Jacques Gantie, Author, Peter Johnson, Author, Peter Johnson, Photographer Beautiful Cookbooks $55 (256p) ISBN 978-0-00-255154-0
Provence has long been a magnet for artists, writers and those in search of a good climate. And yet, while Provence was the birthplace of Auguste Escoffier, the patron saint of French cooking, Provencal cooking itself has been relegated to the...
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Peter Johnson, Author, Peter Johnson, Photographer, Anthony Bannister, Photographer St. Martin's Press $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14384-8
Born in summer rain in the mountains of Angola, the Okavango River flows into northwestern Botswana, where, after 1000 kilometers, it invades the Kalahari Desert, creating one of the world's great wetlands. Here is a vast and verdant delta of tree-fr
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Peter Johnson. Harper, $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-198890-5
Johnson (Loserville) delivers a strong contemporary urban novel with cross-gender appeal, thanks to his likable, kind, and clear-eyed narrator, John Smith Jr. Nicknamed Houdini due to his obsession with the magician, the 13-year-old lives in...
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Peter Johnson. Namelos, $18.95 (150p) ISBN 978-1-60898-160-1
Johnson (Loserville) explores the human capacity for evil in this story of a family being stalked by a coldblooded murderer named Leopold, and his accomplice, Abraham. Seventeen-year-old Stony has been obsessed with the nature of evil ever since his
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Peter Johnson. Harper, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-221596-3
Seventh-grader Benny Alvarez is known for a few things: a negative attitude that his mother keeps trying to change; the Word Warriors, a group he started with his two best friends to use and decipher obscure and unfamiliar words; and a rivalry with...
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Sarah Cheyette, Peter Johnson, and Ben Cheyette. Square One, $17.95 trade paper (260p) ISBN 978-0-7570-0414-8
This fresh and practical approach to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) from neurologist Sarah Cheyette, karate teacher Johnson, and psychiatrist Ben Cheyette offers an alternative to medication (though meds can be used in tandem with...
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