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The Shop on Blossom Street (A Blossom Street Novel, Book 1) Kindle Edition
Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' – Candis
NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Can you tell from first impressions whether someone could become your closest friend?
Thirty year-old Lydia has survived cancer twice. She’s determined to embrace the future, but is she brave enough to risk falling in love?
Image-conscious Jacqueline is in her mid-forties with an empty marriage. She’s devastated that her son has married beneath himself.
High-powered thirty-seven-year-old Carol longs for a baby. After two failed IVF attempts, she’s hoping for one last miracle.
After a tough childhood, young Alix is angry and defensive. But meeting a special someone from her schooldays may make her change her ways. None of these women could ever have guessed how close they would become or where their friendship would lead them.
Make time for friends. Make time for Debbie Macomber.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMIRA
- Publication date13 Feb. 2012
- File size1.9 MB
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"Four women brought together by their interest in knitting makes for an interesting read by bestselling novelist Debbie Macomber. . . . The Shop on Blossom Street shows the author's understanding of the heart of a woman." -The Sunday Oklahoman
"Macomber is a master storyteller; any one of these characters could have been a stereotype in less talented hands. Instead, these women and their stories are completely absorbing." -RT Book Reviews
"Debbie Macomber tells women's stories in a way no one else does." -BookPage
About the Author
Debbie Macomber is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author and a leading voice in women’s fiction today. She is a multiple award winner with more than 200 million copies of her books in print. Five of her Christmas titles have been made into Hallmark Channel Original Movies, as well as a series based on her bestselling Cedar Cove stories. For more information, visit her website:www.DebbieMacomber.com.
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The Shop on Blossom Street CD Low Price
By Debbie MacomberHarperAudio
Copyright © 2005 Debbie MacomberAll right reserved.
ISBN: 9780060820985
Chapter One
"The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations."- Karen Alfke, "Unpattern" designer and knitting instructor
LYDIA HOFFMAN
The first time I saw the empty store on Blossom Street I thought of my father. It reminded me so much of the bicycle shop he had when I was a kid. Even the large display windows, shaded by a colorful striped awning, were the same. Outside my dad's shop, there were flower boxes full of red blossoms - impatiens - that spilled over beneath the large windows. That was Mom's contribution: impatiens in the spring and summer, chrysanthemums in the fall and shiny green mistletoe at Christmas. I plan to have flowers, too.
Dad's business grew steadily and he moved into increasingly larger premises, but I always loved his first store best.
I must have astounded the rental agent who was showing me the property. She'd barely unlocked the front door when I announced, "I'll take it."
She turned to face me, her expression blank as if she wasn't sure she'd heard me correctly. "Wouldn't you like to see the place? You do realize there's a small apartment above the shop that comes with it, don't you?"
"Yes, you mentioned that earlier." The apartment worked perfectly for me. My cat, Whiskers, and I were in need of a home.
"You would like to see the place before you sign the papers, wouldn't you?" she persisted.
I smiled and nodded. But it wasn't really necessary; instinctively I knew this was the ideal location for my yarn shop. And for me.
The one drawback was that this Seattle neighborhood was undergoing extensive renovations and, because of the construction mess, Blossom Street was closed at one end, with only local traffic allowed. The brick building across the street, which had once been a three-story bank, was being transformed into high-end condos. Several other buildings, including an old warehouse, were also in the process of becoming condos. The architect had somehow managed to maintain the traditional feel of the original places, and that delighted me. Construction would continue for months, but it did mean that my rent was reasonable, at least for now.
I knew the first six months would be difficult. They are for any small business. The constant construction might create more obstacles than there otherwise would have been; nevertheless, I loved the space. It was everything I wanted.
Early Friday morning, a week after viewing the property, I signed my name, Lydia Hoffman, to the two-year lease. I was handed the keys and a copy of the rental agreement. I moved into my new home that very day, as excited as I can remember being about anything. I felt as if I was just starting my life and in more ways than I care to count, I actually was.
I opened A Good Yarn on the last Tuesday in April. I felt a sense of pride and anticipation as I stood in the middle of my store, surveying the colors that surrounded me. I could only imagine what my sister would say when she learned I'd gone through with this. I hadn't asked her advice because I already knew what Margaret's response would be. She isn't - to put it mildly - the encouraging type.
I'd found a carpenter who'd built some cubicles for me, three rows of them, painted a pristine white. Most of the yarn had arrived on Friday and I'd spent the weekend sorting it by weight and color and arranging it neatly in the cubicles. I'd bought a secondhand cash register, refinished the counter and set up racks of knitting supplies. I was ready for business.
This should have been a happy moment for me but instead, I found myself struggling to hold back tears. Dad would've been so pleased if he could have seen what I'd done. He'd been my support and my source of strength, my guiding light. I was so shocked when he died.
You see, I'd always assumed I would die before my father.
Most people find talk of death unsettling, but I've lived with the threat of it for so long, it doesn't have that effect on me. The possibility of death has been my reality for the last fourteen years, and I'm as comfortable talking about it as I am the weather.
My first bout with cancer came the summer I turned sixteen. I'd gone to pick up my driver's license that day in August. I'd successfully passed both the written and the driving tests. My mother let me drive from the licensing office to the optometrist. It was supposed to be a routine appointment - I was having my eyes examined before the start of my junior year of high school. I had big plans for the day. As soon as I got home from the eye doctor's, Becky and I were going to drive to the beach. It would be the first time I'd taken the car out by myself, and I was looking forward to driving without my mom or dad or my older sister.
I recall being upset that Mom had scheduled the eye appointment right after my driving test. I'd been having some problems with headaches and dizzy spells, and Dad thought I might need reading glasses. The idea of showing up at Lincoln High School wearing glasses bothered me. A lot. I was hoping Mom and Dad would agree to let me wear contact lenses. As it turned out, impaired vision was the least of my worries.
The optometrist, who was a friend of my parents, seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time staring into the corner of my eye with this horribly bright light. He asked a lot of questions about my headaches. That was almost fifteen years ago, but I don't think I'll ever forget the look on his face as he talked to my mother. He was so serious, so somber ... so concerned.
"I want to make Lydia an appointment at the University of Washington. Immediately."
My mother and I were both stunned. "All right," my mother said, glancing from me to Dr. Reid and back again. "Is there a problem?"
He nodded. "I don't like what I'm seeing. I think it would be best if Dr. Wilson had a look."
Well, Dr. Wilson did more than look. He drilled into my skull and removed a malignant brain tumor. I say those words glibly now, but it wasn't a quick or simple procedure. It meant weeks in the hospital and blinding, debilitating headaches. After the surgery, I went through chemotherapy, followed by a series of radiation treatments. There were days when even the dimmest of lights caused such pain it was all I could do not to scream in agony. Days when I measured each breath, struggling to hold on to life because, try as I might, I could feel it slipping away. Still, there were many mornings I woke up and wished I would die because I couldn't bear another hour of this. Without my father I'm convinced I would have.
My head was completely shaved and then, once my hair started to grow back, it fell out again. I missed my entire junior year and when I was finally able to return to high school, nothing was the same. Everyone looked at me differently. I didn't attend the Junior-Senior prom because no one asked me. Some girlfriends suggested I tag along with them, but out of false pride I refused. In retrospect it seems a trivial thing to worry about. I wish I'd gone.
The saddest part of this story is that just when I was beginning to believe I could have a normal life - just when I believed all those drugs, all that suffering had served a useful purpose - the tumor grew back.
I'll never forget the day Dr. Wilson told us the cancer had returned. But it's not the expression on his face that I remember. It's the pain in my father's eyes. He, above anyone, understood what I'd endured during the first bout of treatment. My mother doesn't deal well with illness, and Dad was the one who'd held me together emotionally. He knew there was nothing he could do, nothing he could say, that would lessen this second ordeal for me. I was twenty-four at the time and still in college, trying to accumulate enough credits to graduate. I never did get that degree.
I've survived both bouts of cancer, and I'm definitely not the carefree girl I once was. I appreciate and treasure every single day because I know how precious life is. Most people assume I'm younger than thirty but they seem to find me more serious than other women my age. My experience with cancer means I don't take anything, least of all life itself, for granted. I no longer greet each day with careless acceptance. But I've learned there are compensations for my suffering. I know I'd be a completely different person if not for the cancer. My dad claimed I achieved a certain calm wisdom, and I suppose I have. Yet in many ways I'm naive, especially when it comes to men and relationships.
Continues...
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Product details
- ASIN : B0076Q1I98
- Publisher : MIRA
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : 13 Feb. 2012
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- File size : 1.9 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 411 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1408929254
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Book 1 of 10 : Blossom Street
- Best Sellers Rank: 147,099 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 425 in Medical Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 493 in Medical Fiction (Books)
- 521 in U.S. Contemporary Fiction
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About the author

Debbie Macomber is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of today’s most popular writers with more than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide. In her novels, Macomber brings to life compelling relationships that embrace family and enduring friendships, uplifting her readers with stories of connection and hope. Macomber’s novels have spent over 1,000 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Fifteen of these novels hit the number one spot.
In 2023, Macomber’s all-new hardcover publication includes Must Love Flowers (July). In addition to fiction, Macomber has also published three bestselling cookbooks, three adult coloring books, numerous inspirational and nonfiction works, and two acclaimed children’s books.
Celebrated as “the official storyteller of Christmas”, Macomber’s annual Christmas books are beloved and six have been crafted into original Hallmark Channel movies. Macomber is also the author of the bestselling Cedar Cove Series which the Hallmark Channel chose as the basis for its first dramatic scripted television series. Debuting in 2013, Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove was a ratings favorite for three seasons.
She serves on the Guideposts National Advisory Cabinet, is a YFC National Ambassador, and is World Vision’s international spokesperson for their Knit for Kids charity initiative. A devoted grandmother, Debbie and Wayne live in Port Orchard, Washington, the town which inspired the Cedar Cove series.
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Customers find this book to be an enjoyable light read with a heartwarming, light-hearted story. They appreciate the character development, with one customer noting the portrayal of four totally different people. Customers consider it a feel-good book, with one describing it as the "queen of feel good factor."
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Customers find the book enjoyable and easy to read, describing it as a good light read.
"This was the first book I read in the blossom street saga. A brilliant, and heartwarming story. All the characters coming together...." Read more
"...A lovely read." Read more
"...a taxing book to read but if you are looking for a light hearted, easy read give it a go" Read more
"Thoroughly enjoyed this book and the inclusion of a knitting pattern which I will work on just as soon as I can get a translation of the different..." Read more
Customers enjoy the story of the book, finding it light-hearted and heartwarming, with one customer particularly impressed by how it evolved.
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"...Entertaining, warm, real, inviting ......they're just where I want to be." Read more
Customers appreciate the character development in the book, getting to know the characters, with one customer noting the wonderful portrayal of four totally different people.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2013This was the first book I read in the blossom street saga. A brilliant, and heartwarming story. All the characters coming together. Debbie Macomber is a fantastic writer. She is the queen of feel good factor. My mum has borrowed some of her books from me and thinks she is a great writer and gets Debbie Macomber's books from the library when she sees them.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2021As a knitter and crocheter this story appealed strongly. The character's stories will draw you in to their lives and you will face many emotions with them. A lovely read.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2011This is the first in the Blossom Street series but the second I have read. It starts off with Lydia opening a knitting shop and beginning a knitting class. The book follows the life of Lydia and the 3 members of the knitting class as they face various issues in their life. For Lydia it is allowing herself to fall in love again and dealing with the repercussions of having had cancer, Alix is trying to get her life back on the straight and narrow, Carol is facing her final attempt and IVF and Jacqueline is dealing with daughter in law she doesn't like and an unfaithful husband.
This is not a taxing book to read but if you are looking for a light hearted, easy read give it a go
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2009Thoroughly enjoyed this book and the inclusion of a knitting pattern which I will work on just as soon as I can get a translation of the different knitting terms and needle guages. In fact I am in the process of buying the whole series of Debbie McComber books. I have all of the Blossom Street novels to date and am about the begin reading the Cedar Grove series. I can thoroughly recommend the five I have read so far.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2014I recently discovered Debbie Macomber and I can't get enough !
I started with Twenty Wishes, loaned me by a friend. At the time I thought romantic fiction wasn't my genre and put it aside thinking I needed more depth in my literature.
A few weeks later it was,the only book I had on hand so I thought I'd read as was desperate for something.
Was I ever wrong about my previous assumptions!
I've never been so pleasantly surprised. Her books are so much more than romantic fiction. They are about men and women with real losses, suffering and wounds. But they are redemptive in their life lessons. Some of the lessons seem like cliches because we've all heard them before. But they pack a punch like something you're discovering for the first time. At this time in my life, this author's books ars the medicine I need. Entertaining, warm, real, inviting ......they're just where I want to be.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 November 2022Really enjoying reading about the lives of the characters
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2019I enjoyed this book, but having read another book from this author I felt it was very predictable, the whole adoption storyline was the same etc. I might read the next book in this series at some point but I haven't been left feeling desperate to get the next book which is disappointing
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2013I love reading Debbie Macomber books especially those with regular characters in them. Cedar Cove and Blossom Street novels draw you in and make you feel as though you live next door to these characters or at the very least in the same street. You are certainly made to feel as though they are in your close friends group and want to meet them for a good gossip.
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- SherrylReviewed in Australia on 7 May 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Sad, happy, funny, reflective- it’s all there. Loved all the characters. I’m off to look up Book 2.
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MARIAReviewed in Spain on 8 February 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Un romance muy interessante!
Un romance muy interessante, un de los mejores después de la serie The Inn at Rose Harbor The Inn at Rose Harbor
- Ronald SteinerReviewed in the United States on 3 March 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful book
I had not read this author for many years and then I came across this book and thought to give it a read and I am so glad I did. This book was such a great read. I had breast cancer a few years ago and that is what drew me to this book. I loved the way these women were drawn together and formed their bonds. I just fell in love with the characters with all of their issues. Just a really good book by a great author.
- Rebecca Ann GillReviewed in Canada on 12 May 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well written and interesting
Interesting read. Light and all characters well described. A real good read
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でーるReviewed in Japan on 13 September 2008
5.0 out of 5 stars 惹きこまれた!
4人のあまり共通点のなさそうな人間がうまく絡み合って
仲良くなっていく過程が面白かったです。
そんなにうまくいく訳ないだろ。。。とか思いながら、
最初は読み進んでいたのですが、いつの間にか惹きこまれた感じです。
評価が良かったので買ってみましたが、英語も理解し易く良かった。