Puebla and the Lafragua Affair
by Maria Fantoni
Price: $2.99 USD. 116970 words.
Published by Ralph Moore on March 25, 2012. .
A girl from Boston University goes to a university in Mexico for a year to teach English and to do field study for a Ph.D. Living and working in a foreign culture is adventure enough, but she becomes involved with antique books and secret tunnels, and indirectly and unknowingly in searches for gold and other treasures. Her year of study becomes a complex of adventures, romantic and otherwise
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Ralph Moore
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Ralph Moore was born in Illinois and was raised in a state orphanage: the ISSCS, in Normal. He worked his way through college to a B.A. and M.A., was drafted into the army for a two-year stint in Germany, worked a number of years in city and regional planning in the U.S., and in Peru, and then returned to academic studies, earning a Ph.D. He taught a bit in the U.S. and then two years at several Mexican universities. He now devotes time to his own interests: reading and writing. Never got rich, but learned a lot — always aiming at higher and higher levels.
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The Oral
by Ralph Moore
Price: $2.99 USD. 72270 words. Published on July 28, 2011. Fiction.
A young man chooses to write, as the subject of his M.A. thesis in English Literature, about a renowned American author who has a reputation of being a womanizer. He travels to Paris and to Mexico City for evidence, but after submitting his thesis, he finds a last event which nullifies his work’s conclusions, putting the whole of his thesis in danger: a situation he must somehow rectify.
Price: $2.99 USD. 72270 words. Published on July 28, 2011. Fiction.
A young man chooses to write, as the subject of his M.A. thesis in English Literature, about a renowned American author who has a reputation of being a womanizer. He travels to Paris and to Mexico City for evidence, but after submitting his thesis, he finds a last event which nullifies his work’s conclusions, putting the whole of his thesis in danger: a situation he must somehow rectify.
The Whole Gospel
by Ralph Moore
Price: $2.99 USD. 64100 words. Published on July 17, 2010. Nonfiction.
Taking the text from the King James Version of the Bible, merging the four Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, each part in its place, with no duplications, composing as a result the same story, the product is now presented as one whole Gospel, as one book.
Price: $2.99 USD. 64100 words. Published on July 17, 2010. Nonfiction.
Taking the text from the King James Version of the Bible, merging the four Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, each part in its place, with no duplications, composing as a result the same story, the product is now presented as one whole Gospel, as one book.
Semiotics: The Key
by Ralph Moore
Price: $5.99 USD. 61240 words. Published on July 21, 2009. Nonfiction.
This book is an academic treatise on semiotics: the science of signs. It presents the subject to the reader as a key to it all: an understanding of ideas, thought, and semiosis; of the utility of knowledge and signs; and of the necessary and pleasurable parts, as well as the dangerous aspects, played by learning and communication in living.
Price: $5.99 USD. 61240 words. Published on July 21, 2009. Nonfiction.
This book is an academic treatise on semiotics: the science of signs. It presents the subject to the reader as a key to it all: an understanding of ideas, thought, and semiosis; of the utility of knowledge and signs; and of the necessary and pleasurable parts, as well as the dangerous aspects, played by learning and communication in living.
Ciao, Mephisto
by Ralph Moore
Price: $5.99 USD. 73090 words. Published on July 16, 2009. Fiction.
It’s a novel about a professor and his seminar on philosophy. The seminar addresses physics, metaphysics, the soul, and other things. For this he has some help from a “person” called Mephistopheles. The seminar brings out new ideas on reality and living beings, while the novel’s story entertains you, gives you greater knowledge, and helps you have a better and a more satisfying life.
Price: $5.99 USD. 73090 words. Published on July 16, 2009. Fiction.
It’s a novel about a professor and his seminar on philosophy. The seminar addresses physics, metaphysics, the soul, and other things. For this he has some help from a “person” called Mephistopheles. The seminar brings out new ideas on reality and living beings, while the novel’s story entertains you, gives you greater knowledge, and helps you have a better and a more satisfying life.
River of the Amazons
by Ralph Moore
Price: $5.99 USD. 57270 words. Published on July 9, 2009. Nonfiction.
The story is about a Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana, and his companions who were the first Europeans to navigate the Amazon River. A priest went with them, and the major part of this book is a retelling of his firsthand account of the voyage. It is a story about brave men in a tale of true action and adventure, both as history and as enlightening and entertaining reading.
Price: $5.99 USD. 57270 words. Published on July 9, 2009. Nonfiction.
The story is about a Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana, and his companions who were the first Europeans to navigate the Amazon River. A priest went with them, and the major part of this book is a retelling of his firsthand account of the voyage. It is a story about brave men in a tale of true action and adventure, both as history and as enlightening and entertaining reading.
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