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    <body><![CDATA[Same wonderful Blossom St. with a little 007 feel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was excited to see this next installment in Debbie Macomber's series about the shops lining a small street in Seattle.  The first was a grab off the library shelf - fate!  I've followed along with the series greedily.<br/><br/>Although their writing styles and subject matter are completely diffe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20803313">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This third book the knitting class started out making a prayer shawl. Alix is preparing for her wedding to Jordon the youth pastor. She is trying to be agreeable and not cause waves with her mother-in law to be, Susan and Jaqualine, her stand in mother and friend, but she finally calls off the weddi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67170462">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A few years ago I read my first Debbie Macomber book which was The Shop on Blossom Street.  When I was browsing the library shelves, I noticed this book and memories of a sweet story drifted back.  I picked it up, not realizing until later that A Good Yarn was actually the next book in the series.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53953069">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful story about the bonds that women form. The owner of the yarn shop has had to deal with cancer, her tenant is dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, her sister is dealing with a car jacking, and another friend is dealing with an out of control wedding namely her own, Alix does not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73076617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street - a flower store called Susannah's Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired a young widow named Colette Blake. A couple of months earlier, Colette had abruptly quit her previous job - after a brief affair with her boss. To her dismay, he's suddenly begun placing weekly orders for flower arrangements!<br/><br/>Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting class. Lydia's previous classes have forged lasting friendships, and this one is no exception. But Lydia and her sister, Margaret, have worries of their own. Margaret's daughter, Julia, has been the victim of a random carjacking, and the entire family is thrown into emotional chaos.<br/><br/>Then there's Alix Townsend. Her wedding to Jordan Turner is only months away - but she's not sure she can go through with it. Her love for Jordan isn't in question; what she can't handle is the whole wedding extravaganza engineered by her mentor, Jacqueline, with the enthusiastic cooperation of her future mother-in-law. A reception at the country club and hundreds of guests she's never even met - it's just not Alix.<br/><br/>Like everyone else in Lydia's knitting class, Alix knows there's a solution to every problem&#133;and that another woman can usually help you find it!<br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, a nice little read.  I've had this book for a couple of years and then something better always came along and I never finished it.  It essentially follows the lives of three women whom are in teh same knitting club and the stories of their lives and how they are aquainted.  One gal is getting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56946299">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In <em>Back on Blossom Street</em> Lydia starts another knitting class, this time for a prayer shawl.  In her class are Susannah, the owner of the flower shop next door; Colette, Lydia's tenant in her old apartment above the store and Susannah's employee; Alix Townsend, an original member of Lydia's knitting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38183683">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was thrilled to see Debbie Macomber return to Blossom Street. It was rewarding to see how the characters from her first two books had progressed, as well as being introduced to new women to cheer for. <br/><br/>The strengths of Macomber's writing are her sympathetic characters...Alix in particul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9789334">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this one just as much as the first two. You are introduced to more women on Blossom Street and revisit with characters from the first two books. It is two years later and A Good Yarn is a sucessful business that serves as the focal point of different lives coming together. Off now to read th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59681680">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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