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Lookin' Back, Texas Paperback – September 1, 2008

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Betty Lynne Davidson is planning her husband’s funeral while overlooking one thing: he’s not dead.

When Suzanne Mullins, forty-two, gets the call from her father to come back home to Texas because her mother has gone off the deep end, she knows it will mean having to look at the faulty foundations of their marriage as well as her own. Betty Lynne has always upheld a perfect facade of home and family, and Suzanne has followed suit. But her life with husband Mike and son Oliver is cracking under the pressure of its own unspoken history.

Looking her past in the eye once and for all, Suzanne hopes that trusting in God’s love and mercy will set all of this craziness straight—even if it does mean having to watch her father give the eulogy at his own funeral.

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"What a hoot! Leanna Ellis has a gift for storytelling and for quirky, fun, eccentric characters entirely true to the human experience."

Arlene James

Author of His Small-Town Girl

"An entertaining tale, full of rich characters and a deep lesson about healing the past. Leanna Ellis is on my reading list from here on out."

Rachel Hauck

Author of Sweet Caroline and Diva NashVegas

"A wacky, off-the-wall read that’s spiritually right on target!"

Cathy Marie Hake

Author of Forevermore and Fancy Pants

"In a smooth pairing of wit and grit, Leanna Ellis weaves a tale of flawed relationships and crippling regrets with wonderfully timed comedic threads. A fresh, clever look at the audacity of love that forgives."

Susan Meissner

Author of Blue Heart Blessed

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374 pages
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English
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B&H Fiction
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September 1, 2008
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5.4 x 0.97 x 8.4 inches
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0805446974
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978-0805446975
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Leanna Ellis, formerly known to readers as Leanna Wilson, sold more than one million romance books and won numerous awards before taking a new creative direction with her much-acclaimed 2007 novel, Elvis Takes a Back Seat. She lives with her family in Keller, Texas.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ B&H Fiction; First Edition (September 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 374 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805446974
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805446975
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.97 x 8.4 inches

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Deep in the heart not only describes where Leanna Ellis lives in Texas but also the way she writes. Her books, whether romance, inspirational, women’s fiction, or paranormal, are infused with heartfelt emotion. Having written twenty published novels, Ellis has won many awards including the National Readers Choice Award and the Maggie Award.

When not chasing vampires through the darkened recesses of her mind or roping and riding along with her characters through sun-drenched plains, she stays busy driving her children to their multitude of activities, figuring out what to make for dinner (or where to order takeout), chasing her menagerie of crazy pets around the house, and researching the next idea.

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Lookin' Back Texas--A Tale of At Least Two Lies

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2011

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When should adult children meddle in their parents' affairs? This story seems humorous on the surface, seeing that the mother of the main character, Suzanne, is planning her father's funeral. Doesn't sound funny? Well, Suzanne's father is not dead.

Actually, this is not a comedy. As usual, Leanna Ellis uses what seems to be a humorous, unthinkable situation to delve deeply into great personal spiritual truth situations. When Suzanne returns to her parents' home to try to help out, she is forced to face some situations in her own life that she had tried very hard to forget.

Leanna develops her characters well and weaves the story line so that it follows along and the reader is anticipating what might happen next. And all the way until the end of the story, it looks as though things will fall apart.

I would recommend this book to anyone, particularly if one is familiar with any of the author's previous writing.

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Funny Story!

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2012

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This story was a hoot! I grew up in Fredericksburg and am well aware of Luchenbach Texas and their interesting residents! Plus some of the small town things that go on were well integrated into the story. The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is that the author should check out a few things like street names (Fredericksburg has no street names affiliated with numbers, like 13th Street or 1st Street) and there is no Starbucks in town either. (City council does not allow nation wide chains in town) However, overall, the story was funny, and very believable if you've ever lived in a small town. And the play on the title, Lookin Back - Luckenbach AWESOME!
This is one of those stories I will keep and read again and again!

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Kaylin

Old Secrets

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2015

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This story is not dull or boring! It moves along at a constant rate and will keep you chuckling and even laughing out loud with this dysfunctional family.

The theme as I see it is how a secret that should have been told right away, but kept quiet, can come back to bite you years later. By keeping a secret that affects others besides yourself is the same as lying. That you need to own up at the time of the event and take whatever comes of it. That waiting, say many years, can possibly make it even worse....depending on the people involved.

A very good story that I read straight through and would definitely recommend reading.

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Lookin' at Yourself

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2014

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This book is funny and fun to read, but the themes of forgiveness and overcoming the need to control everything will have you looking at Yourself and hopefully finding a way to let God do the controlling as we forgive others and even ourselves.

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Allison M. Campbell

Lookin' Back, Texas

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2008

Suzanne hasn't been back to her hometown of Luckenbach, Texas (say it out loud to get the title, which also refers to numerous characters) in years. She has a comfortable life with her husband and teenaged son in California. When a phone call from her father is cut off, and Linda Lou, Luckenbach's biggest gossip calls and mentions that Suzanne's father is dead, Suzanne packs up for a trip to Texas. She finds her mother acting the regal widow, planning the most elaborate funeral Luckenbach has ever seen. But her father isn't dead. Suzanne decides she'll have to be the one to reconcile her meek father with her controlling mother, and her husband (Mike) and son (Oliver) soon join her in this crazy town. Her own past sins haunt her as she's confronted with ex-boyfriend Drew (now the town sheriff) and her husband-stealing friend Josie is seen at a motel with Mike. Meanwhile, the town is splitting open quite literally--either by earthquake or drought as her parents push further apart, causing Suzanne to worry about the foundation of her own marriage.

I enjoyed Betty Lynne's over-the-top behavior. Always the perfect wife and mother, concerned to the utmost with image, she has decided that she would rather be a widow than a divorcee. Her glee in describing her husband's grisly death is hilarious. Ellis doesn't oversimplify the situation--she shows the toll the "death" takes on Suzanne's father's best friend, and she shows the outpourings of flowers and food from friends and neighbors. I enjoyed the metaphor of faulty foundation for both Suzanne's marriage and the parched earth, and found it to be well executed. Ellis has a wicked sense of humor, especially as she describes Betty Lynne: "It occurs to me that this whole scenario of a make-believe funeral is exactly like something the heroine of Gone With The Wind would do. The first time I saw the movie, I cried when Bonnie Blue Butler died after falling off the horse. I thought it was cruel of Margaret Mitchell to kill off an innocent child. Now I realize it was probably a good decision. I know what it's like to grow up with a mother like Scarlett" (p. 128). And when rumors about Mike and Josie start swirling, "Mother leans forward, resting her elbow on the table and whispers in a conspiratorial tone, 'Wanna have a double funeral?'"

That said, this was really a 300-page novel masquerading as a 400-page novel, so it dragged in places, and there was some repetition I could have done without. Had I been the editor, I would have immediately cut the chapters told from Drew's point of view, which really didn't add anything. I know that Ellis used to write romance novels, and convention in that genre usually dictates writing from both the hero's and the heroine's point of view, but it's out of place here. And at any rate, Drew isn't even a major character. Every twenty or thirty pages, Suzanne agonizes over her big secret, and while I understand that it's always on her mind, especially back in her hometown, the fretting about keeping the secret without any progress toward deciding to tell or deciding not to tell was tedious. As far as the Christian element goes, it wasn't pushed enough to make me dislike the book, but there were passages that were over-the-top for general or women's fiction, and I mostly rolled my eyes and skimmed past. There are several mentions of faith, being faithful, and being committed to marriage, and these were fine and flowed well with the narrative. It was only when they were intrusive on the story, trite ("No relationship is perfect. It's a dance."--Bleh.), unbelievable (her conversation with her son in the grocery store about Jesus just didn't ring true), or contradictory (Suzanne goes on about how she and her husband had to work at their marriage, then later says "My marriage survived, not because of me or Mike but because of God") that I was reminded that I was reading Christian fiction with a capital C. I think Ellis could certainly do well writing general or women's fiction, but I think the born-again element is a bit overdone for a general audience. Her snappy sense humor and apt characterization make me interested in checking out her first (non-romance) novel, Elvis Takes a Back Seat.

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One Star

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015

Too much going on .

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2012

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I loved this book. Funny characters. I felt I was there. I could just image this story really happening. Great read for anyone who has ever lived in a small town or wished they could live in a small town.

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Phyllis

Good front cover

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2011

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I haven't read this yet. It is a book club selection by one of our members. We haven't picked to many duds so far. It came in good condition. We seem to lean toward books about strong women influences.

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