Retirement Homes Are Murder (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series)
August 31, 2008
Retirement Homes Are Murder (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series) This version is LARGE PRINT
Customer Review: retirement homes are murder
Mike really knows how it is to get older, but in spite of memory loss, still wise. His understanding of the Hawaii scene is outstanding, and historically relevent items are snuck in , only recognizable to a Honolulu native. I look forward to more of his work.
Customer Review: Geezer lit mystery for baby boomers
Reviewed by Mary Greenwood for Reader Views (4/07)
In “Retirement Homes are Murder” by Mike Befeler, Paul Jacobson, a widower who lives in an Assisted Living Facility, finds a dead body in the trash chute. Paul is the number one suspect and it is imperative that he find out who the real killer is before the real murderer kills him. Since Paul has short-term memory loss, he must write up the day’s events each night and leave the journal where he will see it the next day so that when he gets up, he can refresh his memory. Although this slows him down, he is still able to do his detective work and find out who the real killer is. “Retirement Homes Are Murder” is very funny as it weaves the frailties of aging, such as dementia and incontinence, with adventure, mystery and romance.
The author, Mike Befeler, started writing fiction after a career in high technology marketing. His short story “Never Trust a Poison Dart Frog” was published in the mystery anthology “Who Died in Here?” and was also submitted for Edgar Award consideration. “Retirement Homes Are Murder” is Mr. Befeler’s first novel and he is planning on writing six more in this series with Paul Jacobson as the protagonist. Mr. Beheler calls his genre “geezer lit mysteries,” which are at the opposite end of the spectrum as chick-lit. […]
Paul Jacobson, the geezer protagonist, must solve the murder mystery and deal with the obstacles of aging. One of the most humorous aspects of the book is that when he romances Marion, his new girlfriend, he temporarily revives his short term memory. Paul Jacobson enlists the aid of three geezers as well as his granddaughter in his various capers. As baby boomers themselves age, it makes sense that they would be interested in geezer retiree protagonists.
My parents, 92 and 90, live in an Assisted Living Facility and many of the scenes and characters in “Retirement Homes Are Murder” are familiar ones. I recommend “Retirement Homes Are Murder” to anyone over 50 and look forward to Mr. Befeler’s next six novels with Paul Jacobson’s geezer adventures.
H.R. 1102, the Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act of 1999 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations of the … held in Washington, DC, June 29, 1999
August 31, 2008
Off Season : Living the retirement dream
August 31, 2008
Off Season : Living the retirement dream Join former television news anchors, Susan White-Bowden and Jack Bowden, in their celebration of life, love and retirement.
Customer Review: Off Season: Living the retirement Dream
What a fabulous book. This should be required reading for all of retirement age. I am not of retirement age and enjoyed it tremendously. All her books have been excellent. I hope she continues to write. Thank you for a wonderful book, Susan.
Retirement Places Rated: All You Need to Know to Plan Your Retirement or Select Your Second Home (Retirement Places Rated)
August 31, 2008
Retirement on a Shoestring, 5th (Choose Retirement Series)
August 31, 2008
Retirement on a Shoestring, 5th (Choose Retirement Series)
Discover strategies for:
*Tapping equity
*Finding a retirement job
*Trimming utility bills
*Thriving as a single retiree
* Mobile home and RV living
*Continuing education and much more
Customer Review: Sage Advice for Shoestring Retirement
This informative book contains invaluable advice on retirement options for those with cash-flow worries. Speaking to folks like me, Howells knows just what the hot buttons are, and how to address them. I found helpful information in every chapter. Howells does not waste any time getting to the heart of retirement issues for limited income folks who rarely receive any due in most publications. Not all retirees have investment income and golden parachutes! Highly recommended reading!
Customer Review: Another enjoyable and helpful read from Mr. Howells
I’m not looking to retire anytime soon (I’m 50) but really enjoyed this particular book, as it’s given me much to think about. I like his down-to-earth approach (he and his wife have boldly RV’d all over the place, including down into Mexico, so he knows firsthand what day-to-day life is for the average (?) retiree). Again, a very enjoyable read.
Start creating secure income for retirement right now.(Portfolio): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal
August 29, 2008
Start creating secure income for retirement right now.(Portfolio): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on May 17, 2004. The length of the article is 852 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Start creating secure income for retirement right now.(Portfolio)
Author: Gary N. Garner
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 17, 2004
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 26 Issue: 20 Page: 38(1)
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Social Security Board of Trustee’s annual report on the status of social security retirement and disabiliy programs: Hearing before the Subcommittee on … second session, August 2, 1996 (S. hrg)
August 29, 2008
In Florence, life’s good even if you’re not coasting.(General News)(For a retirement town, there sure is plenty for younger adults to do): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
August 29, 2008
In Florence, life’s good even if you’re not coasting.(General News)(For a retirement town, there sure is plenty for younger adults to do): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on April 30, 2004. The length of the article is 1566 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: In Florence, life’s good even if you’re not coasting.(General News)(For a retirement town, there sure is plenty for younger adults to do)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: April 30, 2004
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: T10
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Uprating of State Retirement Pensions Payable to People Resident Abroad (House of Commons Papers)
August 29, 2008
Uprating of State Retirement Pensions Payable to People Resident Abroad (House of Commons Papers)
Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
August 29, 2008
Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America This “inspiring, informative, mind-opening book” (New York Times) provides a new vision on aging, retirement, and the role of older Americans in the 21st century. Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer than childhood or middle age in duration, and one spent in unprecedented good health. Yet, as individuals, and as a society, we’ve shown little imagination or wisdom in using this great gift of a third age. Marc Freedman identifies the new longevity as not a problem to be solved, but an opportunity to be seized-provided we can engage the experience, talent, and idealism of older Americans. At a juncture when the middle-generation faces a time-famine, struggling to simultaneously raise kids and work long hours on the job, the older generation is awash in free time, poised to succeed women as the trustees of civic life in this country. In the process they stand to find new meaning and purpose in their lives, and abandon the limbo-like state unfulfilling for so many older individuals. Freedman argues that the aging phenomenon, the massive transformation that many portray as our downfall, may in fact be our best hope for renewal as a nation.
Customer Review: Just the message we need
The aging of America is upon us. Boomers will start turning 60 on January 1, 2006.
To read the papers, you would think that this event is going to be the start of a long gray sunset in which older adults suck the money out of the federal treasury and life out of our communities. Freedman’s lively book suggests a different and much more optimistic view in which people who have finished their midlife careers can make great new contributions.
We have plenty of problems that need solving in our communities and in our country. Freedman shows us how older adults might play a huge role in meeting those challenges, and at the same time have an enriching experience in doing so.
A must read for anyone who is interested in what our society will look like over the next few decades.
Customer Review: It’s about time!
Freedman is a refreshing voice who puts a welcome human face on the aging of our society–a topic most often dealt with through dire statistical predictions and paranoia. Prime Time illustrates that, while the demographic revolution is real, a negative whammy on America doesn’t have to be the result. The profiles of everyday heroes reveal the classic American values of ingenuity and social concern applied through a new generation of retirement-age people. The perspective on the formation of the notion of “golden years” is informative. The succinct reporting of the prevailing social value attached to older Americans from the Puritan era (revered sources of wisdom) to more recent decades (keepers of leisure time) is important. And the telling of the selling of Sun City is a hoot–an “only in America” tale that provides lots of context for understanding society’s ambivalence and confusion in dealing with the opportunity and challenges inherent in an aging population. This is a good book for anyone interested in new visions for an older country.
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