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BOOKS TO HELP STUDENTS PREPARE FOR THEIR FUTURE fter high school, some students go straight to college, while others choose alternative paths to pursue a specific trade or profession. Still others take a year or two off to explore other interests before returning to formal education. From job interviewing to résumé writing to volunteering, here are recommended titles to help prepare and guide students, whatever their career path, towards personal success and satisfaction.

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JOB SEARCH & INSPIRATION Po Bronson

James M. Citrin and Richard Smith

What Should I Do with My Life?

The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers

The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction

“What should I do with my life?” Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book, an inspiring exploration of how people transform their lives and an insightful guide for anyone seeking to effect rewarding and fulfilling change in themselves. 0-345-48592-0 | Ballantine | PB 464 pp. | $7.99/$11.99C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $4.00 0-375-75898-4 | Random House | TR 432 pp. | $14.95/$22.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

“Brimming with stories of sacrifice, courage, commitment and, sometimes, failure, the book will support anyone pondering a major life choice or risk without force-feeding them pat solutions.”

Why do some people ascend to the top and prosper while others of equal talent never reach their potential or aspirations?

1-4000-8168-8 | Three Rivers Press | TR 288 pp. | $14.00/$21.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.00

—Publishers Weekly

Jim Citrin and Rick Smith of Spencer Stuart, the world’s most influential executive search firm, set out to explore this question in The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers. The result—based on in-depth, original research—is sure to be a most important and useful book for anyone seeking to understand and acquire the core practices and habits that lead to success.

David R. Eyler

The Ultimate Job Book William C. Byham, Ph.D. with Debra Pickett

The Ultimate Job Book is a practical, easy-to-follow guide that shows readers how to make their résumés work in today’s highly volatile workplace. The book’s clear design makes it easy-to-use: two-page spreads include an annotated résumé on one page and an outline of general and specific strategies on the other.

Landing the Job You Want How to Have the Best Job Interview of Your Life


An executive whose business is teaching managers how to interview job candidates, William Byham knows what employers are looking for. Through interactive and easy-to-follow exercises, Landing the Job You Want will teach students how to accurately identify their strengths and weaknesses, quickly develop a portfolio of skills that match their ideal job, and skillfully assess and interact with the interviewers they will meet.

0-375-71988-1 | RH Reference | TR 480 pp. | $18.95/$28.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $9.50

Nathan Gebhard, Mike Marriner and Joanne Gordon

Roadtrip Nation A Guide to Discovering Your Path In Life After college Mike Marriner and Nathan Gebhard had no idea what to do with their lives. All they’d been exposed to were standard career paths like doctor and consultant–roads that didn’t fit them at all.

John Caple, Ph.D.

The Ultimate Interview A fresh approach to finding a job, this step-by-step manual filled with real case studies and confidencebuilding techniques teaches young people all the vital skills they will need to effectively market themselves, from the first impression to the closing handshake.

0-385-26583-2 | Main Street Books | TR 196 pp. | $15.00/$22.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

0-345-46013-8 | Ballantine | TR 272 pp. | $13.95/$21.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.00

To see what else was out there they took a roadtrip across the nation in a huge forty-foot RV to meet with people who had successfully defined their own paths in life. All told, one hundred and forty people candidly shared their stories about how they got from college to the present. Now, in Roadtrip Nation, Mike and Nathan share the most compelling tales, giving students the tools to create a life of which they’ll be able to say: “I was true to myself every step of the way.”

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JOB SEARCH & INSPIRATION


Ian Jackman

Rich Karlgaard; Foreword by Rick Warren

The Artist’s Mentor

Life 2.0

Inspiration from the World’s Most Creative Minds

How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness

What inspires a person to create? How does an artist see the world? What happens during a “eureka moment?” How does an artist find self-discipline? The Artist’s Mentor is for those who want to create art but do not know how to begin. Drawing on interviews and autobiographical writings of more than one hundred famous painters, photographers, sculptors, and film and video artists, Jackman gets to the heart of how artists think, create, and innovate.


Adroitly combining analysis of the economic and social trends challenging middle-class people with perceptive advice on how to escape the rat race of the coasts, Karlgaard explores the eye-opening possibilities of the country’s less populous areas. Filled with stories of personal reinvention and triumph, Life 2.0 is the story of those who are living larger lives in smaller places. “ While counterintuitive to those on the conventional fast-track, Life 2.0 offers great promise to those who are open to personal innovation” —Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School

Ian Jackman

The Leader’s Mentor

Harvey Mackay

Leadership skills can be learned and the best teachers are leaders themselves. Drawing on the experiences of leaders in all fields of human endeavor and also the scholarship of leadership experts, The Leader’s Mentor offers inspiration and advice for anyone taking on a leadership role.


Fired Up! How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot


Ian Jackman

The Writer’s Mentor


Harvey Mackay, one of the world’s best-selling motivational and business authors, uses anecdotes and secrets about some of today’s most successful figures to show that getting fired doesn’t have to mean the end of a career. In colorful detail, these remarkable success stories reveal what the best of the best did to get back on top. Hopeful, tough-minded, and filled with indispensable advice, We Got Fired!… And It’s the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us can show anyone how to turn a modern bummer into a major blessing.

Secrets of Success from the World’s Great Writers

Richard Malone

The Writer’s Mentor is a guide that draws on the collective wisdom and experience of successful writers to help aspiring writers with all aspects of the craft. The book includes practitioners of all genres and writers of every literary type: Nobel Prize-winners and thriller writers; memoirists and story-tellers; and writers of romance and serious non-fiction. The book demonstrates that great writing can be found in every category, and addresses each stage of the writing process in a variety of genres.

Devotions for Job Seekers Daily Encouragement Along the Way While there are dozens of books about polishing résumés and sharpening interview skills, little attention has been paid to coping with the spiritual distress and feelings of hopelessness that can overwhelm a young person while searching for a job.

0-385-50980-4 | Galilee Trade | TR 224 pp. | $10.95/$16.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $5.50

Tom Jackson

The Perfect Résumé

Devotions for Job Seekers can help. This book features one hundred daily meditations, each one offering a pertinent passage from the Bible, a few paragraphs that focus on a particular challenge of being unemployed, and a short prayer. Ranging from very practical concerns to more profound spiritual matters, the meditations will help job-seekers to remain calm, confident, and hopeful during what can be a very stressful time.

Today’s Ultimate Job Search Tool

0-7679-1623-9 | Broadway | TR 240 pp. | $12.95/$19.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $6.50

Allan Pease

Today, more than ever, it takes a powerful résumé to open doors to the best opportunities. Increasingly important as hiring systems change, the right résumé defines an applicant’s objectives, talent, and the unique benefits that he or she can offer. Crafted the right way, the perfect résumé gets this information before the eyes and into the hands of the right decision makers. Based on new research into hiring and staffing methods, executive search, electronic screening systems, and public and private job banks, The Perfect Résumé will put students ahead of the pack in the ever-changing job marketplace.

Signals How To Use Body Language For Power, Success, And Love It’s well-researched that body gestures can often give away one’s true intentions. All of us send out signals, whether we realize it or not. Signals shows students how they can harness the power of body language for an extra edge of confidence and control in any situation. 0-553-34366-1 | Bantam | TR 240 pp. | $15.00/$21.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50


JOB SEARCH & INSPIRATION Lee Silber

Princeton Review

Self-Promotion for the Creative Person

The Internship Bible, 10th Edition No other book offers young people all the information they’ll need to find the best internships. Whether they want to help Apple researchers develop new technology, conduct tours at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, or accompany a writer from Rolling Stone on assignment, students will find what they need to know within these pages.

Get the Word Out About Who You Are and What You Do


For students who want to break into a creative career—whether it be as an author, actor, artist, or accordion player—but aren’t sure how to go about it, Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is packed with proven techniques and off-beat, cost-effective ways to build a business and/or develop a successful and fulfilling career.

0-375-76468-2 | Princeton Review | TR 656 pp. | $25.00/$35.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $12.50

Jacob Slichter

Princeton Review

So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star

The Best 109 Internships, 9th Edition

How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer’s Life


A hilarious inside look at the real business of popular music by the drummer of Semisonic that does for rock and roll what Jim Bouton’s Ball Four did for baseball. So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star is a telling and witty look at what happens just before and during one’s time in the spotlight.The author takes readers on the step-by-step journey of his evolution from fledgling drummer to globetrotting performer and proves to be the perfect guide—feisty and humble—to the inner workings of the music industry and instant celebrity.

The competition for good internships is fierce, but The Best 109 Internships gives students a competitive edge. This book puts ambitious young adults on the inside track for the best opportunities in law, the environment, advertising, sports, computers, journalism, music, health care, publishing, finance, education, television, and more. 0-375-76319-8 | Princeton Review | TR 448 pp. | $21.00/$32.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $10.50

Princeton Review

Best Entry-Level Jobs, 2006 Princeton Review

145 Things to Be When You Grow Up This book will introduce students to a world of career possibilities and give them an idea of what to expect down each career path. 145 Things will help students to identify the kinds of jobs that will incorporate their interests, values, and skills, while also providing in-depth information for those who have already outlined a career plan.


Best Entry-Level Jobs is annually updated and has been newly revised for 2006. It reveals where the best job opportunities are and what recent grads need to do to land those positions. The experts at The Princeton Review conducted hundreds of interviews with entry-level employees at the companies profiled in this book, and the most telling answers are in this book. Now students can get an inside look at hiring procedures, salaries, benefits, job responsibilities, opportunities for advancement…and more!


CONSIDERING THE MILITARY? Princeton Review

Princeton Review

Guide to Your Career, 5th Edition

Cracking the ASVAB, 2nd Edition

Career counselor Alan B. Bernstein helps students identify their interests and style by guiding them through the Birkman Career Style Summary.™ Includes profiles of over 200 professions, as well as advice from professionals in diverse fields.



The ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) serves as both a general-interest aptitude test and as the admissions exam for the U.S. Military. It is given year round at over 14,000 high schools each year to approximately 1.25 million people. Now The Princeton Review has joined forces with the military to produce a test preparation course to ensure that fewer recruits get turned away because of their ASVAB scores. These unique test-taking strategies are proven to raise scores.


SELF-IMPROVEMENT


Maurice Ashley

Edited by Jena Pincott

Chess for Success

Success

Using an Old Game to Build New Strengths in Children and Teens

Advice for Achieving Your Goals from Remarkably Accomplished People

Maurice Ashley draws on his own fascinating life experiences and expertise to demonstrate that chess strategies can be used as a powerful educational tool for young people of all ages.

Success is a collection of insights from more than 400 remarkably successful people in all fields— including business, politics, entertainment, and the arts. The high achievers quoted here share one crucial belief: Success is possible as long as there’s passion. Students who know where they want to be—but not how to get there—will find an ideal guide in Success.

“As the first (and only) African American International Grand Master, Maurice Ashley is an historical figure. He is also a superb writer and a compelling teacher who makes learning even the most difficult aspects of chess appear possible. He shows us how chess can be used to put our young people on the path to success.”

0-375-42589-6 | RH Reference | HC 256 pp. | $14.95/$21.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Stephanie Winston Kirsten Lagatree

Organized for Success

Checklists for Life

Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top

104 Lists to Help You Get Organized, Save Time, and Unclutter Your Life Over 100 sensible checklists offer quick tips and expert advice to make life easier at work, at home, and through all of life’s ups and downs.

1-4000-4759-5 | Crown Business | HC 256 pp. | $21.95/$29.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $11.00


For this groundbreaking guide, Stephanie Winston set out to interview dozens of senior executives in an attempt to better understand the work habits and mental discipline of the super-successful, and to quantify their skills and translate them into techniques that will enable managers and ambitious workers at all levels of an organization to develop their own productivity and time management style. The result is a concise, practical, inspiring, and information-filled book that will help any reader get organized for success.

GETTING INTO COLLEGE Michele Hernandez

Princeton Review

Acing the College Application

Paying for College Without Going Broke, 2005 Edition

How to Maximize Your Chances for Admission to the College of Your Choice

0-345-45409-X | Ballantine Books | TR 240 pp. | $13.95/NCR PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.00


A former assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College, Dr. Michele Hernández takes students step-by-step through the entire college application process, revealing the details that make or break an applicant. From the multitude of short and longer essays to the myriad of charts, lists, and personal data sections, she offers essential advice, useful anecdotes, and vivid examples, showing students how to highlight their talents, skills, and passions, in just a few pages.

Paying for College Without Going Broke takes the stress, confusion and guess work out of applying for financial aid. Students learn how to: calculate their aid eligibility before applying to college, plan ahead to improve their chances of receiving aid, negotiate with financial aid offices, and receive educational tax breaks. 0-375-76421-6 | Princeton Review | TR 352 pp. | $20.00/$27.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $10.00

Princeton Review

Princeton Review

Guide to College Majors, 2005 Edition

Eight Steps to Help Black Families Pay for College

Guide to College Majors describes and profiles virtually every major offered on college campuses today. Each of the 250 undergraduate majors profiles includes: a description and overview of the major; the best high school preparation; fun facts and interesting trivia; career options and salary potential.

A Crash Course in Financial Aid


In this informative guide for black students and their parents, readers will learn the truth about financial aid before, during, and after college. Included are an overview of the costs of college, options for funding college, and advice on how the "family contribution" is calculated. Parents and students will get help picking the right school and understanding the different sources and types of financial aid.


PROFESSIONAL READING

0-345-43594-X | Ballantine | TR 416 pp. | $14.95/$21.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

Patricia Hersch

Todd Oppenheimer

A Tribe Apart

The Flickering Mind

A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology

Author Patricia Hersch journeyed deep inside the hearts, minds, and lives of eight “average” teenagers from the suburban community of Reston, Virginia. Hersch spent three years immersed in the teenage subculture to show us how American youth have fashioned a culture of their own, a culture of unequaled freedom and baffling complexity, with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency–in every sense, “A Tribe Apart.”

The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works. The Flickering Mind will not only contribute to a vital public conversation about what our schools can and should be—it will define the debate.

0-8129-6843-3 | Random House | TR 528 pp. | $15.95/$22.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D. NEW

Why Gender Matters

Jonathan Kozol

What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

The Shame of the Nation The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America After visiting nearly 60 public schools, National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol discovers that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 20 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. 1-4000-5244-0 | Crown | HC 416 pp. | $25.00/$35.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $12.50

“ Shame of the Nation is a national wake-up call about what is happening to our children on our watch in schools across the country. It should be required reading.”

0-385-51073-X | Doubleday | HC 320 pp. | $24.95/$34.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $12.50

Peter M. Senge, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith and Janis Dutton

Schools That Learn

—Marian Wright Edelman, CEO and Founder, Children’s Defense Fund

A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents and Everyone Who Cares About Education

Jenifer Lippincott and Robin M. Deutsch, Ph.D.

7 Things Your Teenager Won’t Tell You And How to Talk About Them Anyway Written by an educator and a child and family psychologist, this innovative and accessible guide to understanding the teenage years provides helpful examples and practical tips on what to say and how to deal when flustered and faced with a variety of adolescent issues. 0-8129-6959-6 | Ballantine | TR 240 pp. | $14.95/$21.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

STUDY ABROAD

In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations.

0-385-49323-1 | Currency | TR 608 pp. | $37.50/$55.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $18.50

Written by bestselling author and MIT professor Peter Senge and his Fifth Discipline team, this new addition to the Fifth Discipline Resource Book series offers practical advice for educators, administrators, and parents on how to apply learning organization principles to help strengthen and rebuild our schools. “Today, more than ever, all the forces within society must join together to prepare our children to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world. Schools That Learn is an important resource for all those wanting to tackle the challenge of integrating family, school, faith community, and policymakers into one coalition on behalf of children.” —Dr. James P. Comer, Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine

Princeton Review

Guide to Studying Abroad Each year more than 140,000 students in the United States take advantage of study abroad programs. Guide to Studying Abroad shows students how to find the best opportunities, with profiles of more than 875 programs and invaluable advice on researching and choosing programs, funding study, and making the most of the overseas experience.

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TEST PREPARATION Princeton Review

Princeton Review

11 Practice Tests for the New SAT and PSAT, 2006 Edition

Cracking the GED, 2006

For the first time in over a decade the SAT has undergone major changes. Like it or not, students, parents, and educators will need to learn new testtaking strategies, and the only way to master the new test is through practice.


The best-selling 11 Practice Tests returns to help students beat the test by working through questions formulated to reflect the same problems they’ll face on the new SAT. After years of experience working with the SAT and PSAT, the experts at The Princeton Review have made this book the most accurate reflection of the test available.


The GED has a fast-growing market, with more and more students taking the exam as an alternate way of earning their high school diplomas. The good news for test takers is that The Princeton Review knows exactly what material appears on the GED each year—and what doesn’t. This Cracking the GED guide makes life easier for students by giving them only the information they need to earn a high score and get their diploma. Of course, the 2006 edition also covers all the most recent changes to the exam.

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MONEY MATTERS David Bach

Ellen Braitman

The Automatic Millionaire

Dollars & Sense for College Students

A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich

0-7679-2382-0 | Broadway | TR 256 pp. | $12.95/NCR PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $6.50

The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple—he’s a low-level manager, she’s a beautician—whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, yet who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids through college, and retire at 55 with more than $1 million in savings. Through their story, Bach reveals the surprising fact that you cannot get rich with a budget! In this easy-to-follow book, Bach outlines a plan that does work, for people of all incomes, backgrounds and personality types.

How NOT to Run Out of Money by Mid-terms


Whether they’re just heading off to school, or counting down the days to graduation, Dollars & Sense for College Students will help college students develop the smart habits and savvy decision-making skills that will keep them out of financial trouble. From credit card advice to rental tips to guidance on setting a budget, Dollars & Sense is full of mustread wisdom for every student.

Tara Bray

“Why Won’t the Landlord Take Visa?”

David Bach

The Automatic Millionaire Workbook

The Princeton Review’s Crash Course to Life After Graduation

A Personalized Plan to Live and Finish Rich…Automatically

0-7679-1948-3 | Broadway | TR 240 pp. | $14.95/NCR PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

The Automatic Millionaire rocketed to instant bestseller status because in its pages money coach David Bach delivered a uniquely foolproof, simple and hassle-free plan for achieving financial security. Now The Automatic Millionaire Workbook lets anyone tailor that strategy to his or her own financial life with a line-by-line personal plan.

The transition from college to the real world can seem rough and very confusing.


Glinda Bridgforth David Bach

Girl, Get Your Money Straight

The Finish Rich Workbook

A Sister’s Guide to Healing Your Bank Account and Funding Your Dreams in 7 Simple Steps

Creating a Personalized Plan for a Richer Future


In “Why Won’t the Landlord Take Visa?” The Princeton Review walks new graduates through this process, step by step, and helps make sense of it all—from finding a place to live and a job to paying the bills and entertainment on a budget.

Renowned financial advisor and educator David Bach has taught millions of people of all ages and incomes how to take control of their financial future. His message, that the key to building wealth is “values first, stuff second,” has inspired people all over the world. Now, The Finish Rich Workbook gives couples and singles alike a new opportunity to tailor his advice for their individual circumstances.


Author and financial expert Glinda Bridgforth knows that healthy money management is rarely just about dollars—it’s about getting to the root of why we spend what we do and recognizing the emotional and cultural issues that play out in our unhealthy financial habits. Girl, Get Your Money Straight! presents her seven-step program for holistic financial healing. Filled with Bridgforth’s warmhearted wisdom and advice, and complete with worksheets, exercises, affirmations, and inspiring stories of African American women who have found financial peace of mind, Girl, Get Your Money Straight! is a fresh, fun, and eminently practical guide.


MONEY MATTERS


Stacy Johnson

Anthony Loviscek and Randy Anderson

Money Made Simple

Investing Made Simple

How to Flawlessly Control Your Finances in Minutes a Year

Revised and Updated

Fiddling with finances can be time-consuming, frustrating, or even frightening, especially for those who feel unqualified to make those big money decisions. But Stacy Johnson shows that anyone can learn everything they need to know to effortlessly manage money in just a few hours—and then stay on top of it all in only minutes a year. In Life or Debt, Johnson outlined a one-week plan for breaking free from the tyranny of debt. Now the creator and host of the nationally syndicated news series Money Talks takes it a step further with a complete system to quickly and easily manage every facet of financial life.

In today’s complicated financial jungle, the possibilities for turning capital into fortunes are endless. Investing Made Simple is the perfect guide for helping the would-be investor gain the knowledge and confidence essential for long term wealth building. All terms are thoroughly explained, and the pros and cons of each route, as well as how to get started, are outlined. 0-7679-1540-2 | Made Simple | TR 208 pp. | $12.95/$19.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $6.50

Suze Orman

Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook Put the 9 Steps to Work

Nancy Keates

The Wall Street Journal Guide to the Business of Life

1-4000-8159-9 | Crown | HC 480 pp. | $27.50/$39.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $13.75

In today’s fast-paced world, a smart consumer needs a money-and-time-saving guide for conducting the “business of life”–both the big challenges, such as getting top-notch health care, and the pleasurable ones, like choosing a vacation destination. The Wall Street Journal Guide to the Business of Life is both an instruction manual for living life to the fullest and a fun read about what really matters in the dayto-day. Sections on education, health, and personal finance will be especially useful for young people.


“A companion to the bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook distills the most important points in 9 Steps, providing work sheets and self-assessment tests for each step that allow readers to take full inventory of their spending habits and attitudes toward money. Through probing questions and quizzes, Orman helps readers explore formative childhood experiences with money and understand how these influence their current financial anxieties. She also gives a crash course in wills, retirement plans and mutual funds, as well as guidance for getting out of debt.” —Publishers Weekly ALSO AVAILABLE BY SUZE ORMAN:

The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom Practical & Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying 0-609-80186-4 | Three Rivers Press | TR | 352 pp. | $14.95/$22.95C

VOLUNTEERING & IN-BETWEEN TIME Princeton Review

Princeton Review

The 500 Best Ways for Teens to Spend the Summer

Taking Time Off, 2nd Edition

Learn About Programs for College Bound High School Students


PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.50

There is no greater missed opportunity than a summer that is just “okay.” This book allows teens to research hundreds of travel, study, work, or volunteer programs and discover what suits them best. It’s filled with invaluable information and job-hunting strategies, and also shows how students can parlay a great summer experience into a great college application.

Meredith Gould


Tens of thousands of students each year take a break before, or even during, college to work, travel, volunteer, or to just take time off. No matter what students may plan to do with their time away, Taking Time Off shows them how to make the most of it. Included are the inspiring stories of 26 students whose pursuits in their time away from school were fulfilling and enjoyable. Practical advice on every aspect of planning a break, from researching options and financing one’s leave is included. This book’s resources section also lists programs, jobs, and American and international organizations that can help students to plan their own time off.

Deliberate Acts of Kindness Service as a Spiritual Practice An easy-to-read mix of tips, quotations, reflections, and short narrative passages, Deliberate Acts of Kindness presents a comprehensive, honest look at what service is like on a day-to-day basis. Its insights will help new and experienced volunteers alike negotiate the practical and spiritual difficulties that sometimes arise from answering the call to service. 0-385-50243-5 | Image | TR 192 pp. | $12.95/$19.95C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $6.50


ENTREPRENEURSHIP


David Andrusia and Rick Haskins

Jennifer Kushell

Brand Yourself

The Young Entrepreneur’s Edge

How to Create an Identity for a Brilliant Career

Using Your Ambition, Independence, and Youth to Launch a Successful Business

Branding is the hottest, most talked about phenomenon in the business world today, for in the ultra-competitive twenty-first century, most people need more than talent and hard work to get ahead. Marketing experts David Andrusia and Rick Haskins have consulted on brands for such diverse companies as Disney, Swatch Watch USA, and Revlon. Now they show, step-by-step, how anyone can develop, refine, and communicate a personal and unique brand.


Bo Peabody

Lucky or Smart? Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life

1-4000-6290-X | Random House | HC 80 pp. | $13.95/$21.00C PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNT: $7.00

At twenty-seven, Bo Peabody was an Internet multimillionaire, and he’s even more successful today. He has co-founded five different companies, in varied industries, and made them thrive during the best and worst of economic times. With proven methods for success and a witty, conversational voice, Bo takes the reader through the lessons his experiences as an entrepreneur have taught him. At the heart of Bo’s manifesto is a mantra that everyone, whether working for a multinational corporation or a solo start-up, should heed: If you want your business to be successful, make sure your work is fundamentally innovative, morally compelling, and philosophically positive.

Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards and Peter Economy

Steve Mariotti

The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting and Running a Business


Why Aren’t You Your Own Boss?


The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide is filled with stories of young entrepreneurs, from those just starting out to people as renowned as Microsoft’s Bill Gates. It is also a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for young people who hope to start their own business. The book includes a complete guide to preparing a business plan, shows how to both understand finance and keep good financial records, and serves as complete guide to marketing.

Leaping Over the Obstacles That Stand Between You and Your Dream

The Philip Lief Group and Russell Roberts

Unlike many other business books, this one provides readers with a clear and complete formula for success–one that offers the essential tools required to clear the inevitable hurdles that keep people from financial independence. Bestselling authors Paul and Sarah Edwards and Peter Economy identify the typical barriers where people get stuck and offer specific strategies, case histories, and research to help ambitious employees reach their goals.

The Essential Sourcebook of Success Stories, Practical Advice, and the Hottest Ideas

Laurie Beth Jones

Jesus, Entrepreneur Using Ancient Wisdom to Launch and Live Your Dreams


With wit, candor and exuberant enthusiasm for her subject, 26-year-old entrepreneurial expert Jennifer Kushell gives practical and personal insight from a young entrepreneur’s point of view to help new business owners get through their first few years. The Young Entrepreneur’s Edge addresses key topics such as trying to obtain capital and writing a business plan, but the book also tackles critical areas that other business books rarely address: how to get older people to take you seriously; how not to starve when you’re broke; how to win your family’s approval; how to get out and meet important people; how not to get carded when entertaining clients; and other unique situations faced by young business people.

Beyond work, beyond entrepreneurism, there is “spiritreneurism”–work that allows you to do well by doing right. In Jesus, Entrepreneur, Laurie Beth Jones explains how to find soul satisfaction in everyday work. Jones shows that there is no contradiction between earning a comfortable living and using a job to promote deeply-held spiritual and personal beliefs. By sharing timeless wisdom from the Bible and anecdotes from her own life and consulting career, Jones reveals how anyone can use their highest gifts to benefit the bottom line.

101 Best Businesses to Start Ideal for anyone who’s ever considered starting their own business, 101 Best Businesses to Start provides a wealth of practical advice, as well as inspirational and innovative solutions to everyday problems.


Each carefully selected entry includes a full business description, guidelines for start-up and operating costs, profit projections, working strategies and staffing needs, plus real-life stories that highlight both the challenges and the rewards of starting a business. This edition has been completely updated and revised to include business opportunities for the new millennium, including Internet services. With over 100,000 copies in print, 101 Best Businesses is the guidebook for today’s entrepreneurs.


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