REDISCOVERED FRENCH CLASSIC captures the spirit of 1950s Paris, alienation of soldiers in the Algerian War. A MINUS

GRACEFUL COMEDY OF manners set in the insular world of the French old-money elite; crisply translated fun!

TWO FRENCH WOMEN from very different backgrounds do what they must to survive World War II. Haunting, incisive.

DASHING HISTORICAL IS crammed a bit too full, with kinky sex and psychic powers atop court intrigue, battles.

GORGEOUS LITTLE ART book is a collage of impressions–in photos and text–of the owner of a lost address book.

A YOUNG US WRITER’S memoir of three pilgrimages (including the famed Camino de Santiago) has wit, lacks oomph.

FRENCH WRITER AND BOOK collector Jacques Bonnet shares slyly insightful thoughts on his 40,000-volume library.

UNUSUAL HISTORICAL DRAMA revolves around the smuggling trade that trafficked Flemish lace into 1630s France.

JUICY COURT INTRIGUE, this time revolving around Napoleon’s second wife, Maria Luisa of Austria. Delightful!

MARIE ANTOINETTE’S LOVER, Swedish diplomat Axel von Fersen, is brought to life in a complex fictional memoir.