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Twenty Wishes (A Blossom Street Book #4)
written by Debbie Macomber
Studio : Mira Books
by Mira Books
Release Date : 2008-04-29
Publisher : Mira Books
Released : 2008-04-29
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780778325505
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 10 reviews)
List Price : $24.95
Our Price : $10.99
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Product Description |
What do you want most in the world?
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.
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.
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.
As millions of women know, Debbie Macomber understands their lives and writes the stories they want to read. |
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Blossom Street Makes me feel at home. |
I just finished reading this book after 2 days. I loved it and couldn't wait to see what happened next. I moved from Seattle 10 months ago and after reading this book I told my husband we are moving back I miss it so, much and Debbie makes me feel that I am right there with the people on Blossom Street. Even Thou Blossom Street is not real, Debbie does a good job of showing how Seattle opens its heart and arms to people in need and I can't wait for the next book. I have started my own list of Twenty Wishes with Number one being I moving back to Seattle and dancing in the rain like Anne Marie.
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A great read but hardly realistic |
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As usual, Debbie Macomber has given us the wonderful gift of a great read. A sad little group of widows meet on Valentine's Day and start lists of Twenty Wishes. These are things they've always wanted to do. Most of them have trouble putting down more than one or two wishes, but as time passes, they are able to add to their lists. Lillie wants to find an honorable man to love. Anne Marie is desperate for a child. Lillie's daughter Barbie, and Elise Beaumont from the earlier books, have wishes too. Each of them find a way to make their wishes come true and the premise is that they will all live happily ever after. But I felt that isn't realistic. Anne Marie reconciles with her stepdaughter in a matter of months, which usually doesn't happen. Her stepdaughter's hatred of her took years to build and wouldn't just go away overnight. Anne Marie is eventually able to adopt a child, but again, that happens very quickly. Too quickly to be believable. What about the red flags and tons of paperwork that most adoptive parents have to sift through? And the child she adopts, an eight year old girl, is apparently free from major problems even though she has spent years in foster care. Barbie falls in love with a disabled man; the accident that put him in a wheelchair is never explained, nor are his limitations as a paraplegic touched on. I enjoyed the book but missed the familiar yarn shop of the earlier books. |
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Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber |
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A great book that is a continuation of Debbie Macomber's Blossom Street series. Love her books. |
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"Twenty Wishes" was a great book. It was a page turner that I couldn't, or wanted to, put down. It was filled with hope and love. Debbie Macomber has done it again. She's made me want to start my own list! |
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I LOVE Debbie Macomber's world!!! |
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Just finished reading this delightful book, and as with all her books found myself laughing and then crying throughout. Her characters (people) are so real that I feel that I'm there with them. Am so grateful we have this wonderful writer who shares these stories with us. Also, know it's a different book or series but I LOVE her angel books too! Just finished the latest one and it too was delightful! Thanks Debbie!!! |
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