fiction / historical

"On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she?"--Dust jacket.

"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--.

Henry VIII, finally married to Anne Boleyn, is no longer interested, as she has yet to bare a son, and Henry turns to Thomas Crown for help yet again.

Sira Quiroga decides to follow her lover to Morocco bound for an exotic life only to be abandoned there just as World War II is starting, alone and penniless she does the one thing she knows how to do and becomes a coutuier and returns to Madrid where she designs clothes for Nazi officers' wives and she becomes entangled in a world of espionage and political conspiracy.

A fictionalized account of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.