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Debbie Macomber CD Collection 2: Twenty Wishes, Summer on Blossom Street
Debbie Macomber CD Collection 2 Twenty Wishes Summer on Blossom Street Author:Debbie Macomber Twenty Wishes: — Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life?s not what she?d expected ? she?s childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle?s Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there?s a feeling of emptiness. — On Valentine?s Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get to... more »gether to celebrate?what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things they always wanted to do but never did.
Anne Marie?s list starts with: Find one good thing about life. It includes learning to knit, doing good for someone else, falling in love again. She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It?s a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended. It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.
As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both learn that wishes can come true ? but not necessarily in the way you expect.
Summer on Blossom Street:
Knitting and life. They?re both about beginnings ? and endings. That?s why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle?s Blossom Street, to offer a class called Knit to Quit. It?s for people who want to quit something ? or someone! ? and start a new phase of their lives.
First to join is Phoebe Rylander. She recently ended her engagement to a man who doesn?t know the meaning of faithful, and she?s trying to get over him. Then there?s Alix Turner. She and her husband, Jordan, want a baby, which means she has to quit smoking. And Bryan Hutchinson joins the class because he needs a way to deal with the stress of running his family?s business ? not to mention the lawsuit brought against him by an unscrupulous lawyer.
Life can be as complicated as a knitting pattern. Just ask Anne Marie Roche. She and her adopted daughter, Ellen, finally have the happiness they wished for. And then a stranger comes to her bookstore asking questions.
Or ask Lydia herself. Not only is she coping with her increasingly frail mother, but she and Brad have unexpectedly become foster parents to an angry, defiant twelve-year-old.
But as Lydia already knows, when life gets difficult and your stitches are snarled, your friends can always help!« less