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Changing Hands Tempe

Gayle GAYLE
When she's not working in her garden, Gayle is usually reading or watching reruns of West Wing and ER. She loves contemporary ...
Bob BOB
Bob loves contemporary fiction augmented by an occasional mystery or science fiction novel. Nonfiction interests include physics ...
Cindy CINDY
Cindy loves thought-provoking fiction, social issues and history books. In the end, it's not the story, but how the story is told and ...
Brandi BRANDI
Brandi, when not escaping the pesky paparazzi, enjoys reading and buying books for the Children's and YA sections ...
Pinna PINNA
Pinna, who's been at Changing Hands since the Mill Avenue Days, selects the chanting, world music and Native American CDs that ...
Brandon BRANDON
Brandon is a recovering English major. He's also an Italophile and '80s heavy metal enthusiast who once read the novels of Saul ...
Jason JASON
Born and raised in Tempe, Jason is an avid reader and an aspiring writer who dreams of one day getting his own stories published ...
Claudia CLAUDIA
Claudia put down roots in Tempe alongside her husband well over twenty years ago. Settling in the Sonoran Desert to raise ...
Robert ROBERT
Robert loves books on politics, history, and sports as well as science fiction and graphic novels. He is a different breed of ...
Jalen JALEN
Jalen can never decide what to read, so ia just reads everything. Although ia studied music in college, ia has a special interest in ...
Drew DREW
No matter what you may have heard, Drew is not a mad scientist, has never dabbled or instructed in the dark arts, and has not ...
MalonzoMICHELLE
Books are her best friend and cats her lifelong obsession. She's an Arizona native but considers herself half New Yorker ...
Joseph's picksJOSEPH
Joseph reads primarily contemporary fiction and poetry. When he's not reading, he's likely writing or staring at a blank space in his notebook ...
Sarah's picksSARAH
Sarah is a bookseller by day, a stage manager by night, and a writer by whatever hours are left. She can never resist a fairy tale adaptation ...
 
 
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Changing Hands Phoenix

Walt WALT
Walt does not do Facebook. He neither tweets nor twerks. But he would love to share a favorite book, meet you face to face ...
Emmy EMMY
Emmy loves handwritten letters, typewriters, Masterpiece Classic, and cameras that use 35mm film. Basically ...
Amy AMY
Amy has been reading books for a long time, always figured she'd end up working in a bookstore, figured right, and has been doing so for awhile now...
Dan DAN
Dan is a person who works at Changing Hands. No one taught him how to read. His favorite books are mostly emotionally tense and/or carefully...
Cameron CAMERON
Cameron is First Draft Book Bar's resident sci-fi junkie. From the dunes of Arrakis to the dunes of Tatooine, Cameron enjoys his space operas full of personal, quiet ...
Rachel RACHEL
Rachel grew up in an island paradise in the Pacific NW reading classics and kayaking (sometimes at the same time). She is a zealous Renaissance...
SalvatoreSALVATORE
Salvatore is an aspiring novelist and screenwriter, who lives under the reasonable fear that one day he will awake to find ...
Heather's picksHEATHER H
An avid reader since the age of three, Heather proudly displays an "ENGMJR" license plate and Sparky the Sun Devil sticker on her car as some ...
 
 

Changing Hands Alumni

Lauren LAUREN
Lauren has been reading since she was born (literally) (not really) and has had more than one bookshelf buckle under the ...
Faith FAITH
Children's specialist Faith is super duper happy to help you find great picture books, and is always looking for the next big thing in ...
Heather G HEATHER G
Heather G is native of Pittsburgh, Pa and will gush over her hometown to anyone who asks her. She has been a bookworm for as long as she can ...
Sarah B SARAH
Sarah is an avid reader and English major from the Midwest, where she worked in another indie bookstore before coming to Changing ...
JennieJENNIE
Jennie is a huge tech dork. She really enjoys explosions, giant spaceships, ghoulish monsters, and other common features ...
JessJESS
Jess enjoys a wide range of books from children's literature to books on space travel. When she's not out doing storytimes ...
EmMICHELLE
Michelle has a BA in English and Philosophy, and is currenly working on her MA in Philosophy, because she's attracted to degrees that have ...
JoelJOEL
Joel is a thrice-degreed English nerd — ergo, the paper on his bookshelves vastly outweighs the paper in his billfold, but he ...
Heather H.HEATHER H.
An avid reader since the age of three, Heather proudly displays an "ENGMJR" license plate and Sparky the Sun Devil ...
Grant GRANT
A stoic stalwart of justice with a propensity for the macabre, Grant (or Dr. Books as you will most likely know him) gained notoriety for his appearances...
Jennifer JENNIFER
Jennifer is drawn to stories and characters like a hound's muzzle to the trail. She loves to absorb beautifully written fiction, historical fiction ...
Nick NICK
As a classically-trained historian, Nick has a sophisticated understanding of the 'real world,' its inhabitants, where ...
Nick NICOLAS
Nicolas loves to read History and Science Fiction, when he is not working. He also enjoys children's literature, being a former children's librarian. ...
Stephen STEPHEN
Stephen enjoys history, serious fiction, dark mysteries, and biographies of mad geniuses. Basically, he likes anything ...
Georgeann GEORGEANN
Georgeann is a recovering physician who loves hiking, painting watercolors and making jewelry when she isn't ...
Caroline CAROLINE
Caroline is a fictionist and poet still awaiting a publishing company to take her on and solve all of her many problems, the way a corporate fairy godmother...
Danny DANNY
Danny recently received an English degree from Boise State University and is working hard to become a professional writer ...
Kyle KYLE
When Kyle isn't recommending the perfect book or lost in our rare books section, you can find him out in the desert checking ...
Gayle JEREMY
Jeremy likes books about crime, history, oddballs, oddball history, longform journalism, comics, science fiction, maps, cookbooks and hot sauce. ...
Kaitlyn KAITLYN
Kaitlyn has been reading and writing stories for as long as she can remember. One of her earliest writing memories is ...
Camilla CAMILLA
Camilla, when not riding her bike, hiking, or missing snow, is a bookseller at Changing Hands. She likes to read classic and ...
Heather HEATHER
With a toddler on the loose, Heather is reading a few more picture books and science-based parenting books ...
LeahLEAH
Leah's affair with reading began even before she realized boys in books are so much better than in real life. She takes ...
Rosie's picksROSIE
Rosie is a romantic at heart. From shoujo manga like Fruits Basket to literary classics like Pride and Prejudice, many of her chosen reads are those that ...
Adam ADAM
Adam's favorite books are modern stories written by and about people from diverse backgrounds that offer unique perspectives on ...
Madeline MADELINE
Madeline has been reading for as long as she can remember. Her love for books began with the beloved Harry Potter series, in fact as a child she often...
Ryan RYAN
Ryan is actually a fairy who lives for random acts of kindness and wild flowers. She judges books by their covers ....