June 3 , 2008 Gary Saretzky will be selling photography books at the Trenton Book Fair this week. Stop by and say hello! Please let others know about the event.

Classics Used and Rare Bookstore is proud to present

The Trenton Book Fair
Friday June 6 and Saturday June 7--A Heritage Days Event.

The schedule of events and authors is as follows:

Friday June 6th
Book Sidewalk Sale
1100 to 3:00
Warren Street, from Front Street to Lafayette St.

The streets will be lined with authors and other booksellers.

Short Story Discussion
12:00 to 1:00
Classics Used and Rare Books, 117 South Warren

Come listen to and discuss a short story in an intimate reading group with Peoples and Stories. Free event.

Blood: A Comedy
12:00 to 1:00
Gallery 125, 125 South Warren

Passage Theatre to present an exclusive premiere of Blood: a Comedy by David White. Free event.

Cadwalader Heights: A Presentation about an Historic Trenton Neighborhood
1:00 to 2:00
Classics Used and Rare Books, 117 South Warren

Join Glenn Modica, author of Cadwalader Heights: The History of an Olmstead Neighborhood, Trenton, for a presentation of this historic Trenton neighborhood. Free event.

Introducing Abraham
1:00 to 3:00
Gallery 125, 125 South Warren

Professor Alvyn Haywood facilitates a discussion of the book and movie, Introducing Abraham, the teachings of the non-physical entity Abraham. Free event.

How to Promote and Publish Your Own Book
3:00 to 4:30
Classics Used and Rare Books, 117 South Warren

Join Ed Leefelt, author of The Woman Who Rode the Wind and leader of a Princeton writers group, as he leads a discussion of the difficult road of promoting your own book. Also in attendance will be Jon Naar, photographer and author of The Birth of Graffiti and 11 other books.
Free event.

Reception Honoring Women Writers
4:30 to 6:30
Oh My Heavenly Hair, 11 North Willow

Have wine and cheese, courtesy Oh My Heavenly Hair, and mingle with women writers, including Nanette Buchanan, Theresa Bowman Downing, Ellen Foos, Betty Kerr Orlemann, Mary Shaffer, Charisa Smith, Shaun Stephenson and Denise Turney Free event.

Book Sidewalk Sale
5:00 to 9:00
Warren Street, from Front Street to Lafayette St.

The streets will be lined with authors and other booksellers.

Poetry Reading: Komunyakaa, Long and Micheaux
6:30 to 8:00
Gallery 125, 125 South Warren

Hear poetry from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Dante Micheaux from New York University and Doc Long, author of Timbuktu Blues and Rules for Cool. Free event.

Scrabble Night
6:30 to midnight
Classics Used and Rare Bookstore, 117 South Warren

All skill levels welcome. Free event.

Poetry Jam
8:00 to 10:00
Gallery 125, 125 South Warren

J. Simone of the 449 Room Poetry Jams will host. Please bring your best groove and win cash and prizes. Jam royalty, Narubi Selah, an HBO Def Poet, will be in attendance. Free event.

Saturday June 7th

Book Sidewalk Sale
11:00 to 4:00
Warren Street, from Front Street to Lafayette St.

The streets will be lined with authors and other booksellers.

Heritage Days
12:00 to 9:00 pm
State Complex, State Street

Trenton 's annual celebration of our cultures features music, food, crafts and kids events. Free event.

Whole Ecological Design
12:00 to 4:00
Gallery 125, 125 South Warren

This event is free to the public and will feature a screening of Sundance Big Ideas for a Small Planet, the Build episode and a special appearance by Mitchell Joachim, principal with Terreform, a nonprofit philanthropic architectural design collaborative that integrates ecological principles in the urban environment. The event is produced by BOOST. Free event.

CitySmiles Story Reading
1:00 to 2:00
Classics Used and Rare Books, 117 South Warren

In celebration of Heritage Days, stories will offer a variety of fun and educational stories about children and families from countries all over the world, including stories in languages such as Spanish, German, French and Arabic! Come listen, and hear the wonderful stories and languages from our planet. Free event.

Book Making
2:00 to 4:00
Classics Used and Rare Books, 117 South Warren

Scott Lindsten, graphic designer and book maker, will teach craftspeople of all ages how to create, decorate and express themselves in hand made books. Free event.

Confirmed authors, book dealers and presses:

Karen Boyce, author of two inspirational novels, According to Thy Word and Into the Way of Peace

Nanette Buchannan, author of Family Secrets, Lies and Alibis

Harry Camisa and Jim Franklin, authors of Inside Out: 50 years at Trenton State Prison

Wahida Clarke Classics Used and Rare Books

Theresa Bowman Downing, author of the book of poetry, A Hard Head and Delayed Blessings

The Garvey School

Alvina Gregory, author of Listen With Your Heart

Sharon Hazard, author of two books on local history entitled Long Branch in the Golden Age and Long Branch, a postcard history book.

J.J. Lair, author of Dream Dancing

Ed Leefelt, author of The Woman Who Rode the Wind

Doughtry "Doc" Long, author of the books of poetry Rules for Cool and Timbuktu Blues

Stuart Nachbar, author of The Sex Ed Chronicles

Nevermore Used Books New Jersey

Romance Writers

Old Barracks Museum

Betty Kerr Orlemann, author of Mission: Murder: First in the Hattie Farwell Mystery Series

Ewuare X. Osayande, author of Misogyny & The Emcee: Sex, Race & Hip Hop

Reverend Berlinda Love, Sermons from the Heart Ragged Sky Press

Gary Saretzky, dealer in photography books

Mary Shafer, author of Devastation on the Delaware (about the 1955 flood)

Risa Smith, author of a book on Trenton painter Tom Malloy

Anne Smollon, author of Missing in Action: How Mothers Lose, Grieve, and Retrieve Their Sense of Self

Charles Stansbury, author of Two-Fisted Champion

Tika, author of Baby Love, Piper and Forever

Autumn Denise Turney, author of Long Walk Up

Portia and Spiral Jack Washington, author of The Search for Equality: Trenton's Black Community, The Long Journey Home: A Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton and White Collar Factory: Black Education in Urban America

Vanessa Wilson Deanie Yasner, author of Nana, Will You Suck Your Thumb With Me

This event is produced by Classics Used and Rare Books, funded by the Princeton Area Community Foundation and the Harbourton Community Foundation and is supported by the City of Trenton Department of Culture and the Trenton Downtown Association.