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"Admission Packages to Our Author Events Include Tickets and a Book."

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Title of Event: Robin Abrahams for Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners
When: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 7:00 PM
Location: Rainy Day Books, Inc.
Phone: 913-384-3126
Description:

Author:  Robin Abrahams is the Miss Conduct columnist for The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and writes the Socially Scientific column for the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.  A research associate at Harvard Business School, she has also worked as a stand-up comedian and holds a doctorate in psychology.  She and her husband, Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Title:  Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners: Master the Slippery Rules of Modern Ethics and Etiquette, $15.00 Softcover, ISBN 9780805088779, On Sale Date:  May 26, 2009

What:  Robin Abrahams will talk about her New Book, her life, her work, answer audience questions and she will autograph copies of her New Book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.

When:  Wednesday, July 08, 2009, 7:00 PM

Where:  Rainy Day Books in The Fairway Shops, 2706 W 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas 66205

Our Loyal Rainy Day Books Book Club Members read and recommend these authors and their books as the current Rainy Day Books Top 10 Book Club Bestsellers. Rainy Day Books hosts more than 300 authors annually. Book Club Author Events are a unique opportunity to meet & greet your favorite authors and ask them questions. Rainy Day Books supports about 140 book clubs in the Greater Kansas City Area.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Barrows, Annie Fiery, Shaffer, Mary Ann Fiery "" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." "January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends--and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society--born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island--boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. \Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever. Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.

Since 1975, Rainy Day Books, the oldest and wisest Independent Bookseller in Kansas City, has provided the community with a gathering place, a wellspring for creative thoughts and ideas, and an ongoing voice for awareness and literacy.  Rainy Day Books is nationally known for its creative Author Events.  Rainy Day Books is where you will find "Knowledgeable Advice at a Fair Price."

Dark Places by Flynn, Gillian Gillian Flynn has a genius for writing compelling stories about repellent characters. As in her previous novel, Sharp Objects, an Edgar Award finalist, Dark Places focuses on a deeply flawed protagonist, who over the course of the novel, wins some measure of reader sympathy if not empathy. Told alternatively in Libby Day's current search for the killer of her family, which occurred when she was a child, and flashbacks to the events leading up to this horrific event, Dark Places mesmerizes even as it horrifies. An unflinching look at a seldom seen side of America -- the raw struggle of the rural poor, far from the ideal of the family farm. This exceeds the promise shown in Sharp Objects.--Joe, Anderson's Bookshop (Naperville, IL)

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