Changing Hands Bookstore

SUNDAY IN TEMPE—New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris discusses and signs his latest book THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE, a collection of essays where Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, and a lifelong friend.

🗓️ SUNDAY, JUNE 14 @ 5PM
📍 CHANGING HANDS TEMPE

🎟️ TICKETS: https://changinghands.com/event/2026-06-14/david-sedaris-land-and-its-people

ABOUT THE BOOK

In The Land and Its People, Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. Trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He covers ground with his friend Dawn and challenges her to eat a truck tire. A ambivalent Duolingo bot becomes his unlikely confidante as he attempts to describe his family in a foreign language. Ever adding to his list of “Countries I Have Been To,” he rides a horse named Tequila in Guatemala, buys a bespoke priest’s cassock in Vatican City, and goes on safari in Kenya without taking a single photo.

Time takes its toll: scrolling through his address book, he counts those he couldn’t bear to outlive, and realizes how many are already gone. He is bitten by a dog and insulted by a wee train passenger. A woman on the street late at night either sexually harasses him or doesn’t. It’s easy to agree with the lady waving a sign that reads, “Enough Is Enough.” And yet, life holds much to delight in: the massive testicles of a ram, a trip abroad with his sisters, a really excellent reptile video, a pair of well-made cotton underpants.

Throughout these essays—at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound—Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity our fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.

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Renowned endocrinologist Gillian Mueller Goddard, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU, presents her new book THE HORMONE LOOP: An Empowering Guide to Restoring Hormonal Harmony, from Puberty to Menopause. Take charge of your hormonal health at every stage of life—and learn to have better conversations with your doctor—with this groundbreaking, definitive guide from the force behind the viral Hot Flash Substack.

🗓️ TUESDAY, JUNE 6 @ 7PM
📍 CHANGING HANDS TEMPE
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP: https://changinghands.com/event/2026-06-09/dr-gillian-goddard-hormone-loop

ABOUT THE BOOK

From our mood to our metabolism, hormones are running the show behind nearly every bodily function. They tell our hearts how quickly to beat, our gut how to process the food we eat, our bones to release calcium, and our muscles to grow new fibers. Yet, most of us don't fully understand how our bodies and its systems work--and more importantly, what to do when they don't.

Enter renowned endocrinologist Dr. Gillian Goddard, who knows firsthand how urgently women need clear, accessible information about their hormonal health. Drawing from years of clinical experience, she presents a definitive and engaging guide to hormonal health at every stage of a woman's life--from puberty to reproductive years to perimenopause to menopause to post menopause. As Dr. Goddard clearly explains, at each of these stages, there are four distinct hormone loops that keep our bodies in balance: the reproductive loop, the thyroid loop, the growth hormone loop, and the adrenal loop. While these loops often operate quietly in the background, each plays a powerful role in our lifelong health.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges and changes our bodies experience throughout our lives. But hormones often hold the key. Weaving stories from her practice with the latest medical research and featuring helpful charts and illustrations, Dr. Goddard breaks down the problems that commonly arise throughout our lives and offers a clear rubric for how to have better conversations with our doctors. Necessary and long overdue, The Hormone Loop equips us with the knowledge and confidence to become our own powerful, self-advocates.

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
Place:
Changing Hands Bookstore - Tempe
6428 S McClintock Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85283
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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! 📣⁠
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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 ** ⁠
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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

Full List: https://www.changinghands.com/page/new-books-out-week

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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, 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.