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NEW SERIES: The Four Lindas

AS YOUNG AS WE FEEL (Book 1)






Is there room in one little hometown for four very different Lindas to reinvent their lives … together?

Once upon a time in the little town on the Oregon coast, there were 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. But that was 47 years and four lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them all—the New York lawyer, the empty nester, the frustrated artist, and the aging starlet—together again in their old hometown, at a crossroads in their lives. They’re about to explore the invigorating reality that even the most eventful life has second acts…and there’s no statute of limitations on friendship.

Available in the following formats:

Paperback book: ISBN 1434764974

Amazon Kindle edition: B003661FT7Y

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LOVE FINDS YOU IN PENDLETON, OREGON






Native American beauty Sunny Westcott is not one to let her hair down. But her friend Aubrey manages to drag her to Pendleton, Oregon, and the pair arrives just as the hundredth annual Pendleton Round-Up begins. Sunny is surprised by how much she enjoys watching the rodeo, riding horseback, and getting to know Aubreys familyparticularly a handsome cowboy named Cody. Pendleton is also home to the Umatilla reservation where Sunnys ancestors once lived, and the trip gives her the chance to do some digging into her familys historya topic she knows next to nothing about. But will Sunny like what she finds? And how will skeletons from the past compete with the current drama unfolding in Codys own family?

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LOVE FINDS YOU IN SISTERS, OREGON

Hope Bartolli has avoided Sisters for years—both her hometown of Sisters, Oregon, and her two sisters who live there. But when the thirty-two-year-old corporate lawyer returns home to attend her beloved grandmother’s funeral, she’s surprised to learn that she has inherited Nona’s old house, her little dog, Andy, and an unexpected friendship with Nona’s handsome attorney. If she had any hopes of burying the hatchet with her sisters, these “gifts” from Nona aren’t going to help. Hope wants more out of life—but is she willing to take the risks to get it? And can she trust her family to stand by her side?

Available in the following format:

Paperback book: ISBN 1935416189


LIMELIGHT

"A compelling tale of one woman's journey from the excitement of the limelight to contentment in the twilight. When eighty-two-year-old Claudette is forced to leave her pampered Hollywood life and return to the backward town she escaped decades ago, she isn't sure she wants to continue living — especially if it means facing her estranged sister and the secret she has avoided for years. Limelight is a beautiful coming-of-age story at the other end of the spectrum."

–Virginia Smith, author of Third Time's a Charm and the Sister-to-Sister Series

"Only a gifted writer like Melody Carlson could present a self-centered character in such a way that the reader can't wait to turn the page and learn more about her. Claudette's poignant, yet amusing journey from worldly has-been diva to genuine, honest woman grabs the reader by the heartstrings and doesn't let go, even after the end. Highly recommended!"

–Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of the To Catch a Thief series

"…any story by Carlson is worth encountering."

–Booklist

"Melody Carlson's style is mature and bitingly funny, and her gift for connecting our heart to the character's plight also connects us to the complicated human condition and our need for one another." –Patricia Hickman, author of Painted Dresses

"Melody Carlson never fails to drag us out of our Christian easychairs and right into the coals of the confusing culture in which we all find ourselves. She never fails to reveal that place of compassion within each of us. Excellent." –Lisa Samson, author of The Church Ladies and Tiger Lillie

Available in the following formats:

Paperback book: ISBN 1400070821

Large print: ISBN 160285680X

Amazon Kindle edition: B002RLBKQI

iPhone/iPod Touch version from iTunes App Store