
Changing Hands Bookstore Indie Black Friday at Tempe Square | Sweet deals from Changing Hands, Hoodlums, Wildflower Bread Company, Mac's Broiler & Tap, and more. (Sorry, no $20 HDTVs, just great books, music, movies, food, service, and local flair!) Click the link for coupons.
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Changing Hands Bookstore SUNDAY | OFFSITE EVENT AT DOBSON HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM | Can you imagine a better way to entertain visiting friends and relatives this Thanksgiving weekend? Meet author Garrison Keillor, legendary host of "A Prairie Home Companion," this Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets just $5 when you buy "A Christmas Blizzard" or his new n...ovel "Pilgrims." (Up to two $5 tickets with book purchase. Cheap!) And remember, signed books make great holiday gifts!
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Sunday, November 29 at 3pmDobson High School Auditorium1501 W. Guadalupe RdMesa, AZ 85202Doors open at 2pmTickets are only available at Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S. McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283. ...
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Carla Taylor Tucker My daughter bought a signed, hardbound copy of "My Fair Godmother" from your table at the Phoenix Faerie Festival a week or so ago. She finished it this past weekend and absolutely loved it! Since she spent her own money on it, I was prepared for potential backlash of the "I paid good money for this?!" variety, and am... quite pleased that did not happen. Thanks for the recommendation!

John Sweet Where and how do we sign up for the newsletter?

Changing Hands Bookstore Can anyone suggest a good way to conduct a Facebook contest? We have Twitter contests from time to time (twitter.com/changinghands), mostly because it's simple to track retweets via @ replys. What do you think? Do you find that sort of thing irritating? We're all ears!

Changing Hands Bookstore Ever see the inside of the Amazon.com distribution center in Goodyear, Arizona? Here's a photo from the New York Times. Funny, if Amazon ships the Mickey Mouse doll in the photo from Goodyear to your home anywhere in Arizona they don't have to collect or remit sales tax, but if we sell it, we're forced to. Same goes fo...r books, of course. (E-fairness provisions have passed in several states, but not ours. Just sayin'.)
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For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart and Amazon are also fighting over the future of retailing.
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Changing Hands Bookstore Nice article in the Arizona Republic on shopping local and on Changing Hands' upcoming Indie Black Friday extravaganza. (Be sure to sign up for our mailing list at changinghands.com to get the e-mail, which contains some great offers from us and from several of our neighbors, including Hoodlums and the Wildflower Bread Company.)
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Indie stores find ways to compete for holiday dollars, Indie retailers have come up strategies to use against big-box and big-chain Goliaths this season.

Changing Hands Bookstore TONIGHT AT 7PM | Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Benson joins Charles Goyette for "The Dollar Meltdown." Benson will draw caricatures while Goyette signs books after the talk and Q&A.
Charles Goyette, author of THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, O
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Charles Goyette, author of THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments

Changing Hands Bookstore "Empire of the Word," a four-hour series eight years in the making and filmed in fifteen countries, examines 5000 years of reading. Can't wait to see this! Only problem: it airs in Canada starting November 25 and will be available in America only as a streaming online video. Here's the trailer:
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For the past 40 years, pundits and academics alike have predicted the imminent demise of the written word. Censorship, movies, television, the internet and multimedia each has been held up as the nemesis of the book. ...

Changing Hands Bookstore THIS WEEKEND | Spend a lazy Sunday with Garrison Keillor in Tempe ...
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Sunday, November 29 at 3pmDobson High School Auditorium1501 W. Guadalupe RdMesa, AZ 85202Doors open at 2pmTickets are only available at Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S. McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283. ...

Changing Hands Bookstore Another stunning short animated film, this one by the New Zealand Book Council. Just ... wow.
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Film for NZ Book Council Produced by Colenso BBDO Animated by Andersen M Studio

Changing Hands Bookstore TUESDAY AT 7PM | New York Times bestselling author Charles Goyette and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Benson present "The Dollar Meltdown."
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Former Phoenix radio host Charles Goyette visits with The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments, about which Congressman Ron Paul ...

Changing Hands Bookstore Billy Collins fans, poetry fans, fans of short animated films: you MUST check these out.
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Changing Hands Bookstore Remarkable. Jorge Luis Borges on the task of art.
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This excerpt is from the autobiographical documentary Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte (1998) by German Kral, an Argentinian filmmaker. This archival interview footage of Borges is already on YouTube, but ...

























