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Written by Debbie Macomber - Audio book performed by Linda Emond - Abridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Harper Audio (May 2005)

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You might have heard about a wonderful little yarn store in downtown Seattle. Debbie Macomber can take you there!

In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived -- and so has Lydia Hoffman, the owner. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad's ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness. Elise Beaumont joins one of Lydia's popular knitting classes. Living with her daughter, Aurora, Elise learns that her onetime husband plans to visit and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of how Elise feels about him. Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a divorce and joins the knitting class as the first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope. Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager. She's staying with her grandmother, who's trying to help by taking her to the knitting class at A Good Yarn.

Four women, brought together by the craft of knitting, find companionship and comfort in each other. Who would've thought that knitting socks could change your life?

About the Author: Debbie Macomber loves to tell the story of how she got published. Of how she struggled for five years to find a publisher who would buy one of the manuscripts she wrote in her kitchen on a rented typewriter. Of how the young, dyslexic mother bargained with her four young children to give her the quiet time to write. Of the sacrifices Debbie and her husband, Wayne, made so she could pursue the dream that burned in her heart.

Eighteen years after she made that first sale, Debbie Macomber finds her name is recognized not only in households across the country but in countries around the world. Sixty million copies of her books are in print. Because of her success, Debbie's husband was able to retire to pursue his love of flying. They live in a lovely Tudor-style home overlooking Puget Sound, a house paid for with her writing dollars. In the spacious basement of that home, Wayne is building an airplane. In the past few years, Debbie has traveled to places she could only dream about 16 years ago — Hawaii, Alaska, England, Italy, France, Bangkok, Hong Kong. Debbie earned her faithful readership by writing heartwarming, wholesome stories of love and commitment. Today, however, her literary focus has broadened to the emerging field of women's fiction, which includes stories of all kinds that bear universal appeal for women.

In 1998, Debbie emerged as a major force in women's fiction. On Valentine's Day evening, women across the country tuned into the Movie Channel and watched her 1997 title for MIRA Books, THIS MATTER OF MARRIAGE, as a made-for-TV movie. Five of the author's 1998 six-book "Heart of Texas" series set in the Texas Hill Country made the New York Times Best Sellers Plus List. Her April 1998 MIRA release, MONTANA, which also earned a New York Times Best Sellers Plus listing, went on to become an alternate featured selection for The Doubleday Book Club. Readers were treated with the author's first hardcover, CAN THIS BE CHRISTMAS? in 1998, from MIRA Books. Debbie continues to grow and expand the scope of her writing. In June 2001, her first women's fiction hardcover, THURSDAYS AT EIGHT, was published by MIRA. Her latest novels in this vein are THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM StrEET (2004 hardcover, out in paperback in May 2005) and A GOOD YARN, a May 2005 hardcover.

In September 1999, Debbie first achieved a career writing goal when her MIRA title, PROMISE, TEXAS scored the triple crown of publishing. This book, which revisited her "Heart of Texas" series, made the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Top 50 USA Today Bestselling Books lists. Since then, eight other Debbie Macomber novels have also scored the triple crown.

Perennially on deadline, Debbie still finds time to volunteer her considerable talents to mentor young people and prisoners, to help raise funds for battered women's shelters, for literacy and medical research. No doubt her volunteer efforts are at least partly responsible for her being given the 1996-97 Woman of Distinction Award by Soroptimist International of Port Orchard, Washington.

Filled with love and laughter, Debbie's stories generate bags of mail — from stressed out ministers' wives, from harried young mothers, from women who read her novels to their ailing loved ones. They thank Debbie for the inspirational quality of her stories with comments such as these: "You've turned a person who couldn't stand to read into a person who can't stand to put a book down."

"Your books changed my life. After reading one of your angel books (the one that covered infertility), I decided to put myself in God's hands and quit worrying about it. Within a couple of months I was finally pregnant after trying for seven years. We call him our miracle baby. Thanks for sending out the message that miracles do happen."

"There is nothing better than a bubble bath, a cup of hot tea and one of your stories!"