Changing Hands Bookstore

Changing Hands Bookstore Arizona's legendary Changing Hands Bookstore. Independent books for independent minds since 1974.
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TOMORROW IN TEMPE—Join us for an evening celebrating the paperback release of AND THEY WERE ROOMATES from bestselling au...
06/01/2026

TOMORROW IN TEMPE—Join us for an evening celebrating the paperback release of AND THEY WERE ROOMATES from bestselling author, Page Powars. He will be joined in conversation by award winning author, Sonido Reyes.

🗓️ TUESDAY, JUNE 2 - 7:00PM
📍 CHANGING HAND TEMPE
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP: https://changinghands.com/event/2026-06-02/page-powars-and-they-were-roommates

Page Powars: And They Were Roommates
Tue, 6/2/2026 - 7:00pm
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Changing Hands Bookstore - Tempe
6428 S McClintock Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85283
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Free teen event! Eventbrite RSVP not required, but appreciated.

Join us for an evening celebrating the paperback release of And They Were Roommates from bestselling author, Page Powars. He will be joined in conversation by award winning author, Sonido Reyes.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Romance is the last thing on Charlie’s mind.

On his first day at Valentine Academy for Boys, Charlie’s carefully crafted plan to hide his identity as the school’s only trans student is set in motion. Only to be immediately destroyed. Charlie has been assigned the worst roommate in the world (possibly the universe): Jasper Grimes, the boy who broke Charlie’s heart the year before he transitioned.

Except, Jasper doesn’t recognize Charlie.

Who knows how long until Jasper realizes the truth? Charlie has one shot at freedom―and a dorm room all to himself―but only if he helps Jasper write love letters on behalf of their fellow students. No problem. Charlie can help Jasper with some silly letters.

Long nights spent discussing deep romantic feelings with Jasper? Surely, no unintended consequences will arise…

📣 Our June event calendar is LIVE! 📣⁠⁠Get ready for events with , , , , , and more! From author events and fun workshops...
05/30/2026

📣 Our June event calendar is LIVE! 📣⁠
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Get ready for events with , , , , , and more! From author events and fun workshops to book clubs and crafting sessions with and others, there’s something for everyone this month.⁠
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🔗 Check out the full lineup and secure your spot: https://changinghands.com/events/calendar/2026/06
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** NEW! Pre-event signing line tickets just added ** ⁠⁠Our 5/22 event with Jen Hamilton SOLD OUT weeks ago, but she'd st...
05/20/2026

** NEW! Pre-event signing line tickets just added ** ⁠
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Our 5/22 event with Jen Hamilton SOLD OUT weeks ago, but she'd still love to meet you.⁠
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Before the sold out 7pm event, you can meet Jen, get your book signed, and snap a quick photo with the author. ⁠
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PLEASE NOTE: This 5pm ticket admits one (1) person to the pre-event signing line and does not allow access to the sold out 7pm event. ⁠
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Tickets are limited, so get yours fast! ⁠
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✏️ PRE-EVENT SIGNING TICKET (INCLUDES BOOK)⁠
🗓️ 5PM FRIDAY, MAY 22⁠
📍 CHANGING HANDS TEMPE⁠

🎟️ Tickets: https://www.changinghands.com/event/may2026/jen-hamilton-birth-vibes

📚 Independent Books for Independent Minds Since 1974.
05/19/2026

📚 Independent Books for Independent Minds Since 1974.

FREE EVENT TONIGHT IN PHOENIX—Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets shares his highly anticipated second collection, H...
05/18/2026

FREE EVENT TONIGHT IN PHOENIX—Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets shares his highly anticipated second collection, HORSES, patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants.

🗓️ 6:30PM MONDAY, MAY 18
📍 CHANGING HANDS PHOENIX
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP: https://www.changinghands.com/event/may2026/jake-skeets

ABOUT THE BOOK

"For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it."

With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets emerged as a visionary new literary voice, offering readers a q***r, Indigenous poetics inextricable from a connection to land. With Horses, Skeets tracks the shifting land of the Navajo Nation: What changes and what remains the same in a place that has been inhabited for thousands of years?

In poems employing numbers significant to Diné thought and lifeway, Skeets explores the reclamation of land, imagination, and language--a world beyond environmental apocalypse, where joy is possible and where transformation is embraced over erasure. Arranged as a quartet, Horses begins with a meditation on two hundred horses found dead, mired in mud that had once been a stock pond on Navajo land in Arizona. What was once a source of life had become a death trap for a herd living on the edge of survival. From here, Skeets's poems radiate outward, tracing the body and its relationship to a landscape marked by geologic time and the fragile, eroding moments of the present.

Fiercely observant, brilliantly constructed, and hauntingly incisive, Horses evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon.

TOMORROW IN PHOENIX—Join Jeanna Valenti, principal of LightBox Media and certified mindfulness and mediation instructor,...
05/14/2026

TOMORROW IN PHOENIX—Join Jeanna Valenti, principal of LightBox Media and certified mindfulness and mediation instructor, as she celebrates the release of her book THE YOGA OF MARKETING, a much-needed guide to painless, holistic marketing practices that align with who you are.

🗓️ 6:30PM FRIDAY, MAY 15
📍 CHANGING HANDS PHOENIX
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP: https://www.changinghands.com/event/may2026/jeanna-valenti-yoga-marketing

ABOUT THE BOOK

Valenti gives readers her time-tested formula for success, along with life-transforming principles and practices designed to improve energy, attitude, and effort.

Whether you are a yoga fan or not, Valenti's step-by-step procedures, embedded with the ancient wisdom of the chakras, show you how to approach effective marketing with ease. The Yoga of Marketing bridges consciousness, awareness, and mindfulness with the worlds of marketing and business.

Readers will close the cover with inspiration, a foundational understanding of yoga philosophy and the chakra system, practical marketing best practices, and a sense of peace about the process.

Join New York Times bestselling author Benoit Denizet-Lewis to celebrate the release of his latest novel YOU'VE CHANGED—...
05/13/2026

Join New York Times bestselling author Benoit Denizet-Lewis to celebrate the release of his latest novel YOU'VE CHANGED—a timely, provocative, and deeply moving exploration of personal transformation in a period of roiling uncertainty. YOU'VE CHANGED investigates how we remake ourselves—and how identity, belief, and belonging shift in a world that won't stop doing the same.

🗓️ 6:30PM THURSDAY, MAY 14
📍 CHANGING HANDS TEMPE
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 https://www.changinghands.com/event/may2026/benoit-denizet-lewis-youve-changed

ABOUT THE BOOK

We live in an age obsessed with reinvention. On Instagram, in recovery meetings, through name-change petitions, lifestyle pivots, deconversion blogs, and political conversion manifestos, we're surrounded by stories of radical personal change. But what does it really mean to shed an old skin—and why do some transformations inspire us while others raise our hackles?

Longtime New York Times Magazine writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis, known for his deeply reported and psychologically rich journalism, takes us on a freewheeling, wild-hearted journey into the mystery of human transformation. He introduces us to an unforgettable array of people in flux--including psychedelic reality benders, sexual and gender transitioners, ideological shapeshifters, seemingly reformed murderers, and an octogenarian grandmother trying to change her temperament ("Better late than never!" she says)—as well as those working to engineer change: psychologists, neuroscientists, name-change specialists, even his own father, a breath and meditation teacher who once wrote a newsletter about "the art and science of transformation." Intertwined with those portraits of change is the author's own reckoning--by turns painful, poignant, and hilarious—with his misfires and epiphanies.

You've Changed is a book for anyone who's ever tried to become someone new, fix what felt broken, drag someone else into changing, or wondered whether real transformation is anything more than a myth we sell ourselves. Denizet-Lewis shows us that profound, positive change is possible—and offers an unexpected, sometimes counterintuitive set of approaches to help us get there. But this is no compass for the dogmatic or the quick-fix brigade. Change, he shows us, is slippery, scary, beautiful, often politically fraught—and best tackled with humility riding shotgun, holding the map upside down.

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6428 S McClintock Drive # C101
Tempe, AZ
85283

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 9pm
Tuesday 10am - 9pm
Wednesday 10am - 9pm
Thursday 10am - 9pm
Friday 10am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Sunday 10am - 8pm

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(480)7300205

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