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The Money Book for Freelancers, |
Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed By Joseph D'Agnese & Denise Kiernan | | Who is planning for your retirement? Who covers your expenses when clients flake out and payments are late? Who is setting money aside for your taxes? Who is responsible for your health insurance? Learn the answers to these questions and much more in The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed. This book is a comprehensive system for earning, spending, saving, and surviving as an independent worker.
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How to Turn Your Money Life Around: |
The Money Book for Women By Ruth Hayden | | Exercises and commonsense guidance for thinking through your attitudes about money. Ultimately be able to own your decisions and feel safe around money. Ruth Hayden is a terrific teacher and financial counselor. Her work focuses on women and money, and couples' negotiations around money.
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Personal Finance Workbook For Dummies® |
By Sheryl Garrett, CFP® | | Need to get a handle on your personal finances? No problem – this practical, hands-on workbook shows you how to assess your situation and manage your money, walking you through a private financial counseling session. From budgeting and using credit wisely to planning for large expenses and determining your insurance needs, you’ll discover how to make smarter financial decisions. Plus, the featured worksheets and checklists help you manage your day-to-day spending and plan for a robust financial future. 
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Just Give Me the Answer$: Expert Advisors Address |
Your Most Pressing Financial Questions By Sheryl Garrett, CFP®, with Marie Swift and The Garrett Planning Network, Inc. | | Hiring a financial planner is often something people associate with the wealthy. But according to financial guru Sheryl Garrett, everyone should be able to work with a financial professional and take control of his or her financial fitness. In Just Give Me the Answer$: 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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On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl's Guide to Personal Finance |
By Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar | | This succinct guide will teach you how to balance your desire to live well today with the need to save and invest for tomorrow. You will learn how to achieve common life goals such as owning a home, providing for yourself or your family, taking fun vacations and retiring in comfort – all free from financial stress. 
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By Rick Kahler, CFP®, and Kathleen Fox | | This book will help you discover your unconscious money beliefs and break their power, transforming the role of money in your life. It will give you practical, down-to-earth guidance along a new path to help you achieve fulfillment and prosperity far deepr than just financial success. 
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| 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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Your Money Matters: 21 Tips to Achieve |
Financial Security in the 21st Century By Jonathan D. Pond | | One of the best-recognized names and faces in the financial advice world reveals how to greet the new century with money in your pocket. This book by Jonathan Pond breaks new ground by taking a human look at meeting life's financial challenges. Pond's tips present important lessons essential to achieving financial peace of mind and new ideas for prospering in the new century. 
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Ten Weeks to Financial Awakening: A Guidebook |
to the Creation of Your Own Financial Plan Using Quick By Paul Lemon | | This isn't really a book, it's a complete financial planning program that will help you organize and control your finances and take control of your financial life. This book guides you step-by-step to developing your own financial plan. 
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Personal Financial Planning for Gays & Lesbians |
By Peter M. Berkery | | This book discusses managing personal risks, savings and investing strategies, planning and reducing income taxation, preparing for retirement and estate issues. Co-published by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, a non-profit educational organization supporting gays and lesbians, this book helps individuals and couples confront and overcome legal and social realities with solid strategies for achieving financial goals. 
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JK Lasser's Gay Finances in a Straight World |
By Peter M. Berkery and Gregory A. Diggins | | Focusing on financial planning in a system that was not designed for persons with a same-sex orientation, this book helps them identify financial planning issues common to society in general, and to the gay community specifically. The authors help gays and lesbians plan for the life events likely to affect their financial status and successfully develop financial strategies that will help them successfully navigate these events. 
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By Judy Lawrence | | This book has a simple, no-nonsense approach to understanding and managing one's financial life. The recommendations and examples are superb, and the “big picture” is communicated effectively. The book is a complete kit by itself, and the associated website offers more outstanding advice and useful tools. 
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You Don't Have to Be Rich: Comfort, Happiness and |
Financial Security on Your Own Terms By Jean Chatzky | | Chatzky, who is with NBC’s Today Show and Money Magazine, creates an insightful book that shows can show you how to make financial decisions to make you truly happy no matter your financial means. Practical advice. Highly inspiring. 
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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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Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your |
Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence By Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin | | This is a best-selling book on how to get control of your money and your life. The authors help you take a look at how you handle your money, and whether it is a reflection of your values. 
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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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Seven Stages of Money Maturity: |
Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life By George Kinder, CFP® | | This is a book that searches for the spiritual meaning in wealth, and tells the stories of three composite characters throughout the book. You learn how to evolve through the seven stages (innocence, pain, knowledge, understanding, vigor, vision, and aloha) necessary to achieve financial and emotional security. Named as “one of the most influential people in the financial planning industry” (Investment Advisor magazine, June 2003), George is the founder of The Kinder Institute of Life Planning, a personal empowerment and training organization that offers the highly-acclaimed Seven Stages of Money Management Workshop. 
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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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163 Life Lessons from the Dean of Self-Development By Earl Nightingale | | This is a classic collection of lessons that touch on many topics, many of which relate to money. Goal setting, being creative, managing risk, making the most of opportunities and various other topics are covered. Each lesson is only a few pages long, so it is easy to read a few lessons at a time.  | |
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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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