Fantasy: Historical Books

	Inventing Memory by: Anne Harris published: 2004-04-03 ASIN: B000F6ZB3A sales rank: 3940835 price: $5.26 (new), $4.34 (used)	one-of-a-kind novel, Inventing Memory is a stunning blend of fantasy and reality, exposing the secret links between the mythic, the mundane, and the timeless mysteries of the human heart: Shula is a slave in fabled Sumer-until Inanna, Queen of Heaven, appears before her. Chosen by the Goddess for reasons she cannot begin to fathom, Shula is freed from bondage and set upon an uncertain path toward a new and mysterious destiny. But the attention of the gods is a dangerous thing. . . . Wendy Chrenko is an overworked graduate student, researching her dissertation on 'Remnants of Matriarchy in the Ancient Sumerian Inanna Cycle.' Still recovering from a failed love affair, Wendy is determined to prove that men and women once lived together in perfect harmony, even if it means volunteering for a bizarre and dangerous scientific experiment. Separated by millennia, Shula and Wendy are two very different women, leading completely separate lives. Or maybe not.
	The Legend of La Llorona by: Ray John De Aragon publisher: Sunstone Press, published: 2006-07-01 ASIN: 0865345058 sales rank: 916989 price: $7.45 (new), $4.94 (used)	The folklore of Spanish America is full of exciting accounts of a wandering, shrieking, tormented spirit called La Llorona, the 'Wailing Woman.' Her eerie spine-chilling cry was said to be an omen of death. This is the first serious account of the frightening tale that has fascinated people for generations. Ray John de Aragón, an expert on Spanish folklore, traditions and myths, traveled throughout the villages and byways of New Mexico searching out the roots of this very popular Spanish phantom. What he found was that every person he listened to had a different version. They sometimes placed her in their own towns as having been a local girl who had lived, loved, and then died a tragic death. She then arose, according to hearsay, and now she searches throughout the countryside for the children she lost in a watery grave. Some villagers even took him to a nearby river or arroyo to show him where La Llorona and her children drowned, but they always cautioned, 'Don't come here late at night because she will appear to you crying, and she will follow you as you try to get away.' The author then took the threads of the stories he heard and has woven them in a full length study of this famous ghost. Noted folklorist Pedro Ribera Ortega called this book in a review, 'The tragic mythic love/ghost story laid out to scare even the bravest of readers.'
	Thraxas Under Siege by: Martin Scott publisher: Baen, published: 2006-10-03 ASIN: 1416520880 sales rank: 1902317 price: $4.83 (new), $0.22 (used)	In the enchanted city of Turai, the overweight, beer-guzzling private eye Thraxas is probably your only hope. And this time, the entire city is in trouble, besieged by an army of rampaging Orcs. Now a ship has managed to slip past the Orcs to make port, and it was carrying a talisman which could save the city. Unfortunately, it and the ship's captain have vanished without a trace. And if Thraxas can't recover it before it falls into the wrong hands, Turai will be doomed. Which could seriously interfere with the big card game that Thraxas had been looking forward to...