More Events at the Watchung Booksellers of Montclair

RECEPTION FOR MONTCLAIR'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS

Saturday, February 25th, 4-6pm

You are all invited to meet and mingle and celebrate the literary wealth of our community. We are honoring Valerie Wilson Wesley, Benilde Little, Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Obery Hendricks, Eric Copage, TaRessa Stovall, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Cecelie Berry, Denise Lewis Patrick, Gwen Parker Ames, Kamau Austin, Phyllis Cunningham, and Morlino Morris. Books will be available for signing.

BOOK SIGNING at LUNA STAGE PERFORMANCE

Mel Watkins

Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry

Sunday, February 26th, 2pm

Luna Stage is offering a special opportunity to attend their Sunday matinee of The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit and participate in a talk-back afterwards with the director Bill Lathan, performer Roscoe Orman and author Mel Watkins. Book signing to follow. For more information and tickets sales, contact www.lunastage.org.

POETRY READING

Adele Kenny

Marilyn Mohr

Thursday, March 2nd, 7:30pm

BOOK SIGNING

Debra Galant

Rattled

Saturday, March 4th, 11am-12:30pm (Note Change of Date and Time)

The Baristanet maven brings us her first novel, a smart and delightful social satire of striving McMansion-dwelling suburbanites battling the elements and the crusty old-timers in the rapidly developing New Jersey sprawl. In search of the perfect life, Heather Peters moves her lawyer husband and perfect urchin-son into a dream development, only to be undone by her encounter with an endangered rattlesnake.

BOOK READING AND SIGNING

Pam Satran

Suburbanistas

Thursday, March 9th, 7-8pm

Pam Satran continues her apt portrayal of the drama and foibles of suburban living with her fourth novel. Once-successful movie star Stella Powers returns to her New Jersey hometown, falls into the arms of the hot property developer and tries to reconnect with her childhood girlfriend who is married to a local cop, has four children, and can't afford to live in the town she grew up in.

POETRY READING

Nkosi Sibanda

The Songs of Soweto: Poems from a Post Apartheid South Africa

Thursday, March 16th, 7:30pm

BOOK SIGNING

Irene Halsman for the late Phillipe Halsman

The Frenchman: A Photographic Interview with Fernandel

Saturday, March 18th, 1-2pm

Out of print for 50 years, Taschen has recently reissued this charming photographic experiment. Photographer Halsman asked the vaudeville actor Fernandel questions about America and recorded his facial expressions as response. Daughter Irene Halsman will be available to reintroduce this treasure and share stories of her father, a LIFE magazine portrait photographer.

BOOK DISCUSSION AND SIGNING

Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

Elliott Lewis

Sunday, March 19th, 3-4pm

"What are you?" Broadcast journalist Lewis tackles this question and looks at the ever-changing landscape of self-identification among individuals of mixed-race heritage, including himself. Lewis includes the stories of dozens of other biracial Americans dealing with issues of interracial dating, affirmative action, transracial adoption and the complex balance between race, appearance and self-identity.

SPECIAL EVENT

Teacher Appreciation Evening

Tuesday, March 21st, 3-7pm

Due to the overwhelming success of our November event, we would like to again extend an invitation to our teachers to our Teacher Appreciation Evening. Meetf Dan Gutman, author of the Zack Files and the Baseball Card Adventures. We are inviting more authors - look for updates on our website. Enjoy some refreshments, see what's new for Summer Reading, and visit with friends.

POETRY READING

Denise Rue

Thursday, March 23rd, 7:30pm

BOOK READING AND SIGNING

Deborah Davis

The Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and his Black- and-White Ball

Thursday, March 30th, 7-8pm

An enthralling look at the most celebrated party of the 1960s. Flush with the success of In Cold Blood, Capote threw himself this hyped-up media event. He determined who was "in" and who was" out;" inviting 500 friends and making 15,000 enemies. Davis (author of Strapless) dishes up all the details and the gossip. A great chronicle of popular American culture of the rich and famous..

STORYTIME

Tuesday mornings at 10:30 on March 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th. Children ages 2 and up are invited with a parent or caregiver. Elaine Campbell Johnson delights our young ones with stories and song.

Montclair Bookstore Honors Black Authors of Montclair

Montclair Authors will be honored at the reception for Montclair's African-American Authors this Saturday, February 25th from 4-6pm.

This reception is timely because it is being held the same week as the Montclair Times Community Event Editor TaRessa Stovall's article in Thursday's Montclair Times on this subject.

Meet and meagle with Montclair authors and others in the community. While this is not a formal booksigning, books will be available for purchase and signing.

The Reception will he held at Watchung Booksellers. They are located in Watchung Plaza (where Park St. and Watchung Avenue intersect). Their address is 54 Fairfield St. We are one block south of Watchung Avenue, across the street from the Chase Bank.

Meet me at Watchung Booksellers

Kamau Austin, the first African-American to Author a Book Specifically on Search Engine Marketing Strategy and other authors to be honored February 25th 2006.

My Book "Always On Top" How to get a top search engine position for your website -- Everytime, will be also be available at the reception to honor Black Authors.

Publisher of Montclair411.com and Author Kamau Austin  

Picture of Kamau Austin and His Publish Book "Always On Top" How to Get the Highest Search Engine Ranking for your website 

Bubble or No Bubble, Investors can Accurately Predict Real Estate Investment ROI

NARREIA releases their proprietary Real Estate Investment ROI Cash Flow Calculator for free download giving residential real estate investors a spyglass into the future helping to determine a good investment from a bad one.

(PRWEB) February 18, 2006 – NARREIA releases their proprietary Real Estate Investment ROI Cash Flow Calculator for free download. The ROI Cash Flow Calculator (CFC) enables investors to forecast the annual return on investment over varying periods of time, simultaneously and at no cost. By removing the guesswork, investors can make sound decisions on real estate investment opportunities, instantly forecasting the return on investment (ROI) over several different time periods by making slight adjustments to the purchase terms in real time.

“Don’t be fooled by the fact that this tool is free,” said Gary Lewis, spokesperson for the National Association of Residential Real Estate Investment Advisors. “The fact that NARREIA has not become another outfit of preachers of real estate investment to its members as a source of revenue but is resolute as a network of practitioners of investment transactions for its members, places a heavy responsibility to develop tools like this to be even better than those you may find elsewhere for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. There is not an ‘up sell’ looming in the availability or use of the resources NARREIA provides.”

With over 80 fields of data, the calculator determines the end of investment ROI based on user input such as Sales Price, Rent, Down Payment, PMI, and Interest Rate. Taking full advantage of the customization capabilities, an investor can enhance the results by entering other criteria including Insurance, Taxes, HOA fees, Property Management fees, Cost of Repairs, and various appreciation rates. This level of detail allows an investor to forecast an ROI of ownership anywhere from 3 months to five years with varying appreciation rates simultaneously.

“This level of detail is essential in assisting investors make informed decisions on a residential real estate investment transaction,” Sean Brown, Founder and CEO explained. “We are a network funded by activity on behalf of our members so it only makes sense, the more educated our members are and the more resources we provide them, the more money we will make for them. Simply put, we only make money if they do.”

In addition to the free ROI Cash Flow Calculator, members have access to a full array of investment and mortgage tools as well as a national network of savvy residential real estate investment advisors. The advisors in the network are hand selected and subject to a rigorous face to face interview process complemented by an ongoing enforcement of a commitment to NARREIA’s credo “Make money for our members not off our members.”

Jeff Klein, Vice President of Development, explains, “There is a never ending evolution of our organization. The NARREIA website is a comprehensive resource which is under constant expansion. We add tools like the cash flow calculator, advisors, referring agents and members daily. The pleasure of making everything free with no strings attached is that we can go ‘all out’ and hold nothing back which has enabled us to become a trend setter in the industry of residential real estate investment. We are currently on pace to accomplish over 3000 transactions this year and we have only scratched the surface.”

The National Association of Residential Real Estate Investment Advisors is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV. The ROI Cash Flow Calculator is available for free download as well as contact information to the entire network at Take a look at the Cash flow Calculator.

Florida Marlins pitcher Dontrelle Willis listens as former baseball player Buck O'Neil recounts his experiences in the Negro Leagues. Willis and O'Neil helped unveil Nike's Untold Truth collection, a new apparel and footwear line that pays homage to the teams of the Negro Leagues. The apparel will be available online at nikeuntoldtruth.com and at Niketown, as well as select stores in February.