208
Phone:  913-384-3126 to order Admission Packages or for more information.

Author:  Andrew Clements is the author of the enormously popular FRINDLE.  He has been nominated for a multitude of state awards and has won the Christopher Award and an Edgar Award.  His popular works include EXTRA CREDIT, LOST AND FOUND, NO TALKING, ROOM ONE, LUNCH MONEY, A WEEK IN THE WOODS, THE JACKET, THE SCHOOL STORY, THE JANITOR'S BOY, THE LANDRY NEWS, THE REPORT CARD AND THE LAST HOLIDAY CONCERT.  Mr. Clements taught in the public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving East to begin a career in publishing and writing.  He lives with his wife in central Massachusetts and has four grown children.  His website is www.AndrewClements.com

Title:  We the Children: Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School #1, $14.99 Hardcover, ISBN 9781416938866, On Sale Date: March 15, 2010

We the Children asks: Can a kid change the course of history?.

What:  Andrew Clements will discuss his new series, 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, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.

When:  Thursday April 8, 2010, 6:30 PM

Where:  A Rainy Day Books Author Event at The Village Presbyterian Church, Friendship Hall, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208

Admission Package:  $14.99 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of We the Children (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation.  To place your order, use the Add To Cart feature below.  For At Event pickup, simply choose In-Store Pickup and add a comment to your order that you will pick up at the event.

All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable.