IN SHORT

Lucinda Hawksley digs up Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter (Thomas Dunne). The late Oscar Hijuelos'sTwain & Stanley Enter Paradise (Grand Central) is inspired. Molly Crabapple's memoir is Drawing Blood (Harper). Sarah L. Kaufman performs The Art of Grace (Norton). Philosopher turned novelist Simon Critchley'sMemory Theater (Other Press) is trippy. Dita Von Teese pens Your Beauty Mark (Dey Street). Winston Groom hails The Generals (National Geographic) of W.W. II. Saul David relives Operation Thunderbolt (Little, Brown). Victor Sebestyen rewinds to 1946 (Pantheon). Michael Connelly takes us on The Crossing (Little, Brown). Photographer Gary Zuercher basks in The Glow of Paris: The Bridges of Paris at Night (Marcorp Editions). Bruce Weber makes the All-American XV: Leap of Faith (teNeues). Shonda Rhimes shares her Year of Yes (Simon & Schuster). David Thomson directs How to Watch a Movie (Knopf). Lee (Assouline) is Lee Radziwillin toto. David Rose thrills in Taking Morgan (Skyhorse). Photographer Dan Martensen runs with the Angulo brothers of The Wolfpack (Damiani). Lloyd Ziff pans New York/Los Angeles (KMW Studio). Debbie Reynolds works it in Make 'Em Laugh (Morrow).

Tom Jones lets it all hang out in Over the Top and Back (Blue Rider). E.S.