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IThe residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life's most profound discoveries. What they eventually learn about themselves and one another will transform them all. There is retired third-grade teacher Sadie Randolph, who has taught every child in town and believes we are all eight years old in our hearts; Stanley Stone, a prominent lawyer, now feigning...
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Retirement guru Howells provides snapshots of life in more than 150 of the most affordable, comfortable, and stimulating U.S. locales for retirees. Choose from among places in Florida, California, Arizona, the Southeast, Deep South, Mid-South, Texas, the Western Desert, the Pacific Northwest, or the Snowbelt. Carefully researched information on where you can live graciously yet affordably, the ideal climate for your health and lifestyle, finding suitable...
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Here is a single-sit read that can change the course of your retirement. Written by Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor, a retirement and savings specialist, and a trustee to two retiree health-care trusts worth over $54 billion, How to Retire with Enough Money cuts through the confusion, misinformation, and bad policy-making that keeps us spending or saving poorly. It begins with acknowledging what a person or household actually needs...
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On the island utopia of Prospera, a ferryman who gently shepherds people through the retirement process--and, when necessary, enforces it--Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and cryptic message from his father, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution that causes Proctor to question everything he once believed.
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It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time they...
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If you're like most people moving into the phase of life where protecting--as well as growing--assets is paramount, you're faced with a number of financial puzzles. Whatever your specific financial issue, one thing is certain--your range of choices is vast. In this guide, Carrie will not only answer all the questions that keep you up at night, she'll provide answers to many questions you haven't considered but should.
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The first authoritative and comprehensive guide to "aging in place"—a burgeoning movement for those who don't want to rely on assisted living or nursing home care—which allows seniors to spend their later years living comfortably, independently, and in their own home or community.
For millions of Americans, living in a nursing home or assisted living facility is not how they’d prefer to spend their retirement...
For millions of Americans, living in a nursing home or assisted living facility is not how they’d prefer to spend their retirement...
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Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit. Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money...
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Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these rules), but Kotlikoff, Moeller, and Solman explain Social Security benefits in an easy to understand style. What you don't know can seriously hurt you: wrong decisions about which Social Security benefits to apply for cost some...
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Serge and Coleman are back on the road, ready to hit the next stop on their list of obscure and wacky points of interest in the Sunshine State. This time, Serges interest is drawn to one of the largest retirement villages in the worldalso known as the site of an infamous sex scandal between a retiree and her younger beau that rocked the community. What starts out as an innocent quest to observe elders in their natural habitats, sample the local cuisine,...
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Most people don't realize they haven't saved enough for their retirement until their sixties and by then, it's often too late to save enough for a comfortable retirement. The 5 Years Before You Retire has helped thousands of people prepare for retirement-even if they waited until the last minute. In this new and updated edition, you'll find out everything you need to do in the next five years to maximize your current savings and create a realistic...
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Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, delivers a master class on personal finance and teaches her readers that the "New American Dream" is not the things they accumulate, but the confidence that comes from knowing that which they've worked so hard for cannot be taken away from them.
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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might be octogenarians, but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?"--Publisher....
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"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs Captain. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty cops...
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Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. They've already been making plans to travel, spend limitless hours in the garden, and Ken is looking forward to working on his woodworking and fishing with his grandchildren. It's what they deserve after years of careful planning. Then, just days before Ken's last official day of work, their son, a Special Forces officer in the Army, learns he's being immediately deployed on a six-month...