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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27
7pm | PANEL | EATING LOCAL: COOKING WILD AND SLOW | What does it mean to eat locally? How do you harvest and prepare native desert plants? Authors Carolyn Niethammer and Marilyn Noble host an interactive panel and tasting of Southwestern foods and share their newest cookbooks. More »
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28
9am-3pm | OFFSITE | YA WRITING CONFERENCE | Find out everything you need to know about writing for young adults in this special conference. Participants choose three of four informative classes in order to fill three sessions, including "Unforgettable Characters," "Heroes and Villains," "Realistic Dialogue," and "Edgy Fiction." More »
4pm | OFFSITE | TWEEN & TEEN EVENT | YALLAPALOOZA 2012 | Changing Hands Bookstore and the Phoenix Public Library present YAllapalooza 2012, a literary extravaganza for tween and teen readers featuring pizza, booksignings, a chance to mix and mingle with your favorite YA authors, and more! More »
10am-4pm | SIDEWALK KiENERGY HEALING WITH MASTER KIM | Suggested donation, $10.
5:30-8:30pm | TAROT READINGS | Mystic Journeyz with Suzie Coggins. "Your Angels are Waiting." Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment: 480.730.0205. More info: MysticJourneyz.com.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29
2-3:30pm | WORKSHOP | PINNA JOSEPH | CHANTING THROUGH OBSTACLES | As we experience "stuck places" in our daily lives, we can use our voices to move through obstacles to a more open and relaxed space. Today, we'll explore specific seed syllables and chants from a variety of world cultures to gently massage the body, mind, and spirit with the healing power of sound. Chantress, sound artist, Yoga of the Voice™ instructor, and Somatic Sounding™ co-founder Pinna Joseph will conduct this workshop. More »
MONDAY, JANUARY 30
7pm | LINDAJOY ROSE | RAW FUSION | Raw foods educator and chef LindaJoy Rose speaks and hosts a tasting with recipes from her new book Raw Fusion: Better Living Through Living Foods. More »
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31
7pm | ANDY DZURINKO | LOL: LAUGH OUT LOUD | Andy Dzurinko, author of The Power of Optimism, shares his new book LOL: Laugh Out Loud—Feel Good and Live Longer. More »
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
7pm | MICHELE HÉBERT | THE TENTH DOOR | Michele Hébert shares "the five essential keys to maintaining awareness through the ups and downs of your spiritual path" in her memoir, The Tenth Door: An Adventure Through the Jungles of Enlightenment. More »
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
7pm | GABRIELLE HAMILTON | BLOOD, BONES AND BUTTER | New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Hamilton visits with her book Blood, Bones and Butter, which Anthony Bourdain calls, "magnificent... simply the best memoir by a chef ever." More »
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
7pm | MARK BRENNAN ROSENBERG | BLACKOUTS AND BREAKDOWNS | Debut author Mark Brennan Rosenberg reads from his essay collection Blackouts and Breakdowns. More »
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
10am | FAMILY EVENT | CUSTOMER STORYTIME WITH LITTLE NUTBROWN HARE | Bring the kiddos and your camera, and join us for stories and pictures with Little Nutbrown Hare.
2pm | TWEEN EVENT | CLUB READ | LISA MCMANN | THE UNWANTEDS | New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann visits the month's Club Read meeting to discuss and sign The Unwanteds. More »
5:30-8:30pm | INSIGHTS TAROT READINGS | Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment: 480.730.0205. More info: 602.840.2222.
5:30-6:45pm | WRITING WORKSHOP | LOUISE NAYER | MEMOIRS | Louise Nayer teaches students the basics of memoir writing: sensory detail, scene vs. summary, use of flashbacks, and choosing the right point of view. More »
7pm | TWO-AUTHOR EVENT | LOUISE NAYER: BURNED | CYNTHIA HOGUE: BEAUTY IS A VERB | Louise Nayer, author of the award-winning Burned, reads from her memoir. Joining her is poet Cynthia Hogue who reads from Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. More »
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 It Chooses You
by Miranda July | $24 Hardcover
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I'm going to be totally up front with you — this book made me cry. I held it together right until the last page, but once I got there... yikes. At a time when so much information has become digitized, July chose the L.A. Pennysaver, an all-but-antiquated forum for the buying and selling of unnecessary goods (remember pre-Craigslist?!), as inspiration. Along with a photographer, July drove around L.A. interviewing Pennysaver patrons about their kitschy items for sale, eventually coaxing them into discussing intimate details about their present life. She encounters people re-evaluating their need for human connection, those who have become apathetic, those who have found all they need, and those who have lost everything. The result is weird, funny and moving in the way that all of July's work is weird, funny and moving. It works perfectly as a companion piece to her newest film, The Future, but can be read on its own as well. —Aaron
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AROUND TOWN is a listing of upcoming and ongoing events in and around the Valley. Unless otherwise noted, these events are not sponsored by Changing Hands.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29
2pm - The KOG concert series welcomes Michael Rolland and the Providence Bluegrass Band playing bluegrass, country, cowboy and jazz on fiddle, guitar, banjo, and mandolin, along with vocals.. Cost: Free will offering. Location: King of Glory Lutheran Church, 2085 E. Southern Ave, Tempe 85282. More info: Cyndee Chaffee at 480.838.0477 or kogaz.org.
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 MEMORY ON HAND™ BANDS
Ever lost a flash drive? Forgotten it at home or on your desk? Left one in a public computer? You know how it feels when your work is missing when you need it most. Never forget or lose a flash drive again with the Memory on Hand™ bands! Each band is a colorful one-size-fits-all silicon wristband with a 4GB USB drive at one end, and a snug, safe, and easy clasp on the other. The solid-state drive will store any of your digital files from papers and power points to songs and pictures. 4GB for $24.99 each. One-size-fits-all, many colors and styles available.
TACO & BURRITO PLAY SET
Whether your little ones are building tasty tacos, burritos or fajitas, this set of durable, detailed felt food is a perfect ingredient for years of imaginative play! 31 high quality polyester felt food pieces include sauces, cheese, onions, tomatoes, beans, peppers, meats, salsas, avocado, jalapenos, tortillas, taco shells and more! And when the fiesta is over, just store it all away in the durable packaging for another day. $19.99 each. Recommended for ages 3+. | |  | Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor | $15 Paperback | "Ghost Light is O'Connor's vivid and sometimes visionary reimagining of the love affair between Molly Allgood and the Irish dramatist John Millington Synge.... A jagged lyricism redolent of Seamus Heaney." —The New York Times Book Review More »
Among Others by Jo Walton | $14.99 Paperback | Selected as one of School Library Journal's "2011's Best Adult Books for Teens," Walton writes the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a tale of escape from ancient enchantment. More »
The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell | $14.99 Paperback | Cornwell (the "reigning king of historical fiction" according to USA Today) reimagines the American Revolutionary War through the eyes of two men on opposite side of the conflict — a Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, and a Boston silversmith named Paul Revere. More »
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown | $15 Paperback | When astronomer Mike Brown discovered Eris, a tenth planet slightly bigger than Pluto, he ignited a firestorm of controversy that culiminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of "dwarf" planet. Here, he shares and defends that discovery of a lifetime. More »
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