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Mason Tvert Changing Hands Bookstore	Wed., November 25, 7:00pm	Tempe	Literary Events Public Interest
The marijuana-policy expert and co-author (with Steve Fox and Paul Armentano) of Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? discusses the new book and why alcohol is considered a more socially acceptable "high" than weed. More >>

Valerie Bertinelli Changing Hands Bookstore	Sat., November 28, 4:00pm	Tempe	Celebrity Appearances Literary Events Pop Culture
Warning: The book is cheesy. Its author? An artery-clogging Mascarpone. But Valerie Bertinelli remains relevant – and hot. She was the shooting star of many a young man’s wet dream back in the day, thanks to her stint on the ’70s sitcom One Day at a Time. The pixie-faced cherub... More >>

Garrison Keillor Dobson High School Auditorium	Sun., November 29, 3:00pm	Mesa	Celebrity Appearances Literary Events
The busy Prairie Home Companion patriarch discusses and signs two new novels: Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance and A Christmas Blizzard in a literary appearance sponsored by Changing Hands Bookstore. The Close Enough String Band performs during the signing segment of the program. More >>

Superstition Review Reading feat. Carol Ann Bassett ASU Memorial Union	Mon., November 30, 6:30pm-9:00pm	Tempe	Environmental Literary Events
Well-traveled journalist/environmental author Bassett is best known for her works of literary nonfiction, such as Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution and the Arizona-desert paean Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge. She... More >>

"From the Penthouse to the Basement" Harry Wood Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Mon., November 16 until Fri., December 4	Tempe	Art Literary Events
If you thought Sarah Palin’s new memoir was only good for kindling or toilet paper, think again. A first edition of Darwin’s The Origin of the Species netted 35,000 pounds at auction. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles No. 1 is worth more than four grand. So when everyone else inevitably... More >>

Sarah Palin Costco	Tue., December 1, 11:00am-2:00pm	Tempe	Literary Events
America's favorite airhead, errrr, former vice presidential candidate/governor of Alaska Sarah Palin posts up quickly at Costco to sign her new memoir Going Rogue: An American Life. More >>

Mona Lynch Changing Hands Bookstore	Wed., December 2, 7:00pm	Tempe	Literary Events Public Interest
The associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, discusses and signs Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment. The book examines our "mass incarceration nation" and specifically the leader of the pack, Arizona. More >>

Zachary Lazar Poisoned Pen	Sat., December 5, 4:00pm	Central Scottsdale	Literary Events
Novelist Zachary Lazar has a reporter’s heart. In Evening’s Empire, a Phoenix-centric account of the murder of his father, Lazar sets out to tell yet another of our town’s stories of corruption and killing -- this one a tale close to Lazar’s heart, as it involves the murder... More >>

Frank Warren Kiwanis Park	Mon., December 7, 7:30pm	Tempe	Literary Events
Just when you thought it was safe to keep a secret, Frank Warren turns up with another of his PostSecret books. Warren, “the most trusted stranger in America,” has just published PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God, his fifth collection of arty postcards from around the... More >>

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Kim Haasarud Bookstar Town & Country	Wed., November 25, 11:00am	East Phoenix	Literary Events

Debbie Macomber Changing Hands Bookstore	Mon., November 30, 7:00pm	Tempe	Literary Events

Karl Alexander Poisoned Pen	Mon., November 30, 7:00pm	Central Scottsdale	Literary Events

Anne Hillerman and Don Strel Heard Museum	Thu., December 3, 2:00pm	Central Phoenix	Literary Events Photography

Authors at the Teague: Mark Coggins, Michelle Gagon Velma Teague Branch Library	Thu., December 3, 2:00pm	Glendale	Literary Events

"From the Penthouse to the Basement" Reception and Silent Auction Harry Wood Gallery	Thu., December 3, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Tempe	Art Art - Openings & Events Literary Events

Dr. Paul Beljan Barnes & Noble	Fri., December 4, 5:00pm	North Phoenix	Literary Events

Tania Katan Reading and Writer's Workshop South Mountain Community College	Sat., December 5, 10:00am-12:00pm	South Phoenix	Classes & Seminars Literary Events

Chef John Conley Heard Museum	Sat., December 5, 11:00am-2:00pm	Central Phoenix	Food & Drink Literary Events

Ken Delo Borders Books & Music	Sat., December 5, 11:30am	Mesa	Children's Events Holiday Literary Events

Tom Van Dyke Barnes & Noble	Sat., December 5, 1:00pm	North Scottsdale	Holiday Literary Events

J.A. Jance Foothills Branch Library	Mon., December 7, 2:00pm-5:00pm	Glendale	Literary Events

Carol Aebersold Barnes & Noble	Mon., December 7, 6:00pm	Chandler	Holiday Literary Events

Sue Grafton Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa	Wed., December 9, 7:00pm	East Phoenix	Literary Events

Jeffrey Zaslow Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center	Wed., January 27, 7:00pm	North Scottsdale	Literary Events

Orville Schell Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts	Thu., February 11, 7:30pm	Central Scottsdale	Literary Events Lectures