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Movie "Colette" coming in September starring Keira Knightley From her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce, this snapshot of Colette's life focuses on her formative years. Incredibly complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking and became member and then president of France's prestigious Acad mie Goncourt, among many other honors as one of France's preeminent authors. For mature readers.

YALSA Great Graphic Novels for TeensDuring the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond it is the ghost of Marie Antoinette appearing to her to share a terrible secret that has tormented her for centuries. After being guillotined, the Queen is said to have been thrown into a common grave but then exhumed and buried with her husband, Louis XVI, in the Saint-Denis basilica. Yet the ghost tells Maud that her remains are still in the pit on which a chapel stands today. The queen asks Maud to move her body to the right place so she can finally find peace and no longer haunt people. Part fantastic ghost story, part biography, this is a delicious beautifully illustrated look into French revolutionary history by the artist of the bestselling ‘Girl in Dior.’

"The girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion, and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior. It's February 12, 1947, and the craeme de la craeme of Paris haute couture is flocking to the momentous event of Dior's first show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway. The audience is mesmerized: it's a triumph. Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar cries out: 'It's quite a revolution; your dresses have such a new look!' Dior's career is launched and Clara's story begins. Soon, she is picked by Dior himself to be his model"--