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Events
02 / 9
Start: 7:00 pm
TEEN EVENT - LISA MCMANN & BECCA FITZPATRICK 7PM Lisa McMann returns to Changing Hands with Gone, the third and final book in her paranormal teen series that includes the New York Times bestsellers Wake and Fade. Joining her is debut novelist Becca Fitzpatrick, with Hush, Hush, which Publishers Weekly calls “a gripping chiller where humans become pawns in the hands of fallen angels .... genuinely, even unsettlingly, seductive -- fans of paranormal romance should be rapt.”
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02 / 10
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:30 pm
TWEEN Peter Lerangis is the author of 150 books, including two volumes in the New York Times
alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited.
480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. Start: 7:00 pm
REBECCA ROSEN: SPIRITED 7PM Psychic medium Rebecca Rosen, whose celebrity clients include Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox, and | ||
02 / 11
Start: 10:15 am
KIDS Start: 7:00 pm
JONATHAN R. COLE: THE GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 7PM Dr. Jonathan R. Cole, former provost of Columbia University, visits with his book, The Great American University: Its Rise to Prominence, Its Indispensible National Role, and Why It Must be Protected. From the development of technologies like the laser, the global positioning system, the MRI, radar, and even Viagra, to predicting weather patterns, American research universities are one of our most vital sources of economic growth and social welfare. They have flourished because of a system that has invested public tax dollars in their work and, more importantly, granted substantial autonomy to funding agencies and the universities. This system, Cole argues, is now under attack, the university’s preeminence endangered by the Patriot Act and other policies. This revelatory and alarming book will show how this vital institution is at risk, and why a threat to the university is a threat to the health and wealth of our nation.
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02 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
Canyon Records and Changing Hands Bookstore present a concert with guitarist Gabriel Ayala and five-time Grammy nominated percussionist Will Clipman. The pair perform selections from Ayala’s CD, Portraits, and Clipman’s Pathfinder. A member of the Yaqui people of southern Arizona, Ayala is at the forefront of a new generation of Native Americans performing classical music. He has studied with Philip Hii and has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Arts, the National Museum for the American Indian, the Kerr Cultural Center, the Meyer Theatre, and other venues throughout the country. Will Clipman, who has mastered a pan-global palette of percussion instruments, has recorded some fifty albums, including twenty-one for Canyon Records, where he is house percussionist. He performs and records with R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton, Nawang Khechog, Gentle Thunder, Mary Redhouse, Ash Dargan, Robert Tree Cody, Randy Wood, Arvel Bird, and Amber Norgaard, among others. In addition to his Grammy nominations, he is a two-time Native American Music Award winner. COST: The purchase, at Changing Hands, of either Portraits or Pathfinder. More info: canyonrecords.com. SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with the purchase of either Portraits or Pathfinder) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed work from any of our author or artist events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.
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02 / 13
Start: 9:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
HANDMADE AZ - EVE’S POUCH SLINGS 9AM-5PM Handmade crafts for baby by Eve Quismorio. Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
FAMILY EVENT - COOKING STORYTIME 11AM-NOON Cynthia Giroux from Storybook Kitchen reads Love Bugs by David Carter, and shows kids Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
TAROT READINGS 5:30-8:30PM “Your Best Path Revealed.” Reader TBA. COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. | ||
02 / 14
Start: 11:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
HANDMADE AZ 11AM-5PM Pillows and totes by Kathy Willis. Start: 1:30 pm
End: 3:00 pm
SIGN LANGUAGE FOR ADULTS 1:30-3PM Cindy Ashcraft teaches signed English to parents and other interested adults. Meets every | ||
02 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
WORKSHOP: LEGAL ISSUES FOR WRITERS & ARTISTS 7-8:30PM Attorney Jennifer Lefere of the Hool Law Group, whose practice is concentrated in the areas of | ||
02 / 16
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
WORKSHOP: SOCIAL MEDIA BASICS 6:30-8:30PM New to social media? This free, interactive wokshop will give you the understanding and tools you need to | ||
02 / 17
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
WORKSHOP: ADVANCED SOCIAL MEDIA 6:30-8:30PM You can’t turn on the TV or read the newspaper these days without hearing about how social media is | ||
02 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
ALLAN HAMILTON, MD: THE SCALPEL AND THE SOUL 7PM Allan Hamilton, MD, visits with his book The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the | ||
02 / 19
Start: 7:00 pm
GABRIEL THOMPSON: WORKING IN THE SHADOWS 7PM Award-winning investigative journalist Gabriel Thompson (There’s No José Here) visits with | ||
02 / 20
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
FAMILY EVENT - PHOENIX ZOO ANIMAL TAILS! 11AM-NOON Representatives from the Phoenix Zoo bring some animal friends to help us explore Arizona. We’ll meet Start: 3:00 pm
[Please note: In-person or phone orders only.] Take what you thought was “rock and roll excess,” double it, and you still wouldn't be anywhere near the dizzying life of Ozzy Osbourne. Born into a life so poor that the entire family slept in one room, music was his salvation, and his band, Black Sabbath, went on to change the musical landscape forever. The inevitable sex and drugs came along with the rock and roll lifestyle, and Ozzy soon fell into an epic relationship with booze and chemicals. The stories of Ozzy’s days on the road are legendary -- biting the head off of a live bat, the tragic plane crash that took the life of his best friend and writing partner Randy Rhoads -- but few know about the real heartbreak he suffered during those days of hard living. I Am Ozzy (Grand Central, $26.99) is the heavy metal pioneer’s unbelievable story told, for the first time, in Ozzy’s hilarious, witty, and inimitable voice. In the end it was love that saved him: the love of his wife Sharon and kids Aimee, Kelly, and Jack. Library Journal raves with a starred review, “Holding back nothing, this is horrific, fascinating, and often hilarious . . . the voice here is pure Ozzy . . . one of the most amazing rock autobiographies of all time.” Book vouchers (required to attend signing) are available only at Changing Hands Bookstore. 480.730.0205. Voucher is good for one copy of I Am Ozzy, redeemable on February 20 at the signing (through March 31, 2010). Voucher is like cash and will not be refunded if lost, stolen, or unused. Due to time constraints, Ozzy will not pause for photos, personalize books or sign memorabilia (shirts, posters, CDs, guitars, etc.). Show your ticket stub next door at Hoodlums Music for your chance to win one of two OZZY PRIZE PACKS and one of 20 gift cards from Hoodlums and Mac's Broiler & Tap.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
INSIGHTS 5:30-8:30PM Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. COST: | ||
02 / 21
Start: 2:00 pm
CHRIS CLEAVE: LITTLE BEE 2PM Novelist and Guardian columnist Chris Cleave, author of the international bestseller Incendiary, visits with his latest, Little Bee, a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers -- one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. According to the Washington Post, “Little Bee will blow you away. [Cleave] has carved two indelible characters whose choices in even the most straitened circumstances permit them dignity -- if they are willing to sacrifice for it. Little Bee is the best kind of political novel: You’re almost entirely unaware of its politics because the book doesn’t deal in abstractions but in human beings.”
SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:45 pm
SPANISH CONVERSATION 3-5:45PM Beginners: 3-4:15pm. Intermediate: 4:30-5:45pm. More info: | ||
02 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
MOM’S NIGHT OUT - TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR MONEY 7PM Caitlyn Fogerty is a Financial Advisor who enjoys teaching women the fundamental concepts of investing | ||
02 / 23
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
WORKSHOP - DISCOVERING FOUND POETRY 6:30-8:30PM Local author and creativity coach Quinn McDonald shows you a variety of ways to use found | ||
02 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
LYNN KLOTZ & ED SYLVESTER: BREEDING BIO INSECURITY 7PM Pulitzer Prize nominated science journalist Ed Sylvester (The Gene Age) and Lynn Klotz, Senior Science | ||
02 / 25
Start: 7:00 pm
TEEN & ADULT EVENT - CYNTHIA WOODTY: SUMMER OF SUNFLOWERS 7PM Cynthia Woodty, who grew up on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona, visits with her independently published debut novel, Summer of Sunflowers. Woodty tells the story of 16-year-old Shannon Scott, who returns to the reservation to spend a summer with her grandmother, expecting a peaceful vacation and a break from her hectic city life in L.A. What she encounters instead is a dramatic summer of shocking and unexpected events -- a surprise visit from strangers, the murder of a local Navajo man, a new love interest, and a flood of bad memories she thought she’d tucked away for good.
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02 / 26
Start: 6:00 pm
COMMUNITY MOVIE NIGHT - HIGH: THE TRUE TALE OF AMERICAN MARIJUANA 6PM With a hand stamp you’ll receive at the screening, you’re entitled to post-show discounts from several | ||
02 / 27
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
FAMILY EVENT - SCIENCE STORYTIME 11AM-1PM Representatives from the Arizona Science Center visit for some sweet-“heart” fun! We’ll read the classic Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
FAMILY EVENT - KIDS’ MUSIC DAY 1-3PM Guest musician Maureen Conlin from Happy Notes Music presents a puppet and music program featuring Sandy Boynton's One Shoe Blues. Games, crafts and snacks for all! Start: 4:00 pm
TEEN Jillian Cantor, author of The September Sisters, visits with her new teen novel The Life of Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
TAROT READINGS 5:30-8:30PM Mystic Journeyz "Your Angels are Waiting" with Suzie Coggins. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. More info: www.MysticJourneyz.com or 480.626.1077. | ||
02 / 28
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
CLUB READ - POLLY HORVATH: MY 100 ADVENTURES & NORTHWARD TO THE MOON 2-3PM Great books, special events, prize giveaways, contests, tasty treats, author visits and other fun stuff -- it’s all part of our Club Read program for kids, and you’re invited. Join today and start earning points redeemable for some great prizes! National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner Polly Horvath visits to discuss My 100 Adventures with Club Read members and talk about her new book Northward to the Moon, which continues the story of Jane from My 100 Adventures. Jane is 12 years old and ready for adventure, to move beyond the world of her siblings and single mother and their house by the sea. Over the summer, adventures do seem to find her, whether it’s a thrilling ride in a hot-air balloon, the appearances of a slew of possible fathers, or a weird new friendship with a preacher and psychic wannabe. Most important, there’s Jane’s discovery that lies at the heart of all great adventures: it’s not what happens to you that matters, but what you learn about yourself. Polly Horvath will sign all of her books. She is the author of twelve books, including Everything on a Waffle.
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03 / 1
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03 / 2
Start: 7:00 pm
Legendary local author and crafter Kathy Cano-Murillo, aka “The Crafty Chica,” visits with her debut novel, Waking Up in the Land of Glitter. The Craft Olympics is coming to Arizona, and struggling Ofelia is determined to bring home the gold. As the competition heats up and Ofy, her friend Estella, and their rival Chloe are forced to team up, Estrella will learn Chloe's dirty little secret, why crafting means so much to Ofelia, and that beauty, art, and creativity can take on many more forms than canvas in a gallery. Cano-Murillo writes from experience -- she has seven craft books under her belt, a web series on LifetimeTV.com, appearances on HGTV and NPR, and an extensive Crafty Chica craft line. More info: craftychica.com SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. | ||
03 / 3
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03 / 4
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
KIDS Start: 7:00 pm
Dive into the broad and beckoning world of yoga with teacher and author Meta Chaya Hirschl, who demonstrates her yoga techniques and explains how yoga can change your world. She asks readers to connect to their inner selves, quiet the mind, and harness their own power to achieve bliss and transcend fear, emotional turmoil, and attachment to the stresses of everyday life. Hirschl’s presentation includes photographs, images and stories of transformation, and advice on how to use her book, Vital Yoga: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers.
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03 / 5
Start: 7:00 pm
Sheilah Britton reads original poems and collaborative work done with Poesia del Sol, a partnership between the Mayo Clinic’s Humanities in Medicine program and the Arizona State University Creative Writing department. Open reading follows.
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03 / 6
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Today, we’ll hear a story about the Cat in the Hat, then take picures with the Cat himself!
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Join us for the Mad Hatter's Un-Birthday Party in honor of the new Tim Burton film, Alice in Wonderland. Come dressed as your favorite Alice in Wonderland character, and decorate your own un-birthday cake. Settle in for storytime under Alice’s tree and rest up for the Paint the Roses Red Relay Race. Oodles of fun with snacks and games! Don't be late!
Start: 4:00 pm
John Murphy, international business consultant and author of the independently published Beyond Doubt: Four Steps to Inner Peace, introduces a four-step model, "The Ring of Peace," to help you release tension, anxiety and grief. Using these simple steps, Murphy says, can help you live a life of "honest, genuine peace, deep stillness, boundless joy and imperturbability in any situation." More info: www.johnjmurphy.net.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: 602.840.2222.
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03 / 7
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 2:30 pm
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03 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
Ernest Michel tells the story of his miraculous survival in Promises Kept: One Man’s Journey Against Incredible Odds. Michel spent five and a half years in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Seven months later, he went from writing death certificates to reporting on the Nuremberg trials and attending an interview with top Nazis, coming face-to-face with the likes of Hermann Göring. In 1981, Michel became the initiator and chairman of the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, which was attended by 6,000 survivors and their families from all over the world. Event co-sponsored by Temple Emanuel. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. Start: 7:00 pm
Workshop one of your original poems once a month with a group of peers. More info: jedesign2004@yahoo.com.
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03 / 9
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Got stuff? Bestselling author Donna Smallin, aka “The One-Minute Organizer,” shares simple, creative strategies to de-clutter, de-stress, and simplify your life. Find out how getting your brain in gear is the first step to getting organized, why breaking up (with our stuff) is hard to do and how to make it easier. With tips from The One-Minute Organizer: A to Z Storage Solutions: 500 Tips for Storing Every Item in Your Home, Smallin helps you to find at least one simple idea you can implement right away so you can enjoy immediate results. More info: www.unclutter.com. Start: 7:00 pm
Discover how the process of uncluttering and organizing can simplify your life! Donna Smallin (aka The One-Minute Organizer), author of eight books including The One-Minute Organizer: A to Z Storage Solutions, shares simple, creative strategies to de-clutter and de-stress your life in the new year. More info: www.unclutter.com.
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03 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
Explore the illustrating, marketing, and publishing processes involved in creating first-rate children's picture books with illustrator Tanja Bauerle, illustrator Lynne Avril, author/illustrator Chris Gall, and author Conrad Storad. Moderated by Changing Hands' children's book buyer Brandi Stewart.
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03 / 11
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
KIDS EVENT: Start: 3:30 pm
Chelsea Handler, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea, visits with her new book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang. Life doesn’t get more hilarious than when Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her own late night talk show (E!’s Chelsea Lately)? Now, in this new collection of original essays, Handler delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it’s writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. Chelsea also performs at the Dodge Theater tonight at 8. PLEASE NOTE: This is a booksigning only. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to form the booksigning line. Chelsea Handler can personalize books, but will be unable to pose for photographs or sign memorabilia. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. Start: 7:00 pm
From Walmart drag parties, renegade Homemakers’ Clubs, and online chat rooms, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today’s rural queer youth. Mary Gray, Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University at Bloomington, illustrates that against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly and vibrantly work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them. Out in the Country is a timely and groundbreaking ethnographic study of sexuality and gender, new media, youth culture, and the meaning of identity and social movements in a digital age.
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03 / 12
Start: 12:00 pm
Author and Columbia University professor Lee Lowenfish visits with his book, The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball's Labor Wars. From the reserve clause of 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation’s history. In The Imperfect Diamond, Lowenfish tells the stories of the players and their opponents -- the powerful team owners. He discusses the Players League Rebellion of 1890, the rise and fall of David Fultz and the Baseball Players Fraternity, the iron-fisted regime of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the founding of the Baseball Players Association, the midseason strike of 1981, the 1994-95 strike that wiped out the World Series, and much more.
Start: 7:00 pm
Cognitive behavioral therapist James P. Krehbiel, EdS, visits with his book Troubled Childhood, Triumphant Life: Healing from the Battle Scars of Youth. Instead of dealing with childhood trauma, Krehbiel argues, many adults try to erase it by seeking the approval of parents who were absent, abusive, or dysfunctional. They act out and risk repeating this destructive cycle with their own children. Drawing from his own clinical and personal experiences, Krehbiel provides tools for untangling the past through self-reflection, recognition, and grieving. More info: www.krehbielcounseling.com.
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03 / 13
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Top o’ the mornin’ to you! St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, so today Cynthia Giroux from Storybook Kitchen reads The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day by Natasha Wing and shows kids how to make their own leprechaun treats!
Start: 2:00 pm
As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio. Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. Inspired by faith but applicable to anyone trying to be good, these personal, unflinching stories are full of surprising revelations and observations of the community in which Boyle works and of the many lives he has helped save. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another. Father Gregory Boyle has received California Peace Prize, the “Humanitarian of the Year” Award from Bon Appétit, the Caring Institute’s 2007 Most Caring People Award; and received the 2008 Civic Medal of Honor from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Mystic Journeyz with Suzie Coggins. "Your Angels are Waiting." Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. More info: MysticJourneyz.com and 480.626.1077. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
As part of a series of regional conventions, Storycasting, the premier “fantasy casting” website, sponsors a free Storycasting meetup and signing. Eight Arizona authors and a crowd of storycasters will meet, discuss fantasy casting, sign books, and talk about related topics. Authors attending: Aprilynne Pike (Wings), Marsha Ward (Trail of Storms), Frank Fiore (Cyberkill), Dan Shaurette (Lilith's Love), Marcia Fine (Stressed in Scottsdale), and Shonnovan Mitchell (Emery). Snacks provided. The first 25 attendees will receive a free Storycasting T-shirt. FREE. RVSP: meetup.com/Storycasting- RegionalConventions.
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03 / 14
Start: 11:00 am
“Getting Involved 101.” Volunteer opportunities with Hands-On Greater Phoenix. More info: 602.973.2212 x237.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, local author Janet Ruth signs her historical romance novel, Brenin’s Crown: A Celtic Romance. Set in the fifth-century British Isles, the novel tells the story of a woman torn between her love for a man and her desire to protect her father’s kingdom. PLEASE NOTE: This is a signing-only event.
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 3:00 pm
SIGN LANGUAGE FOR ADULTS 1:30-3PM Cindy Ashcraft teaches Signed English to parents and other interested adults. Meets every second and fourth Sunday. COST: $5 per class. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. More info: 480.472.6203. | ||
03 / 15
Start: 6:00 pm
“Getting Involved 101.” Volunteer opportunities with Hands-On Greater Phoenix. More info: 602.973.2212 x237.
Start: 7:00 pm
Meg Mullins, author of the The Rug Merchant, an award-winning short story featured in The Best American Short Stories 2002, returns with the follow-up novel, Dear Strangers, “a bittersweet, poignant, and curious tale about how strangers can impact our lives, and how love and forgiveness have the power to renew” (Booklist). And Jamie Ford visits with his New York Times bestselling debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, set during the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Says Garth Stein, “Especially relevant in today's world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel.” Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. | ||
03 / 16
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
A two-session series for readers, writers, and lovers of books. Writing coach and editor Pamela R. Goodfellow, PhD, explores the patterns of what makes a bestselling novel, tracing the history of the bestseller and discussing important perspectives on the books that have shaped publishing in America -- from Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans to Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees. Cost: $50 for the 2 sessions. Meets Tuesdays, March 16 and 30. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. More info: pamela@goodfellowpublishing.com or 480-276-0957.
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03 / 17
Start: 7:00 pm
1998 Winter Olympics gold medalist Nikki Stone visits with her book When Turtles Fly: Secrets of Successful People Who Know When to Stick Their Necks Out. Two years before her big win in Nagano, Japan (in inverted aerial skiing), Stone suffered from a chronic spinal injury that prevented her from even standing. Still she went on to earn 35 World Cup medals, 14 World Cup titles, 4 national titles, and a world championship. Stone shares the techniques she used to overcome her hardship, helping readers realize and reach their own personal and professional goals. When Turtles Fly takes a few of Stone’s key secrets to success and shows how these simple rules can be found in the inspiring stories of 40 other talented individuals, including designer Tommy Hilfiger, Olympian Shaun White, Prince Albert of Monaco, Celebrity Chef Todd English, Olympian Lindsey Vonn, and more. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. Start: 7:30 pm
AND present Army Ants & Flying Frogs with Ecologist & Photographer Mark Moffett Wednesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. Single event tickets begin at $26.00 Click here for more information on March 17 event. Click here for direct link to purchase tickets. Mark Moffett One of only a handful of people to earn a Ph.D. under the world’s most famous ecologist, E.O. Wilson, Moffett has produced over two dozen articles for National Geographic magazine. His third book, Adventures Among Ants, will be published in May 2010. Changing Hands customers are invited to enter to win two VIP tickets to National Geographic Live! with Mark Moffett at Mesa Arts Center on March 17th! Winner will be notified on March 12th. Good luck! CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. Changing Hands will sell Moffett's, Adventures Among Ants, and Face to Face with Frogs and he will sign books following the presentation.
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03 / 18
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
KIDS EVENT: STORYTIME 10:15 - 10:45AM Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Trained sexuality educators help parents become familiar with sexual development across the lifespan and examine their own values and attitudes related to their role as the primary sexuality educators of their children. Free workshop provided by the nonprofit Planned Parenthood Arizona. RSVP required: Yolanda at ychavez@ppaz.org or 602.263.4230.
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03 / 19
Start: 7:00 pm
Tempe author Cat Parenti-Hammad launches her new book Afghanistan: Blood and Honor, A Memoir from Brooklyn to Kabul. She also shares a slideshow documenting the culture of Afghanistan from 1968 to 1974. Parenti-Hammad lived in Afghanistan on-and-off for twenty years, as a businesswoman, wife, and women’s advocate. Today, her greatest desire is to minimize troop loss while assisting in the reconstruction of a free and democratic Afghanistan. Currently, she works with NATO to raise awareness about Afghan culture. | ||
03 / 20
Start: 9:00 am
Author-illustrator Brooke Bessesen leads a hike and visual scavenger hunt for children eight years and up (with an adult companion) to introduce kids to a whole new world -- the great outdoors. Bessesen is a naturalist, certified veterinary technician, and wildlife rescue volunteer. Zachary Z. Packrat and His Amazing Collections is her second of three children's books published by Arizona Highways. COST: $35 for one child and one adult. $7 for each additional child or adult. Admission includes one copy of Zachary Z. Packrat and a supply of water. This simple hike will be on the Lost Dog Wash Trail Head in the McDowell Mountains, approximately 4 hours and 4 miles. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Can you make animal sounds? Today, we explore the noises different animals make!
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Dzanc Day is sponsored by Dzanc Press to generate income to allow the press to award the annual Dzanc Prize and to run Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Programs in schools across the country. Today we’ll discuss the craft of writing short stories and novels, the writing life, and the business of writing. Workshop facilitator Jennifer Spiegel, author of the forthcoming The Freak Chronicles, leads exercises, and Bhira Backhaus, author of Under the Lemon Trees, reads from her novel and discusses the publishing process. COST: $50. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: www.dzancbooks.org. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Have a new book idea? Ready to do another printing of a present volume? Talk to our buyer and get expert advice about shelf appeal before it's too late to make changes. You can bring sample covers, an abstract, and questions regarding marketing or how to contact bookstores about carrying your work. COST: $25 for 15 minutes with either our Children's Buyer or our Adult buyer. More info: 480.730.0205.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: 602.840.2222.
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03 / 21
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:00 pm
A philosophical discussion group based on the book Socrates Café by Christopher Phillips. More info: Wendy at dish@cox.net.
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:45 pm
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03 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
New Mexico State University professor Marsha Weisiger presents her book Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, which tells the story of one of the most notorious events in Navajo history: the livestock reduction program of the 1930s. Hundreds of thousands of Navajo goats, sheep, and horses were killed in an attempt to eliminate overgrazing on the Navajo reservation, yet Weisiger argues that federal officials worsened matters, resulting in a collective memory of trauma, a rejection of range conservation policies, and a chronic wasteland.
Start: 7:00 pm
Trisha Lucas, Education Director for Desert Sun Child Development Center, presents what she feels is the best answer to parents’ questions about discipline. Lucas has seen this method work both at her school and with her own children. Presented in coordination with MomsZone.org. More info: MomsZone.org.
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03 / 23
Start: 7:00 pm
Do your friendships, parenting skills, or love life need refreshing? Arizona substance abuse counselor Clint Stonebraker, author of Connected: The Art of Building Relationships, provides a path to creating lasting relationships based on a personal definition of success, not a script handed down by families or society. More info: clintstonebraker.com.
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03 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Pinna Joseph, chanter, sound artist and Yoga of the Voice™ instructor, presents an evening of creating sacred space by sounding your own voice. Tonight's workshop includes vocal meditation and call-and-response chants from the Buddhist, Hindu, Hebrew and Brazilian traditions. No previous singing experience necessary. COST: $20. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205.
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03 / 25
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
KIDS EVENT: STORYTIME 10:15 - 10:45AM Start: 7:00 pm
Stop misplacing your keys once and for all! In his new book, The Brain Training Revolution: A Proven Workout for Healthy Brain Aging, Paul E. Bendheim, MD, tackles age-associated memory loss with his unique three-part program for healthy brain life. From daily thinking games to a medically proven “brain healthy” diet, Bendheim gives readers everything they need to stay sharp, enhance memory and other cognitive functions, and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. Bendheim, an internationally recognized neurologist and leading authority on Alzheimer’s, is founder of the evidence-based brain-health firm BrainSavers LLC.
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03 / 26
Start: 6:00 pm
Capitalism: A Love Story. With a hand stamp you’ll receive at the screening, you’re entitled to post-show discounts from several merchants here in the Tempe Square shopping center: Baskin Robbins, Wildflower Bread Company, Mac’s Broiler & Tap, Hoodlums, and Changing Hands Bookstore.
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03 / 27
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Arizona Science Center visits to lead some fun solar activities and read The Kids' Solar Energy Book by Tilly Spetgang.
Start: 1:00 pm
Bret “Hitman” Hart signs his book The Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling. Hart competed as both a villain and a fan-favorite during his professional wrestling career and is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. The Hitman is, almost literally, a blow-by-blow account of that legendary career, with detailed descriptions of the choreography of many of his most prominent matches in the former World Wrestling Foundation. PLEASE NOTE: This is a signing only. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to form the booksigning line. Bret Hart will pose for photographs and sign memorabilia excluding dolls and wresting belts. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. Show your signing ticket next door at Hoodlums Music for your chance to win a Bret Hart Prize Pack. You can also purchase a copy of the DVD Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows at Hoodlums Music and get it signed at Changing Hands.
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Mystic Journeyz with Suzie Coggins. “Your Angels are Waiting.” COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. MysticJourneyz.com, 480.626.1077.
Start: 7:00 pm
CHRISTOPHER MOORE: BITE ME! 7PM Christopher Moore is the New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels, including Lamb, A Dirty Job, and Fool. Tonight, he returns with Bite Me!, the sequel to Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck. This time, Abigail Von Normal — mysterious teen queen of the San Francisco night scene and backup mistress of Tommy, the unintentional vampire — is back to lead you through the third book in the San Francisco Vampire trilogy. Learn what happens to Tommy, Jody, the Vampire Flood, Chet the Enormous Cat, The Smurfette, the Animals, and all of your other favorite characters! | ||
03 / 28
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 3:00 pm
SIGN LANGUAGE FOR ADULTS 1:30-3PM Cindy Ashcraft teaches Signed English to parents and other interested adults. Meets every second and fourth Sunday. COST: $5 per class. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. More info: 480.472.6203. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Why does the magic of ancient Egypt continue to enthrall us? Did an advanced predynastic culture build the pyramids and Sphinx? What was the true purpose of the Great Pyramid? Is mainstream archeology on the brink of a major change? In this workshop, Jeri Castronova, PhD, author of the independently published supernatural thriller Code of the King: A Deadly Search for Ancient Wisdom, explores alternate views of history based on new discoveries and her own research and personal experiences. Writers will explore the mystical writing techniques employed by the author. COST: $20. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: www.jericastronova.com.
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03 / 29
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03 / 30
Start: 6:00 pm
Volunteer opportunities with Hands-On Greater Phoenix. More info: 602.973.2212 x237.
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03 / 31
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04 / 1
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
Storytime for preschoolers Thursdays at 10:15am. Also join us for:
Start: 7:00 pm
Join us on an unforgettable trip to Spain with one of the most in-demand flamenco guitarists in America. Chris Burton Jácome, whose music is featured in the Emmy Award-winning PBS special Flamenco and on ABC’s Greek, celebrates the release of his new CD, Levanto, with flamenco dancers and singers presenting songs from the album live. Levanto captures the raw emotion of flamenco with its rhythmical footwork, passionate vocals and blistering guitar work. More info: www.chrisburtonjacome.com. SEATING & ADMISSION begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with CD purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the signing line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. | ||
04 / 2
Start: 7:00 pm
ASU MFA candidate Hugh Martin reads from his forthcoming chapbook So, How Was the War? Hugh served six years in the National Guard, one of which was in Iraq. These poems come from that experience. Open reading follows. | ||
04 / 3
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Bring your cameras, because Corduroy the bear and B. G. Hennessy, author of Corduroy Lost and Found, are stopping by with Hennessy’s classic picture book Corduroy’s Easter. Start: 2:00 pm
This month we’re talking about The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute is a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms. What if you found a key that allowed you to shrink yourself small enough to sneak inside and explore their secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind? CLUB READ BADGE HOLDERS: Get 3 bonus points for attending, and 1 point when you purchase The Sixty-Eight Rooms at Changing Hands. Don’t have a free Club Read badge? Ask us how to get one! Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Novelist Howard Frank Mosher will be presenting his entertaining and informative slide show/talk, Transforming History into Fiction: the Story of a Born Liar, which explores the evolution of a true story into an entirely invented novel, with particular emphasis on research and revision and the mysterious metamorphosis of real, historical events and individuals into fictional characters. Howard Frank Mosher is the author of ten acclaimed novels and a travel memoir. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “a combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison,” Mosher is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the New England Book Award, the ACLU Excellence in the Arts Award, and Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. Mosher's website: http://www.howardfrankmosher.com/
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: 602.840.2222. | ||
04 / 4
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:45 pm
Beginners: 3-4:15pm. Intermediate: 4:30-5:45pm. More info: martha@languagesynergy.com. | ||
04 / 5
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:15 pm
Join us for a six-week writing workshop for girls in grades 7-12 with former copy editor and New York Times freelancer Tricia Parker. Participants write fiction and nonfiction based on a variety of exercises, then discuss and edit each other’s work in a creative, supportive environment. PLEASE NOTE: This workshop meets six times on Mondays: April 5, 12, 19, 26 and May 3 and 10. COST: $60 for 6 sessions. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205.
Start: 7:00 pm
David Delgado Shorter, an associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, presents We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances. Based on fifteen years of research among the Yaqui (Yoeme) Indians of Arizona and Mexico, Shorter examines controversial anthropologist Carlos Castaneda’s claim that the Yaqui have “a way of knowing” that is different from those in Western society. Through journal writing, personal narrative and interviews, Shorter reveals new meanings of the legend of the Talking Tree and the Testamento—a collection of narrative accounts of history and myth. More info: www.davidshorter.com. | ||
04 / 6
Start: 7:00 pm
2009 American Book Award-winner Stella Pope Duarte (If I Die in Juarez) presents a gathering of “Phoenix street society” as she reads from her new collection, Women Who Live in Coffee Shops and Other Stories. Dedicated to the invisible city-dwellers of the world, it details life amid the urban sprawl of Phoenix, where Duarte’s colorful characters uncover secrets, confront demons, tell heart-warming tales, and wreak hilarious havoc as they reinvent themselves on “Phoenix’s meanest streets.” More info: StellaPopeDuarte.com.
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04 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
Barb Rogers visits with her memoir If I Die Before I Wake: A Memoir of Drinking and Recovery. Rogers begins with the tragic death of her teenage son, and delves into the horror that was her life to that point—substance abuse, emotional abuse, even homelessness. If Die Before I Wake is not about survival of the fittest but, according to Rogers, about “the weak, the hopeless, the helpless, the truly addicted, not only to substances but to drama, anger, excuses, and justifications.” Rogers became a professional costume designer after beginning her journey of recovery. She is the founder of Broadway Bazaar Costumes and author of Clutter Junkie No More, Keep it Simple and Sane, and three books about costuming. | ||
04 / 8
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
Storytime for preschoolers Join us for bilingual (Spn/Eng) storytime at 10:15am on the second Thursday of each month. See also: Start: 7:00 pm
Tonight, Gayle Forman visits with her new teen novel, If I Stay. In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident, she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family; then, in a blink of an eye, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck. If I Stay is a layered and emotionally moving story about the power of family and friends, the choices we make—and the ultimate choice Mia commands. Forman is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in teen and social-justice issues. Her articles have been featured in magazines such as Seventeen, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour. | ||
04 / 9
Start: 12:00 pm
Enjoy a lunch of sandwiches and salads from the Wildflower Bread Company while Robert Goolrick presents his #1 New York Times bestseller, A Reliable Wife. In 1909, businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for “a reliable wife.” But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she’s not the simple, honest woman Ralph is expecting. Her plan is simple: win Ralph’s devotion, then poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. But Ralph has some unexpected plans of his own. A Reliable Wife spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardback, was selected as the #1 Indie Next Pick and the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year. PLEASE NOTE: free lunch coupons available with book purchase. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Non-profit comedy troupe Off The Cuff presents a free, family-friendly improv comedy show. OTC always gives a high-energy show, created from audience suggestions. If you enjoy improv comedy in the style of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, you’ll love it!
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04 / 10
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
In honor of National Poetry Month, Cynthia Giroux from Storybook Kitchen reads some fun poems from Jack Prelutsky’s A Pizza the Size of the Sun and shows kids how to make their own mini pizzas. Start: 3:00 pm
Lynn Reardon, founder of L.O.P.E. (LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers), presents her book Beyond the Homestretch: What I’ve Learned from Saving Racehorses. It’s a vivid inside look into the world of horse racing—complete with colorful horses, jockeys, trainers and gallop girls—that shows how a woman’s transformation from city-slicker to ranch-hand gave her new insights as she developed relationships with horses. More info: www.beyondthehomestretch.com.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Mystic Journeyz with Suzie Coggins. “Your Angels are Waiting.” COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment: 480.730.0205. Info: MysticJourneyz.com or 480.626.1077. | ||
04 / 11
Start: 11:00 am
Volunteer opportunities with Hands-On Greater Phoenix. More info: 602.973.2212 x237. Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:45 pm
Cindy Ashcraft teaches signed English to parents and other adults. Meets every second and fourth Sunday. Beginners: 1-1:45pm. Intermediate: 2-2:45pm. Start: 2:00 pm
Tickets available at TicketMaster Get discounts! Use code TPO20 under promotions and special codes and receive a ticket for $20, or use code MAX10 to receive a premium ticket for $35. | ||
04 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
Travel writer Christy Karras and photojournalist Stephen Zusy present Motorcycle Touring in the Southwest, a guidebook and slideshow that includes Arizona, Utah, southwestern Colorado, the Four Corners region, Las Vegas, and New Mexico. This is not your average travel guide, although the authors made sure it’s full of useful information, colorful photos, maps, and detailed ride descriptions. It’s spiced up with anecdotes from their journeys, personal observations, and other tidbits you won’t find anywhere else. Karras and Zusy will answer questions, tell stories, share photos, and give a sneak peek of their next book, Motorcycle Touring in the Pacific Northwest. More info: www.roadwriters.com. Start: 7:00 pm
Workshop one of your original poems once a month with a group of peers. More info: jedesign2004@yahoo.com. | ||
04 / 13
Start: 7:00 pm
Botanist and plant pathologist David Deardorff and photographer Kathryn Wadsworth present their book What’s Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?). Dealing with a sick plant is one of the most frustrating situations a gardener can face. More often than not, we have no idea what’s causing the problem, or how to fix it. What’s Wrong With My Plant? provides an easy system for diagnosing any problem and matching it to the right cure. Whether your garden consists of herbs on a kitchen windowsill, a vegetable garden, an elaborate backyard border, or a container on a patio, What’s Wrong With My Plant? is an indispensable resource. | ||
04 / 14
Start: 6:30 pm
Master Stephen Co, author of Your Hands Can Heal You, visits to discuss harnessing Prana (the “chi” or “life force”) with crystals and gemstones. Master Co, senior disciple and student of Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, the founder of Pranic Healing, demonstrates techniques with audience participation and refers to the teachings of Master Choa Kok Sui in Pranic Crystal Healing. More info: www.pranichealing.com. PLEASE NOTE: Booksigning starts at 6:30pm, lecture follows at 7pm. SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. | ||
04 / 15
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
Storytime for preschoolers Thursdays at 10:15am. Also join us for:
Start: 3:30 pm
Stephen Fried visits the Heard Museum and speaks about his newest book, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. A pivotal figure of the West in the 19th century, Fred Harvey was a businessman, entrepreneur, historic figure and collector of American Indian Art. Find out more about Fred Harvey, his family and his legacy today when Fried is interviewed by Heard curator Diana Pardue. Booksigning follows. More info: www.heard.org. Start: 7:00 pm
Frank Meeink (whose life story partly inspired Edward Norton's performance in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X) visits with his book, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, a raw telling of his descent into America’s Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank’s violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made him easy prey for a small group of skinhead gang recruiters. By sixteen he had become one of the most notorious skinhead gang leaders on the East Coast, and by eighteen he was doing hard time. Teamed up with African-American players in a prison football league, Frank learned to question his hatred, and after being paroled he defected from the white supremacy movement and began speaking on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League. A story of fighting the demons of hatred and addiction, Frank's downfall and ultimate redemption has the power to open hearts and change lives. SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. | ||
04 / 16
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Local artists present musical acts representing a variety of styles. Co-sponsored by Hoodlums Music and Movies.
Approximate times for Music Night on Friday 4/16/2010 6:30pm Jenny Turner & Dave Anderson - voices & guitars 6:42pm Alma Varon - violin / classical, mariachi, fiddling 6:55pm Michelle White & Barbershop Quartet 7:08pm Michele Von Haugg - clarinet solo and dancer - "Capriccio" by Heinrich Sutermeister 7:20pm Sara Feipel - voice & guitar 7:32pm Ben Jacobs - singer/songwriter -The Little Miracles of Misanthropy 8:10pm Pinna Joseph - voice & instrumentation 8:22pm Improv | ||
04 / 17
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
The Rainforest is a beautiful place—but it’s disappearing! What can you do to help out our earth and the amazing animals that live here? Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: 602.840.2222. | ||
04 / 18
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:00 pm
A philosophical discussion group based on the book Socrates Café by Christopher Phillips. More info: dish@cox.net. Start: 10:30 am
End: 5:30 pm
Robert Schwartz, author of Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, discusses why our lives unfold as they do and how to direct them to a deeper place. Intuitives Staci Wells and Corbie Mitleid, two of the mediums featured in the book, will discuss karma and creating your best self now, lead the audience in guided meditations, and share with select members of the audience information from Spirit about their pre-birth plans and those past lives important to this incarnation.
Cost: $55. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: yoursoulsplan.com.
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:45 pm
Beginners: 3-4:15pm. Intermediate: 4:30-5:45pm. More info: martha@languagesynergy.com. | ||
04 / 19
Start: 6:00 pm
Volunteer opportunities with Hands-On Greater Phoenix. More info: 602.973.2212 x237. Start: 7:00 pm
Newbery Medal winner Karen Cushman (The Midwife’s Apprentice and Catherine, Called Birdy) visits with her latest historical novel, Alchemy and Meggy Swann. Meggy has newly arrived in London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy’s mother was glad to be rid of her; and her father, who sent for her, doesn’t want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London, dirty and noisy, full of rogues and thieves, and difficult to get around in—not that getting around is ever easy for someone who walks with the help of two sticks. While her alchemist father pursues his Great Work of transforming base metal into gold, Meggy finds herself pursuing her own transformation. Start: 7:00 pm
Fitness blogger Jennifer Myers, owner of Stroller Strides, shows how busy moms can get moving, even while juggling children at the same time! More info: www.MomsZone.org. | ||
04 / 20
Start: 7:00 pm
Author Victoria Holmes, one of the four women known by the collective pseudonym “Erin Hunter,” visits with the second book in the Omen of the Stars series: Fading Echoes. Three ThunderClan cats, Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovepaw are prophesied to hold the power of the stars in their paws. Now they must work together to unravel the meaning behind the ancient words of the prophecy. But the dark shadows that have preyed on the Clan for many moons still lurk just beyond the forest. Soon, a mysterious visitor will walk in one cat’s dreams, whispering promises of greatness, with results that will change the future of ThunderClan in ways that no cat could have foreseen. SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. | ||
04 / 21
Start: 7:00 pm
Local physician Ken Jackson visits to launch his independently-published Southwest suspense novel, Manifest West. When Dr. Michael Ganson makes a daring decision to save one life at the risk of another, he discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. While mounting his defense to a devastating malpractice suit and fighting his own demons, Ganson finds work on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. There, the recent disappearance of an Anglo boy and his link to Bronco Dazen, a once-revered medicine man turned local pariah, has made national news. Did Dazen, a man marginalized by his own people, commit murder? Together, Ganson and Dazen—two men accused of the unthinkable—must overcome their differences on a journey into the heart of the Apache people where they walk the thin line between guilt and innocence. More info: www.manifestwest.net. | ||
04 / 22
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
Storytime for preschoolers Thursdays at 10:15am. Also join us for:
Start: 7:00 pm
April is National Autism Awareness Month. Tonight we present a panel of experts to discuss the ups and downs of raising children on the autism spectrum. Panelists include Lisa Masters, author of The Funny Side of Autism and a single mom of two boys with autism; speech and language pathologist Karen Habgood; and Erik M. Francis, MEd, MS, who has trained with the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center’s Jump Start Program. Each shares ideas for achieving goals, coping, and how to use the services made available to families of autistic individuals. PLEASE NOTE: A portion of the proceeds from the sale of The Funny Side of Autism go to the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC). | ||
04 / 23
Start: 6:00 pm
Free screening of How to Draw a Bunny, about reclusive and enigmatic artist Ray Johnson, one of the seminal artists of the Pop Art movement. Johnson, who has been called “the most famous unknown artist in America,” took individuality to a new level with art that infused pop-culture images, collages and rubber stamps. With a hand stamp you’ll receive at the screening, you’re entitled to post-show discounts from several Tempe Square merchants: Baskin Robbins, Wildflower Bread Co., Mac’s Broiler & Tap, Hoodlums, and Changing Hands Bookstore. | ||
04 / 24
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
The Arizona Science Center visits to lead hand-on activities for kids and read There's Nothing to Do on Mars by Chris Gall. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Career and workplace expert Susan Morem visits with her updated 101 Tips for Graduates: A Code of Conduct for Success and Happiness in Your Professional Life with advice on everything from how to succeed on a job to how to have a meaningful career while balancing life and work priorities. This edition also includes new tips on technology and helps readers learn how to avoid the pitfalls of online procrastination while effectively using the internet to aid job hunting. Please note: This is a signing only event! Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Mystic Journeyz with Suzie Coggins. “Your Angels are Waiting.” COST: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment: 480.730.0205. Info: MysticJourneyz.com or 480.626.1077. | ||
04 / 25
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:45 pm
Cindy Ashcraft teaches signed English to parents and other adults. Meets every second and fourth Sunday. Beginners: 1-1:45pm. Intermediate: 2-2:45pm. Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Chanter, sound artist and Yoga of the Voice™ instructor Pinna Joseph presents a time of approaching inner quietude and developing a more harmonious inner self through vocal meditation (connecting with the sound between the sounds,) exploring the voice as an instrument, attention to listening, and call-and- response chanting from many world cultures. No previous singing experience necessary. COST: $20. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. | ||
04 / 26
Start: 7:00 pm
Patrick Carman, the New York Times bestselling author of the Land of Elyon series, returns to Changing Hands with his first teen novel, Thirteen Days to Midnight. “You are indestructible.” Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use his power—but there’s something addictive about testing the limits of fear. Then Ophelia James, the beautiful and daring new girl in town, suggests that they use the power to do good, to save others. But with every heroic act, the power becomes more of an ominous curse. SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. | ||
04 / 27
Start: 6:00 pm
Volunteer opportunities with Hands-On Greater Phoenix. More info: 602.973.2212 x237. Start: 7:00 pm
Tom Leveen visits with his debut teen novel, Party. It’s Saturday night in Santa Barbara and school is done for the year. Everyone is headed to the same party. Or at least it seems that way. The place is packed. The beer is flowing. Simple, right? But for eleven people the motives are way more complicated. As each character takes a turn and tells his or her story, the individuals intersect, and reconnect, collide, and combine in ways that none of them ever saw coming. Leveen is the artistic director of Chyro Arts Venue in Scottsdale, an all-ages performance space hosting live music, theatre, visual art, and independent film. More info: chyro.org. | ||
04 / 28
Start: 7:00 pm
The always-hilarious Laurie Notaro (The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, I Thought You’d Be Thinner) visits with her novel, Spooky Little Girl. Lucy Fisher comes home one day to find everything she owns on her front lawn, the locks changed, and her fiancé’s phone disconnected. Plus, she’s just lost her job. Then things take an even more dramatic turn: A fatal encounter with public transportation lands Lucy not in the hereafter but in the nearly hereafter. She’s back in school, learning the parameters of spooking and how to become a successful spirit in order to complete a ghostly assignment. Navigating the perilous channels of the paranormal, Lucy is determined to find out why her life crumbled and why, despite her ghastly death, no one seems to have noticed she’s gone. But urgency on the spectral plane—in the departed person of her feisty grandmother, who is risking both their eternal lives—requires attention, and Lucy realizes that you get only one chance to be spectacular in death. SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. | ||
04 / 29
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
Storytime for preschoolers Thursdays at 10:15am. Also join us for:
Start: 7:00 pm
What if you could write as if you were someone else? Cynthia Hogue, Professor of English and Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at ASU, explores ways to make a poem’s speaker new and strange: to write as “someone else who is also myself.” Exercises include a collaborative poem. Hogue has published six collections of poetry. Her awards include a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry. Cost: $25. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. | ||
04 / 30
Start: 7:00 pm
Mark Ross and David Reesor present their book and slideshow, Predator: Life and Death in the African Bush. With phenomenal photographs of the five great African predators—lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, and crocodiles—the pair take readers on a wild safari and share in-depth insight into the morphology, behaviors, daily activities, and livelihoods of the large carnivores that prowl the plains, woodlands, and rivers of Africa. Compelling and sometimes violent, Predator captures the true life-and-death scenarios that play out every day against the backdrop of the magnificent African landscape. Reesor, a successful wildlife photographer, has been travelling with his wife to exotic locations for over 30 years. Ross, a renowned safari guide, aerobatic pilot, and photographer, has lived in Kenya since 1977 (also a guide and pilot), and is a collaborator for several nature films on Animal Planet, National Geographic and Dateline NBC. More info: www.reesorphotography.com. Attendees are automatically entered to win a free copy of Predator or an original 13” x 19” photo by David Reesor to be given away at the event.
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05 / 1
Start: 9:30 am
End: 5:00 pm
Ivy Jewels - Handcrafted semi-precious stones and sterling silver jewelry by Nancy Zangari. Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Join us for stories and pictures with our costume character guest, Maisy, as one of our talented storytellers reads.
Start: 2:00 pm
Roderick Townley visits with The Blue Shoe: A Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes, with drawings by Mary GrandPre, who illustrated the Harry Potter series. Hap Barlo sits in a cell, wondering how it had all gone so wrong. The blue shoe was ruined, the girl he'd been trying to help was missing, and he’d been branded a thief—again! On the bright side, now he might be able to rescue his father, who had been banished last year. No one has ever returned from Xexnax, the notorious mountain prison, so maybe Hap is a tad optimistic. Then again, perhaps a dreamer, a doer, and a thief is just the kind of boy who could challenge this mountain and win! CLUB READ BADGE HOLDERS: Arrive half an hour early for an exclusive meet-and-greet with the author. Get your book signed and get a picture with Roderick before everyone else. Don’t have a free Club Read badge? Ask us how to get one! Free pizza for the kids courtesy of Luigi’s Pizza (LuigisPizzaofTempe.com).
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: 602.840.2222. | ||
05 / 2
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Alicia Bay Laurel, author of Living on the Earth, the first paperback ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list in 1971, signs her hugely influential classic, which captured the spirit of a generation and helped pave the way for today’s green and sustainability movements. Written when she was only twenty years old, Living on the Earth went on to become a best-selling, trend-setting manual for natural, conscious living. PLEASE NOTE: This is a signing only.
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:45 pm
Beginners: 3-4:15pm. Intermediate: 4:30-5:45pm. More info: martha@languagesynergy.com. | ||
05 / 3
Start: 7:00 pm
Journalist Margaret Regan visits with her book The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands. Fourteen-year-old Josseline Jamileth Hernández Quinteros was supposed to escort her ten-year-old brother all the way from Honduras to their mother in Los Angeles. But when Josseline became ill in a remote Arizona desert, her smuggler and the rest of her group abandoned her. She died alone in the wilderness in February 2008. Starting with Josseline's tragic story, Regan uses firsthand accounts to tell the stories of the desperation that compels people to cross, of the environmental damage wrought by the new border wall, and of the unidentified bodies piled up in a Tucson morgue. Regan writes for the Tucson Weekly and has been featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation. | ||
05 / 4
Start: 7:00 pm
Bestselling author Janni Lee Simner (Bones of Faerie) visits with her latest YA fantasy novel, Thief Eyes. After her mother mysteriously disappears, sixteen-year-old Haley convinces her father to take her to Iceland, where her mother was last seen. There, Haley meets Ari, a gorgeous boy with a dangerous side who appoints himself her protector. When Haley picks up a silver coin that entangles her in a spell cast by her ancestor, she discovers that the spell and her mother's disappearance are connected to events that could unleash terrifying powers and consume the world. Haley must find a way to contain the growing fires of the spell—and her growing attraction to Ari. | ||
05 / 5
Start: 7:00 pm
Rebecca Skloot visits with her New York Times bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Known to scientists as HeLa, Henrietta Lacks was a poor tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors. Yet, her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though Lacks has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine, uncovering the secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects. They led to important advances like in-vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping, and launched a multimillion-dollar industry. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave, and her family can't even afford health insurance. Skloot documents the extraordinary legacy of a virtually unknown woman: from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta's dying hometown of Clover, Virginia to East Baltimore today, where her descendants live. As Skloot shows, the story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. SEATING begins one hour before the event. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Each ticket is good for two seats. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. | ||
05 / 6
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
Storytime for preschoolers Thursdays at 10:15am. Also join us for:
Start: 7:00 pm
National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti presents her latest teen novel, The Six Rules of Maybe. Scarlett Hughes is overly involved in the lives of everyone around her, especially her eccentric neighbors. But when Scarlett’s sister, Juliet, returns home from school—pregnant and married to a sweet boy whom she seems to have no interest in—Scarlett is thrust solidly back into her own life and, for the first time, forced to take a look inward. Caletti is the award-winning author of several teen novels, including The Secret Life of Prince Charming and Honey, Baby, Sweetheart. | ||
05 / 7
Start: 11:00 am
Start: May 7, 2010 - 11:00am
End: May 8, 2010 - 9:00pm
Visit HoodlumsMusic.com for complete details When purchasing items at Changing Hands, please tell the cashier that you want your sales to be donated to Broadmor.* * To help build Broadmor Elementary's library, Changing Hands Bookstore will donate 15% in trade credit for purchases made from May 7 - May 8, 2010. Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:15 pm
Join us for a four-week writing workshop for girls in grades 7-12 with Phoenix New Times copy editor and freelancer Tricia Parker. Participants write fiction and nonfiction based on a variety of exercises, then discuss and edit each other's work in a creative, supportive environment. Please note: This workshop meets four times on Mondays: June 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2010. Cost: $40 for 4 sessions. Registration and pre-payment required at 480.730.0205. Start: 7:00 pm
Brady Udall (The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint) visits with his new novel, The Lonely Polygamist. Golden Richards, husband to four wives and father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all mid-life crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Udall tells a darkly humorous story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future. The Lonely Polygamist is the story of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits. | ||
05 / 8
End: 9:00 pm
Start: May 7, 2010 - 11:00am
End: May 8, 2010 - 9:00pm
Visit HoodlumsMusic.com for complete details When purchasing items at Changing Hands, please tell the cashier that you want your sales to be donated to Broadmor.* * To help build Broadmor Elementary's library, Changing Hands Bookstore will donate 15% in trade credit for purchases made from May 7 - May 8, 2010. Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Cynthia Giroux from Storybook Kitchen reads My Mother is So Smart by Tomie dePaola and shows kids how to make a yummy brunch just for Mom! Start: 1:30 pm
Tibetan meditation master and New York Times bestselling author Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (Joyful Wisdom, The Joy of Living) visits with his first book for children, Ziji: The Puppy Who Learned to Meditate. Rinpoche, a rising star among the new generation of Tibetan Buddhist masters, provides practical guidance to parents and children about the practice of meditation, drawn from his own experiences of learning to meditate as a young child. More info: www.tergar.org. Start: 4:00 pm
Jenny Han visits with It’s Not Summer Without You, the follow-up to her teen novel The Summer I Turned Pretty. Last year, all of Belly’s dreams came true, and the thought of missing a summer in Cousins Beach was inconceivable. But like the rise and fall of the ocean tide, things can change—just like that. Suddenly Belly dreads the season she's always looked forward to. And when Jeremiah calls to say Conrad has disappeared, Belly must decide how she will spend this summer: chasing after the boy she loves, or finally letting him go. Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Mystic Journeyz with Suzi Coggins. "Your Angels are Waiting". Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment: 480.730.0205. More info: MysticJourneyz.com. | ||
05 / 9
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:45 pm
Please Note: Sign Language on 2nd & 4th Sundays has been canceled for May & June.
Cindy Ashcraft teaches signed English to parents and other adults. Meets every second and fourth Sunday. Beginners: 1-1:45pm. Intermediate: 2-2:45pm.
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05 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
Workshop one of your original poems once a month with a group of peers. More info: jedesign2004@yahoo.com. Start: 7:00 pm
Karen Spears Zacharias visits with her book Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide? ('Cause I Need More Room for My Plasma TV). Zacharias argues that the prosperity gospel, or "golden calf theology," has helped create people and churches focused solely on greed. She relates story after story of families and individuals who exploit religion for financial gain, mega-evangelists who live in million-dollar mansions, and churches that model themselves on Wall Street. She also discusses some unlikely people who have found that their faith has led them to a different understanding of wealth. | ||
05 / 11
Start: 7:00 pm
Kelley Armstrong, the bestselling author of the Women of the Otherworld series, visits with The Reckoning, the final book in her #1 New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers trilogy. After the events of The Summoning and The Awakening, Chloe Saunders must confront her feelings for an ill-tempered werewolf while plotting to destroy the corporation that threatens her life and the lives of her friends. Now Chloe and her fellow teen paranormals are on the run from the deadly Edison Group, a collective of scientists hell-bent on controlling these teens’ power, or destroying them completely. Hunted by those they once trusted, can a necromancer, sorcerer, witch and werewolf combine forces to survive? And will Chloe, torn between two brothers, lose the love of both? More info: www.chloesaunders.com. | ||
05 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
Veteran journalist and PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye visits with his book Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration. Coyote capitalism is the notion—practiced by many businesses and governments—that people are supplies to be shifted around to meet demand. Workers are pushed out, pulled in, and put on the line without consideration of the consequences for economies, communities, or individuals. Moving Millions knocks down myths about why immigrants come to America, and finds surprising connections between globalization, economic growth and the convoluted immigration debates taking place in America and other industrialized countries. Kaye exposes the dark side of globalization and the complicity of businesses and governments to benefit from the migration of millions of workers. | ||
05 / 13
Start: 10:15 am
End: 11:30 am
A Special Guest for Storytime! This Thursday from 10:15-11:30am, Bess the Book Bus visits to share free new and gently used books donated from bookstores and communities across the country with any kid or teen in need. Help us donate books from now through May 14th. Anyone who purchases a book to donate from Changing Hands will get a raffle ticket and be entered to win a Changing Hands gift card or one of two family prize packs to see Childsplay's production of The Big Friendly Giant. More info about Bess: visit her website.
See also: Start: 7:00 pm
Find out what it takes to be a starlet at our red carpet release party for Janette Rallison and her latest, My Double Life. All her life, Alexia Garcia has been told she looks just like pop star Kari Kingsley, and one day when Alexia's photo filters through the Internet, she’s offered a job to be Kari's double. Soon, Alexia makes a startling discovery. Rallison’s superstar fans will experience the paparazzi on the red carpet, pose for pictures taken in front a backdrop of her new book, enter raffles to have your name immortalized in a future book, win a school visit, and more! | ||
05 / 14
Start: 7:00 pm
ESPN host and eleven-time National Sportswriter of the Year presents his latest, Sports from Hell: My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition. The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet. From the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal lawn-dart throwing, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both).
Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.
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05 / 15
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
What do you do when it gets too hot outside, gets really cold, or it rains? Today, the Phoenix Zoo will read Stormy Weather by Debi Gliori and tells us how animals survive when the weather is wonky!
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry visits Changing Hands with his latest, I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood. In hilarious, brand-new pieces, Barry tackles everything from fatherhood, new fatherhood, self-image, the battle of the sexes, celebrity-hood, technology, parenting styles, certain unmentionable medical procedures ("There is absolutely no reason to be afraid of a vasectomy, except that: THEY CUT A HOLE IN YOUR SCROTUM."), and much more. Barry is a nationally syndicated humor writer for The Miami Herald, and the author of dozens of best-selling books, including Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys and Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs.
Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. PLEASE NOTE: Due to time constraints, Dave can only sign copies of I'll Mature When I'm Dead. He is unable to sign copies of his previous books, Frisbees, babies, or old newspaper clippings. Thank you for understanding. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. More info: 602.840.2222. | ||
05 / 16
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:00 pm
A philosophical discussion group based on the book Socrates Café by Christopher Phillips. More info: dish@cox.net. Start: 2:00 pm
Carol Denker presents her new book Autumn Romance: Stories and Portraits of Love After 50, showing how it’s never too late to find love and how a late-life romance is often the very best one of all. Joining Denker are Linney and Rusty Allen, a Mesa couple whose love story is one of 29 amazing tales in the featured in her book. Denker has been a staff writer and editor for for the Star newspapers and helped found The Spirit, a prizewinning community newspaper in Philadelphia that she ran as editor-in-chief for its first three years. More info: www.autumnromance.org. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:45 pm
Beginners: 3-4:15pm. Intermediate: 4:30-5:45pm. More info: martha@languagesynergy.com. | ||
05 / 17
Start: 6:00 pm
Volunteer opportunities with Hands-On Greater Phoenix. More info: 602.973.2212 x237. Start: 7:00 pm
Paulette George visits with her book Good Morning, Beautiful: Winning the Battle Over Seizures, in which she shares her journey through epilepsy and autism “as her daughter’s life was being ripped away by more than a hundred seizures a day.” George’s family discovered a “ketogenic diet” that was developed at the Mayo Clinic in the 1920s and was based on certain Biblical passages about fasting—the only program that finally worked to control the seizures. PLEASE NOTE: $1 of the proceeds from each copy of George’s book will be donated to benefit the Phoenix Children's Hospital.
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05 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
Carolyn Jessop, the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a suit involving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, presents her new memoir, Triumph: Life After the Cult. Her first book, Escape, was the harrowing tale of how she escaped a polygamous community with her eight children. Since then, Jessop has crossed the country for countless speaking events where she is asked, “How did you find the strength to leave?” In Triumph, Jessop answers those questions and updates audiences about the details of her life after the raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas — including how she coped with her daughter’s return to FLDS and what she describes as “damaging misinformation” that flooded the media. Lettered tickets (free with book purchase) will be called alphabetically to fill seats and will also be used to form the booksigning line. Seating opens to the general public fifteen minutes before the event, so please arrive early, as space is limited. CAN’T MAKE IT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.
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05 / 19
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Stinkweeds Music will host an hour of discussion Justin is in town from San Diego, on tour and promoting his new book, From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry. An icon of the West Coast noise and punk scene, Justin Pearson managed to arrive at adulthood by outsmarting skinheads and dodging equally threatening violence at home. Once there, the struggle continued, with Pearson getting beat up on Jerry Springer and, on more than one occasion, chased out of town by ferociously angry audiences. John Waters has offered advance praise for the book: “Showbiz never looked so violent yet cheery, chaotic yet level-headed. Justin Pearson is a lovely lunatic who writes with kindness even if he’s describing being in the middle of an on-stage brawl. He may pick the wrong girl and never be able to escape the mayhem in his personal life but he still seems kind of perfect . . . in a twisted way.” Link to a video preview of the book: http://www.vimeo.com/9429714 About the author: Vocalist, lyricist, and bassist Justin Pearson’s bands, past and present, include The Locust, All Leather, Some Girls, Holy Molar, Swing Kids, The Crimson Curse, Head Wound City, Ground Unicorn Horn, and Struggle. He runs the independent record label Three One G. Traveling worldwide with his bands, Pearson has encountered many strange things in his time. He lives in San Diego. Official website: http://www.threeoneg.com/31G/ PLEASE NOTE: This is an offsite event at Stinkweeds Music
Start: 7:00 pm
Adam Bradley visits to discuss his book, Ralph Ellison in Progress: From Invisible Man to Three Days Before the Shooting. Ellison is one of the preeminent writers of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, the 1952 classic Invisible Man. Until his death in 1994 he worked on a second novel that he would never complete. Sixteen years later, that novel has appeared as Three Days Before the Shooting, which Bradley co-edited for publication. | ||
05 / 20
Start: 10:15 am
End: 10:45 am
Storytime for preschoolers Thursdays at 10:15am. Also join us for:
Start: 7:00 pm
Aprilynne Pike returns with the sequel to her #1 New York Times best-selling teen fantasy novel, Wings. In Spells six months have passed since Laurel saved the gateway to the faerie realm of Avalon. Now she must spend her summer there, honing her skills as a Fall faerie. But her human family and friends are still in mortal danger—and the gateway to Avalon is more compromised than ever. Torn between two worlds, will she depend on David, her human boyfriend, for help? Or will she turn to Tamani, the mysterious faerie?
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