Meet award-winning fiction writer Ellyn Bache, author of eight novels (including "Safe Passage," which became a Susan Sarandon film), a short story collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, several books for young people, and a nonfiction journal about sponsoring refugees. Hello, and welcome to my web site. In a career that has spanned nearly 30 years, I thought I'd written everything -- newspaper articles, novels for adults and teens, social commentary, even a children's picture book. So it's a special treat for me -- and I hope for you or someone you know -- to tell you about this year's new developments. First, the re-release in trade paperback of two novels that first came out in 2005 to lovely reviews but a short shelf life. Now they're back -- Riggs Park available now, Daughters of the Sea to follow this fall. Second, three books of solve-it-yourself mysteries (remember Encyclopedia Brown?) for elementary school kids. Not only great fun for children to read but (sneakily) educational, too. Every one of the mysteries teaches something tied to the science curriculum in elementary schools.  | Riggs Park now out in trade paperbackISBN 978-1-889199-12-2
$14 trade paperback
240 pages A poignant novel about the lifelong friendship between two women, this book that launched the Next imprint of women's fiction is the story of Barbara and Marilyn, who once shared an idyllic childhood in the modest Riggs Park neighborhood of Washington, DC. Now, at age 58, they're each dealing with a crisis - Marilyn with a recurrence of breast cancer and Barbara with a difficult relationship with a man. Yet both feel driven to return to the old neighborhood to solve a decades-old mystery that still haunts them. What they discover is a heart-wrenching secret that tests them even further. Will it shatter the resilience that got them through the repressive social mores of the 1950s, the white flight from the city, the fevered years of feminism and anti-feminism and child-rearing? Or will it give them the strength to move on? Read an excerpt "The story of friends who've known each other for years, but find there's still much to be discovered, is emotional and poignant. . . . Barbara is a strong, complicated character whose viewpoint draws the reader deeply into the lives of these women and their families." --RT BookReviews Delightful . . . . An intriguing plot with a terrific final twist. --The Readers Guild Order this book at
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| The Power of Sharpe Thinking If you have kids in elementary school . . . check out this collection of Encyclopedia-Brown-type mysteries for 5th graders (and books for 4th and 3rd grade soon to come). Middle-school twins Angie and Scott Sharpe solve a baker's dozen of mysteries -- but not without giving the reader a chance to solve them first. Great fun, and every mystery is tied to what the kids are learning in science class. These books are published by a company that believes learning should be interesting and exciting. They're used in hundreds of elementary schools but are also available individually. Check out http://www.homecourtpublishers.com/Read more about my books for young people by clicking the "For Young People" tab. | | Raspberry Sherbet Kisses nominated for award!ISBN 13: 978-0-373-88132-1
ISBN 10: 0-373-88132-0
$5.50 mass market paperback, 288 pages Click to read more. RT Book Reviews nominated this 2007 comic novel for its "Reviewers' Choice Best Book of the Year" Award. Chosen as a Top Pick when it first came out, it's the story of a woman with a rare linking of senses called synesthesia (a real condition most people have never heard of) that lets her "see" sounds and "taste" shapes. People accuse her of being crazy. She's not! Read an excerpt. |
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