Changing Hands Bookstore

🎧 For the love of independent bookshops, explore tons of on-sale audiobooks from now through October 12! Every purchase supports our store!

📚 members receive an additional 30% off! Never too late to become a member today!

🔗 Shop now: https://libro.fm/sale?bookstore=changinghands

❝In several cases, AI recommended banning books that were banned elsewhere, creating a snowball effect for frequently banned books while the expertise of librarians and the communities they serve are ignored.❞

PEN America Reports 12K Book Bans in 2025-26 | Kirkus Reviews The number is the highest since the organization began tracking school censorship in 2021.

FREE EVENT TOMORROW IN TEMPE—Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson to celebrate her latest Truly Devious mystery, THE VELVET KNIFE.

🗓️ WED, SEPT 30 @ 7PM
📍 CHANGING HANDS TEMPE
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP: https://changinghands.com/event/2026-09-30/maureen-johnson-velvet-knife

ABOUT THE BOOK

Return to the world of Truly Devious as Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.

Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but even she can’t figure out what happened with her boyfriend, David. What she needs is a distraction: a good old-fashioned murder. Stevie is much happier dealing with dead people. They’re a lot less confusing—they don’t send cryptic texts and make out with other girls in British pubs.

But then Stevie gets exactly what she wanted when a dead body turns up in the middle of a Manhattan apartment complex, and this one is . . . complicated. Caught in a web of messy alive-people feelings, Stevie finds herself questioning all human connection. Is magnetism only manipulation? Can you trust anyone? Does anyone realize that they’re joining a cult—before it’s too late? And are things with David really over?

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

¿Buscas un buen libro en español? 👀 ¡Nuestra sección de español ha crecido! 📚✨ Tenemos libros para lectores de todas las edades. ¡Te esperamos!

️🏆️🏆️ Huge thanks to and its readers for TWO Best of Phoenix® nods this year. We're truly, deeply grateful to be named "Best Bookstore"—both Editors Choice and Readers' Choice. Incredible. Thank you so much! 🙏🏼⁠
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❝Changing Hands Bookstore has been an essential community space for more than 50 years. Step inside and you’ll understand its impressively long run. Both store locations are cozy and staffed with friendly, welcoming booksellers. Changing Hands is packed with new and used books of all sorts, including beautiful special edition covers and signed editions. Pick up a paperback and enjoy a b**r or coffee at the First Draft Book Bar (Phoenix) or the connected Wildflower cafe (Tempe). The store also hosts tons of free events. Authors stop by for discussions and book signings. Locals can join book clubs or engage in art workshops. Plus, if you’re looking for a gift, it’s a great place to pick up some Arizona-themed merchandise, art-style notebooks and a slew of cool stickers.❞⁠
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🗞️ The new issue is on stands now around the Valley, including at both Changing Hands locations. ⁠
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🔗 You can also view all of this year's winners here:

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts-culture/best-of-phoenix-2026-hits-newsstands-around-the-valley-today-40701863/

#1 New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Adalyn Grace discusses and signs her adult debut, THE WRETCHED DIVINE, about an ancient war between angels and demons, and the human knight determined to end it at any cost.

🗓️ MON, SEPT 28 @ 7PM
📍 CHANGING HANDS TEMPE

🎟️ Get tickets: https://changinghands.com/event/2026-09-28/adalyn-grace-wretched-divine

ABOUT THE LIVE EVENT

Registration via Eventbrite is required.

All tickets will include one (1) hardcover copy of The Wretched Divine.

Books will be distributed at the venue on event night.

Signing line will follow the presentation.

Adalyn will personalize The Wretched Divine and one (1) backlist title. Any additional backlist can be signed, but not personalized.

Candid photos only.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Aurelie Chantelune was born to serve. Raised as a knight in a kingdom ravaged by demons, she's spent her life honing her blade, driven by the memory of the monsters who tore her family apart and by the knowledge that she's one of the few who can stop them.

If Aurelie can claim her first kill, she'll inherit a legacy passed down through the Chantelune bloodline: a soulbond with Yuriel, an angel whose power is vital to her kingdom's survival. But when those she loves begin turning into the very monsters she's sworn to destroy, Aurelie is forced to seek help from the last place she ever imagined. Desperate, she forges a second and far more dangerous bond with Severin, a demon she can hardly trust, but who claims to know how to end the war for good.

With their lives and fates entw**ed, Aurelie, Yuriel, and Severin must team up to hunt down a cure capable of turning demons back into humans. But the more they learn about one another and the deeper their relationships grow, the more Aurelie begins to question the war and her place in it. With both of her bonded on opposing sides, she'll have to make a choice: continue to stand with the angels, or risk everything by trusting a demon.

Join Hannah Lillith Assadi as she discusses and signs her latest novel, PARADISO 17—a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and longlisted for Women's Prize. The book tells the intimate, sweeping tale of one Palestinian man's restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope.

🗓️ THUR, OCT 1 @ 7PM
📍 CHANGING HANDS TEMPE
🔥 FREE EVENT

🔗 RSVP at the link in our bio.

ABOUT THE BOOK

All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien's shoe.

Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948's Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he's ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. This is the precise moment when time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward, always on the way--although in search of what, he is never quite sure. In the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town, he spends his youth wrapped up in the sweet promise of the West and the forgetful assurance of w**e. When life takes him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls for a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of the desert, in Arizona.

Sufien's life spans friendships lost and maintained, a stint selling leathers at a tanner's stall, the ineffable company of cats, and the freedom of the open road, the glowing pride of fatherhood, Sufi myths, prophetic dreams, and visions of the afterlife--and always, always, no matter how far he chases joy, the sweet, treacherous song of a balcony urging him to fly, to fall, to fall. The lyrical pages of Paradiso 17 weave in and out of time and space, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. They are haunting, haunted with grief, struck through, as Dante once wrote, with "the arrow that the bow of exile / shoots first," and yet they throb with light--not just the light that Sufien sees as he approaches his own end, but the brilliant light of a life lived.

Like all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.

Happy Hobbit Day! 🌿🍻 Transport yourself to Middle-earth at the bar today with two epic, limited-edition Lord of the Rings-themed b**rs from Long Beach B**r Lab (**r). Grab a Tolkien classic from the shelves and settle in with one of these precious pints:

🔥 Beacons Are Lit — A crisp New Zealand IPA brewed with Nelson, Simcoe & Superdelic hops.

👁️ Eye of Souron — A vibrant, tart Raspberry and Blueberry fruited sour ale.

Available on draft while supplies last. Because unlike the One Ring, these will definitely disappear! 🌋💍