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| Twenty Wishes (A Blossom Street Book #4) | 
 enlarge | Author: Debbie Macomber
Publisher: Mira Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 652
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Library Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0778325504
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780778325505
ASIN: 0778325504
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new Book Club Edition. May have black mark, slight tear or crease in cover. We ship Mon - Sat except on postal holidays. All items shipped in protective mailers.
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Sure makes you feel good about people May 24, 2008
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a sweet, delightful, feel good story. I really enjoyed it. And even though nobody was getting shot or killed, it truly was a page turner. I felt like I was a member of their little club and couldn't wait to hear the latest about each and every one of them. I read it with a constant smile on my face.
I live in Seattle area and also enjoyed all the references to our beautiful city. The people here are awesome. This book is written as if it were a true story. And perhaps it might be--someone, somewhere who can identify with at least one of the characters.
I agree that the "Twenty Wishes" is an excellent idea to do---as well as taking up knitting, going to Paris and, of course, dacing barefoot in the rain.
Relax, enjoy and be ready to feel good when you read this delightful story.
I LOVE Debbie Macomber's world!!! May 6, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
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!!!
Loved it May 2, 2008
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
I loved this book. I received it yesterday. I started reading it about 1 P.M. I did go out last night. I finished the book at about 2 P.M. today. DEBBIE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE writers I especially like her books about Blossom Street. You will enjoy this book.
A heart felt thought provoking return to Blossom Stree May 6, 2008
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
In Seattle thirty-eight years old Blossom Street Books owner Anne Marie Roche grieves the loss of her husband Robert who recently died. They had no children together though he left behind two adult offspring from his first marriage. Ironically they were separated seven months at the time of his demise, but Anne Marie cannot move past her loss; blaming herself in some ways.
Anne Marie and her friends celebrate Valentine's Day together when she thinks about creating a list of things she wants to do but never has. Her friends do likewise as does eight year old Ellen Falk, her "Lunch Buddy", a Woodrow Wilson Elementary School child she mentors like a Big Sister. Instead of performing her list, Anne Marie decides to make Ellen's TWENTY WISHES come true.
It takes a village to raise a child as Debbie Macomber affirms with this heart felt thought provoking return to Blossom Street. The relationship between the Lunch Buddies is fabulously developed so that the adult gets as much or more from it than the child. Fans of character driven tales will want Ellen's TWENTY WISHES especially one in particular to come true.
Harriet Klausner
The best ever May 4, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love Debbie Macomber and this is without any question her best book yet. You don't have to be a widow to understand this - just a woman who has wishes that she'd like to fulfill. This would make an excellent book for reading groups and I can't recommend it highly enough. I read it in 24 hours - I just couldn't put it down and I'm going to read it again. That's great praise coming from me who rarely reads a book more than once but this one is worth it. I've started my own list of 20 Wishes. It would make a great gift.
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