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Zero Gravity Girl

Zero Gravity Girl

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2019
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Norma Christianstead is the first person raised from conception to adulthood in zero gravity. The year is 2200. She is a temporal savant. The goal is to determine how micro-gravity interacts with physical, intellectual, social and psychological development. Fifteen years later a CRISPR-spawned plague is overtaking Earth. Norma learns there is another goal to the experiment: to respond to the divinations of a secret artifact-a beacon-of an ancient civilization that vacated the Tharsian region of Mars a billion years earlier when the planet's seas evaporated. The response to the beacon demands nothing less than an epigenetic evolutionary alteration in Norma, for theTharsian genomic code is genophotonic: a hybrid consisting of physical and photonic parts. In this, Patrick Moran's fourteenth novel, the author comes to grips with how and why gravity and perception are related. In Zero Gravity Girl he weds the two in a tale that redefines the meaning of love and life, time and space.
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Blue Boxes

Blue Boxes

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2009
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A migrating gray whale and calf get hung up on an oil drilling platform off the coast of California. Caught in an oil spill, their fate and that of the coastal habitat of Southern California hinge on the migration of Monarch butterflies from Mexico and on a diary written thirty years earlier by a dying 13-year-old girl.
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Tsunami Sundog

Tsunami Sundog

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2011
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The time is late-21st Century. Tali Rosen is an accomplished net-stretcher for Nacho-Net, headquartered in Havana. Tali's life begins to unravel when her Cuban fiancee cheats on her. At the same time, Tali's Aunt falls into a coma after an automobile accident, and Tali retreats home to Northern California. There she finds she can communicate with her comatose aunt through what Tali will learn is called the tsunami: a potent fusion of organic, electronic and spiritual networks made possible by the creation of DnetA. Operating outside the confines of time and space, the tsunami enables Tali to venture back and forth across the boundary regions between life and death. Swept up by this tidal wave, she learns that the tsunami itself is an artificial recreation of the bardos of Tibetan Buddhism, and is a marketing experiment that has gone horribly wrong. In the end Tali must risk everything to undo the damage the tsunami has wrought to the border region separating life and death.
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Teaching Culture

Teaching Culture

Patrick Moran

Heinle-Cengage ELT
2001
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TEACHING CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES IN PRACTICE offers multiple viewpoints on the interrelationship between language and culture and how they serve to teach meaning, offer a lens of identity and provide a mechanism for social participation Authentic classroom experiences engage the reader and offer teachers invaluable support as they expand their ideas about how language and culture work together.
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The Tibetan Book Of Dina

The Tibetan Book Of Dina

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2012
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A tale told by a dog, named Dinasaur, whose master unwittingly gives his pet the Buddha's rice bowl, stolen from a lamasery in Tibet. Dog and man learn they must return this very special kibble dish to its rightful place, sending them on an adventure that begins during the Summer of Love, in San Francisco, and ends in Tibet. There, the dualities of life must be reconciled to a timeless perspective in order to set things right.
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The Canons of Fantasy

The Canons of Fantasy

Patrick Moran

Cambridge University Press
2019
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Despite publishing endeavours such as the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series in the 1970s and Fantasy Masterworks in the early 2000s, the canon of modern fantasy is still very much in flux. This Element examines four key questions raised by the prospect of a fantasy canon: the way in which canon and genre influence each other; the overwhelming presence of Tolkien in any discussion of the classics of fantasy; the multi-media and transmedia nature of the field; and the push for a more inclusive and diverse canon.
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Harvesting Rosa Sweetnail

Harvesting Rosa Sweetnail

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2011
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Rosa Sweetnail has a heart. The problem is, her neighbor wants it. Really really wants it. The neighbor is Griffin McXain. Rosa lives in a walnut orchard across from the retirement community in which McXain lives with his wife, whose own heart is failing fast. Failing almost as fast are Rosa's twin careers as a walnut farmer and wood sculptor, and McXain's stint as a winery owner. Both Rosa and McXain have plans to stay their descents. And both of these plans intersect at Rosa's heart. Obsession and intrigue are the main ingredients that form the base of Harvesting Rosa Sweetnail. Added to it are dollops of bankruptcy, desperation, undying love, and perhaps that most elusive of all spices: cannibalism.
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That Which Bends

That Which Bends

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2013
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Water is a reflection of the eternal that adds the face of eternity to glass. We recognize this as beauty. It does this in the same way that water shapes the soul of man, by inhibiting the formation of the things that prevent crystallization. In man, those things that prevent the crystallization of the soul are vanity and hubris. Venetians wear masks to remind themselves of this connection to water and to keep them from going insane in the knowledge of what is beneath the reflections -Chicken Johnny- Master Muranese Glassblower In this quirky new novel that reflects on the nature of fortune, an expatriate American businesswoman adrift in the world, and a San Francisco restauranteur on a final journey look beneath their reflections in the timeless waters of Venice to find that which bends the world is love.
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Rootbound

Rootbound

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2014
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Rhianna's lifeless body lies splayed atop a salt spire on the south shore of Mono Lake. A sapling oak rises from inside the young woman's abdomen. Murder by tree hugger? Or something more complicated? On the eve of his arrest, the confessed killer walks up to an aspen tree and disappears into it. Heed is his name. A genetic interloper between flora and fauna. A shape shifter. Thus begins the mystery confronting Rhianna's ex-husband Marlyn, a transgender man, to uncover how a murderer could take the life of his beloved, and how he can bring himself to rationalize those same choices as his own.
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Swimming in Stone

Swimming in Stone

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2013
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Set in Venice and Asia Minor, Swimming In Stone is the sequel to That Which Bends. It tells the tale of Dusty Rhodes after she and her lover, Bodie Bloom, have won forty million euros in the Italian Lottery, only to see Bodie die shortly afterwards. Heartbroken but rich beyond her wildest imaginings, Dusty embarks on a voyage of hope with Bodie's estranged family in order to split Bodie's portion of the winnings in accordance with his last wishes. In the end Dusty and Bodie's family learn the truth that real fortune is measured not in the currency of exchange but in the currency of hope from which redemption may be wrung.
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The Hard'n-Back

The Hard'n-Back

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2013
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A sports odyssey about a planet whose water-borne, raft-dwelling peoples must compete in globe-girding rowing regattas in order to win the right to reproduce. Failure to win means facing the "Long Death" of extinction. But more than telling of a fight for survival, The Hard'n-Back tells a love story whose timeless dimensions of devotion and sacrifice reach beyond the boundaries of survival itself.
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Place of Promise

Place of Promise

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2020
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August 1945: A Victory Train bound from Chicago rumbles through the Sierra Nevada stuffed with soldiers celebrating the end of WWII. One is Daniel Rose, scion of a legendary movie studio. Moral turpitude has ended Daniel's service to his country. In L.A. Daniel meets Cutter, a man fleeing from military service guarding a uranium mine. Their dream is to put the military behind them. A year later they purchase a "coffee-pot" radio station. It is an instant success. They buy a retreat they call Mystic Mountain. But their success brings trouble, and they soon discover a mysterious financial arrangement funded with money smuggled out of Europe in 1939 is threatening to ruin everything they've achieved. The two learn that the fund is a scheme to make the world safe for atomic weaponry, and that their Place of Promise has been bought by the same currency of murder, duplicity, innocence, generosity and greed that made post-war America so prosperous.
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Yellow Dog Red

Yellow Dog Red

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2015
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Parker buries his loyal yellow Labrador retriever in a century-old and long neglected pet cemetery in the Wine Country only to find that the graveyard itself is scheduled to be plowed under to make room for an upscale Pinot Noir vineyard. Nearing the end of his own life, Parker vows to keep vigil over his beloved companion until he himself dies or the owners relent. His vow to stay beside his pet until she can rest in peace attracts cohorts from near and far, and it is their combined devotion that is the fulcrum upon which this story of one man's undying love for his best friend balances.
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Carry On

Carry On

Patrick Moran

Lulu Press
2017
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The fourteen pieces herein are those sundry writings I have created sandwiched between some forty years of writing novels, penning assessment reports, editing the works of other authors, and trying in general to live as fully and as wisely as possible. Carry On is a collection of fourteen pieces of miscellaneous writings I have created over some forty years. All the works are fanciful, some more than others, and all were written with an eye toward helping me put the world into an understandable perspective. One of my favorite authors is Nobel Laureate Orham Pamuk. When asked once why he writes, he said it is because he needs to construct alternate worlds in order to understand this one. It is the same for me, even though at times it also seems like an affliction, particularly when I am lost in the labyrinth of a novel, wherein understanding comes only after much ado, time, and butting my head against walls have passed in a twilight realm of obfuscation and bewilderment. Be that as it may, it is my sincere hope that these short works of fiction and epistemological conjecture will entertain and perhaps encourage new perspectives in those who read them.
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Wine Country Cannibals

Wine Country Cannibals

Patrick Moran

Lulu.com
2017
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Caleb Calder is a cartographer at a time when the discipline is refocusing from paper to pixels. He is a man whose search for meaning centers on the idea of belonging to a place that nourishes him. While out cycling, Caleb is hit by a car and suffers traumatic brain injuries. An outgrowth of his TBI is that the ability to feel emotions is rewired in a way that allows the part of his brain he utilizes as a cartographer to become interconnected with the affective part. Thus, after his accident, he discovers-borrowing from Descarte's dictum: I map, therefore I am--that mapping has become perception itself captured like an eddy in a stream in which each and every perception is a map of yet another map. It is on his journey to seek a place of safety and succor for his young family that Caleb becomes enmeshed in a web of internecine intrigue that threatens to destroy everything he has worked for.
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