Every now and then I browse through dozens of pages of upcoming personal finance books on Amazon in search of trends or interesting concepts. Today, I found several books that aim to explain, or capitalize, upon our current financial crisis, books on being cheap, and your standard books on how to become rich by investing in real estate or the stock market or the particular author’s strategy.

Two oldies but goodies are also being revised. Finally! One is Beth Koblinger’s “Get a Financial Life,” a book geared towards teaching young adults about money. It was terribly outdated, so I was reluctant to suggest it in the past.The second, is “Your Money or Your Life,” the bible of frugal living with meaning. The new edition should be out in time for the holidays. The book also happens to be featured in this week’s Dollar Duo video, which will be released on Tuesday.

For those of you who miss Jeff Opdyke, who exposed his family financial matters weekly in his recently retired “Love  and Money” Sunday Wall Street Journal column, will release a book on couples and money this spring.

Minnesota native Dave Kansas, president of Filife.com, has a book out in January titled “The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street As We Know It.” How in the world that won’t be outdated by the time it comes out, who knows, but I’ll definitely take a look.

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