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...

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST"If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson."—San Francisco Chronicle**The national bestseller and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Naomi Watts and Kate Hudson!Called "stylish... refreshing... genuinely wise” by *The New York Times Book Review,*this delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and impeccably d...

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...

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...

**“Timely and provocatively incorrect."—Oprah.com (Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read)The two-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time National Book Award-nominated author of Le Divorce returns with a mesmerizing novel of double standards and double agents**Now, Diane Johnson brilliantly exposes the manners and morals of the cultural collision between Islam and the West. Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Engl...

"Johnson is more droll than Henry James, to whom she's been compared, and she's as witty as a modern-day Voltaire. Vraiment, L'Affaire, c'est irresistible!”—Publishers WeeklyAmy Hawkins, a Palo Alto girl who made herself a dot-com fortune, goes to France to get a sheen of sophistication and, perhaps, to have an affair that will ruffle her all-too-steady heart. She starts her quest in a glamorous resort in the French Alps, amid an ...

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 ...

"Like Jane Austen, Johnson delights in the worldly rituals surrounding courtship and marriage... she is a philosopher as much as a novelist."—The New YorkerFrom the author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist Le Divorce, a sparkling comedy of manners once again set in the world of Americans in ParisAnne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story...

Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi River and venturing off to see the world. Years later, at home in France, a French friend teases her about her Americanness: “Indifference to history. That’s why Americans seem so naïve.”The j’accuse stays with Johnson. Are Americans indifferent to history? Her own family seemed always to have been in the Midwest. Surely they had gotten there from somewhere...

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...