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A Purse of Your Own

A Purse of Your Own
An Easy Guide to Financial Security
by Deborah Owens
 
 
 
In A Purse of Your Own, wealth coach Deborah Owens draws from more than twenty years of experience in the financial services industry for a revolutionary and simple approach to investment literacy: Women can take control of their lives and purses by leveraging the feminine powers of intuition, creativity, and empathy to build personal wealth. Filled with quizzes (Pursercises), resource guides (Pursessentials), and examples of real women from housewives to executives who have drastically changed their lives (Purseonality Profiles)
 
 A Purse of Your Own will show you how to:

· Apply the 7 Wealthy Habits you MUST learn to be fi nancially secure
· Buy stocks, bonds, and mutual funds and create a well-balanced portfolio on any budget
· Understand the language of investing and how to manage risk
· Find a good fi nancial advisor (and recognize the warning signs of a bad one)
· Protect what you will build

Creating and maintaining wealth can come only from understanding how money works. Use Deborah's "Power of the Purse" wealth-building strategy and your money will work for you! 
 
 

 
 
 
Beautiful Ugly
Beautiful Ugly
by Shelia E. Lipsey
 
Listen to Shelia's Intimate Conversation
 
 
Three friends with different struggles rely on God and each other to get by. Layla Hobbs has so much to offer, including a beautiful singing voice, but obesity and low self-esteem hold her back from life and finding true love. Envy Wilson has always been Layla's backbone. But what about her own dark secrets? She won't share them with anyone, and it's starting to eat away at her from the inside. And then there's Kacie Mayweather. Stricken with cerebral palsy, she's had her share of men--five baby daddies for six children, in fact. But she's never had one man to call her own. They'll need plenty of faith and support from each other to see the real beauty that lies within each one of them and fulfill their deepest desires at last.
 
 
 
 
 
Secret and LiesSecrets and Lies

by Rhonda McKnight
 
 
Secrets and Lies by Rhonda McKnight---Faith Morgan is struggling with her faith. Years of poor communication and neglect leave her doubting that God will ever fix her marriage. When a coworker accuses her husband, Jonah, of the unthinkable, Faith begins to wonder if she really knows him at all, and if it's truly in God's will for them to stay married. Pediatric cardiologist Jonah Morgan is obsessed with one thing: his work. A childhood incident cemented his desire to heal children at any cost, even his family, but now he finds himself at a crossroads in his life. Will he continue to allow the past to haunt him, or find healing and peace in a God he shut out long ago? In her debut novel, Secrets and Lies, Rhonda McKnight delivers unforgettable characters and page-turning drama about a couple whose troubled marriage is pushed to its limits amidst secrets, lies, and an enemy set on revenge.

 
 
 
 
Bankruptcy "Ain't" Broke
 by Theresa D. Royal
 
Theresa RoyalTheresa D. Royal, CMP, an entrepreneur specializing in event planning, was forced to file bankruptcy in 2006 due to her putting her trust in one client, and not putting her trust in God. She had good credit all of her life, but due to certain choices and the unethical practices of this client, her finances spun out of control. In addition, she had never been late on her mortgage payments until her income was abruptly cut off. Even though she tried to work out a forbearance with the mortgage company, they accelerated the foreclosure process and she found herself in a situation where her home was about to be auctioned off within a very short period of time. After many phone calls for help that did not bear fruit, the last option was to file bankruptcy to save her home. Theresa dispels the myths that everyone who files for bankruptcy has bad credit or is just trying to get out of paying their debts.   Listen to Theresa's Intimate Conversation