Offsite Event

If you purchased a book and tickets for Garrison Keillor's canceled appearance on October 6, please call us. We will arrange for your new tickets.

 

GARRISON KEILLOR

Discussion and Book Signing
Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance
and A Christmas Blizzard

Sunday, November 29 at 3pm

Dobson High School Auditorium
1501 W. Guadalupe Rd
Mesa, AZ 85202

Doors open at 2pm

Tickets are only available at Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S. McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283. Seating is limited, please call 480.730.0205 or stop in.

Tickets are just $5 with the purchase of one copy of either Pilgrims or A Christmas Blizzard. Up to two (2) $5 tickets can be purchased with each book.


Garrison Keillor is an American treasure. Mixing music, storytelling and humor, Keillor, best known for his weekly radio show A Prairie Home Companion, offers us a lighthearted, but deeply felt, reflection of ourselves. He's written more than 20 books, as well as columns, and with more than 4 million regular listeners, he is credited with single-handedly reviving the virtually lost art of live radio entertainment in America. Keillor will discuss and sign his two latest novels, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance and A Christmas Blizzard.

During the signing portion of the event, enjoy a musical performance by The Close Enough String Band.

 

 

Special Offsite Event -- TEDxPhoenix 2009
Sharing Ideas Worth Spreading
Friday, Nov 6th – 6pm at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa

PLEASE NOTE:
This is an offsite event at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, 1 East Main Street.

Cost: $5, tickets are available on the TEDx Phoenix 2009 site.

Location: 1 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85211

In a series of five 18 minute talks, speakers give the talk of their lifetime as they share their newest and most unique ideas with the end result being an evening of inspiring, entertaining, touching, and life changing talks -- people have described TEDx as a Cirque du Soleil for the mind.
TEDxPhoenix is also a place to meet individuals who want to leverage ideas, education, technology, and design to help create a better future and fuel a local and global conversation around awareness and change.

MORE INFO You can keep up with the TEDxPhoenix community by joining TEDx Phoenix FaceBook page.

Himalayan Quest
Lecture with Mountaineer Ed Viesturs
Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 pm

Called "the ultimate climbing machine" by Men's Journal, preeminent
alpinist Ed Viesturs has summitted Mount Everest seven times, most recently
in May 2009. Four years ago he completed an even more ambitious, 16-year
quest to climb the 14 highest mountains in the world without supplemental
oxygen. Join this legendary mountaineer as he shares his awe-inspiring
experiences.

Changing Hands will sell Viesturs' books Himalayan Quest, K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, and No Shortcuts to the Top. Viesturs will sign books following the presentation.

NG Live events are held at Mesa Arts Center: One East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85201

For tickets, call 480-644-6500 or click here.

 

 

 

 

Special Ticketed Event

Thursday, Nov 12, 7pm

Location: Marcos De Niza High School Auditorium

6000 S Lakeshore Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283

Doors open at 6pm

Purchase your tickets early at Changing Hands Bookstore. Save yourself some time -- call 480.730.0205 or come into Changing Hands and get your ticket(s) and book(s) before the event. Barbara Kingsolver will also sign copies of her previously published books, so don't miss your chance to have her autograph copies of your favorites.

1 Ticket: $34.18 includes one copy of The Lacuna ($26.99 + tax) and one $5 admission ticket.

2 Tickets: $39.18 includes one copy of The Lacuna ($26.99 + tax) and two $5 admission tickets.

Signed books make great holiday gifts.

 

Barbara Kingsolver, the bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, visits with The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years. Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, born in the United States but reared in Mexico, who finds precarious shelter but no sense of home in America. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife Frida Kahlo, and exiled leader Lev Trotsky, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution.

CAN'T MAKE IT? If you'd like an autographed copy of The Lacuna from Barbara Kingsolver, or signed copies of any of her other books, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we'll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.

 

 

 

 

 

OFFSITE: FORKING FANTASTIC      6PM

Zora O’Neill and Tamara Reynolds visit with their new cookbook, Forking Fantastic: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party. Quirky, funny and fresh, it arms intimidated cooks everywhere with the courage, confidence and tools they need to entertain for the sake of food and community, not for the prize of being the best hostess on the block.

Please note: This is an offsite event at Duck & Decanter restaurant in Phoenix, 1651 E Camelback Rd.

Cost: $45, includes book, dinner, and a beverage of choice. Registration and pre-payment required at 602.274.5429.

$70 couple price, dinner and beverage for two, one copy of the book.

Tickets on sale at the Duck & Decanter
602.274.5429. Books can be picked up from the Duck
location: 1651 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85016

OFFSITE - MIKE DOOLEY: INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

Mike Dooley visits with his book Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams. According to Dooley, blood, sweat, and tears aren’t what it takes to see your dreams come true. What’s needed are imagination, belief, and expectation. Only then are you drawn into action and the “coincidences” that make dream manifestation inevitable. “This book is your ticket to living,” says James Van Praagh. “After experiencing Infinite Possibilities, you will never see life from the same perspective.”

 

 

 

 

Please note:

This is an offsite event at Dobson High School, 1501 W. Guadalupe Rd., Mesa 85202.

Cost: $32.03 ticket includes one copy of Infinite Possibilities ($25 + tax) + $5 admission ticket. You can buy up to two $5 tickets per book (2 tickets = $37.03, includes one copy of Infinite Possibilities).

 

Sherman Alexie Presentation is sold out. The booksigning is still open.

You can purchase a book by Sherman Alexie from Changing Hands and come to the Heard at 7:30 pm to meet Sherman and get your book signed.

 

 

SHERMAN ALEXIE: WAR DANCES 6PM

National Book Award winner and bestselling author, film director, screenwriter, comedian and poet Sherman Alexie returns with his signature mix of biting wit and poignant insight to consider modern relationships from the most diverse angles in War Dances (Grove, $23). Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey through the consequences of both simple and monumental life choices, Alexie introduces these personal worlds as they transform beyond return.

This event will be held at:
The Heard Museum
2301 Central Avenue, Phoenix, 85004
in conjunction with NU (Native & You)

PLEASE NOTE: Sherman Alexie Presentation has sold out. The booksigning is still open.

You can purchase a book by Sherman Alexie from Changing Hands and come to the Heard at 7:30 pm to meet Sherman and get your book signed.

ARRIVE EARLY! The museum will be open with free admission, and you can enjoy the music of Tierra del Fuego in the courtyard. The Cafe will offer seating for dinner until 8:30 p.m. The Shop and Berlin Gallery will be open until 8 pm. All of Sheman Alexie's previous books are available for purchase at Changing Hands, and will be available at the Changing Hands table at the Heard Museum on October 16.

CAN'T ATTEND? If you'd like an autographed copy of War Dances or any other books by Sherman Alexie, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we'll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. We can ship them too!

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A benefit for the Pat Tillman Foundation:
Jon Krakauer - Discussion and Booksigning
Saturday, October 3 at 7pm

Jon Krakauer, the bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven, now delivers a stunning, eloquent account of Pat Tillman's remarkable and haunting journey.

In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL Cardinals' contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.

Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman's wife, other family members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. Long after Tillman's nationally televised memorial service, the Army notified his closest relatives that he had "probably" been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble the details of his death and who was responsible.

In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.

Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer's storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war.

This event is a benefit for the Pat Tillman Foundation. Net proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the foundation.

Jon Krakauer will discuss and sign Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. (Doubleday, $27.95). All of Jon Krakauer's books will be available for purchase and signing. Tickets are $36 and include one copy of Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. (Vouchers for Where Men Win Glory will be given out until September 15, when the book is released.) Tickets are only available at Changing Hands Bookstore: 6428 S. McClintock Dr. Tempe, AZ 85283 / 480.730.0205. Can't attend? If you'd like an autographed copy of Where Men Win Glory please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we'll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. We can ship them too.