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The M Word By Lori Sackler

Radio personality and financial advisor Lori

Sackler introduces a set of tools for anyone who

needs to discuss money with loved ones through

all of life’s transitions: remarriage, merging

families, retirement, preparing heirs, and

transferring wealth.

The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs By Ric Edelman

Presenting a complex subject simply and

factually with figures and examples the average

person can understand, Edelman emphasizes the

need to save for retirement, discusses retirement

myths, and offers a step-by-step savings plan.

Picture Your Prosperity By Ellen Rogin and Lisa Kueng

If the thought of financial planning and

investing sounds about as appealing as a trip to

the dentist, you’re not alone. This practical guide

will help you create a stress reducing plan that’s

broken down into manageable and enjoyable

steps.

The Opposite of Spoiled

By Ron Lieber

Helps parents to explain the connection between

money and values and to raise young adults who

are grounded, unmaterialistic, and financially

wise beyond their years.

The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After

Fifty By Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz

Here at last hard-to-find answers to the dizzying

array of financial questions plaguing those who

are age fifty and older.

Smart is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millenials

By Christine Romans

An interactive, step-by-step guide to all things

money. From credit, student debt, savings,

investing, taxes and mortgages, CNN’s chief

business correspondent shows this newest

generation of earners how to build wealth.

Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out

Your Social Security By Laurence J. Kotlikoff

“This book works as a thorough overview and

reference for those with specific questions about

Social Security. The authors present the

information from the unwieldy system clearly but

without dumbing it down.” -- Library Journal

Living Well, Spending Less

By Ruth Soukup

Following her successful blog of the same name,

Soukup offers lots of creative, helpful ideas and

advice for moms on a budget along with stories

of her own journey to discovering what the

“good life” is really all about.

The Handy Investing Answer Book By Paul A. Tucci

This handy primer explains the basics of

investing and provides 1,400 easy-to-understand

answers to questions ranging from the simple to

the complex.

Smart Money, Smart Kids

By Dave Ramsey

A common-sense approach to raising

money-smart kids in a debt-filled world that co-

vers working, spending, saving, avoiding debt,

paying for college, and battling

discontentment.

MONEY: Master the Game By Anthony Robbins

Based on extensive research and interviews with

financial experts such as Carl Icahn, Warren

Buffett and Steve Forbes, Robbins has created a

simple 7-step blueprint that anyone can use to

achieve financial freedom.

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Natural Born Heroes By Christopher McDougall

The author of the best-selling Born to Run

describes his investigation into ancestral

training techniques that have enabled

Mediterranean athletes to achieve extraordinary

levels of strength and fitness.

Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever By Bill Gifford

Offers a broad examination of the subject of

longevity, looking at the current scientific

understanding of aging, as well as simple things

people can do to promote longevity and common

myths, misconceptions, and scams on the

subject.

Daily Painting By Carol Marine

Marine is among the best and most celebrated

daily painters, and the curator of the popular

online gallery dailypaintworks.com. She

reveals the tips and tricks that helped her and

other daily painters pick up the paintbrush

and start creating beautiful, bountiful,

marketable work.

Ten Windows By Jane Hirshfield

A dazzling collection of essays on how the best

poems work, from the master poet and essayist.

Investigating the power of poetry to move and

change us becomes in these pages an equal

investigation into the inhabitance and navigation

of our human lives.

Whole30 By Melissa Hartwig & Dallas Hartwig

The authors’ critically-acclaimed Whole30

program has helped hundreds of thousands of

people transform how they think about their

food, bodies, and lives. Whole30 is a

step-by-step plan to break unhealthy habits,

reduce cravings, improve digestion, and

strengthen your immune system.

Yogurt Culture By Cheryl Sternman Rule

Long celebrated as a versatile ingredient in

cuisines around the world, yogurt has recently

emerged as a food of nearly unparalleled growth

in the United States. Thoroughly researched and

peppered with stories, interviews, and full-color

photographs, Y ogurt Culture offers a fresh,

comprehensive take on a beloved food.

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Live Right and Find Happiness

By Dave Barry

A collection of previously unpublished

writings by the New Y ork Times best-selling

satirical humorist reflects on his

granddaughter’s learning permit, the deviant

behaviors of the men in his hometown, and the

loneliness of being a high school nerd.

Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be By Frank Bruni

New York Times columnist Bruni shows why

rejection by an Ivy League college need not be

a disaster and may even by a blessing. He

maintains that what matters in the end are a

student’s efforts in and out of the classroom,

not the gleam of his or her diploma.

Becoming Steve Jobs By Brent Schlender

Based on the hugely popular cover story

about Steve Jobs in Fast Company in May

2012, this is the behind the scene account of

how Steve Jobs arguably became the most

famous and visionary CEO in history.

meQuilibrium By Jan Bruce

You can’t eliminate stress, but you can learn to

manage it peacefully -- and you don’t need to

radically change your life to do so. In just 14

days, the authors teach you a new way to

respond and, in turn, a new way to live.

Bias in the Booth By Dylan Gwinn

In his blistering new book, sports reporter

and commentator Dylan Gwinn takes you

inside the sports media spin machine to

reveal what they hope you won’t notice; the

sports media are no different from the news

and entertainment media.

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