Quando Lorna Mott Dumas, una storica dell'arte americana di mezza età, decide di abbandonare il grazioso villaggio francese nel quale ha vissuto per quasi vent'anni con il suo secondo marito, il cimitero del paese frana, rivoltando le tombe di quelli che vi erano seppelliti e gettando su di lei un presagio di ciò che la aspetta tornando a casa. Lorna infatti è diretta a San Francisco per riprendere in mano la propria vita e allontanarsi così dai tradimenti del marito, l'affascinante Armand...

Set in Paris, LE DIVORCE is an alluring and elegant comedy of love and divorce French-style. Isabel Walker, a young, not-so-innocent, American abroad, arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband ('the frog prince') has just walked out. While Isabel embarks on her own sentimental education - seduced by gourmet food, antiques, existentialism and an older man - her sister's marriage disintergrates into bitter Franco-American wrangles over money, titles and a mysterious painting....

Clara Holly is a former actress, beautiful, rich, and 'well married, far from her Oregon beginnings' to the renowned but reclusive film director Serge Clay. Anne-Sophie is a proper young Frenchwoman with a smart little antique stall in the Paris flea market and a wedding to plan. As the plot thickens they are all drawn into a cross between a modern Feydeau farce and a Kafkaesque nightmare, as their paths and those of a host of other characters intersect at the Cray's château. Despite murde...

Description: Thirteen individuals that are separated at various times in their lives and their only connection is DNA are lead down individual paths to a single location. Follow me as my 12 siblings and I are united and become family. God has walked with me through-out this journey and has opened doors that have seemed bolted shut in the past. I was adopted as an infant by a wonderful family. A mom, dad, and two sisters that loved me and instilled in me the power of God’s love. With their ...

From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)--about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, returning to her native San Francisco and to the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren. “Delightful”--Claire Messud (Harper’s Magazine); “Razor-sharp prose and astute observations … a treat”--Publ...

“[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.”—The New York Times Book ReviewGrowing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world—and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans’ indifference to history. Could it be true? The j’accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her...

Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech hoping to rekindle her romance with businessman Ian Drumm. It's the perfect cover for her assignment with the CIA: tracing the flow of money from donors to radical Islamic groups. As she navigates the complex interface of East and West, Lulu stumbles into unforeseen intrigues: a young Muslim girl, Suma, is on the run from her brother intent on an honour killing; and a beautiful Saudi woman, Gazi, is vying for Ian's love, leaving her husband in a desperate b...

Sulla carta, il matrimonio è perfetto: siamo a Parigi alla fine degli anni Novanta, Anne-Sophie è una giovane antiquaria francese, specializzata in oggetti sul mondo dei cavalli e figlia di una famosa scrittrice, Tim è un talentuoso giornalista statunitense di madre belga da molti anni in Francia, tanto da aver quasi dimenticato cosa voglia dire essere americano. E nonostante i due fidanzati, belli e innamorati, comincino a nutrire qualche incertezza riguardo al futuro comune che li attend...

A wickedly funny and observant novel about the delicate questions of love, death and money.Amy Hawkins, Californian millionairess, is travelling in Europe, to find her culture, her roots and a cause to which she might devote her considerable fortune. She lands at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps - a hotel noted for skiing and its famous cooking lessons - and soon finds that Americans are not the flavour of the month in France.A few days into her trip, she n...

I began in 2017 to write a year's worth of weekly devotionals. I was totally amazed at how the Holy Spirit worked (and continues to work) in using my life experiences to, hopefully, help others. The first book with twenty-six devotionals was released in May 2018. This book contains devotionals twenty-seven through fifty-two. My prayer is that these devotionals will bless your life and help you as you are "Walking with God." The Holy Spirit continued to guide my heart and my hands with the ...

From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)--about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, returning to her native San Francisco and to the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren. “Delightful”--Claire Messud (Harper’s Magazine); “Razor-sharp prose and astute observations … a treat”--Publ...

Critics hail Diane Johnson as a cross between Jane Austen and Henry James. In this best-selling comedy of Americans abroad and Parisians at home, she celebrates the mores and manners of contemporary marriage. Struggling American writer Tim Nolinger pursues his journalism career in Paris while proper Frenchwoman Anne Sophie plans their wedding. When Tim covers the theft of a valuable manuscript, the story leads the couple to the local home of a reclusive American film director and his actre...