In protest of what’s being called a monopoly by bookstores small and large, Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe will no longer offer books published by Amazon Publishing.

Changing Hands Bookstore (6428 S. McClintock Dr., Tempe, www.changinghands.com, (480) 730-0205 ) has assembled a world-class group of authors and illustrators to lead summer classes this year:

In protest of what’s being called a monopoly by bookstores small and large, Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe will no longer offer books published by Amazon Publishing.

The Arizona State University campus bookstores are about to become the Sun Devil bookstores when management changes hands this month.

The Arizona State University campus bookstores are about to become the Sun Devil bookstores when management changes hands this month.

Jewell Parker Roades, the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative writing, meets fans and discusses "Sugar," her new novel for middle readers. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who lives on a sugar plantation on the banks of the Mississippi and takes it upon herself to serve as the cultural bridge between the plantation residents and the Chinese workers who come to harvest the cane. Roades will sign copies of her book after the presentation.

Baxter Black won’t let himself be described as America’s best-loved cowboy poet, according to a write-up on Changing Hands Bookstore’s website, but he’s OK with being called the country’s tallest, scrawniest, most left-handed one.

E-Books and Amazon.com may spell the demise of the publishing industry, but Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, named “Best Bookstore” yet again by “2013 Best of East Valley Voters, continues to thrive.

July 23, 2004

Kids can don their best bunny costume Saturday at Changing Hands Bookstore, where there’s a reading of Rosemary Well’s popular “Max the Bunny” stories.

It’s like a scene from the 1995 post-slacker cult classic flick "Empire Records," in which hip young wage slaves band together to save their beloved independent record shop.

The hubbub surrounding Saturday’s release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth entry in the enchantingly popular book series, is enough to make even a Muggle pay attention.

Card game aficionado Adam Slutsky, writer for Maxim, Outside, Chance, and Bluff magazines, visits Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe with his book “52 Things to Pick Up Your Poker Game” 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Visitors to downtown Tempe probably will be forgiven if they momentarily look past the century-old red brick buildings to catch a glimpse of construction cranes towering into the sky.

Day 2 of a 3-part series