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Howard Frank Mosher discusses his new novel Walking To GatlinburgTime: Tuesday March 30, 2010 6:30 p.m.Location: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, Kansas City, MO 64112Phone: 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, 2010A 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.
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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 64112Phone: 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, 2010An 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 PMWhere: 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.
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