Has the time come for you to become your own boss? If you’d like to explore the home business option, a number of good books detail how to set up and run a home office business. Here are a few titles:

• “Start and Run a Real Home-Based Business, 2nd edition” by Dan Furman; Self-Counsel Press, 2009 ($20.95)

• “Homebased Businesses You Can Start for Under $5,000” by Cheryl Kimball; Entrepreneur Press, 2008 ($19.95)

• “Ultimate Homebased Business Handbook” by James Stephenson and Rich Mintzer; Entrepreneur Press, 2008 ($29.95)

• “The Everything Home-Based Business Book, 2nd edition” by Yvonne Jeffery and Sherri Linsenbach; Adams Media, 2006 ($14.95)

• “The Home-Based Business Kit” by Diana Brodman Summers and D-M Boulay; Sphinx Pub., 2005 ($16.95)