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Bookstore - Alphabetical ListBelow is an alphabetical listing of our recommended reading with a brief review. You can browse by the book title below or browse by the book category in the sidebar. Happy Reading!
The 401(k) Millionaire A surefire plan for financial independence—through bull and bear markets. Knute Iwaszko—by turns a chemist, a salesman, and an innkeeper—made a million dollars without robbing a bank, without an inheritance, and without a Silicon Valley startup. He made it in a reliable but thoroughly new-fashioned way: by maximizing the potential of his 401(k) plan—and now he's going to tell millions of people how they, too, can become millionaires. This book will thoroughly explain the ins and outs of how 401(k) plans work, including tax benefits, contribution requirements and limits, withdrawal limitations, and risk management—and then fully describes "Knute's Unbeatable, Unbreakable Rules for Making It to a Million": a foolproof formula that gives readers a step-by-step regimen for maximizing the potential of their 401(k) plans. With simple, accessible language and clear, detailed steps for financial success, The 401(k) Millionaire is required reading for anyone who wants to make the most of his or her money.
The Banker's Secret How high a priority is it? Should it be completed before I begin my long-term investing program? What about the tax considerations? What if I plan on moving soon? When should I prepay and when should I refinance? It has been our position that the sooner you can retire your home mortgage, the better. And we've frequently mentioned the benefits of prepaying. As Eisenson makes clear, prepayments are not additional costs. They are advances, payments that would have to be paid shortly in any event. By routinely advancing a few dollars whenever you can, you'll ultimately save a small fortune in interest without having spent one cent extra. This book shows you—step by step, using easy-to-read charts—exactly how to build up your net worth by saving on interest costs and ultimately keeping much more of your money in your own pocket.
Beating the Street Lynch also examines his years at the Magellan Fund, analyzing the reasons why he outperformed all other fund managers. He discloses that it was a small number of major successes that were the principal reason for the fund's superior record. He draws a lesson for the average investor: there are good companies looking for investors, and it takes only one or two good companies a decade to turn a portfolio from an average performer into a winner. "This book is a treasure." —Adam Smith "Investors would do well to heed this advice." —Wall Street Journal "Stock tips from a master." —USA Today "Once of the 'seven pillars' of investment advice." —Forbes
Bogle on Mutual Funds
Bogle shares from his wealth of experience as the man who guided the Vanguard group of mutual funds to prominence over the past three decades.
Buying Stocks Without A Broker These investor-friendly programs provide a safe, proven method for buying stocks directly from issuing companies, often with a discount and always without paying commission fees to brokers. New features of this Second Edition include:
"Investors who want to own stocks but don't like paying brokers' commissions can have the best of both worlds...One useful source of companies that sell stocks directly or through DRIPs is Buying Stocks without a Broker." —Business Week
Common Sense On Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor Common Sense on Mutual Funds shows investors how to revolutionize their portfolios by embracing simplicity and then avoiding industry pitfalls. Emphasizing long-term investing and asset allocation, Bogle finds in simplicity the solution to the riddle of fund selection by investors. From stock and bond funds to global investing and index funds, Common Sense on Mutual Funds provides insight, illumination, and enlightenment. Organized as a series of essays on the investment issues of the day, this insider's view of the industry makes vital information on mutual funds accessible to experienced investors as well as those just beginning.
Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation Now, as the longest bull market in the history of the stock market winds down, there is increasing volatility and a great deal of uncertainty. This is the climate that tests the mettle of the pros, the worries of the average investor, and the success of David Dreman's brilliant new strategies for the next millennium. Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation shows investors how to outperform professional money managers and profit from potential Wall Street panics -- all in Dreman's trademark style, which The New York Times calls "witty and clear as a silver bell." Dreman reveals a proven, systematic, and safe way to beat the market by buying stocks of good companies when they are currently out of favor. At the heart of his book is a fundamental psychological insight: investors overreact. Dreman demonstrates how investors consistently overvalue the so-called "best" stocks and undervalue the so-called "worst" stocks, and how earnings and other surprises affect the best and worst stocks in opposite ways. Since surprises are a way of life in the market, Dreman shows you how to profit from these surprises with his ingenious new techniques, most of which have been developed in the nineties.
Crisis Control in the New Millennium As the new millennium approaches, are you and your family prepared for what could be a major bump in American's road to prosperity? Although the U.S. infrastructure may be strong enough to minimize the consequence of the sporadic, localized interruptions due to the Y2K bug, the world's economy has the potential of suffering a huge hit in the event of a catastrophe. In Crisis Control in the New Millennium, Larry examines the impact of the new millennium and identifies key principles that can help shore up your family's finances, irrespective of what's forthcoming in the economy.
Debt-Free Living This book is designed to help individuals understand the origin of most financial troubles. Debt-Free Living provides a means to escape the "debt cycle." Trace through the true-to-life experiences of several marriages on the brink of ruin. As you follow each couple through financial counseling, the biblical principles for breaking out of the debt cycle emerge. In addition, it provides a layman's guide to consumer rights with summaries of federal codes covering credit agencies, credit reports, debt collection agencies, and bankruptcy. This paperback addition also comes with a free companion audio CD!
Desiring God
The Eternity Portfolio
The Financially Challenged
This book is a survival guide that not only outlines short-term solutions but generates long-term results.
The Financially Confident Woman As she shares the story of her long journey back from the brink of financial disaster, Mary explains how to avoid hidden dangers of credit cards, and shows you how it's never too late to turn bad financial habits around.
First Comes Love, Then Comes Money
A good nuts and bolts book for learning to avoid crippling confrontations.
A Fool and His Money John Rothchild, armed with a modest financial stake and a hopeless case of irreverence sets out to answer these and other questions. He provides a list of 25 Useful Tips (like "Never buy anything from a broker at an airport."), and gives a true inside look at the financial marketplace. The New York Post said: "A Fool and His Money may be the funniest book about investing ever written. It's the reader's capital gain." And The Washington Post: "What makes this book so good is that Rothchild can explain things and leave the reader both edified and laughing... witty, fast-paced and educational." This humorous account of one man's odyssey through Wall Street is an enjoyable way to learn about investing. It has been one of our best-selling books over the years.
The Fortune Sellers
In the Fortune Sellers, you'll discover how:
An intriguing and utterly fascinating exploration of the methods and the madness of today's growing number of future "experts," The Fortune Sellers is not to be missed—and that's no speculation.
Free and Clear
Fresh Power With passion and conviction, Pastor Jim Cymbala of The Brooklyn Tabernacle reminds us that in this sin-torn, heart-broken culture, we cannot do without the Holy Spirit. And we can't afford to presume his presence. We need to seek him with the same fervor as the early believers. Most of us are aware of excesses attributed to the Holy Spirit, from emotional fanaticism to outright charlatanism. But in the midst of the counterfeits, the Spirit remains real and available. He can't be manipulated by any person or defined by any movement. Instead, the Holy Spirit longs to reveal the mind of God to us and to release heaven's limitless resources to meet the desperate needs in this world today. Fresh Power will expand your vision for what God can and will do, and inspire you to pray like never before for the power of the Spirit in your church—and in you.
Generous Living Financial advisor Ron Blue explains why an openhanded spirit is the key to freedom, contentment, and joy. In Generous Living, he shows what happens when you become a giver, and helps you start right where you are cultivating a generous lifestyle. He talks about why Christians should give, how to give, where is best to give, and when and how often to give. You'll also gain important insights into making a will, setting up a trust and foundation, and teaching your children to give. "An outstanding book, greatly needed...thoroughly biblical and wonderfully practical." —Howard Dayton, President, Crown Ministries
Get Rich Slowly William Spitz, the treasurer of Vanderbilt University and recognized as one of the nation's leading experts in finance and investments, shows you how to:
By using easy-to-understand charts, simple financial logic, and at-a-glance chapter summaries, you can quickly plot out the best financial strategy to fit your personal needs. Spitz has done all the homework for you, complete with thorough explanations of various financial paths you can choose.
Getting Started in Annuities On of the most popular retirement investment options, annuities are also among the most difficult tocomprehend. This handy volume provides an in-depth, easy-to-understand look at these complex instruments, revealing exactly what they are, how they work, and what advantages they have over other investment vehicles. Along with performance tables, sample portfolios, and a helpful Q & A section, you'll find up-to-date details on tax law changes.
Gifting to People You Love
Indispensible and timely, Gifting to People You Love will help adults make the wisest choices for themselves and thier families.
Giving and Tithing
Although it is better to give than to receive, giving is also much harder. Especially financially. Yet today's church needs physical and financial support from Christians. There are people who need God's help that comes through God's people. Respected Christian financial counselor Larry Burkett uses God's Word to explain church benevolence ministries, showing the strong biblical basis for giving and serving in the church. Burkett says that God uses Christians to minister in His name, and knowing that fact is encouragement for you to set up a plan to give back to God out of what He has given to you. At the same time, you will be opening yourself up to opportunities to help others.
The God of All Comfort This precious volume illuminates the true meaning and message of God, particularly in this age of so much doubt and fear: Become closer to God, believe what He has promised, and your troubled hearts will be filled with joy, for He will supply your needs, He will provide deep and lasting peace and comfort. [Mentioned in our Easter Meditation article from April, 2000.]
The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It Shlaes, a Wall Street Journal tax journalist, makes an impassioned case for the complete revamping of the American tax system. She traces its history, offers a witty commentary on how taxes wrongfully affect everything in your life, from your clothes to your marriage, and finally provides a commonsense action plan for what government officials can do to fix it all. Shlaes makes very pointed arguments about such heated issues as social security, the marriage penalty, and estate taxes. The Greedy Hand is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by Amity Shlaes of The Wall Street Journal. This book is a cultural examination of the way taxes influence our behavior, how they force us into an arbitrary system that punishes families and individual enterprise. Shlaes unveils the hidden perversities of our lifelong tax experience: how family tax breaks do little to help the family, and can even hurt it. She demonstrates how married women pay a special women's tax rate, higher than anybody else's. She shows how problems that engage and enrage us - Social Security issues, or the inadequacies of our schools - are, at heart, tax problems. And she explains why the solutions Washington offers merely prolong a vicious cycle. Finally, Shlaes shows us a way out of this madness, endorsing a number of commonsense reforms that will give all Americans a fairer and simpler tax system.
How to Listen to God After becoming a Christian, believers discover the joy of God's voice, but often the purity and freshness of that initial experience becomes clouded by the daily routine of life. In How to Listen to God Dr. Charles Stanley helps readers rediscover how to distinguish God's voice from all other voices around them, and how to joyfully and obediently respond. Dr. Stanley uses personal experiences from his life and ministry to discuss: why God wants to communicate with us, how God gets our attention, how God communicates with us, and how to listen to God and enjoy His presence.
Invest in Yourself While other personal finance books tend to focus on living frugally, this book explains ways to lead a richer life by only spending money on what's important. The authors, consumer advocates, have formulated a six-step program designed to help readers assess their needs and wants, and eventually lead them to creating the life they desire. The book also offers helpful tips on such timely financial topics as lowering credit card fees, reducing long distance phone service, prepaying mortgages, and negotiating flex time at work.
Investing for the Future Larry speaks from the vantage point of one who works daily to help people avoid the financial pitfalls that are so plentiful in our world, and who has witnessed almost every foolish decision made in the handling and investing of money. He offers his own approach to the world of investing. Beginning with how understanding the economy can help make you a better investor, he proceeds to key principles from God's Word, what he considers the best and worst investments, and his evaluations of the many types of investments. There is very little overlap with what you find in my new book or the SMI journal. Some of the chapters include:
Also included is an extensive appendix which is complete with names and addresses of many additional resources.
Investment Illusions Each concise, highly-focused chapter in Investment Illusions reveals a real-life story of foolishness, deceit, or confusion that occurred in the financial world. You'll learn from the mistakes of the "experts"—from the purveyors of "foolproof" systems to the promoters of companies that become overnight, overbought sensations—all of whom, hilariously, ended up with egg on their faces. You'll discover how to see through get-rich-quick scams, media spins, and the hype of investment pundits. And you'll gain practical insights into the way the Street really works via Fridson's illuminating analogies to sports, gambling, and psychology. Without offering any "sure-fire" magic formula, Investment Illusions does what few other investment books do. It strips away the illusion from an environment that is fraught with it, leaving you with unglamorous reality—which, along with the intense discipline and effort, provides your best shot at investment success.
Investment Psychology Explained: Classic Strategies To Beat The Markets It's no wonder Martin Pring is one of the most respected independent investment advisors in America. While so many were losing their heads and their money in the frenzied 1980s, he kept his, dispensing the kind of considered advice that enabled his readers to weather the worst market storms and secure steady profits. Martin Pring's classic investment approach is even more welcome now, as many chastened investors have come to realize: There are no easy answers, no magic formulas. Every page of Investment Psychology Explained reflects this refreshing sanity. Pring puts the emphasis back on the timeless values of hard work, patience, and self-discipline. But he does far more than this. Drawing on the cumulative wisdom of history's top investment minds and his own rich experience, Pring shows you how to:
Reading Investment Psychology Explained you'll have a renewed appreciation of the classic trading principles that, time and again, through the bull and bear markets, have worked. You'll see, with the help of illustrative historical examples, what goes into making an effective investor—and how you can work toward achieving that successful profile.
Itsdeductible: Tax Year 2004 Workbook
Learn to Earn In Learn to Earn, they explain in a conversational, easy-to-understand style such matters as how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market. They explain not only how to invest, but also how to think like an investor. Chapters include: A Short History of Capitalism, The Basics of Investing, The Lives of a Company, and Stockpicking Tools. This book would make a great gift to a teenager. In fact, the authors often offer tips to the reader under the assumption he or she is a high school student. Highly recommended for the beginning investor!
Living Well on One Income: In a Two-Income World
Abundant personal stories, amusing anecdotes, and practical ideas demonstrate strategic ways for readers to:
With this invitation to a life of "one–income living with flair," readers will develop a system that will help them to celebrate life, to fill their lives with beauty, to be content, and to bring glory to God.
Maximize Your IRA This is a friendly, honest look at the benefits -- and the drawbacks -- of IRAs. It's an IRA owner's manual, packed with tips about how to choose an IRA that's right for you, and manage your IRA from your working years right on through retirement. It also helps you navigate the tricky rules for withdrawing money, making minimum required withdrawals, cutting your tax bill, and converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA. You'll also find helpful hints and step-by-step instructions to help you make the most of your IRA and ensure a secure retirement. Find out:
This book also offers handy resources — including addresses, toll-free telephone numbers, and World Wide Web sites — that you can use to get booklets, newsletters, computer software and other information, much of it free, and all about IRAs.
The Medical Bill Survival Guide: What You Need to Know Before You Pay a Dime Now a leading consumer advocate for patients everywhere gives you the knowledge you need to fight back. The Medical Bill Survival Guide will help you get back what's yours-and make sure you'll never have to spend an extra, unnecessary dime on the care you deserve, ever again. Discover:
For years, doctors have urged us to take control of our own health care through preventive measures like exercise, diet, and right living. Now, it's time we took control of our health care finances-through preventive measures like due diligence and common sense. Assuming responsibility for the accuracy of your medical bill is right living too.
Money Before Marriage In the Money Before Marriage workbook, you will learn to:
Money, Possessions, and Eternity His work is well-researched and painstakingly biblical. Christians who want a balanced survey of the Bible's teaching on wealth will not be disappointed. The four sections are:
"The Christian who wants a balanced survey of the Bible's philosophy of wealth will not be disappointed with this book. The pastor who wants to teach his people and parents who want to train their children will get help from it. I especially liked his practical applications." — Dr. Warren Wiersbe, Back to the Bible Broadcast, Lincoln, Nebraska
Money Talks, and So Can We Conflict in marriage comes for many reasons-and when you mix in the subject of money, it's not hard to reach the boiling point. Ron and Judy tackle most of the specific problems that couples encounter, offering solutions that will help couples meet one another's needs, encourage communication, and provide practical financial tools and strategies for solving the part of the problem that involves money. Everyday strategies for communication will help couples pay the bills without arguing, plan for the future, schedule regular time together and make the most of it, and discuss other important decisions including children, jobs, and church involvement. Whether a couple is just beginning their marriage or have been together for many years, Money Talks and So Can We makes sense of the dollars-and-cents part of being together.
One Up On Wall Street In his plain-English and humorous style, he shows that for the average investor, the key to making money is sticking with what you know. As a mutual fund manager, his primary emphasis was on how to go about selecting individual stocks as good, long-term investments. (You'll not find much here on how to select mutual funds.) Speaking from his years of experience, but with commendable humility, Lynch also explains Wall Street's jargon and much more. It is full of informative, sound advice. Co-authored by John Rothchild, this book also has a sense of humor. It was deservedly a fixture on the best-seller lists for many months. More than 600,000 investors have bought this book, making it one of the most successful books ever written about the stock market. If I could give only one book to a young investor to help them get a fundamentally sound perspective on stock selection, this would be the one.
The Pleasures of God, Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
The Power of His Presence
Raising Money-Smart Kids With their experience of raising five children, Ron and Judy Blue provide practical insight and a successful training system for preparing children for their financial future. This is an easy-to-understand guidebook that shows how parents and children can enjoy a lifetime of financial well-being and security — leading to financial independence and family harmony. By offering hands-on worksheets and charts, this guidebook also gives parents the tools to teach children to make — and live on — a wise budget. In today's world of debt, peer pressure, "scams", self-centeredness, countless investment options, and short-sightedness, this book instructs parents on how to help their children confront these pressures and receive the blessing of financial success.
The Roaring 2000s This will result in nothing less than the greatest boom in history and an unprecedented opportunity for investors and entrepreneurs, great buys in real estate, and a wealth of high-quality lifestyle choices for the savvy people who anticipate these changes. We will see such rapid and exciting change as we have not seen since the dizzying pace of the productivity revolution unleashed by the assembly line in the Roaring Twenties. Dent not only offers detailed investment strategies aimed at exploiting the coming boom for the next 15 years, but also explains future trends in the job market, technology, demographics, and real estate.
Saving Money Any Way You Can Now they—and the numerous families interviewed for this book—say they spend less but enjoy it. Saving Money Any Way You Can shows you how to spend less with tried-and-true tips on:
A Short History of Financial Euphoria Renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith calls this book "a hymn of caution" as he reviews, with insight and wit, the common features of the great speculative episodes of the last three centuries—the seventeenth-century craze in Western Europe for investing in an unusual commodity: the tulip; Britain's South Sea Bubble and the eighteenth century's fascination with the joint-stock company, now called the corporation; and, more recently, the discovery of leverage in the form of junk bonds. Along the way, Galbraith explains the new types of debt that different generations have dreamt up, and he entertains with anecdotes about the ingenuity with which some of the more notorious charlatans have convinced people to invest in their recommendations.
Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions
Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions is a handbook that covers just about every topic relating to your retirement and medical benefits. It is an excellent resource when you need some help finding out what benefits are due you.
The Sound Mind Investing Handbook For additional information, click here.
Splitting Heirs: Giving Your Money and Things to Your Children without Ruining Their Lives
Storm Shelter
Storm Shelter shows how you can prepare for the future by building a financial strategy resting on the firmest of foundations.
Taming the Money Monster "For those who are committed to overcoming indebtedness, Blue's book is a helpful, biblically-based, step-by-step primer that points the way to financial freedom." —Moody Magazine "Should be required reading for all...who may find that the joy is being squeezed out of their lives because of money problems." —A Christian Woman "Filled with down-to-earth advice, from straight-from-the-shoulder facts, figures, and no-nonsense financial advice...this is incredibly frank and nearly indispensible book. You will turn it again and again—use it as your ever present 'personal money manager.'" —Guideposts
The Treasure Principle
The Ultimate Credit Handbook You will also find out:
You will be armed with information to help you battle credit card fraud, bank foul-ups, and merchandising rip-offs. This book can help you take control of your credit. "The last word for anyone who has gone into debt..."
What Car Dealers Don't Want You to Know In this new edition of the consumer guide to car buying, the author cites a recent undercover investigation to show how dealers use deceptive sales practices to trick shoppers into paying outrageous overcharges. The book details every scam - from "dealer's cost" surcharges to leasing rip-offs - in use today. This book is unique in its consumer protection information and insights from car dealers, attorneys, and victims.
When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box Christians will especially appreciate Ortberg's wise counsel on being the kind of player other people want to sit next to, as he exhorts readers to learn to lose with grace, win with grace and forgive with grace. Perspective is key; after all, when the game is over, it all goes back in the box. Ortberg demonstrates some finesse in bringing together the extended game imagery with various real-life stories that are by turns comical and poignant. With excellent tools for personal and group study alike, this book's strategy offers a win-win solution.
Whose Money Is It, Anyway? — A Biblical Guide to Using God's Wealth "I don't want you to feel worse; I want you to feel better. And the path to feeling better is understanding what the Bible really says about giving and spending. This book will help you do that." — John MacArthur John MacArthur has written this no-nonsense book to affirm Christ's teaching that "it is more blessed to give than to receive." In this practical, easy-to-read book Christians can find out:
"When you give as God has commanded, you will find it liberating, rewarding, joyous, and profoundly enriching" — John MacArthur Find out in this book how the blessings that go with giving can be yours.
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes — and How to Correct Them, Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics In this fascinating investigation of the ways we spend, invest, save, borrow, and waste money, Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich reveal the psychological causes — the patterns of thinking and decision making — of irrational behavior. Most important, they focus on the decisions we make every day and, using entertaining examples, provide invaluable tips on avoiding the financial faux pas that can cost thousands of dollars each year.
Winning the Loser's Game, Timeless Strategies for
In today's markets, an unprecedented quarter-century of performance has blinded investors to the historical base rate of investment returns. Winning the Loser's Game cuts through the fog like a beacon of common sense and clarity, and helps you to see how today's most highly touted shortcuts and secrets are almost always guaranteed to hurt you in the long run. With updated facts and figures and six new chapters, it sidesteps complications and formulas to provide you with the straight-talking secrets to winning investing.
Women Leaving the Workplace Larry thoughtfully deals with a wide range of topics.
Women who have made the transition from marketplace to home share honest, personal accounts of victories, setbacks, fears, and joys. If you desire to be a stay-at-home mom but fear financial disaster, Women Leaving the Workplace will help guide you in the right direction.
Working At Home
I like this writer's sensitivity to maintaining a balance between work and parenting. This book is a good place to start if you're considering a home business.
The World's Easiest Guide to Finances Now there is an easy and comprehensive guide that even a beginner can understand. Suddenly it's easy to put all your finances back together...which will make your future look a lot better. It also includes a helpful CD-ROM with the Simple Budget Calculator and the Debt Eliminator to help you apply the principles discussed in the book.
Your Finances in Changing Times
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