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New Books on Money & Investing
 
August

All About Stocks: The Easy Way to Get Started by Esmé FaerberAll About Stocks: The Easy Way to Get Started 
All About Stocks explains in easy-to-understand language: What stocks are, and why you should own them, how to use the Internet to develop buying and selling strategies, how fundamental and technical analysis can help you find undervalued stocks, what mutual funds are, how they work, and which are right for you, and trades to increase your safety during turbulent markets.

The Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing by Gary W. EldredThe Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing
No matter what the market does, real estate still offers plenty of moneymaking opportunities. In this new edition, Gary W. Eldred presents the tools and knowledge new investors need to get started profitably. Concise yet comprehensive, this practical guide shows you how to: find great deals on properties with big potential, get started with low– or no–down payment financing, utilize creative financing options and other people's money, buy low-cost foreclosures and REOs, make value-adding improvements to any property, craft winning offers and negotiate like a pro, and manage rental properties hassle-free.
Hedge Funds Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide by Scott P. FrushHedge Funds Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide
Financial expert Scott Frush first explains the basics of hedge funds and how they are different from mutual funds. He then provides methods for evaluating hedge funds, strategies for low-, moderate-, and high-risk investing, and the steps you need to take to incorporate hedge funds into your portfolio. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this straightforward guide gives you the inside edge for investing in hedge funds.

Lifespan Investing: Building the Best Portfolio for Every Stage of Your Life by Clifford PistoleseLifespan Investing: Building the Best Portfolio for Every Stage Of Your Life
The smartest, healthiest way to invest is for the long haul. In Lifespan Investing, veteran investor and author Clifford Pistolese deftly explains the need for this approach and provides proven techniques for maximizing wealth at every age and stage of your life. He reveals the best ways to take advantage of capital gains opportunities during bull markets, avoid loss of capital during bear markets, and increase your assets and income flow during range-bound markets. Pistolese also gives you failsafe procedures for evaluating the timeliness of potential investments, from stocks and bonds to ETFs, REITs, TIPS, and more.

The World Is Your Oyster: The Guide to Finding Great Investments Around the Globe by Jeff D. Opdyke The World Is Your Oyster: The Guide to Finding Great Investments Around the Globe
The opportunities for investing overseas are indisputable. The World Is Your Oyster is your travel guide: pinpointing five of the best reasons to go global, detailing various ways for investors of every temperament—from timid to adventurous—to cross financial borders, focusing on how to invest directly in hot spots from China to Turkey to Eastern Europe, and revealing how the Internet and other twenty-first-century technology has opened a world of direct overseas investment opportunities for you.

Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market by James DePorreInvest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market 
As an individual investor, you can swim circles around the “whales” of Wall Street…by investing like a shark! In this book, James “RevShark” DePorre reveals how to maximize your powerful and unique advantages as a small investor: speed and flexibility. You’ll develop a completely new way of looking at the stock market, learn when to attack, how to move aggressively, how to stay flexible…and when to swim away in the face of danger.

July

The Budget Kit: The Common Cents Money Management Workbook by Judy LawrenceThe Budget Kit: The Common Cents Money Management Workbook
No matter your financial goal, a well-defined budget is the first step to meet it. The bestselling classic, The Budget Kit, has helped hundreds of thousands of people across America develop effective budgets and gain financial freedom. In this fully updated and revised edition, you will gain the skills to control your money—and your future.

The Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s & 30s Book: Erase Your Debt, Personalize Your Budget, and Plan Now to Secure Your Future by Debby FowlesThe Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s & 30s Book: Erase Your Debt, Personalize Your Budget, and Plan Now To Secure Your Future
Worried about your financial future? Living paycheck to paycheck? Find it hard to save money? This updated edition provides step-by-step instructions on how to: budget scarce funds, recover from credit card debt, pay off student loans, plan for large purchases, and build an emergency fund. You'll also find information on affordable insurance protection, the most useful (and free) online personal finance resources and tools, and how to use tax breaks to help pay for education.

Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families by Erica SandbergExpecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families
This book is about the money aspects of pregnancy and parenthood, starting with familiar chapters like "The Meaning of Money" and "The Dangers of Debt" that prepare readers for an uncluttered financial picture going into familyhood. The needs of different families are addressed in chapters like "On the Double: Partner Issues and On Your Own: Single Solutions." Sandberg also costs out what new parents need to spend on the average (U.S.) baby's clothing, child care and other basic needs, even comparing the costs for different birthing options. Later she compares types of day care and analyzes different ways of meeting long-term needs. These concrete details are what make this book most valuable and helpful for new parents who need real numbers and facts to plan out their family's financial future.

Financial Planning for the Utterly Confused by Joel LernerFinancial Planning for the Utterly Confused
To make the right decisions about your financial future it's important to understand the wide array of investment options available. From Roths and 401(k)s to social security benefits and Medicare to mortgage and life insurance, you'll have a helpful, easy-to-understand guide that takes the confusion out of financial planning.

Get Real, Get Rich: Conquer the 7 Lies Blocking You From Success by Farrah GrayGet Real, Get Rich: Conquer the 7 Lies Blocking You From Success
Born in Chicago's projects, Gray put his considerable energy and confidence into escaping the poverty that surrounded him to become the youngest person with an office on Wall Street. Now at age 22, he is a multimillionaire, entrepreneur and money coach who attributes his success to rejecting the seven lies that keep people from wealth. The attitudes Gray considers lies and concentrates on are some of the most widely believed: people must be born lucky to get rich, have money to make money or be financial gurus.

Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever by Jean ChatzkyMake Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever              
Today, more than ever before, wealth is something every woman has the power to create. Yet Jean Chatzky constantly hears all the excuses why women can’t and don’t master their money. Now she reveals the secrets and the strategies she created to take control of her own money–strategies through which she gained her “money confidence.” Jean explains money and investing in simple, straightforward ways. She breaks down the scariest parts of dealing with money – from investing in stocks to saving for your retirement – and makes them practical, easy, empowering, and enjoyable.

June
Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50 by David CorbettPortfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50
Author David Corbett points out that boomers' longer life expectancy and better health means that reprioritizing may be more rewarding than simply to stop working. He explains why the concept of retirement needs to be retired, and encourages readers to focus on building a portfolio of skills, which allows them to shuffle their skills in the same way they would remix a financial portfolio, rather than follow a linear career trajectory. Instead of abandoning work altogether, people can refocus later in life on the preferred skills and meaningful pursuits that suit them best.
Help! I Can't Pay My Bills: Surviving a Financial Crisis by Sally HerigstadHelp! I Can't Pay My Bills: Surviving a Financial Crisis
No matter how you got into a financial crisis, it’s never too late to take steps to turn things around. CPA Sally Herigstad provides a step-by-step guide to: Create a realistic plan for reaching your financial goals, find cash you didn’t know you had, talk to creditors when they call, build – and stick to – a budget, and get help with catastrophic medical bills.
The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life by Loral LangemeierThe Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life
Building on her foundation of smart-and often counterintuitive-advice for generating real wealth, Loral Langemeier has produced a savvy, practical
guide that can help anyone create and sustain a viable business
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Trump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path to Prosperity edited by Donald J. TrumpTrump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path To Prosperity
In Trump University Wealth Building 101, you'll learn how to: Develop the right mind-set for continued success, learn millionaire moneymaking habits, create your own financial vision statement, adopt the seven proven practices of the rich, start your own business, become a real estate entrepreneur, build your investment portfolio, master money-saving tax strategies, and more.
Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement by Bob ClyattWork Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement
Offers intelligent and practical tips on systematic savings, sensible spending and rational investing to make retirement money, even if it is not a fortune, last a lifetime.
You're So Money: Live Rich, Even When You're Not by Farnoosh Torabi You're So Money: Live Rich, Even When You're Not
Twenty-something financial reporter Farnoosh Torabi tells you that you can satisfy your sophisticated tastes and achieve financial bliss. The key: prioritizing your expenses according to what you want the most—splurging when you can and saving on other things. From sensible grocery shopping to cyberbanking, empower yourself to live a guilt-free, Gucci- and gadget-clad good life without sacrificing financial security.
May
Easy Money: How To Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out of Life by Liz Pulliam WestonEasy Money: How To Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out Of Life
Like most financial advice books, this collection covers the basics such as creating a financial toolkit, investing, planning for retirement and saving for college, but also charts new territory with a 60 Percent Solution and 50/30/20 Plan, both aimed at spending control, as well as getting the most out of your credit cards and what to do if you've overspent on a car purchase.  
Investing for Dummies by Matt KrantzInvesting Online For Dummies
This book helps you set reasonable expectations, assess your risk tolerance, choose an asset allocation, analyze and select investments, and maximize financial success.
Isn't It Their Turn To Pick Up The Check?: Dealing With All Of the Trickiest Money Problems Between Family and Friends -- From Serial Borrowers to Serious Cheapskates by Jeanne FlemingIsn't It Their Turn To Pick Up the Check?: Dealing With All Of the Trickiest Money Problems Between Family and Friends--From Serial Borrowers to Serious Cheapskates
The authors of the enormously popular "Do the Right Thing" column in Money magazine and the blog of the same name on CNNMoney.com - dissect a host of thorny, sometimes comic, inevitably awkward, and frequently infuriating money-and-ethics problems that arise among friends, relatives and neighbors.
The Little Book that Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments by Pat DorseyThe Little Book that Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments
How can you accurately identify companies that are great today and likely to remain great for many years to come? The answer to this question lies in competitive advantages, or economic moats. The author shows how this concept--made famous by Warren Buffet--works.
A Million is Not Enough: How to Retire With the Money You'll Need by Michael K. FarrA Million is Not Enough: How to Retire With the Money You'll Need
Whether you're getting a head start, starting on time, or playing catch-up, Michael Farr's plan presents a specific financial and investment plan to help Boomers reach this million-dollar goal and become safe and worry-free in their later years.   
You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead by Larry WrightYou're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead
Whether your aim is to get out of debt, save for a house, or simply stop kidding yourself when it comes to savings (for retirement, for your kids’ college, whatever your goal) this book encourages you, through easy-to-complete worksheets and Larry’s bullying yet wise counsel, to make it happen.
April
Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter With Your Money by Robert T. KiyosakiRich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter With Your Money
Kiyosaki lays out his 5 key principles of financial intelligence for all to understand: How to increase your money; How to protect your money; How to budget your money; How to leverage your money; and How to improve your financial information. 
The Road To Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money: Everything You Need To Know In Good and Bad Times by Suze Orman  The Road To Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money: Everything You Need To Know In Good and Bad Times
"Here is what you need to know," Orman writes." Answers to the questions you have been asking, as well as the questions you should have been asking, delivered in the most complete, straightforward way I know."
Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips To Plan, Save, and Invest by Jonathan D. Pond Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips To Plan, Save, and Invest
A regular on The Today Show, CNN, and PBS, Pond’s financial advice includes: Using debt to your advantage, why collecting Social Security early is (usually) a mistake, dual-income homes: does that second paycheck help as much as you think?, getting rich slowly, give Uncle Sam his due at tax time—but not one penny more.
How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? by Robert SheminHow Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?
Bestselling author Robert Shemin reveals for the first time the inner-circle secrets of the mega-wealthy. The key is wealth-friendly, upside-down thinking. Stick with all the old moneymaking rules and stay broke. Break them and get rich. This is the book that shows you how.
Let's Get Real About Money: Profit From the Habits Of the Best Professional Finance Managers by Eric TysonLet's Get Real About Money: Profit From the Habits Of the Best Personal Finance Managers
How to develop good financial habits and systematically eliminate the bad ones that stand in your way.     
The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches: A Practical (and Fun) Guide to Enjoying Life More By Spending Less by Jeff YeagerThe Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches: A Practical (and Fun) Guide to Enjoying Life More By Spending Less 
Yeager, once dubbed the Ultimate Cheapskate by NBC's Today Show, advises readers to shift their priorities and live well on less in this sensible guide to frugal living. 
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