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Blossom Street where you'll find everything you're looking for! From yarn and flowers to friendshipÂ… 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 an assistant named Colette Blake, a young widow who's obviously hiding a secret or two. When Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting... (more)

The Last of the Honky-Tonk Angels

by Marsha Moyer

From Marsha Moyer, the critically acclaimed author of The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch, comes a second novel as rich in atmosphere and heart, as brimming full of colorful, unforgettable small-town characters and incidents as her notable debut. On a lazy June morning in Mooney -- a wooded patch of sparsely populated northeast Texas -- a shiny red Chrysler sedan pulls up to the home of Lucy Hatch and her... (more)

Like the First Time

by Francis Ray

THE GOOD SISTER. Claire Bennet has lost her job for the second time in as many years due to downsizing. She doesn't know what she's going to do since her checking account has almost been stripped bare and her older brother is always a day late and a dollar short. With no man in her life, her parents' home is all she has and she's going to lose that unless she can think of something quick. THE GOOD LOVER. ... (more)

A Gathering of Angels

by Katherine Valentine

In A Miracle for St. Cecilia’s , Katherine Valentine created a charming Connecticut town where ordinary people experience extraordinary things. Now in A Gathering of Angels the citizens of Dorsetville continue to discover the daily wonders of faith. While Father Flaherty toys with taking up kickboxing to trim his growing waistline, another town expansion proves more ominous: Barry Hornibrook,... (more)

Souvenir: A Novel

by Therese Fowler

Fowler's debut is the heartbreaking story of a woman who made what she thought was a responsible decision, only to have to live with the consequences...When Meg discovers she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), she knows she has only one chance to make peace with the past and give her daughter hope for the future. The choices made by Meg and Savannah may be controversial with some readers, but, nevertheless,... (more)

A Gentle Rain

by Deborah Smith

A Connecticut heiress learns she's adopted and travels to northern Florida "cracker"cattle ranch to find her birth parents. There she also finds unexpected romance with the ranch's owner.

Deep Dish

by Mary Kay Andrews

Another delicious treat full of Southern sass, wit, and charm from the New York Time s bestselling author of Savannah Breeze and Hissy Fit Chef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn't expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. After years of hard work, the former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start , and she's dating the... (more)

Comfort Food

by Kate Jacobs

In this smart, delicious novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club , a celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment— and manages to spice up her own life at the same time. Shortly before turning the big 5-0, boisterous party planner and Cooking with Gusto! personality Augusta “Gus” Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she’d rather not—her own. She’s... (more)

Attachment

by Isabel Fonseca

The author of the classic Bury Me Standing now gives us a riveting first novel that reaches from the Indian Ocean to London and New York, and into the most confounding precincts of the human heart. Jean Hubbard is a syndicated health columnist, her British husband, Mark, a successful advertising executive, and after more than twenty years together they revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. But when... (more)

Fifty is Not a Four-Letter Word

by Linda Kelsey

As Hope Lyndhurst-Steele approaches her 50th birthday, although she "has it all"--top magazine job, wonderful husband, loving son, many friends--fifty still feels like a four-letter word. But she doesn't know just how low she can go. When she returns to the office after her holiday break, she's informed by senior management that the "having it all" woman is OUT--and Hope's out along with her. As she starts... (more)

Learning to Breathe

by Karen White

Brenna O'Brien doesn't believe in happy endings. Not since the love of her life, Pierce McGovern, left her years ago without a word. Now, she leads a quiet life surrounded by her four matchmaking sisters, running a historic movie theater and collecting old wartime letters. But she leaves the letters unopened, preferring to imagine their possibilities rather than risk being disappointed. Then Pierce comes... (more)

Everything She Wants

by Angela Patrick Wynn

Facing the Challenge Driven, with a stubborn streak a mile long, Rena Peaks is sure she can take care of her fourteen-year-old brother, Brian, finish college, and launch her career. But her well-ordered plan doesn't factor in her brother's arrest for murder--or the compelling generosity of A.J. Martin, the handsome social worker assigned to Brian's case. Despite her rising panic and an unforgiving judicial... (more)

The Birdcage

by Marcia Willett

Marcia Willett’s fans have fallen in love with the English countryside and the wonderful characters that inhabit its idyllic setting. Written with shining honesty and compassion, The Birdcage has every bit of the wonder that Marcia Willett’s fans have come to expect… THE BIRDCAGE No one can foresee when life is about to change. For Felix Hamilton, it started with an evening at the theater. There, he first... (more)

Such Devoted Sisters

by Eileen Goudge

After struggling for years to free herself from her sister Annie's shadow, Laurel becomes a noted and sought-after illustrator, but one man could tear apart her fragile self-esteem. Reprint.

Marshmallows for Breakfast

by Dorothy Koomson

Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead

by Saralee H. Rosenberg

In Mindy's yoga-obsessed, thirty-is-the-new-wife neighborhood, every day is a battle between Dunkin' Donuts, her jaws-of-life jeans, and Beth Diamond, the self-absorbed sancti-mommy next door who looks sixteen from the back. So much for sharing the chores, the stores, and the occasional mischief to rival Wisteria Lane. It's another day, another dilemma until Beth's marriage becomes fodder on Facebook. Suddenly... (more)

Twenty Wishes (Blossom Street Books)

by Debbie Macomber

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.... (more)

Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment

Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment

by Joan Aiken

In Aiken's sequel to Jane Austen's complex and fascinating novel, after heroine Fanny Price marries Edmund Bertram, they depart for the Caribbean, and Fanny's younger sister Susan moves to Mansfield Park as Lady Bertram's new companion. Surrounded by the familiar cast of characters from Jane Austen's original, and joined by a few charming new characters introduced by the author, Susan finds herself entangled in... (more)

Just Breathe (Import HB)

by Susan Wiggs

Chicago cartoonist Sarah Moon tackles life's real issues with a healthy dose of sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. As Sarah's cartoon alter ego, Shirl, undergoes artificial insemination, her situation begins to mirror Sarah's own difficult attempts to conceive. However, Sarah's dreams of the future did not include her husband's infidelity: snag number two in Sarah's so-called perfect life. With... (more)

Knit Two

by Kate Jacobs

The Sequel to the Beloved #1 New York Times Bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club The sequel to the number-one New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club, KNIT TWO returns to Walker and Daughter, the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker and her young daughter, Dakota. Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at NYU, running the little yarn shop part-time with help... (more)

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by Debbie Macomber

by Marsha Moyer

by Francis Ray

by Katherine Valentine

by Therese Fowler

by Deborah Smith

by Mary Kay Andrews

by Kate Jacobs

by Isabel Fonseca

by Linda Kelsey

by Karen White

by Angela Patrick Wynn

by Marcia Willett

by Eileen Goudge

by Dorothy Koomson

by Saralee H. Rosenberg

by Debbie Macomber

by Joan Aiken

by Susan Wiggs

by Kate Jacobs