Something terrible is happening to the beautiful city of Picturia, as the dreaded Ig unleashes The HAZE upon its unsuspecting citizens, spreading apathy and indifference to every street corner. Ig wants to ruin Picturia while no one is paying attention.

When five girls move into Bad Manor, no one knows that they have special powers. But soon, mysterious shapes appear in the upstairs window of Bad Manor, and Picturians begin to see, hear, taste, smell, and feel many new and strange sensations. Will Ig's evil plan unfold, or will the Bad Manor Girls save the city?

With tongue-in-cheek humour reminiscent of classic Roald Dahl, The Bad Manor Girls Save Picturia is a delightfully engaging picture book, serving a much-needed reminder for all of us to wake up and admire the roses!

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 dressed American Isabel Walker as she lands in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage to an aristocratic French painter has assured her a coveted place in Parisian society--until her husband leaves her for the wife of an American lawyer. Could le divorce be far behind? Can irrepressible Isabel keep her perspective (and her love life) intact as cultures and human passions collide?

Social comedy at its best (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Le Divorce is Diane Johnson at her most scintillating and sublime.

Something terrible is happening to the beautiful city of Picturia, as the dreaded Ig unleashes The HAZE upon its unsuspecting citizens, spreading apathy and indifference to every street corner. Ig wants to ruin Picturia while no one is paying attention.

When five girls move into Bad Manor, no one knows that they have special powers. But soon, mysterious shapes appear in the upstairs window of Bad Manor, and Picturians begin to see, hear, taste, smell, and feel many new and strange sensations. Will Ig's evil plan unfold, or will the Bad Manor Girls save the city?

With tongue-in-cheek humour reminiscent of classic Roald Dahl, The Bad Manor Girls Save Picturia is a delightfully engaging picture book, serving a much-needed reminder for all of us to wake up and admire the roses!

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a lesser figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life.

Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table--a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage. So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those lesser lives. As the author points out, A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one. Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821-1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828-1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other lesser lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson's seminal work.

Funny, incisive, frightening and eminently skillful.--New York Times

The year is 1978, the tumultuous period leading up to the Iranian Revolution. While visiting Iran with her husband, Chloe Fowler is left to travel alone after he is summoned home. Much to her surprise, she finds herself drawn to the country, intoxicated by each unfamiliar sight that reminds her how far from home she really is, both comforted and unsettled by the group of foreign and Iranian physicians and their wives who take her in. However, her exhilaration crashes when odd, often frightening events begin to occur, exposing the darker side of this colonial life. Chloe is about to be liberated from everything she has ever known--in a place where her ordinary notions of reason and reality will run headlong into a wall of intrigue, and where every idea she has about herself will be put to the test.

Persian Nights follows Chloe on a voyage through the seductively inexplicable, and has all the qualities one expects from the gifted author of Le Divorce--the quirky, vivid atmosphere; the intelligent, humane voice; the compelling narrative. Once again, Diane Johnson delivers an entertaining novel of an appealing woman caught up in a mysterious world of change and intrigue.

Great-tasting meals with minimum fuss is the Slow Cooking way... This cookbook gathers many traditional favorites, showing you how to cook them low and slow, so they will become your go-to signature dishes that require little to no effort.

This phenomenally popular style of cooking is budgetconscious - taking tougher cuts of meat & turning them into delicious, tender, juicy & hearty meals for the family. Despite the longer cooking times, slow cooking generally requires shorter preparation time, leaving you to get on with 'life' whilst dinner gently bubbles away. Plus, cooking meat, vegetables & sauce together in the one pot cuts down on your washing up too. And you've got to love that.

You don't need specific equipment - there are many ways to slow cook food. Simmering in a stockpot on the stovetop; baking in a casserole dish in your oven or with a slow-cooker or pressure-cooker. You'll master the art of slow cooking with this book and your family will love you for it

Like Jane Austen, Johnson delights in the worldly rituals surrounding courtship and marriage... she is a philosopher as much as a novelist.--The New Yorker

From 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 Paris

Anne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story: The theft of a valuable illuminated manuscript from a private collection in New York, which may now be in the possession of a reclusive film director living on the outskirts of Paris. As Tim, Anne-Sophie, a pair of American antique dealers, and one amorous member of the local gentry converge on the director's chateau, the director's wife--a former actress--is accused of desecrating a national monument. Add to that a disappearing American; a hunting contretemps; a wrongful arrest; and murder, and you have this sexy, stylish, delight of a novel that celebrates the paradoxes of marriage and morality as they are perceived on both sides of the Atlantic. Filled with the author's pithy insights and hilarious asides, Le Mariage is Diane Johnson at her very best.

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 Weekly

Amy 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 assortment of aristocrats and ski enthusiasts. But when two of the hotel's guests are swept away by an avalanche, Adrian's children--young, old, legitimate, illegitimate--assemble to protect their interests, feuding under the competing laws of the British, American, and French systems.

Amy, already suspect because she is American, steps in to assist, and unintentionally sets in motion a series of events that spotlight ancient national differences, customs, and laws. Filled with love, sex, death, and travel, L'Affaire is National Book Award finalist Diane Johnson at her very best.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

A nearly flawless performance--a beautifully constructed, elegantly written book, delicate in its perceptions, powerful in its impact.--New York Times

The riveting story of four crucial days in the lives of four people sharing a rambling Victorian house, lying low and harboring secrets not meant to be shared

Theo Wait, a middle-aged former ballet dancer, and her brother, Anton, have taken in two boarders: beautiful Lynn, who never receives mail or visitors; and energetic and effusive Ouida, a Brazilian student and illegal alien who won't let complicated bureaucratic wrangles and constant fear of deportation taint her vision of America as the land of opportunity.

A faked identity, a search for one of the FBI's most wanted escaped prison convicts, and a Brazilian feast that spins out of control kick the plot into high gear. While each of these characters has been plagued by a sense of impending disaster, the terrible thing they've all been fearing comes from an entirely unexpected direction, shattering all of their lives.

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--Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, the epitome of a successful woman--lovely offspring, grandchildren, health, a French husband, a delightful house and an independent career as an admired art lecturer involving travel and public appearances, expensive clothes. She's a woman with an uncomplicated, sociable nature and an intellectual life.

But in an impulsive and planned decision, Lorna has decided to leave her husband, a notorious tombeur (seducer), and his small ancestral village in France, and return to America, much more suited to her temperament than the rectitude of formal starchy France. For Lorna, a beautiful idyll is over, finished, done . . .

In Lorna Mott Comes Home, Diane Johnson brings us into the dreamy, anxiety-filled American world of Lorna Mott Dumas, where much has changed and where she struggles to create a new life to support herself. Into the mix--her ex-husband, and the father of her three grown children (all supportive), and grandchildren with their own troubles (money, divorce, real estate, living on the fringe; a thriving software enterprise; a missing child in the far east; grandchildren--new hostages to fortune; and, one, 15 years old, a golden girl yet always different, diagnosed at a young age with diabetes, and now pregnant and determined to have the child) . . .

In the midst of a large cast, the precarious balance of comedy and tragedy, happiness and anxiety, contentment and striving, generosity and greed, love and sex, Diane Johnson, our Edith Wharton of expat life, comes home to America to deftly, irresistibly portray, with the lightest of touch, the way we live now.

Lucy Mae Johnson's life journey will make you appreciate miracles, challenges, overcoming obstacles, and above all, love. Her journey will make you smile, laugh and cry and appreciate the power of faith in God.

Lucy was a friend, comrade, spiritual guide, and as her daughter lovingly calls her, mother hero. She always wanted to document her life story and provided her only daughter with a great oral history of her growing up in the rural south.

Love Lucy will carry you through a range of emotions as it depicts a kind soul coming of age in life, love, and God. Her story as a spiritual and birth mother is profound and describes her impact of love and sweet potato pie.

Love Lucy will remind you of the mother hero in your life, that person who loves you unconditionally, and how their quiet, powerful presence impacts your journey every day.

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 Englishman, Ian Drumm. It's the perfect cover for her assignment for the CIA: tracing the flow of money from well-heeled donors to radical Islamic groups. While spending her days poolside among Europeans in villas staffed by maids in abayas, and her nights at lively dinner parties, Lulu observes the fragile and tense coexistence of two cultures. But beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a sinister world laced not only with double standards, but double agents.

Johnson weaves a dazzling tale in the great tradition of works about naïve Americans abroad, with a fascinating new assortment of characters as well as witty and timely observations on the political and sexual complexities between Islamic and Western culture.

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 help and love I am able to face the challenges of meeting not only my biological mother, but also my siblings. As each door is opened and we begin to meet, we in turn become a family...United Siblings.

A strange thing started happening to me a few months back. I found myself waking up around 5:00 a.m. or so several mornings with a strong need to study the Bible on a particular subject or maybe a special scripture. I found myself pouring out my heart into written devotionals. I write about depression, anger, love, trust, finding new siblings, and always trusting in God for the strength and guidance through each new journey. The more I allowed the Holy Spirit to guide me, the more at peace my life became, and the more I wanted to share my experiences with others. I set out to write a year's worth of weekly devotionals. Walking with God contains the first twenty-six of those fifty-two devotionals. The life lessons that I write about are some that I am sure a lot of us face. My hope is that this book, which is filled with God's words and His love, will give someone a little more hope, a little more strength, and a little more peace to keep fighting the fight and staying on the winning team. God's team.

Romans 8:37-39 says, But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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 writing of this second book. I found myself growing more each day as my walk with God continued. I pray that I keep the study habits that I have developed over the last year. I have grown in my knowledge that He is an awesome and amazing Heavenly Father. But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or be letter from us. (2 Thessalonians 2:13-17) Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

A strange thing started happening to me a few months back. I found myself waking up around 5:00 a.m. or so several mornings with a strong need to study Bible on a particular subject or maybe a special scripture. I found myself pouring out my heart into written devotionals. I write about depression, anger, love, trust, finding new siblings, and always trusting in God for the strength and guidance through each new journey. The more I allowed the Holy Spirit to guide me, the more at peace my life became, and the more. I wanted to share my experiences with others. I set out to write a year's worth of weekly devotionals. Walking with God contains fifty-two devotionals. The life lessons that I write about are some that I am sure a lot of us face.

My hope is that this book, which is filled with God's words and His love, will give someone a little more hope, a little more strength, and a little more peace to keep fighting the fight and staying on the winning team. God's team.

These stories are actual experiences I had with online dating. You Got A Wink offers humor, adventure, mystery, horror, discust, deceit, and of course ROMANCE. This book will tell you how much people will go through to find the Perfect partner, when in reality there is not a Perfect partner. I will also, offer MY hepful tips about dating online and the type of men to watch out for, plus to help you notice RED FLAGS. Online dating can open the door to cruelty, and I will share those stories too. I will also, open up about my scamming experience and how I handled the truth. I wrote this book because my friends and family told me, you need to write a book. Your stories are funny and so wild, people would really enjoy them. Well, I decided to finally write this book with short stories of my online dating experiences. I also, wanted to help you to open your eyes to the levels of what some men will do to take advantage of you. Maybe my book will also help you find a deciet man if not for a life time, maybe just for a nice date on a Saturday night.I am not a writer so please excuse my amateurish writing skills. I hope you enjoy You Got A Wink and I hope it will offer you some helpful guidance while you are dating online.Best Wishes & Be Safe, Diane Johnson