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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Taking Your Money Out
Twila Slesnick, John C. Suttle
NOLO, 2007
Pay attention to the sub-title
The reviewer plugging the "MarketBuster" book has totally missed the point of this NOLO book, which is given in the subtitle: Taking Your Money Out. The reviewer is talking about strategies for growing your account.
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Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your Life
David B. Loeper
Bridgeway Books, 2007
Every American should read
My name is Matthew Hutcheson. I'm an independent pension fiduciary, and have studied retirement plan economics for over fifteen years. Every American worker with a 401(k) (or a 403(b)/457 for that matter) should put this book on the top of their reading list. The ...
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Come to Me: Stories
Amy Bloom
Harper Perennial, 1994
Wonderful collection, Bloom has an amazing voice!
I found this collection by accident and didn't know what to expect. Short stories can be so good, or so bad. These stories are very good, consistently good. These are stories of people searching for something missing in their lives, well told stories with heart, soul ...
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The Retirement Savings Time Bomb . . . and How to Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan for Protecting Your ...
Ed Slott
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Do you want your IRA to go to the IRS or your family?
Its hard to believe that you can spend your entire working life providing for your family and saving money to support yourself in retirement only to lose most of your retirement assets to the IRS when you die. Ed Slott's recent book provides strategies and ideas on ...
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Kay Redfield Jamison
Vintage, 2000
Day Has Passed
I have read all of Jamison's work, with the exception of _The Exuberance of Life_. The writing presented in this volume has resonance from what I have felt. Night Falls Fast should be considered a guide for families of mentally ill who contemplate suicide. It is tight ...
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The Smartest 401k Book You'll Ever Read: Maximize Your Retirement Savings...the Smart Way!
Daniel R. Solin
Perigee Trade, 2008
Great Book
"The Smartest 401(k) Book You'll Ever Read", is a top notch book on investing. The author believes that investing should be simple, and he presents the basics of investing in a simple manner that is easily understood.
Solin warns readers that Wall Street and the ...
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401(k)s for Dummies
Ted Benna, Brenda Watson Newmann
For Dummies, 2002
Informative and well-written
Though a bit dated (2002/2003), it offers a good amount of information and detail on the 401(k) plan for the beginner. The authors build a good case and show by examples why investing for retirement is important and how starting early can make a lot of difference. It ...
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The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)
Xenophon
Penguin Classics, 1950
An exciting masterpiece
While The Persian Expedition is not Xenophon's original title, it perfectly captures the balance of military grit and exotic adventure that flavor the story. Xenophon's work is unusual in ancient history in that it covers a relatively small event in great detail over a ...
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Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Securing IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other ...
Ed Slott
Ballantine Books, 2007
A Good Investment
Being retired or on the way to retirement, this is a good source of information.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (Revised Edition)
Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, ...
Workman Publishing Company, 1996
Very Help to this First Time Mom & Dad
I strongly recommend this book - but READ IT from start to finish (don't jump from subject to subject). WTEWYE was given to me as a gift early in my pregnancy (about 5 weeks in). I started reading from the first chapter and continued to read throughout my pregnancy. ...
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Saving for Retirement without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery
Gail MarksJarvis
FT Press, 2007
Clear, sensible, easy to act on
What I like best about this book is that it offers specific, detailed advice about how to divide up your retirement portfolio amongst different types of assets - and explains why you should divide it that way, and how to adjust the proportions over time. The author ...
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The Anabasis of Cyrus (Agora)
Xenophon
Cornell University Press, 2007
The Anabasis of Xenophon
Eric Buzetti's introduction and Wayne Ambler's translation and notes remind one how important Xenophon is. It seems to me to be an excellent entry to the writings of this 'gentleman' general who also wrote Socratic dialogues, which I now hope to revisit with renewed ...
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A Literature Unit for Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
John Carratello, Patty Carratello, ...
Teacher Created Resources, 1991
This book is an awesome teaching tool.
I am a sixth grade Language teacher and have been using Bridge to Terabithia as a major part of my curriculum for many years. Each year that I read this book it gets better. Each class gets a little something different from the book. The way my students engross ...
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How to Invest in Real Estate With Your IRA and 401K & Pay Little or No Taxes
Hubert Bromma
McGraw-Hill, 2006
Informative but not Objective
Written by the top officer of Entrust, whose business is to manage self directed IRAs, this book is not to be taken as an objective analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of buying real estate within a self directed IRA. Although never actually lying (I'm sure ...
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The Great 401 (K) Hoax: Why Your Family's Financial Security is at Risk, and What You Can Do about It
William Wolman, Anne Colamosca
Basic Books, 2003
So Many "A-ha" Moments
I'd been feeling suspicious and uncomfortable for years with regards to Stock Market investing, Mutual funds and 401K's and pension plans in particular. I never really knew why aside from this feeling that "The Street" was always trying to pull a fast one on us little ...
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