Julie Ellis, Author . Five Star $26.95 (234p) ISBN 978-1-59414-474-5
Revenge isn't all it's cracked up to be in this thin tale of romantic suspense from Ellis (Silent Rage
) with its clever if underdeveloped conceit—preteen assassins. Anne Evans is a young widow and junior high school counselor in the...
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Julie Ellis, Author Zebra $18.95 (486p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4854-1
Another in the succession of Ellis's (Commitment) appealing heroines, Fran Goldman is first seen in 1937 when she is an idealistic young journalist in a small Georgia town where her father owns a thriving ``ladies' shop.'' Rich, secure in their...
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Julie Ellis, Author Arbor House $17.95 (494p) ISBN 978-0-87795-733-1
Lilli Landau, covert Jew and natural daughter of a British viscount, decamps at age 16 from Aunt Sara's millinery-cum-cosmetic establishment in Bohemia to Sydney, Australia, with American adventurer Jacques Laval. The shop she starts is soon...
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Julie Ellis, Author Arbor House Publishing $17.95 (455p) ISBN 978-0-87795-885-7
The fashion world of New York's Seventh Avenue is Vanessa Conrad's goal when she and her smart-talking friend Tina dream of leaving their small town upstate. Although their hopes are initially dashed on arrival in war-time Manhattan, Tina swiftly...
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Julie Ellis, Author Arbor House Publishing $19.95 (470p) ISBN 978-0-87795-954-0
The fortunes of two sisters, Iris and Laura Roth, are chronicled in this formulaic, multifaceted saga by the author of Rich Is Better. The girls were teenagers in 1924 when their father Jacob, convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old...
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Julie Ellis, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (478p) ISBN 978-0-688-08845-3
The only fresh aspect of this tiresome and superficial novel is its backdrop--the timber industry. Otherwise, Ellis ( A Daughter's Promise ) merely supplies well-worn elements of commercial fiction, including a wealthy clan torn by feuds, a lovely...
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Julie Ellis, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-10271-5
Strong and consistently absorbing, this romance by a master of the genre ( A Daughter's Promise ) seizes the reader's interest immediately. Harry Newhouse and Katie Freeman marry as idealistic teenagers in 1923 and move from New York City's Lower...
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Julie Ellis, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (446p) ISBN 978-0-399-13808-9
This unconvincing saga stretches perilously thin in a seeming effort to touch all bases--historical, political and cultural--as it follows Viktoria Gunsburg's rise from penniless Russian refugee to top corporate executive. Having fled the 1917...
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Julie Ellis, Author Zebra $18.95 (513p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4422-2
For the first offering under Zebra's new hardcover imprint, Ellis ( No Greater Love ) competently weaves scads of historical detail into her tale of Carol Simon's journey from childhood ease in the 1920s to a hard-won position as wife, mother and...
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Julie Ellis, Author, Phyllis Hornung, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-197-2
An addition to the Math Adventure series, What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? by Julie Ellis, illus. by Phyllis Hornung, tells a fictional tale of the future Greek philosopher and mathematician. Ellis characterizes Pythagoras as a boy always underfoot,...
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Julie Ellis, Author, Phyllis Hornung, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $7.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-150-7
An addition to the Math Adventure series, What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? by Julie Ellis, illus. by Phyllis Hornung, tells a fictional tale of the future Greek philosopher and mathematician. Ellis characterizes Pythagoras as a boy always underfoot,...
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