Author:  Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions.  Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards.  Dave has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship.  He is the author (or co-author) of four books based on Sound Portraits radio stories, including Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and Flophouse.  He and his wife, Jennifer Gonnerman, live in Brooklyn, New York.

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Author:  Dr. Pauline W. Chen attended Harvard University and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and UCLA, where she was most recently a member of the faculty.  In 1999, she was named the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year.  Dr. Chen's first nationally published piece, Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death, appeared in the fall 2005 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and was a finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award.  She is also the 2005 co-winner of the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2002 James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing.  She lives near Boston with her husband and children.

Title:  Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality, $13.95 Softcover, ISBN 9780307275370, On Sale Date:  January 08, 2008.  "Final Exam is a revealing and heartfelt book.  Dr. Pauline W. Chen takes us where few do.  Her tales are also uncommonly moving, most especially when contemplating death and our difficulties as doctors and patients in coming to grips with it." ~ Atul Gawande, author of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science.  Dr. Pauline W. Chen's book, Final Exam, does extremely well not only with support staff, but anyone who has ever had a family member in long term care or palliative care.  Most the letters that Pauline has received have been from relatives of end-of-life patients, writing her to thank her for having such compassion.

What:  Dr. Pauline W. Chen 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:  Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 7:00 PM

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

Admission Package:  $13.95 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of Final Exam (Softcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation.  Please specify your need for One (1) Stamped Ticket and One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) in the Notes field of your Online Order.  If you choose Option 1 for In-Store Pick- Up, then you can specify At-Event Pick-Up in the Notes field of your Online Order.  Ticketed Seating is Limited to 40 so purchase your Admission Packages early.  All 40 Ticketed Seats will be filled by 7:00 PM, and Stand-By Seating will be possible only if there are any Vacancies.  Thank you.  Book Orders can be shipped worldwide.  All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non- Returnable.

Author:  In Honor of Ken Ferguson, his life and the publication of his new Book.

Title:  Ken Ferguson: Talking with the Wheel, $45.00 Hardcover, ISBN 9780979178702, On Sale Date:  2007, Authored by:  Garth Clark, Peter von Ziegesar, Ted Rowland, John Perreault and Ken Ferguson.  Ken's son Russell Ferguson will attend.

What:  A Celebration in Honor of Ken Ferguson.  Ted Rowland and Ken's son Russell Ferguson will discuss Ken's new Book, his life and his work.  Ted and Russell will give us a Multimedia Presentation of Ken's work.  Writer & Critic Peter Von Ziegezar will come in from New York City for this Event.  Also, Ken's wife Gertrude Ferguson will attend our Event as well.

When:  Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 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:  $45.00 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of Ken Ferguson: Talking with the Wheel (Hardcover).  Please specify your need for One (1) Stamped Ticket and One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) in the Notes field of your Online Order.  If you choose Option 1 for In-Store Pick-Up, then you can specify At-Event Pick-Up in the Notes field of your Online Order.  Thank you.  Book Orders can be shipped worldwide.  All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non- Returnable.

Author:  Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions.  Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards.  Dave has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship.  He is the author (or co-author) of four books based on Sound Portraits radio stories, including Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and Flophouse.  He and his wife, Jennifer Gonnerman, live in Brooklyn, New York.

Dave Isay, legendary radio producer, selects the most remarkable stories from an astonishing trove of memories and arranges them thematically into a beautiful mosaic of American life.  The themes of the interviews in this book remind us of the shared humanity that binds us all: Home and Family, Work and Dedication, Journeys, History and Struggle, and Fire and Water (which shares stories from September 11th and Hurricane Katrina).  The voices heard in these interviews connect readers to real people whose lives are filled with extraordinary and ordinary experiences and who remind us that no matter who we are or where we come from, we all share this journey of life.  StoryCorps is making history and Listening Is an Act of Love honors the participants of this revolutionary project and reaches out to those who now have the opportunity to share their lives through storytelling.  The incredibly moving personal stories in this book reveal the real individuals who make up the American storybook and the preciousness of each and every one of our lives.

Title:  Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project, $24.95 Hardcover, ISBN 9781594201400, On Sale Date:  November 01, 2007, also available as an AudioBook on CDs

What:  Dave Isay will give us a Multimedia Presentation, talk about his new book, his life, his work, answer audience questions and he will autograph copies of his new book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.

When:  Thursday, January 31, 2008, 7:00 PM

Where:  A KCUR 89.3 FM, Your Source for NPR News and Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112

Admission Package:  $24.95 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of Listening Is an Act of Love (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation.  Please specify your need for One (1) Stamped Ticket and One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) in the Notes field of your Online Order.  If you choose Option 1 for In-Store Pick-Up, then you can specify At-Event Pick-Up in the Notes field of your Online Order.  Thank you.  Book Orders can be shipped worldwide.  All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non- Returnable.