Latest news from Changing Hands Bookstore:
Phoenix NewTimes Slideshow of Breaking Dawn Midnight Release Party
Posted August 3, 2008 by Gayle
Many thanks to Phoenix New Times for publishing Deanna Dent’s photos of CHB’s midnight release party for Stephenie Meyer fans.
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AZ Humanities Council Recognizes Changing Hands
Posted Oct. 27, 2007 by Gayle
Sunday, October 28, 4:00 PM, Mesa Arts Center, Changing Hands Bookstore will be presented with the Friend of the Humanities Award at The 17th Annual Lorraine W. Frank Lecture. “Enrique’s Journey and America’s Immigration Dilemma,” featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter, Sonia Nazario, author of the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
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Posted October 18, 2007 by Gayle
Dana, the woman in the picture with Hillary Clinton, started working in our store when she was 16. She now lives in Iowa and is working and going to graduate school. Fortunately her mother still lives in Tempe and we get to see her when she comes to visit.
Hillary was in central Iowa today and I went over to Boone (about 12 miles from Ames) to see her. I got to shake her hand and take a picture with her, it was so awesome! This totally made up for the time 4 years ago when I missed her at Changing Hands by one day cause I had to go back to school.
Here’s the picture! — Dana
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Phoenix New Times voted CHB “BEST BOOKSTORE” (2007)
In an era when brick-and-mortar bookstores are considered quaint and sort of inconvenient, we’re gratified that Changing Hands continues the tradition of wonderful old book shops of yore. Really, you know us — we don’t give a hoot about what anyone else thinks. But we were happy earlier this year when Publishers Weekly named Changing Hands Bookseller of the Year. About time, we say. Now the rest of the world knows what we’ve known for years.
Besides offering the best in new and used titles, our favorite bookstore has created an entire community around authors, booksellers, and readers that truly feeds the souls of those of us who care about good writing and good reading. Besides the many cozy nooks for getting to know a book before you buy it, Changing Hands offers book groups, writer’s workshops, and readings from authors both local and national. Groovy gift items like candles, stationery, and book lights and the adjacent Wildflower Bread Company are two more in a long list of reasons why we’re glad to keep “visit Changing Hands” on our “to do” list.
Our only complaint — again: When’re you opening your downtown Phoenix location? Huh? Huh?
