June 4-5, 2022 • Saturday 10am - 7pm • Sunday 11am - 5pm
Palmer Park is between McNichols and Seven Mile Rd along Woodward. Enter at
Merrill Plaisance. Use 600 Merrill Plaisance, Detroit, 48221 For GPS.
LOTS NEW THIS YEAR! Poster by Desiree Kelly,
local music stage, more authors and poets,
specialty food booths. Join our drum circles!
Authors Tent
The Detroit area has some amazing authors. We're working to introduce them to you at the Palmer Park Art Fair. Most will be doing readings. We also have poets dropping in to entertain us.
Come see a variety of books in many genres. All will be happy to sign their work for you. A sampling of the books to expect is below.
We will also have poetry readings and other entertainment at the tent.
Photographs
Barbara
Barefield
Artist and author Barbara Barefield has a lifetime of photos celebrating jazz performers. This book shows some of her best. Every music lover shouldd have a copy.
Memoir
Dorothy
Jett-Carter
A retired couple fulfill a lifelong dream of traveling to West Africa. They fall in love with the small fishing village of Elmina, Ghana and the expatriate community and decide to relocate. As they are eagerly making plans, the husband dies suddenly. After death, he returns, to visit his wife, give sometimes unwanted advice and even gets involved in his own memorial. The protagonist wife tells the story through a series of memoirs that are engaging, funny, sad, romantic and at times gut wrenching. A piercing cultural perspective on love, death, grief and continuing life’s journey.
Memoir
Emma
Palova
Greenwich Meridian Memoir is an epic tale of immigration and love spanning three continents and two generations. The story takes place on the backdrop of two major historic events: Prague Spring 1968 and the Velvet Revolution in 1989. In this book, Palova brought full circle the family history from the political and personal crisis due to socialism in 1968 to the global crisis caused by the Covid-19 virus pandemic of the 2020s.
Art
Espacia
Fotiu
How does Espacia do such creative drawing? By opening up her mind. Her book works with artists of all ages to help them draw out their best. She provides a base image and encourages you to complete it. The book is printed on erasable materials so you can complete it again and again
Self Help, Poetry
Gwendolyn Rose
Forrest
Written from a cosmic perspective and humanist worldview, Dreams, Deeds, and Destiny: Purpose and Possibility in the Space Age is comprised of 366 motivating self-help messages (one for each day of the year, including leap day). This captivating, easy-to-understand book helps us self-reflect, think critically, and make life changes where necessary.
Thriller
James
Roby
When Noble left the Defense Intelligence Agency, he gave up on the international intrigue going with it. Now, Cody Random, international criminal is back for revenge and threatens the entire nation with his monstrous drug, crush. And for good measure, the CIA is warning Noble to steer clear.
Romance
Karen
White-Owens
Making it as a hotshot legal eagle takes smarts, savvy--and acceptance to a prestigious law school. That's exactly what independent beauty Tia Edwards has when she's hit with a thunderbolt on her way up the professional ladder--a request from her boss to help Christophe Jensen, a charismatic new attorney from France, feel right at home. . .
Children's
Lindy
Lenk
Isabella is a young girl whose journey begins at Margaret’s garden gate where she and the other children watch the old blue-haired woman water the rocks in her yard. But unlike the other children who come to laugh, Isabella comes with curiosity and wonder. When Margaret shares her secret, Isabella’s eyes are opened, and she catches a magical glimpse of the garden, in its fullness. In that moment Isabella must find the courage to step beyond the gate, but as she does, she loses sight of the flowers and soon loses faith in the garden. Does the garden really exist? If it does, where did it go? With paths unfolding before her, will one of these paths lead Isabella to rediscover the garden?
Self Help
Monica
Hickson
“He was a lover and connoisseur of music with a dancing spirit.” This book is dedicated to the many people who have lost loved ones during the pandemic due to COVID-19. The book uses lived experiences from the author to help understand the different types of grief. Because Monica has lived through these types of grief, this book is both informational and autobiographical as she recounts a very personal journey. COVID-19 has changed our lives in many ways during the global pandemic. These years will forever be remembered, never to be forgotten. Although we have all been impacted by this pandemic, not everyone has lost someone so close to home.
Romance
Natalie
Dunbar
What are you prepared to do for love or money? Billionaire Carson McDonald offers African American financial whiz, Aubrey Merrill, a lifechanging partnership running a company he’s purchased. Soon their business relationship dives deeply personal. Due to his past, Carson has avoided romantic attachments. He messes up. Can he convince Aubrey of his love or is he doomed to bachelor hell forever?
Historical
Paul
Vachon
Tracing the development of the auto industry in Detroit from its inception through recent times. The text consists of a series of chronologically arranged vignettes accompanied by both vintage and modern images.
Puzzles
Robert
Hughes
The At-Risk and Endangered Species Activity Book features 26 endangered or at-risk animals, one for each letter of the alphabet. 5 of the animals are native to Michigan, and there is an emphasis on animals from the midwest throughout the book. There are also animals featured from around the country and Puerto Rico. For each animal, I have created a fact-sheet, coloring page, word search, crossword puzzle, and a hand-drawn maze. The back of the coloring page is left blank to minimize bleed-through if people don't use colored pencils for them. The fact-sheets were fact-checked by biologists familiar with the particular species. The text in the book is suitable for a 9th-grade reader, though much of the book is accessible to younger people as well.
Author
Roohee
Marshall
A Generation Found: Precious Pearls of Wisdom
A collection of interviews from the gallant, audacious, high-spirited elders and ancestors who hold the keys to the fountain of infinite, unparalleled knowledge shared in the silent glance radiating from the stillness in their eyes.
African American Fiction
Sylvia
Hubbard
To get over a broken heart, get with a broken man. Renna needed to forget about the pain and betrayal she was going through. Beck broke everything he touched and she needed that, but did she make a mistake by sleeping with the most rude, misogynist & selfish man this side of the Mississippi? Find out in this romance intrigue you won't forget.
Fiction
Syntell
Smith
A New Adult Contemporary Workplace Drama series about the lives of a diverse, divided staff of a new york city library and the eccentric patrons they deal with.
