BOOKS
Planning for and coping with retirement

The Complete Guide to a Creative Retirement, by Robert Kelley (TurnKey Press, 2003)
Provides strategies to help people rethink what they want to do in retirement and gives advice on how to get started.

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get From Your Financial Advisor, by Ernie J. Zelinski (Ten Speed Press, 2004)
Offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy life to the fullest.

Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement, by Ellen Freudenheim (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004)
Helps readers figure out what they want to do with their postcareer years, through practical tips, charts, and quizzes.

Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, by Marc Freedman (Public Affairs, 1999)
Provides a new vision on aging, retirement, and the role of older Americans in the 21st century.

Purpose and Power in Retirement: New Opportunities for Meaning and Significance, by Harold G. Koenig (Templeton Foundation Press, 2002)
Explores life after retirement as an opportunity for growth.

Retire Smart, Retire Happy: Finding Your True Path in Life , by Nancy K. Schlossberg (American Psychological Association, 2003)
Provides guidance on the psychological and emotional adjustments people make in retirement.

The Sun Still Shone: Professors Talk About Retirement, by Lorraine T. Dorfman (University of Iowa Press, 1997)
Focuses on the experiences of retired professors through personal interviews.

Too Young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of Your Life, by Marika Stone and Howard Stone (Plume Books, 2004)
Written by the founders of the popular Web site 2 Young 2 Retire, the book provides activities and information to help retirees make meaningful choices.

When Every Day Is Saturday: The Retirement Guide for Boomers, by Richard E. Grace (Writer's Showcase Press, 2002) A how-to book on planning a happy, meaningful retirement.

Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling, by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro (Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., 2001)
Uses stories and exercises to help readers find satisfying work consistent with their deepest values.

Relocating and traveling

America's 100 Best Places to Retire: The Only Guide You Need to Today's Top Retirement Towns, edited by Elizabeth Armstrong (Vacation Publications, 2002)
Blends personal accounts with statistics on the climate, cost of living, and other information on desirable locations.

Choose a College Town for Retirement: Retirement Discoveries for Every Budget, by Joseph M. Lubo (Globe Pequot, 1999)
Introduces readers to 64 college towns in 29 states across the country.

Retire in Style: 60 Outstanding Places Across the USA and Canada, by Warren R. Bland (Next Decade, 2005)
Provides economic and lifestyle in-formation on good retirement spots chosen by the author, a professor of geography at California State University at Northridge. He says that the places would be particularly suitable for academics.

Travel Unlimited: Uncommon Adventures for the Mature Traveler, by Alison Gardinar (Avalon Travel, 2000)
Serves as a guidebook for travelers over 50 who prefer vacations off the beaten path.

Where to Retire: America 's Best and Most Affordable Places, by John Howells (Globe Pequot, 2003)
Offers advice on where to relocate in retirement.

Aging, spirituality, and exploration

Aging as a Spiritual Journey, by Eugene C. Bianchi (Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982)
Offers insight into how people become more spiritual as they grow older.

Don't Stop the Career Clock Rejecting the Myths of Aging for a New Way to Work in the 21st Century, by Helen Harkness (Davies-Black Publishing, 1999)
Debunks popular myths about aging and teaches readers how to reset their career clocks.

The Fountain of Age, by Betty Friedan (Simon & Schuster, 1993)
Breaks through the American mystique of aging as decline.

From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older, by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald S. Miller (Warner Books, 1995)
Gives practical tools to help readers grow older with wisdom and understanding.

The Nine Myths of Aging: Maximizing the Quality of Later Life, by Douglas H. Powell (W. H. Freeman & Company, 1998)
Shows people how to age well.

On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity, by Ellen J. Langer (Ballantine Books, 2005)
Offers a new look at the effect creativity has upon one's health and happiness, no matter what the stage in life.

Building a nest egg

Buckets of Money: How to Retire in Comfort and Safety, by Raymond J. Lucia with Dale Fetherling (John Wiley & Sons, 2004)
Outlines a plan allowing retirees to live comfortably in retirement, without running out of money.

Die Broke: A Radical Four-Part Financial Plan, by Mark Levine and Stephen M. Pollan (HarperBusiness Publishers, 1997)
Offers four radical rules for financial planning: Quit today, pay cash, don't retire, and die broke.

How to Retire Early and Live Well With Less Than a Million Dollars, by Gillette Edmunds (Adams Media Corporation, 2000)
Describes step by step how a retiree can live comfortably on $500,000 or less.

Retire on Less Than You Think: The New York Times Guide to Planning Your Financial Future, by Fred Brock (Times Books, 2004)
Debunks the theory that you need to replace most of your pre-retirement income and gives strategies and tools for achieving your personal retirement plans.

ONLINE RESOURCES
General advice and information on retirement

http://www.aarp.org
Official Web site of AARP. Includes information on a variety of retirement issues.

http://www.civicventures.org
Web site for a nonprofit organization that works to expand the contributions of older Americans to society.

http://www.theconroygroup.com
A professional retirement planner works with individuals in the "pre- retirement zone."

http://www.karengreerconsulting.com
Provides a personalized, consultative approach to retirement transitions.

http://www.retirementliving.com
Helps seniors find housing that matches their lifestyles and needs, and offers access to senior publications, tax information, lifestyle issues, and retirement news.

http://www.retirement360.com
A retirement coach provides materials to help organizations work with retirees and to help individuals design their own retirements.

http://www.thirdagecenter.com
Presents information on the 50s, 60s, and 70s, as "the third age."

http://www.2young2retire.com
An online community for retirement- age people.

Financial issues

http://www.fool.com
Motley Fool financial advisers offer investment advice, including an online calculator to help plan retirement finances.

http://www.moneycentral.msn.com
Offers advice on planning for retirement, including an online calculator.

http://www.tiaa-cref.org
Provides information on one of the world's largest retirement systems, especially designed for educators.

http://www.totalmerrill.com/retirement
Helps people explore their retirement dreams from a lifestyle perspective, and offers advice on financial and estate planning. Provides an online calculator that helps see how a new phase that balances work and leisure may change financial planning.

—COMPILED BY JULIE NICKLIN RUBLEY