Maureen Cochram and Clare Eacott share their experiences and innermost thoughts as they move on from their professional careers into retirement. This is their story about the emergence of a friendship and a journey shared. As they free themselves from years of routine, habits, and other peoples expectations, they discover the boundless possibilities of life after work. Retirement becomes the catalyst and the vehicle for some profound thinking about the meaning and purpose of life and how to gain fulfilment beyond career. Written with intimate and honest insights, The Drive Home is a candid account of their parallel and different journeys. As they come to terms with the life they left behind and the life they truly desire, they engage in a rare exchange of letters, emails, and personal journal entries over three years. They rediscover with creativity and joy, life on their own terms. This is not just a book about retirement. It is an intimate reflection of the experience of change and the choices we make at any stage of our lives.

Originally published: London: Picador, 2010.

Gay middle-aged hit men, a pathological interior designer, an idiot savant child and a gun-toting donut shop manager are some of the disparate characters that populate Stan Rogal's first novel. Beginning at vastly different points, geographically and emotionally, these seemingly unconnected people are woven together in the taut fabric of a story that follows the sweet sadness of the search for lost youth. The characters' paths move together gradually until they ultimately converge in an explosive showdown in a sleazy, road-side motel parking lot in Magog, Quebec. Peppered with beauty, absurdity and Rogal's typical rapid-fire dialogue, The Long Drive Home makes for a wonderfully disturbing read.

In this riveting novel, a happily married man makes a mistake that results in a teenager's death and sends his own life into a devastating tailspin.

The Drive of Your Life by Melvin Brown II

Bett is a story of the triumphs of young black baby boomers bravery in the South to push forward during the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Bett is by no means meant to make the grandchildren of African Americans frown on their past or to make the grandchildren of white Americans feel guilty. The goal is to show our youth how a people with very little to work with overcame in spite of it.

Holly Abrams considers herself an easy-going person, but when her demanding boss calls her at two a.m. asking to be picked up from the office amid a raging storm, that’s where she draws the line. She quits on the spot, not caring about the consequences. But of course, her boss refuses to accept her resignation. Stephen Ballinger isn’t one to accept being inconvenienced, much less by the people who work for him. When Holly quits, he refuses to accept and instead insists she to ride out the tropical storm in his home with him. Forced to spend time together without the usual distractions of work, it doesn’t take long for their working relationship to become a passionate one. Stephen knows Holly will be out the door the minute the storm was over, and he would do anything to make her stay. He just needs to give her a reason that will make it impossible to walk away…a reason that has nothing to do with work. **This book was previously published in 2013 and 2018**