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EVENT: Jennifer Chiaverini, author of The New York Times Bestselling Elm Creek Quilts Series, appears for her latest book The Wedding Quilt.
AUTHOR: Jennifer Chiaverini is the author of The New York Times Bestselling Elm Creek Quilts Series, as well as five collections of quilt projects inspired by the novels. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she lives with her husband and sons in Madison, Wisconsin.
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
ADMISSION PACKAGE: $25.95 plus Sales Tax includes One Hardcover copy of The Wedding Quilt, one Stamped Admission Ticket, and one Guest Ticket (if needed). If you'd like to pick-up your Order at the door of this Event, choose In-Store Pick-Up as your shipping option and add in the Notes field that you'd like At-Event Pick-Up. Your Order will be held under your name at Will Call. The cut-off time for online ordering is 2:00 PM on the day of the Event.
EVENT FORMAT: Jennifer Chiaverini will discuss her career and answer audience questions. A Booksigning follows the discussion. A Stamped Admission Ticket is required for the Booksigning.
YES, WE SHIP SIGNED COPIES WORLDWIDE! Order an Author Autographed Book below. Your Order will ship within a day or two of the Author Event. International customers, E-mail Mailbox@RainyDayBooks.com for a shipping quote. We ship using United States Postal Service International Priority Mail.
DISCLAIMER: All Author Event sales are final and non-refundable. Kansas Sales Tax is charged on all Orders, regardless of destination. Unless otherwise indicated, Authors will only sign Books purchased from Rainy Day Books accompanied by a Stamped Admission Ticket. Additional signed copies are available for purchase at our Author Event.
EVENT: Tony Horwitz, The New York Times Bestselling author of Confederates In The Attic and A Voyage Long and Strange, appears for his latest book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War.
AUTHOR: Tony Horwitz is The New York Times Bestselling author of Midnight Rising, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic, and Baghdad Without a Map. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist who has worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He lives in Martha's Vineyard with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their two sons.
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
ADMISSION PACKAGE: $29.00 plus Sales Tax includes One Hardcover copy of Midnight Rising, one Stamped Admission Ticket, and one Guest Ticket (if needed). If you'd like to pick-up your Order at the door of this Event, choose In-Store Pick-Up as your shipping option and add in the Notes field that you'd like At-Event Pick-Up. Your Order will be held under your name at Will Call. The cut-off time for online ordering is 2:00 PM on the day of the Event.
EVENT FORMAT: Tony Horwitz will give us a Multimedia Presentations, discuss his new Book and answer audience questions. A Booksigning follows the discussion. A Stamped Admission Ticket is required for the Booksigning.
YES, WE SHIP SIGNED COPIES WORLDWIDE! Order a signed copy below. Your Order will ship within a day or two of the Author Event. International customers, E-mail Mailbox@RainyDayBooks.com for a shipping quote. We ship using United States Postal Service International Priority Mail.
DISCLAIMER: All Author Event sales are final and non-refundable. Kansas Sales Tax is charged on all Orders, regardless of destination. Unless otherwise indicated, Authors will only sign Books purchased from Rainy Day Books accompanied by a Stamped Admission Ticket. Additional signed copies are available for purchase at our Author Event.
EVENT: Writer Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone, appears as part of the Writers At Work Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library, the UMKC English Department and the Writers at Work Round Table. Daniel Woodrell appears to discuss his new collection of short stories The Outlaw Album.
AUTHOR: Daniel Woodrell is the author of Winter's Bone, adapted into the Award-Winning Movie of the same name. Five of Daniel Woodrell's eight published novels were selected as The New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Tomato Red won the PEN West Award for the Novel in 1999. Daniel lives in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill.
DATE & TIME: Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 6:30 PM
LOCATION: Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64105.
ADMISSION PACKAGE: This Event is OPEN to the Public. Walk-Ins are welcome.
EVENT FORMAT: Daniel Woodrell will discuss his new Book, followed by a question and answer session with the audience. A Booksigning will follow the program.
EVENT: Thomas Frank, The New York Times Bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, appears for his latest book Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right .
AUTHOR: Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, What's the Matter with Kansas?, and One Market Under God. A former opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Thomas is the Founding Editor of The Baffler and a monthly columnist for Harper's. He lives outside Washington, D.C.
DATE & TIME: Thursday, January 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
ADMISSION PACKAGE: $25.00 plus Sales Tax includes One Hardcover copy of Pity the Billionaire, one Stamped Admission Ticket, and one Guest Ticket (if needed). ONLINE ORDERING IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT. Walk-up purchases may be made at the door of this event beginning at 6:00 PM.
EVENT FORMAT: Thomas Frank will discuss his new Book and answer audience questions. A Booksigning follows the discussion. A Stamped Admission Ticket is required for the Booksigning.
From the Bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least it's supposed to. But when Thomas Frank set out in 2009 to look for expressions of American discontent, all he could find were loud demands that the economic system be made even harsher on the recession's victims and that society's traditional winners receive even grander prizes. The American Right, which had seemed moribund after the election of 2008, was strangely reinvigorated by the arrival of hard times. The Tea Party movement demanded not that we question the failed system but that we reaffirm our commitment to it. Republicans in Congress embarked on a bold strategy of total opposition to the liberal state. And TV phenom Glenn Beck demonstrated the commercial potential of heroic paranoia and the purest libertarian economics. In Pity the Billionaire, Frank, the great chronicler of American paradox, examines the peculiar mechanism by which dire economic circumstances have delivered wildly unexpected political results. Using firsthand reporting, a deep knowledge of the American Right, and a wicked sense of humor, he gives us the first full diagnosis of the cultural malady that has transformed collapse into profit, reconceived the Founding Fathers as heroes from an Ayn Rand novel, and enlisted the powerless in a fan club for the prosperous. The understanding Frank reaches is at once startling, original, and profound.
YES, WE SHIP SIGNED COPIES WORLDWIDE! Order a signed copy below. Your Order will ship within a day or two of the Author Event. International customers, E-mail Mailbox@RainyDayBooks.com for a shipping quote. We ship using United States Postal Service International Priority Mail.
DISCLAIMER: All Author Event sales are final and non-refundable. Kansas Sales Tax is charged on all Orders, regardless of destination. Unless otherwise indicated, Authors will only sign Books purchased from Rainy Day Books accompanied by a Stamped Admission Ticket. Additional signed copies are available for purchase at our Author Event.
EVENT: Sally Bedell Smith, The New York Times Bestselling biographer appears for her newest Book Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch. As the first American author to have special access to the Queen's closest advisers and friends, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith draws on numerous interviews and recently released private documents. She pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who, from the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. With new information and fresh insights, Sally explains how the Queen has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the past sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace. This Author Event is Co-Sponsored by Brits, 929 Massachusetts, Lawrence, Kansas 66044, Phone: 785-843-2288
AUTHOR: Sally Bedell Smith is the author of Bestselling biographies of William S. Paley; Pamela Harriman; Diana, Princess of Wales; John & Jacqueline Kennedy; and Bill & Hillary Clinton. A Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair since 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a Cultural News Reporter.
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
ADMISSION PACKAGE: $30.00 plus Sales Tax includes One Hardcover copy of Elizabeth the Queen, one Stamped Admission Ticket, and one Guest Ticket (if needed). If you'd like to pick-up your Order at the door of this Event, choose In-Store Pick-Up as your shipping option and add to the Notes field that you'd like At-Event Pick-Up. Your Order will be held under Your Name at Will Call. The cut-off time for Online Ordering is 2:00 PM on the Day of the Event.
EVENT FORMAT: Sally Bedell Smith will discuss her new Book accompanied by a Multimedia Presentation and answer audience questions. A Booksigning follows the Presentation. A Stamped Admission Ticket is required for the Booksigning.
YES, WE SHIP AUTHOR AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS WORLDWIDE! Order a Author Autographed Book below. Your Order will ship within a Day or two of the Author Event. International customers, E-mail Mailbox@RainyDayBooks.com for a shipping quote. We ship using United States Postal Service International Priority Mail.
DISCLAIMER: All Author Event sales are final and non-refundable. Kansas Sales Tax is charged on all Orders, regardless of destination. Unless otherwise indicated, Authors will only Autograph Books purchased from Rainy Day Books and accompanied by a Stamped Admission Ticket. Additional Author Autographed Books will be available for purchase at our Author Event.
EVENT: A BOOK CLUB EVENING featuring Lisa See, who appears for her New York Times Bestselling novel Dreams of Joy.
AUTHOR: Lisa See is the New York Times Bestselling author of Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year. She lives in Los Angeles.
DATE & TIME: Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Village Presbyterian Church, Friendship Hall, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, Kansas 66208.
ADMISSION PACKAGE: $15.00 plus Sales Tax includes One Softcover of Dreams of Joy, One Stamped Admission Ticket, and One Guest Ticket (if needed). If you'd like to pick-up your Order at the door of this Event, choose In-Store Pick-Up as your shipping option and add in the Notes field that you'd like At-Event Pick-Up. Your Order will be held under your name at Will Call. The cut-off time for online ordering is 2:00 PM on the day of the Event.
EVENT FORMAT: This Book Club Evening will begin with a presentation by Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books. Vivien will present a series of Reading Recommendations for Book Clubs. This introductory segment starts at 6:30 PM. Lisa See will then discuss her new Book and answer audience questions. A Booksigning follows the discussion. A Stamped Admission Ticket is required for the Booksigning.
YES, WE SHIP SIGNED COPIES WORLDWIDE! Order a signed copy below. Your Order will ship within a day or two of the Author Event. International customers, E-mail Mailbox@RainyDayBooks.com for a shipping quote. We ship using United States Postal Service International Priority Mail.
DISCLAIMER: All Author Event sales are final and non-refundable. Kansas Sales Tax is charged on all Orders, regardless of destination. Unless otherwise indicated, Authors will only sign Books purchased from Rainy Day Books accompanied by a Stamped Admission Ticket. Additional signed copies are available for purchase at our Author Event.
