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03 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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. Visit The Center For Arts And Letters online for more information. Writers' books are available for purchase at events from Rainy Day Books. | ||
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03 / 23
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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. 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. | ||
03 / 24
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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. 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. 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. | ||
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03 / 29
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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. | ||
03 / 30
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Harlan Coben discusses Caught Time: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 7:00 p.m. 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. 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. 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. Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Howard Frank Mosher discusses his new novel Walking To Gatlinburg Time: Tuesday March 30, 2010 6:30 p.m. 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. 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. | ||
03 / 31
Start: 11:30 am
End: 1:30 pm
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. Date and Time: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 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. | ||
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04 / 8
Start: 6:30 pm
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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. 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. Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Andrew Clements unveils We the Children: Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School #1 Time: Thursday, April 8, 2010 6:30 PM 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. | ||
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04 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
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Author: Giada De Laurentiis, celebrated star of the Food Network show "Everyday Italian" appears for her new cookbook Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California. Giada De Laurentiis is the star of "Everyday Italian" on Food Network. She attended the Cordon Bleu in Paris, and then worked in a variety of Los Angeles restaurants, including Wolfgang Puck's Spago, before starting her own catering and private-chef company, GDL Foods. The granddaughter of movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, she was born in Rome and grew up in Los Angeles, where she now lives. She is the author of four previous cookbooks, Everyday Italian, Giada's Family Dinners, Everyday Pasta, and Giada's Kitchen. Title: Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California , $35.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9780307451019, On Sale Date: March 30, 2010. Chapters of this friendly and inviting book are titled by course, such as Appetizers and Desserts, as well as by ingredient and occasion (e.g., brunch). Giada includes straightforward instructions for classic Italian fare, such as steak involtini; Chianti-marinated stew; pecorino and bean salad; and limoncello granita, as well as a selection of such modern dishes as grilled asparagus and melon salad; pea pesto crostini, and lemon hazelnut tiramisù. Chock-full of mouthwatering dishes for easy entertaining (Italian fried olives; whole wheat pita chips with mascarpone-chive dip; and vegetable parmesan), this appealing collection is supplemented with informative, short essays on ingredients including olive oil and dried and fresh herbs.. What: Giada De Laurentiis will be in conversation with Vivien Jennings, Founder & President of Rainy Day Books and talk about Giada's New Book, Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California, her life, her work, and she will answer audience questions. There will be Door Prizes from: Pryde's Old Westport, The Upper Crust, Andre's Confiserie Suisse, Traditions Furniture and Webster House. When: Monday, April 12, 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: $35.00 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Autographed Copy of Giada at Home (Hardcover) to be picked up at the Author Event. All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable. | ||
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