Bache, Ellyn

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itty profound look at middle age crisis

Daughters Of The Sea (Harlequin Next)
Ellyn Bache
Manufacturer: Harlequin
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ASIN: 0373880634

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itty profound look at middle age crisis.......2005-09-28

In her late thirties and unhappy, Veronica Legacy decides it is time to pull up anchor, give up on the secure middle class existence she lives and start anew. Accompanied by her twenty years old daughter Simpson, Veronica leaves her spouse to return to the only place she ever felt at home, the farm of beloved septuagenarian Ernestine Trueheart. She doubts her husband will notice that the two women in his life have left him.

However, though welcomed by Ernestine, Veronica realizes you can't come home as nothing remains the same. The energetic Ernestine of memory is a slowly dying elderly woman. Still she offers Veronica what she most needs a sense of worth and belonging, but will that prove enough for an adult seeking a haven from the storms of life?

This is a terrific slice of life character study that showcases intriguing individuals, especially Veronica, struggling with problems that have thrown them into a depression yet come out fighting for what they believe in. Veronica is the center of this interesting tale, but the support cast mainly Ernestine and Simpson make her a fully developed protagonist. Fans will appreciate this fine often witty but always profound look at middle age crisis.

Harriet Klausner

Raspberry Sherbet Kisses (Harlequin Next)

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interesting contemporary character study

Raspberry Sherbet Kisses (Harlequin Next)
Ellyn Bache
Manufacturer: Harlequin
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ASIN: 0373881320

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The first kiss reminded her of raspberry sherbet…

And no man's kiss has since matched that wonderful, summery essence in all its glory. LilyRose knows her rare ability to "see" sounds and "taste" shapes—synesthesia— is a gift that defines who she is…but it's also made her an object of ridicule.

And made her an outcast. That is, until a mean-spirited customer mocks a young girl—and kindred spirit—she's befriended. Years of repression suddenly give way when LilyRose hurls a basket at that customer. And finds herself being escorted from her shop in handcuffs!

For decades LilyRose has searched for that special man who could teach her to embrace her uniqueness. She just didn't expect to find him waiting to pick her up from jail….

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interesting contemporary character study .......2007-04-08

LilyRose Sheffield suffers from synthesia as she has the uncanny ability to "see" sounds and "taste" shapes. Twelve years ago her then boyfriend called her a freak because of her senses behaving differently from the norm. Mortified, LillyRose has hidden her gift ever since treating it as a curse as she hates the ridicule and scorn.

However, she explodes when a nasty customer cruelly mocks a young girl, who suffers from the same synthesis condition. Angrily LilyRose hits a woman with a basket leading to her arrest. This one may have a happy ending when the raspberry-sherbet tasting lips she has waited for all her life comes to take her out of jail.

RASPBERRY SHERBET KISSES is an interesting contemporary character study with a romantic subplot. The story line focuses on LilyRose's efforts to mainstream so that she avoids mockery until the tasty kisses of the hunk rescues her from her own self imposed exile. Readers will appreciate this fine look at a woman whose biggest problem is accepting that it is okay to be different and those who mock her are ignorant fools unless you give them the power to limit you as LilyRose did as Kermit the Frog is right.

Harriet Klausner

Over 50's Singles Night (Harlequin Next)

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Over 50's Singles Night (Harlequin Next)
Ellyn Bache
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ASIN: 0373880871

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Intriguing Story!
Intriguing mystery and enjoyable women friends' book
captivating
fine middle age amateur sleuth
Complex, Intriguing, Lyrical

Riggs Park (Harlequin Next)
Ellyn Bache
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ASIN: 0373880537

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A story about lifelong friendships that span decades of happiness, sorrow and surprising revelations.

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Intriguing Story!.......2006-01-05

This book was a great surprise to me! I know that the "Next" novels are not marketed towards women of my age group, but I had no trouble relating to the characters. In fact, I found them all very intriguing!

Intriguing mystery and enjoyable women friends' book.......2005-10-23

Really liked Riggs Park and would recommend it to o my friends. The story captivated me from the first and the mystery of what happened to Penny and wondering what Marilyn was doing having a face lift kept me turning the pages.

The story shows that sometimes what we remember from childhood is very different from what actually went on.

The flashbacks were a bit confusing at times, but I was able to keep up.

Look forward to more books by this author.

captivating.......2005-08-12

I couldn't put the book down--loved the characters but also the depth and uniqueness of the story. Can't believe how much the author could pack into this size of book--will be looking for her books in the future. Highly recommend. The story was so human, so real, something all women could relate to...

fine middle age amateur sleuth.......2005-07-15

They met as little kids in the DC Riggs Park area and have remained friends for over fifty years though Barbara Cohen lives in Wrightsville, North Carolina while Marilyn Waxman remained in the Washington area. Marilyn informs Barbara that she is back and she needs to see her to discuss what happened to another friend Penny when they were in college. Knowing that it is cancer Barbara agrees to visit her best friend although she is having personal problems with her lover Jon.

Marilyn shocks Barbara when she mentions she will undergo a facelift prior to the experimental cancer treatment. Even more stunning is the secret that Penny had a child before vanishing; the father is either Marilyn's famous singing brother Steve or an unknown she apparently met on the "Bus Ride to see Steve. Reluctantly Barbara agrees to search for clues that would lead to Penny's offspring. As she begins her quest in the old neighborhood she realizes you can never go home, but continues her elusive venture.

This fine middle age amateur sleuth character study is a well written buddy tale with a cast that makes the ensemble cast especially the lead female friends seem real. The friendship between Marilyn and Barbara serves as the key foundation to an intriguing plot. Barbara's inquires begin somewhat late in the novel as she is not convinced she should follow the clues until she realizes her beloved buddy needs to know the truth. With a terrific final twist to the delightful RIGGS PARK, readers will look forward to what comes next from Ellyn Bache.

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Complex, Intriguing, Lyrical.......2005-07-07

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. The plot is layered and satisfyingly complex. The characters are true-to-life. Nothing is sugar-coated. On top of all this, the language is beautiful, almost lyrical in tone.

What started out seeming to be a simple tale of two old friends facing their immortality and revisiting their pasts, regrets and all, turned into a tale of friendship, betrayal, love and a mystery with surprising twists and turns.

I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys mainstream women's fiction by Elizabeth Berg, Elaine Kagan, Eileen Goudge, et.al.

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A lively look back at the '60s
Straightforward, honest story

The Activist's Daughter
Ellyn Bache
Manufacturer: Banks Channel Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2005-03-01

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Embarrassed by her mother's all-too-public civil rights activities in the fall of 1963, 17-year-old Beryl Rosinsky flees her home in Washington, DC, and begins college at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Here, in the segregated South, she means to reject her destiny as her mother's daughter by conforming and fitting in. But she finds herself in a world of uncomfortable paradoxes. Strict rules for women don't apply to men. Southern good manners don't extend to the black girl who lives alone on the other side of the dorm. Soon Beryl begins to appreciate her family's values -- and learn who she really is.

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A lively look back at the '60s.......2002-09-29

Anyone who lived through the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement in the early '60s or wants to know what it was like -- or who remembers (or wonders) about the rules college women had to endure (and college men didn't), will enjoy this lively, lighthearted novel that is also full of timely issues. Beryl Rosinsky thinks she's going to escape her civil-rights-activist mother when she runs away to college in the South, but instead she's forced to come to terms with exactly the kinds of prejudices and biases her mother is fighting.

Straightforward, honest story.......2000-03-01

Ellyn Bache serves up an interesting tale of relationships and identity in The Activist's Daughter. Living in bustling, Kennedy-era Washington, D.C., the Rosinsky family would appear to blend in well with their surroundings, if not for father Leonard's despondance over his reputation and career being destroyed after the McCarthy trials and mother Leah's determination to single-handedly help every worthy civil rights cause in the nation. Embarassed and angered by her mother's attention toward other people (and lack thereof toward her own family), seventeen-year-old Beryl wishes to break altogether from the activist's shadow. The best answer appears to be enrolling in an out-of-state college--North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which in 1963 was more likely a different country.

The Activist's Daughter is straightforward storytelling and a good recommendation for teenage readers interested in segregation and the Civil Rights Era. Though I would have liked to have seen more interaction between Beryl and her mother (who disappears mid-story and seems to pop up when convenient), Bache compensates for this strong conflict by keeping Leah in spirit, as seen in Beryl as watch her grow. Anyone frustrated with what television season has to offer in terms of "strong women" should pick us this book instead.

Festival in Fire Season
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Festival in Fire Season
Ellyn Bache
Manufacturer: August House Pub Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 087483189X

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A devastating wildfire moves toward a North Carolina beach town during its annual Azalea Festival. As the crisis approaches, three lives touch and entwine-a high school administrator, a feisty "Azalea Princess," and a beautiful but unhappy jewelry maker. In the ensuing firestorm, each is forced to confront what they fear most.

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A Family Reunited In the Threat of Separation

Safe Passage
Ellyn Bache
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553569643
Release Date: 1994-11-01

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As the mother of seven boys, Mag Singer fears she will never have the career she dreams of. But she begins to re-evaluate her priorities after she learns that her troubled middle son is missing after the terrorist bombing of his Marine barracks in Beirut. For three days, as the family awaits word of his fate, they are forced to come to terms with themselves and each other, and to rediscover the deep reservoir of love they once shared.

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Bache gives us an American family richly created and lovingly depicted. On a chilly October morning, Mag and Patrick Singer awaken in their suburban Washington D.C. home to learn that the airport in Beirut has been bombed by Lebanese terrorists. Among the sixteen hundred Marines stationed there is Percival, one of their seven sons. Over the course of the next three days, as they wait to hear further news of Percival's fate, Mag and Patrick are joined by their six other sons in what becomes a vigil of patience and love, as well as a time for the Singers to make peace with their common past. The Singers' reunion is beset with turmoil, both comic and frightening. SAFE PASSAGE has been made into a film starring Susan Sarendon and Sam Shepard. For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com.

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A Family Reunited In the Threat of Separation.......1999-12-17

Safe Passage tells the story of Mag Singer, a mother of seven boys. Mag admits that she is a detatched mother. She never wanted her boys, until they were born. But when her middle child, Percival, a marine and the most troubled of the seven is feared dead in the midst of a terrorist bombing, the family gathers together and suddenly Mag realizes how important her family really is.

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The Value of Kindness: Stories
Ellyn Bache
Manufacturer: Helicon Nine Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Safe Passage
Ellyn BACHE
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0R7RK

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Daughters Of The Sea
Ellyn Bache
Manufacturer: harlequin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OXLC8W

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