Carlson: 760 books

Following her mother's funeral, and on the verge of her own midlife crisis, widow Anna Larson returns to the home of her youth to sort out her parents' belongings, as well as her own turbulent life. For the first time since childhood, Anna embraces her native heritage, despite the disdain of her vicious...

In the final story of The Inn at Shining Waters, Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah is beginning to find her independence. But her relationship with her parents suffers as a result and she travels away from all that is familiar. While the solace of the river calls Sarah back, surprises await upon her...

Once upon a time in a little town on the Oregon coast lived four Lindas--all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. * * Decades later, they're all back home in Clifden and reinventing their lives, but the holidays bring...

Goodnight, rubber duckie. Thank you for the scrub. Goodnight to the bubbles, Sliding down the tub. As a little boy says goodnight to the things and people in his world, he remembers to offer a thankful nighttime prayer to God. Goodnight Angels gently draws children to sleep as it reminds them that...

After decades out of touch, four fifty-something childhood friends have returned to the little coastal town of Clifden, Oregon, where they grew up. They look forward to supporting one another as they reinvent their lives. But second acts can be a challenge, and each woman feels the stretch. Widowed...

The sixties were the heyday of baby boomers from the last 'war to end all wars'. Unfortunately, they were just in time for another war--the Vietnam conflict that was even more senseless than the previous wars before it. Rebellion surfaced in flower children, long haired "hippies", psychedelic...

Is holiday prep driving you nuts? You need a break!Grab your favorite beverage and find a quiet corner. This little book of short stories is just for you—to laugh a bit and to remind yourself that holidays don’t always go as planned. "Little Christmases" brings a different perspective to harried...

fragments invites each reader to explore the essence of our collective human experience through hope and sorrow, joy and anger, love gained, and love lost. Each unique piece can be interpreted anew, with every reading, as the style allows the reader to set the tenor, the tone, the flow, and the meaning,...

First crush, first love, first kiss—in this addition to the sweet and clean Flirt series, Chloe finds that there’s more than just horses waiting for her at the ranch this summer. Chloe can hardly believe it when she lands a summer job mucking stalls at one of the best dude ranches in Colorado....

This volume is the 9th volume of my Collected Poems. All have been published through Author House. My primary goal is to use understandable language to express my thoughts, my feelings, my hopes. I want description and images to be accurate statements of feelings honest. I find irony helpful. I began...

Aldric is content working in his family’s apple orchard—or as content as a fourteen-year-old-boy can be doing chores and dreaming up new magic—when he digs up an antique ring and releases a rude spell-bound unicorn. She claims she belongs to the king, but after her long imprisonment, she can’t...

Take your students on any number of learning journeys: join Lewis and Clark on an expedition; journey into the woods with fur traders; or ride a wagon train to the Oregon Territory as you learn how the quest for gold led to a feverish migration. Experience the excitement of resettlement following...

Aldric and his arch-enemy Thram have less than a month to discover if other unicorns exist before the unicorn war wish is needed to protect their country from the magician Alyse and the Spikonians. They travel further than any of their countrymen, to mythical City Brandt, where they hear of...

How can a 15-year-old magician expect to rescue his family and king when no one else is willing to? Aldric and the war unicorn Neighbor must find and rejoin the remnant of the Farhner army, but to reach them, they need to travel through enemy territory with their only companions a band of thieves....