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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
by Beth Kobliner

From the back cover: If you're like most people, you want to get your financial life in order but don't know where to begin. Since its first publication in 1996, Get a Financial Life has helped thousands of people get out of debt, start saving, and begin investing. This updated edition – expanded for the internet age – includes the latest information on how to:

  • Use the Web to find the best auto loans, mortgages, and credit cards
  • Invest in the stock market wisely and painlessly
  • Refinance you high-rate debt – and avoid hidden fees and traps
  • Take advantage of the latest tax breaks – including deductions for student loans
  • Build a serious nest egg with long-term savings plans like the new Roth IRAs
  • Life After Graduation: Financial Advice & Money Saving Tips
    by Terry Arndt & John Ricchini

    From the back cover: Life After Graduation is a financial guide developed specifically with the graduate in mind. This guide is a “financial kick-start” for the real world. Most of the information contained within this guide would take years to learn by word-of-mouth. But instead of wasting all those years learning from your financial mistakes or accidentally coming across new methods to save yourself money, Life After Graduation provides you all that information and more, in a simple-to-use guide.

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    Personal Finance for Dummies
    by Eric Tyson MBA

    From the back cover: Need help planning your financial future? You're in luck! This practical guide has been updated to cover college saving options, credit issues, and new tax and bankruptcy laws. You'll also find ways to request and review your credit report. Take control of your finances – so you can live better, spend more wisely, and survive economic downturns.

    Personal Finance & Investing (CD -ROM)
    by Simply Better Software

    From the back cover: Includes 75 page printable book!

    • Take stock of your financial future
    • Create new wealth, protect what you've already acquired
    • Contains advice in one hour of related video clips

    Scam Proof Your Life: 377 Smart Ways To Protect You & Your Family From Ripoffs, Bogus Deals & Other Consumer Headaches
    by Sid Kirchheimer

    From the back cover: Brimming with expert advice from nearly 100 industry insiders and retired ripoff artists, Scam-Proof Your Life is a protective detective in hardcover. Use it to shield yourself from frauds that can – and do – happen to the best of us. Armed with the secrets in these pages, you'll know just how to react the next time you encounter a scam.

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    The Wall Street Journal. Personal Finance Workbook
    by Jeff D. Opdyke

    From the back cover: Understanding your money, and getting it to work for you, is more important today than it ever was, because you alone are responsible for every aspect of your financial life, form managing your day-to-day living expenses to planning a college savings fund and, ultimately, retirement. The sooner you start taking control of your financial life the better, and there's no greater authority on financial matters than The Wall Street Journal . This workbook takes the mystery out of personal finance and addresses every topic you'll need to master, from building a solid financial base to growing your financial assets. Worksheets, charts, and step-by-step instructions throughout help you do the math and work through the basics, making it quick and easy to organize your cash and eventually build wealth.

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    Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
    by Suze Orman

    From the back cover: Suze Orman investigate the complicated, dysfunctional relationship women have with money in this groundbreaking book, With her signature mix of insight, compassion, and soul-deep recognition, she equips women with the financial knowledge and emotional awareness to overcome the blocks that have kept them from making more out of the money they make. At the center of the book is The Save Yourself Plan – a streamlined, five-month program that delivers genuine long-term financial security. But what's at stake is far bigger than money itself: It's about every woman's sense of who she is and what she deserves, and why it all begins with the decision to save yourself.

     

    These additional activity sheets, booklets, and pamphlets are available for you to keep:

    Better Money Management: A guide for reaching your goals (booklet)

    Fighting Back Against Identity Theft (education kit with booklets, fact sheets, CD-ROM, and DVD )