false 2449962 8 What do you want most in the world?<br><br>Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At 38 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.<br><br>On Valentine s Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate...what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things they always wanted to do but never did. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>As millions of women know, Debbie Macomber understands their lives and writes the stories they want to read. 4084010 29 4 2008 Twenty Wishes (Blossom Street #4) total:1484|5:22|4:27|3:13|2:7|1:1| 1484 5854 2219 372 4 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 17:08:53 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 17:09:02 -0700 2008
Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At 38 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 emp...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 19:29:49 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 19:32:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 27 07:42:30 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 08:03:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 20 12:12:11 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 12:30:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false true Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 15:13:06 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 15:21:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 06:22:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 06:24:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 18:16:48 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 15:21:50 -0700 2009 1 The Shop on Blossom Street...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jun 12 12:49:33 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 20:00:22 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 12:49:33 -0700 2008
I like the fact that Debbie Macomber is able to weave characters that have flaws and problems just like the rest of us but they aren't so over the top that you don't belie...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 13:58:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 14:06:08 -0700 2009
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1. The Shop on Blossom Street
2. The Good Yarn
3. Susannah's Garden
4. Back on Blossom Street
5. Twenty Wishes

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Debbie Macomber is another of my favourite authors. So far I have enjoyed every one of her books and have not yet been disa...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 23:28:43 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 23:31:47 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:21:43 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:32:00 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:00:39 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:02:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 13:21:57 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 13:27:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 14:17:51 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 14:20:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 27 10:55:39 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 10:59:10 -0800 2008
Anne Marie owns the book store on the street. Her life has not been going well lately. Her husband died and she does not have any kids... that is one of her wishe...more...]]>