Carlson: 760 books
by Edward Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
For fans of Don DeLillo and Joseph O’Neill, an enthralling debut about the one percent, what they’ll do to stay on top, and the callous gaze they turn on those below them.
Burned-out and alienated, Kilgore associate attorney Stephen Harker spends his work days defending insurance companies...
Wisconsin 1 Step at a Time
Taking Steps to Trample Muscular Dystrophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Bradley Carlsons muscular dystrophy causes brutal leg cramps that leave him crumpled on the floor. He cant climb stairs and curbs, and sometimes he cant even move.
But none of that stopped him from putting his best foot forward and walking through his home state of Wisconsin. He walked through...
The Garage Band
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
It was the summer of 1971. John and I were at his parents house sitting around talking about starting a band. John was already in a band, but was looking for something new.
We both knew of a drummer, Tom, we went to school with. He would be a good addition, if he was interested. The fourth...
Don't Get Scrooged
How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Inside find helpful advice, such as:
Take a Vacation, Not a Guilt-Trip
Don't Get "Should Upon"
Hades or Homecoming?
Opt In- or Out-of Family Events
Quit Being Your Mother
Ban Worry from Your Holidays
It's Not Daytona—You're Not Jeff Gordon
Don't Try to Cook Tailgating Turkeys
Don't...
Green Bay Packers
Where Have You Gone?
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
With a few exceptions, there is little else that is more important to the typical resident of Wisconsin than the Green Bay Packers. These fans will endure an Arctic freeze, a torrential downpour, or a sweltering August night to watch their beloved Packers. As the famed Lambeau Leap symbolizes, players...
K Blows Top
A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted-a surreal extravaganza,” as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home...
The Civil War from a to Z
Two Points of View
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
The Civil War from A to Z is written from Two Points of View so that one can begin to understand how the United States was torn apart by war not so very long ago. For example, "A, Antebellum" is first told from the North's perspective and then from the South's. This book is written for young people studying the Civil War in grades 4-8.
And the Wind Blew Cold
The Story of an American POW in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.
October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along...
Face of Freedom
How the Photos of Frederick Douglass Celebrated Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Frederick Douglass—abolitionist, writer, political activist, reformer—has been called the most important African-American of the 1800s. He was also the most photographed American of the 1800s. Douglass, who escaped enslavement to work tirelessly on behalf of his fellow African-Americans, realized...
Stanley Johnston's Blunder
The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book chronicles the activity of Chicago Tribune war correspondent Stanley Johnston aboard the carrier Lexington and the transport ship Barnett, during and just after the Battle of the Coral Sea. It shows how he ingratiated himself with key officers and used his access to obtain information from...
The Californios
A History, 1769-1890
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Before the Gold Rush of 1848–1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier—and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life,...
Joe Rochefort's War
The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This is the first biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, the Officer in Charge of Station Hypo the U.S. Navy’s decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and his key role in breaking the Imperial Japanese Navy’s main code before the Battle of Midway. It brings together the disparate threads of Rochefort’s life and...
Distributist Perspectives: Volume II
Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This compilation of important distributist authors delivers valuable insight into the manifest problems of society. Although most of the contributions were written more than 50 years ago, the questions raised by the writers have remained largely unanswered, and essays regarding topics like education,...
by R. S. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Poems from life journeys with friends and family through cancer, Alzheimer's, and spiritual quest.