Jim and Carol McCord will be signing Two Lenses-Four Europes: Poems and Images.

During their many travels to countries in Europe, Jim and Carol McCord have seen and responded to the world around them through two different lenses -- Jim through the lens of emotive wordsmithing and Carol through the lens of striking visual imagery.

Jim and Carol are resident of Schenectady.

Carl Heilman will be signing The Trails of the Adirondacks: Hiking America's Original Wilderness. 

Carl Heilman has spent the last 40 years hiking and photographing his beloved Adirondack Mountains. His photographs of the region's grandeur and beauty continue to be published in magazines such as Outside and National Parks, and presented as shows on PBS. Heilman's images qualify him as one of the premier ambassadors to the areas mountains and waterways.

Chris Leonard will be signing Schenectady's General Electric Realty Plot.

Chris Leonard is the City Historian of Schenectady.

Greg Wolos will be signing his book of stories Women of Consequence.

Gregory Wolos is a retired English teacher from Schenectady High School. Nearly eighty of his stories have been published in journals. He has received six Pushcart Prize nominations and has received a number of awards for his work. He now resides outside of Boston where his routine includes writing, running, and tending grandchildren.

Harry Rosenfeld will be signing Battling Editor: The Albany Years.

Harry Rosenfeld is the award-winning author of From Kristallnacht to Watergate: Memoirs of a Newspaper Man. He lives in Albany where he is Editor-at-Large and a consultant at the Times Union and serves on the newspaper’s editorial board.

Willie Deane will be signing his new book Love.

Born and raised in Schenectady, Willie Deane is a Schenectady High School graduate where he was Captain and MVP of Schenectady’s first State Championship ’98. He is a graduate of Purdue University and a former professional basketball player. 

Allison Lassieur will be signing Journey to the Promised Land A Story of the Exodusters (I Am America series).

Allison Lassieur is the award-winning author of more than 100 children’s books. Before launching a freelancing career, she was an editor for Highlights for Children Magazine and the Walt Disney Company. She lives in Schenectady.

Amy Crockford signing My Happy Place.

Amy is a 10-year-old deaf girl who loves to swim and play with her friends. Her friends learn a valuable lesson about deafness and they come up with a way to embrace it. Amy learns the true meaning of friendship.

Amy Crockford is an alumni of Guilderland High School and grew up in Schenectady. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communication from R.I.T and a Master of Education from University at Buffalo. She is an American Sign Language professor and teaches at several colleges in Western New York.

Elizabeth Zunon signing I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon.

Discover the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh Nforba is transforming the landscape and bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to his home country of Cameroon.

“Zunon’s colorful mixed-media illustrations ... showcase the movement that Farmer Tantoh has built.” — Horn Book Magazine

John Gray will be signing his new book Keller's Heart.

This love story is not the kind with castles, dragons, and a princess trapped in a tower. But it has a special girl and a fluffy knight who rescue each other. The girl is Raven. She’s deaf. Children at school are hesitant to play with her, as if she’ll break. The fluffy knight is a dog, whose first owner, when he realized the puppy couldn’t hear or see, left him by the side of the road.