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Saturday 11.01.2008 @ 10:00am

Venue: Changing Hands Bookstore (click here for venue details)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Certified Local Festival • 10am-4pm • Presented by the non-profit small business support group Local First Arizona, the 4th Annual Certified Local Fall Festival highlights the goods and services of more than 60 locally owned independent businesses. Join Changing Hands and a host of other “certified local homegrown” businesses for free food, activities, prizes, and other autumnal goodies. This is an offsite event at Duck and Decanter Restaurant in Phoenix. More info: www.localfirstaz.com. Winnie the Pooh! • 11am • Oh, bother! Spend the morning with Winnie the Pooh, while storyteller Elaine Veatch reads some of tubby little cubby’s adventures from the Hundred Acre Wood. Preschool-2nd grade. Susan Lang: Moon Lily • 1pm • Author Susan Lang (Juniper Blue, Small Rocks Rising) presents her new novel, Moon Lily, about a stubbornly independent homesteader named Ruth Farley, who works a piece of land called Glory Springs deep in a remote canyon in the Mojave Desert. At the end of the 1930s Ruth is raising her children and struggling to preserve her solitude, but the world is intruding. Her Indian friend Martha has been arrested for a murder she didn’t commit, and Ruth must join the Yuiatei tribe in trying to free her. The story comes to a dramatic conclusion as the world descends into the madness of another war, and Ruth learns that she is inextricably part of the human community. Susan Lang is Faculty Emeritus at Yavapai College in Prescott. She founded and directs the Southwest Writers Series, and in 1995 founded the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing. Workshop follows reading. Workshop: Breathing Life Into Your Character • 2-4pm • The magic of “living” characters comes not only from employing the standard strategies—portraying character with action, dialogue, internal thought, etc.—but from mining imagination. According to Susan Lang, author of Moon Lily, it is “imaginative knowing” that brings about the magic of character—digging down to where your characters truly reside. Without that knowing, all the strategies in the world won’t make a character breathe. Today, Lang helps you plunge deep into imaginative knowing and find appropriate strategies to make your characters live. Cost: One copy of Moon Lily ($21). Insights • 5:30-8:30pm • Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships, and career choices. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. More info: 602-840-2222. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 French Conversation For Beginners • 2-3:15pm More info: www.letutor.com. Spanish Conversation • Beginners: 4-5:15pm • Intermediate: 5:30-6:45pm. More info: martha@languagesynergy. Discover the Power of Your Beliefs • 2-4pm • Paula Muran, author of Codes of Light: The Power of Our Beliefs and A Revolutionary System to Heal Them! and the CD Purify the Body Temple, teaches you to walk confidently along the path of self-liberation by breaking through fear, unworthiness, confusion, and old patterning and karmic beliefs. She gives voice to the transcendent power of Sanatkumara. Reserve your spot by calling or e-mailing Paula at 1-866-231-0023 or office@paulamuran.com. More info: www.PaulaMuran.com


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Crochet Club • 6:30-8:30pm • More info: Darlene at 480-980-5597. Devouring Divas Bookclub • 7pm • Changing Hands Bookstore and Wildflower Bread Company present “Devouring Divas,” a book club for women who crave scrumptious food and juicy books. Join us for food, fun, and lively discussion of the club’s latest pick, Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City. Please note: The Devouring Divas meet the first Wednesday of every month at the Scottsdale and Phoenix Wildflower locations. Scottsdale info:holly.nelson@changinghands.com. Phoenix info: karen.stigers@riosalado.edu. Workshop: Chanting and Inner Peace • 7-8:30pm • The practice of chanting is a road to a peaceful inner self, a way to soothe the soul. Chanter and sound artist Pinna Joseph presents an evening of call-and-response chanting from many world cultures, vocal meditation (connecting with the sound between the sounds), exploring the voice as an instrument, attention to listening and focusing on the breath. No previous singing experience necessary. Cost: $20. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Workshop: Waste Management For Writers • 6:30-8:30pm In her blog, Waste Management Woman, writer, editor, and reporter Christia Gibbons offers lessons to help writers steer clear of bad, clumsy, incomprehensible, and sloppy writing. Tonight, Gibbons helps you figure out who your audience is, which key phrases to keep and which to trash forever, and how to find the power of your words by not wasting them. Info: wastemanagementwoman.blogspot.com. Cost: $25. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. Patrick Carman: Land of Elyon • 7pm • New York Times bestselling author Patrick Carman visits with his latest novel, Stargazer, an exciting tale starring one of the great characters in fantasy literature—Alexa Daly from The Land of Elyon. When readers last saw Alexa, she had defeated a threat in her homeland and was sailing with Roland Warvold across the Lonely Sea. She had no idea what adventures awaited her—until now. After a tragic attack by an evil force, Alexa and her friend Yipes find themselves stranded in The Five Stone Pillars, a strange community in which each pillar of rock has its own secrets, and its own challenges.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 First Friday Poetry • 7pm • Open Reading. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Tiaras and Tea: Princess Day! • 11am-1pm • There’s a little bit of Fancy Nancy in everyone, so join us for a fancy fête at Changing Hands! Princesses in their most glamorous finery (and parents, too) are invited to celebrate their inner Nancy with these royal events: Children’s author Donna Benson presents her delicious series The Cupcakes Club; former Mrs. Arizona Rosalie Michaels hosts an impromtu fashion show after teaching princesses how to walk, pose, and wave like a proper princess; and we’ll get the fancy party started with tiara-making projects, tea and cookies, and more! Tarot Readings • 5:30-8:30pm • Susanna Astarte provides guidance along life’s journey. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. More info: 480-969-2522. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Grandparents’ Brunch • 10-11:30am • Grandmas and Grandpas, Bubbes and Bubbas, Abuelos, Babushkas, NaiNais, Oji-chans, and Tutu-wahinis everywhere—join us for a brunch in your honor, and learn about some of the best new books for grandchildren this holiday season! We’ll also have bagels, juice, and coffee, while a professional storyteller discusses how to bond with your grandchildren by reading with them. Cynthia Giroux from KC’s Storybook Kitchen will discuss the importance of reading and cooking with children. FREE. Teacher Appreciation Celebration • 6:30pm-8pm • Teachers, librarians and educators—join us for appetizers, wine, tea, and sweets as we celebrate your ongoing commitment to teaching with a 20% storewide discount, our recommended Fall 2008 booklist, a presentation by stand up comedian Greg Freiler, raffle prizes and more.







MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Margot Kahn: Horses That Buck • 7pm • Margot Kahn visits with her book, Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith. Kahn recreates the days in the late 1960s and early ’70s when rodeo first became a major sports enterprise—an era during which one man, “Cody” Bill Smith, redefined the image of the American Cowboy. Determined as a boy to escape a miner’s life in Montana, Smith fantasized about a life in rodeo and went on to earn thirteen trips to the national finals, becoming one of the greatest of all riders. Drawing on interviews with Smith and his family and friends, Kahn captures the realities of that world: winning enough money to get to the next competition, and competing even when in pain. “It’s the most beautifully written rodeo or human story I have ever read,” says six-time World Champion All-Around Cowboy Larry Mahan. Poetry Roundtable • 7pm • Workshop one of your original poems once a month with a group of peers. More info: jedesign2004@yahoo.com. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Betty Webb and The Big Read AZ • 7pm • In celebration of The Big Read initiative, mystery novelist Betty Webb leads a discussion about Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. More info: www.BigReadAZ.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Mark Ireland: Soul Shift • 7pm • Mark Ireland visits with his book Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead Go, which Allison Dubois, subject of the NBC hit show Medium, calls “a must-read for anyone trying to comprehend life after death, or wanting to learn how loss can create an even stronger bond between the living and those who live again.” Mark’s father was Richard Ireland, a deeply spiritual minister and renowned psychic and medium who counted Mae West among his clients. While he loved his father, Mark followed a more conventional path in pursuit of mainstream success—until the wrenching death of his youngest son. This tragedy plunges Mark into the spiritual world of psychics and mediums in a frantic attempt to communicate with the dead. He consults a number of well-known mediums and is struck by the remarkably accurate information their readings provide. Mark first meets with Allison Dubois, and later participates in a single-blind lab experiment with medium Laurie Campbell, which was filmed for the Discovery Channel. He then enters a new dimension of personal paranormal experience, as his own psychic awareness begins to unfold. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Terry Tempest Williams: Finding Beauty in a Broken World • 7pm • Legendary author Terry Tempest Williams visits with her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, which begins in Ravenna, Italy, where “jeweled ceilings became lavish tales” through the art of mosaic. She discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of integration, and when she returns to the American Southwest—her physical and spiritual home—and observes a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau. Finally, Williams travels to a small village in Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a spark for social change and healing. “How a book could be this gentle and this heartbreaking simultaneously I do not know,” says John D’Agata. “But over a simple trajectory of mosaic-to-prairie-dog-to-contemporary-genocide, Terry Tempest Williams leads us with methodical accuracy into the devastations and delights of now.” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Janine Schipper: Disappearing Desert • 7pm • NAU associate professor Janine Schipper visits with her new book, Disappearing Desert: The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl. Phoenix is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States—an expansion that comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environment. Focusing on the Phoenix area, Schipper examines sustainable development in Cave Creek, various master-planned suburbs, and the Salt Creek Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation to explore suburbanization and ecological destruction. She also explains why sprawl continues, despite the toll it takes on the environment.






SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Phoenix Zoo Animal Tails: Thanks a Zoo-illion! 11am • As the holiday season begins, we are often reminded to give thanks. Today we’ll share stories about the interesting life adventures of our animal friends, including how and why they now live at the Phoenix Zoo. We’ll also learn why people and the animals at the zoo have a lot to be thankful for! Free Workshops: National I Love to Write Day • 1-5pm • 1pm: Sara Fujimura leads the children’s workshop “Music to Tickle the Writing Bone,” for kids ages 7-11. • 2pm: Creativity coach Quinn McDonald leads a communal story-writing exercise, “Word-by-Word: Writing Your Story.” • 3pm: Greg Thielen leads poetry-writing exercises • 4pm: Sue Meyn, author of Journal Magic and Journal Cards, lead a journaling adventure. Workshops are open on a first-come first-served basis. Sign-ups available on November 15th. FREE. Insights • 5:30-8:30pm • Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships and career choices. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. More info: 602-840-2222. Bill Konigsberg: Out of the Pocket • 7pm • Former ESPN.com sportswriter Bill Konigsberg visits with his novel for young adults, Out of the Pocket. Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he’s different from his teammates. They’re like brothers, but they don’t know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he’s outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates’ trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he’d hoped. And how will the girl who thinks she’s “dating” him take the news? SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Sean Connolly: The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science • 2pm • What could be more fun for kids than to have the kind of rip-roaring good time that harkens back to pre-video game, pre-computer days? Ask Sean Connolly, when he visits with The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science! From “Marshmallows on Steroids” to “Home-Made Lightning,” the “Sandwich Bag Bomb” to “Giant Air Cannon,” The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science awakens kids’ curiosity while demonstrating scientific principles like osmosis, air pressure, and Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Socrates Cafe • 10:30-noon • Join Socrates Cafe, a philosophical discussion group based on the book Socrates Café by Christopher Phillips. The group discusses questions about life, happiness, love, and beauty. More info: Wendy at tantricdish@yahoo.com. Spanish Conversation • Beginners: 4-5:15pm • Intermediate: 5:30-6:45pm. More info: martha@languagesynergy. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Hands-On AZ • 6pm • “Getting Involved 101.” More info: 602-973-2212, x230. Workshop: Talking Pictures • 6:30-8:30pm • Terry Ratner, RN, MFA, presents “Talking Pictures,” a unique writing workshop which explores who we are through words and images. It’s an art of remembering in an age of forgetting. So dig out your favorite pictures of family and friends, black and white, sepia-toned, or color, and join Terry for an informal gathering where you can share ideas about memories, photos, and how to put the two together into prose or poetry. Cost: $25. Register and pre-pay at 480-730-0205. More info: www.terryratner.com. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Jewell Parker Rhodes: Yellow Moon • 7pm • Jewell Parker Rhodes (Voodoo Dreams, Magic City) visits with her new novel, Yellow Moon. Publishers Weekly raves, “In Rhodes’s superb sequel to 2006’s Voodoo Season, a wazimamoto, or African vampire, stalks Dr. Marie Laveau, a 21st-century doctor, modern voodoo practitioner, and descendant of the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Haunted by the unquiet spirits of people killed by the wazimamoto, the young doctor vows to stop it with the help of new boyfriend, NOPD Detective Daniel Parks; her Creole boss, Dr. Louis DuLac; and others devoted to Marie and her young adopted daughter, Marie-Claire. As the blood of the victims nourishes the vampire so it can completely assume human form, Marie must summon all her powers to vanquish it. Rhodes includes an informative author’s note about the evolution of the African vampire as a response and a warning about racist brutality and cultural vampirism, giving cultural weight to this hypnotic thriller.”




WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Writing Workshop: Vision Boards • 6:30-8:30pm • Jumpstart your dreams with this fun, fast-paced class, where you’ll put into practice the universal law of attraction by creating a “vision board” of your own. Debbi Haun, a practitioner who incorporates the Artist’s Way tools pioneered by Julia Cameron, leads the workshop. Bring a magazine or two for images and inspiration, and Haun supplies the rest. Cost: $20. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. Ladies’ Night Out • 7pm • Changing Hands and Kokopelli Winery present “Ladies’ Night Out: Wine and Conversation” with Laura Fitzgerald, author of Veil of Roses. Fitzgerald’s compelling debut novel captures the cross-cultural experience of one young woman who leaves the oppressive confines of Iran to experience the intoxicating freedom of America. Please note: This is an offsite event at Kokopelli Bistro and Winery in Chandler. Cost: $45 per person, includes book, two drink tickets, and hors d’oeuvres. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Nancy Mehagian: Siren’s Feast • 7pm • Author Nancy Mehagian visits with her culinary memoir Siren’s Feast: An Edible Odyssey, and brings samples of a recipe from the book. Set against the backdrop of the late 1960s and early ’70s, Mehagian tells the tale of a young woman who heeded the siren’s call to a life of freedom and romance. A first-generation Armenian American whose family narrowly escaped genocide, the rebellious daughter abandoned the safety and security of suburban life for an unforgettable adventure that would find her establishing the first vegetarian restaurant on the Spanish island of Ibiza, having an affair with a Bedouin gypsy during a stint as a cabaret dancer in Syria, and, through a series of mishaps, incarcerated for 16 months in a London prison (along with her newborn baby), where she managed, even there, to pioneer a healthy way of eating. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Shirley Schmitz: Guts, Imagination, Vision • 7pm • Shirley Schmitz, one of New Woman magazine’s “50 Most Successful and Exciting Women in America,” visits with her book, Guts, Imagination, Vision: Conversations with Innovators-Changemakers. In the world of the enterprise-builder there are no norms or formulas. The stories collected in Guts, Imagination, Vision chronicle how Schmitz and eleven fellow entrepreneurs succeeded through ideas, drive, competitiveness, courage, and an ever-present desire for the quest. Learn how and why some entrepreneurs capture and dominate the market they establish, and why others become serial entrepreneurs who create and then sell to bigger organizations, freeing themselves to create more business success.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Cooking with Storybook Kitchen • 11am-noon • It’s finally pumpkin season, and today we’re celebrating with Cynthia Giroux from KC’s Storybook Kitchen. Cynthia reads from Pumpkin Town! by Katie McKy, and shows kids how to make Petite Pumpkin Pancakes. We’ll also be handing out pumpkin seeds to take home and plant. James Owens: The Indigo King • 2pm • Bestselling fantasy author James Owen (Here, There Be Dragons, The Search for the Red Dragon) visits with The Indigo King, the third installment of his Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series. This fantasy adventure story brings 1930s caretakers John and Jack (aka J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis) into an alternate universe, where history has been rewritten and the Winter King reigns supreme. Owens’ books are already being made into a feature film, so read all three and be among those who can truly say, “The books were better.” They always are. Workshop: Tea 101 • 5-7pm • In this unique workshop hosted by Bret Wingert, owner of Souvia Tea in Phoenix, you’ll learn about the different types of tea, where they come from, and how to make the perfect cup every time. Workshop includes tea tasting, tea samples, a coupon for a pot of tea at Souvia, and a Hues & Brews peony cup and saucer. Cost: $40. Seating is limited. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. More info:
www.souvia.com. Tarot Readings • 5:30-8:30pm • Tarot reader Susanna Astarte provides guidance along life’s journey. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. More info: 480-969-2522.





SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Theosophical Society Meeting • 1-3pm • Do you love The Wizard of Oz or the story of Jonah and the Whale? Sandy Mantel, former president of the Miami Theosophical Society, will help you discover their hidden messages. Sponsored by the Phoenix Study Center of the Theosophical Society in America. More info: www.phoenixtheosophical.org. FREE. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Patrick McKeown: Asthma-Free Naturally • 7pm • Author and chronic asthmatic Patrick McKeown visits with his book, Asthma-Free Naturally: Everything You Need to Know to Take Care of Your Asthma. Take control of your asthma safely and effectively without any side effects by using McKeown’s approach, which includes the Buteyko Breathing Method (considered by many to be the most effective self-help asthma treatment), as well as guidance on diet, sleep, physical activity, and other lifestyle changes that can provide a natural alternative to medications. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Judy Walker: Cooking Up a Storm • 1-4pm • Judy Walker visits to sign copies of her book, Cooking Up a Storm: New Orleans Recipes for Recovery, which she co-edited with Marcelle Bienvenu. After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, thousands of people lost their keepsakes and family treasures forever. As residents started to rebuild their lives, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans became a post-hurricane swapping place for old recipes that were washed away in the storm. The newspaper has compiled 250 of these delicious, authentic recipes along with the stories about how they came to be and who created them. Cooking Up a Storm includes the very best of classic and contemporary New Orleans cuisine, from seafood and meat to desserts and cocktails. But it also tells the story of one of the great food cities in the world and the determination of its citizens to preserve and safeguard their culinary legacy. Insights • 5:30-8:30pm • Tarot reader James R. Betz offers advice on life, relationships and career choices. Cost: $20 for 15 minutes. Registration and pre-payment required at 480-730-0205. More info: 602-840-2222.