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Want to learn more about the world of personal finance? The following books will set you on the right path!
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Just Give Me the Answer$: Expert Advisors
Address Your Most Pressing Financial Questions
By Sheryl Garrett, CFP®, with Marie Swift and The Garrett Planning Network, Inc.
June 2004 – Dearborn Trade Publishing
ISBN 0-7931-8339-1
$18.95 paperback
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Hiring a financial planner is often something people associate with the wealthy. But according to financial guru Sheryl Garrett, everyone should be able to work with a financial professional and take control of his or her financial fitness. In Just Give Me the Answer$: Expert Advisors Address Your Most Pressing Financial Questions, Sheryl Garrett along with Marie Swift and Members of The Garrett Planning Network have provided the answers to the most pressing financial questions consumers ask as they pass through various life stages. Sprinkled with real-life stories and specific examples, Just Give Me the Answer$ is a one-stop resource for anyone looking to get – and keep -- their financial house in order.
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The Millionaire Next Door
By Thomas Stanley and William Danko
Contrary to what many may believe, most millionaires are not flashy. This book gives you a good look at the profile of a typical millionaire, how they got there, and how you can learn from their habits. Who knows, you might even become the next Millionaire Next Door.
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Saving Money: An Easy, Smart Guide to Saving Money
By Barbara Loos
Formerly published under the title I Haven’t Saved a Dime, Now What?!, this book has been repackaged, and sold under the Barnes & Noble Basics label. It is designed to walk you through the often puzzling and worry-producing world of money.
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Affluenza, The All-Consuming Epidemic
By John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas Naylor
The term “affluenza” suggests a disease from over consumption. The theme of the book is that we are consuming more than is healthy for ourselves and our society – and we are not any happier for it. Good food for thought.
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Zero Debt
By Lynette Khalfani
If you want to be debt-free and achieve financial freedom, you need an action plan to guide you. This book is your step-by-step plan and it's simple and easy to understand.
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The Sound Mind Investing Handbook
By Austin Pryor
Focuses on author's four levels of financial fitness. A step-by-step guide to managing your money from a Biblical perspective.
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The Prosperity for Life Financial Organizer
By Suzanne Fails, CPA, CFP®
This easy-to-use financial planning tool contains checklists and worksheets to help you accumulate and store vital personal and financial information. Each section has reminders and ideas about important financial planning tasks. Now you can experience peace of mind knowing that your crucial information is organized and at your fingertips.
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Loans and Grants from Uncle Sam: Am I Eligible and for How Much?
By Anna Leider, Associates Octameron
How much federal aid should a family expect? Is there any real difference between lenders? Which repayment office is best? Loans and Grants takes families through the maze to make sure they get their fair share of the nearly $70 billion in available federal student aid. This book demystifies the financial aid process and defines confusing terms.
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The Winning Edge: The Student Athlete’s Guide to College Sports
By Frances Killpatrick, et al
Take your sport to college! This book is much more than a rehash of NCAA rules and regulations. It shows students how to use their athletic skills to increase their chances for admission and financial aid at the school of their choice. The Winning Edge also includes practical advice from coaches in nearly every sport, including Joe Paterno (Penn State) on football, and Susan Craig (University of New Mexico) on softball.
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College Money Handbook
By Petersons
This book is an annually updated reference guide to more than 1,600 individual colleges’ student financial aid appropriations. It is designed to help prospective undergraduate students and their families discover what they might look for in financial aid from particular institutions, aid them in making comparisons between institutions and help them make decisions related to financial aid. The front matter provides a concise overview of the student financial aid system.
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You’ve Lost It, Now What? How to Beat the Bear Market and Still Retire on Time
By Jonathan Clements
This book has a feisty and easy-to-understand style that gives you a road map for the years ahead. It takes you step-by-step through the process of rebuilding your investments and explains how after reaching retirement you can squeeze the maximum out of your savings.
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Widowed: Beginning Again Personally and Financially
By Sharon Trusty, Barry M. Corkern and Sally Chandler Crisp
Part self-help, part narrative exploration, this book is the result of an unusual collaboration between a widow and her financial planner.
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The Widow’s Resource
By Julie A. Calligaro
This book provides answers to the financial and legal questions that a widow will face within the first six to nine months of her husband's death. It contains sample letters and to-do lists on perforated pages that tear out of the book for easy use.
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Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorcees and Widows
By Kerry Hannon
This book provides divorced or widowed women with essential information that can transform their lives. The book should be viewed as an essential survival kit for all suddenly singles.
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Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor
By John Bogle
This book explains the various investment markets and different types of mutual funds (bond, stock, balanced, money market, etc.). It tells you how to understand and evaluate risk and gives advice on how to construct an investment program for whatever purpose you may have in mind. It also gives advice on how much risk is prudent for different investment time horizons.
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All About Index Funds
By Rick Ferri, CFA
Little known just five years ago, index mutual funds have become one of today's most popular vehicles for investors. "All About Index Funds" explains the ins and outs of these easy-to-use investments, and reveals how they can give you the advantage of a highly diversified portfolio for as little as $500.
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
By Benjamin Graham with updated examples by Jason Zweig
One of the greatest investment advisors of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. This revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles of value investing.
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Protecting Your Wealth in Good Times and Bad
By Rick Ferri, CFA
Protecting Your Wealth is an essential guidebook to a secure savings and investing strategy. Step by step, this book walks you through the process of developing and implementing a sound lifelong plan to grow and protect your hard-earned assets.
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The Richest Man in Babylon
By George Clason
A collection of parables written in the 1920s, this book is a timeless, inspirational work. Great advice on the subject of thrift, financial planning and personal wealth, that is just as sound today, as it was 80 years ago.
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The Only Investment Guide You Will Ever Need
By Andrew Tobias
This guide has been updated many times and available for more than 20 years. This is an easy-to-read book covering many of the basics of personal finance, from investments and life insurance to Social Security.
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Retirement Bible
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy
A complete guide to the personal finance issues surrounding retirement, from 401(k)s to estate planning and trusts. The author discusses how to save money on taxes, calculating for a comfortable retirement, IRAs, stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other investments.
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Retiring: An Easy, Smart Guide to an Enjoyable Retirement
By Hope Egan, CFP®, and Barbara Wagner
Formerly published under the title I’m Retiring, Now What?!, this book has been repackaged and sold under the Barnes & Noble Basics label. All you need to know to make retiring worry-free, from planning your retirement to making your money last and where to live. Designed to make retirement more fun, the book even includes the inside track on travel for seniors.
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Serious Money, Straight Talk about Investing for Retirement
By Rick Ferri, CFA
Serious Money explains why stockbrokers, investment firms, financial consultants and the mass media do not always have your best interests at heart. In this hard hitting book, author Richard Ferri takes the investment industry to task for spending too much effort on selling and too little on meeting the needs of serious investors.
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101 Tax Saving Ideas
By Randy Gardner, JD, CPA, CFP®, and Julie Welch, CPA, CFP®
This useful and expertly written book is a great guide for ideas on how to save money on taxes, not a dry, technical tax manual. It could very well save you some money on your next tax return. Updated every year, the book is a reliable resource, chockfull of tax-saving ideas.
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Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate?
By Marlene Stum
This is a sensible, down to earth guide on how to handle the distribution of family items from one generation to the next. The goal is to have the process be a celebration of the deceased person’s life, rather than allowing emotions to harm or destroy family relationships.
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Advice for the New Century
By Burton Malkiel
This is an investment classic, originally published in 1973. It has just been updated, and now takes into account the dot-com meltdown. Among other topics, Malkiel gives an entertaining history of past market bubbles, and explains why it’s not worth trying to beat the market. There is also a life-cycle guide to investing in the market.
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End Note$
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