Most Popular Books by Peter Mayle

A guide to handling one''s first sexual experience including information on homosexuality, contraceptives, and venereal diseases.

A boxed set containing Mayle''s best-selling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence offers a colorful study of the people, landscapes, and life-styles of Provence. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

No one knows Provence like beloved author Peter Mayle, and in this delightful collection—adapted from Provence A-Z: A Francophile’s Essential Handbook—he distills his decades of living in France into ten essential lessons for visitors. Abandoning the well-trodden “best of” routes that can be found in any tourist guide, Mayle highlights local features vital to an authentic Provençal experience. From ruminations on the unique charms of each season to the art of the siesta, Mayle brings the warmth and beauty of the province vividly to life. And, of course, food and wine also get their due, as Mayle expounds the merits of pastis and a good rosé, explores the mystery of traditional market shopping, and more. Evocative and intimate, Provence in Ten Easy Lessons is charming yet practical reading for ticketed passengers and armchair travelers, alike. An eBook short.

Describes the reproductive process from intercourse to birth.

A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazine he works for, discovers that a Cezanne painting has been stolen from there. With the editor of the magazine as the suspect thief, he is sent on pursuit of her and the Cezanne through London, the South of France and New York.

Read CHASING CEZANNE in Large Print! Hanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle''s new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors, and wickedly delectable restaurants. There are stopovers in the Bahamas and England, and in New York, where that glossiest of magazines, Decorating Quarterly, reflects the cutting-edge trendiness of its editor, Camilla Jameson Porter. (Camilla has recently broken new ground in the world of power lunches by booking two tables on the same day, and shuttling between them, at the city''s trendiest restaurant.) It is Camilla who has sent our hero, Andre Kelly, to Cap Ferrat to take glamorous photo-graphs of the houses and treasures of the rich, famous, and fatuous. He happens to have his camera at the ready when he spots a Cézanne being loaded onto a plumber''s truck near the home of an absent collector. Odd, thinks Andre. And in no time he''s on the trail of a state-of-the-art art scam, chasing Cézanne. It''s a joy to follow him and the crowds intent on speeding or foiling his quest--including a beautiful agent; a super-savvy art dealer attracted to the finer things in life, especially if they promise the payoff of a lifetime; an awesome Dutch forger; some outstandingly greedy New York sophisticates; and, invisible in the background, the parade of remarkable chefs whose mouthwatering culinary masterpieces periodically soothe the hero and tantalize the reader of Chasing Cézanne. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Discusses the mental and physical changes that take place during puberty.

Humorous guide for expectant fathers with helpful hints and information on what to do during the partner''s pregnancy and the birth. Covers subjects such as morning sickness, sex life during pregnancy, preparing for birth and surviving the first few weeks as a new parent. Also includes a chapter of recipes by author Len Deighton who had a weekly cooking column in the British newspaper the ''Observer''. The author has written several other books including ''Where Did I Come From?'' about conception and ''What''s Happening to Me?'' about puberty.

Explains what happens when we sleep, how daytime experiences can affect our dreams, and different kinds of dreams and nightmares.

Cartoons offer a humorous look at human sexuality, male desire, Freud, the differences between men and women, and the language of love

There is a bakery in the town of Cavaillon where the baking & appreciation of breads ¿had been elevated to the status of a minor religion.¿ Its name: Chez Auzet. Now, Mayle & Auzet, the proprietor of this bakery, tell us about breadmaking at its finest. They takes us into the baking room to witness the birth of a loaf. We see the master at work -- slapping, rolling, squeezing, folding, & twisting dough as he sculpts it into different kinds of bread. Includes precise, beautifully illustrated instructions for making 16 kinds of bread, from the classic baguette to loaves made with such ingredients as apricots, hazelnuts, garlic, & green & black olives. Tricks of the trade are revealed, & along the way Mayle relates the delightful history of four generations of Auzet bakers.