Is it time to take control of your financial life? Nancy Doyle offers an objective and straightforward perspective based on a wealth of professional and personal experience. In Manage Your Financial Life: A Thoughtful, Organized Approach for Women, she shares a practical and easy-to-understand system for getting organized, analyzing your financial profile, educating yourself about investing, and putting your money to work. Whether you're going through a transition--parenthood, home ownership, a new career path, divorce, widowhood--or you simply want a better understanding of how to manage your financial affairs, you will find this comprehensive resource invaluable--and you find yourself coming back to it again and again.

This program is part of Bookends & Beginnings' contribution to the year-long conversation of art, community dialogue, and new works called The Women’s Voices Project, which is being curated by Piven Theatre to celebrate its 45th anniversary and honor its founder, Joyce Piven. On April 30, Bookends is hosting three programs on books that seek to empower women, all of them by accomplished, Chicago-area women authors.