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  • Virgil Might Have a Moment
    Sean Boling
    People think Virgil is on the city council because his vote can be swayed, and he knows it. But what he thinks, and they don’t know, is that his prayers have the power to improve lives other than his own. His belief intensifies when a childhood friend arrives back in town to develop an abandoned golf course into a housing project the town needs. Maybe Virgil happens to be prayi...
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    9,84 €

  • And Featuring California as Itself
    Sean Boling
    Four strangers wind up on the road together. One of their acquaintances hears the story and would like to tell it in writing, but wonders if he is the right narrator for the job. He seeks help from the people he has turned into characters. Serving as both their confidant and interrogator, he tries to make their journey more readable than it may have been, and more meaningful th...
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    8,75 €

  • The Current Mr. Orr
    Sean Boling
    Devin Orr commissioned a clone for time management, so that the tech tycoon could be two places at once. One of those places turns out to be the afterlife, as the process of storing him while not in use simulates death realistically enough to trigger round trips between the beyond and back. The creator of the clone wants to use him to dig up dirt on the living from the deceased...
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    20,06 €

  • Over Here We Have
    Sean Boling
    Three novelettes and five short stories that explore how people battle the animals around us and inside of us to try to get what we want, try to keep it, and try to get it back. ...
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    10,91 €

  • Revenge and Wellness in the Sweet Hereafter
    Sean Boling
    Book Three of The Current Mr. Orr, in which traveling back and forth between the present and the beyond reveals that what we leave behind matters much more than what comes next. Ruining a life is easy, and restoring a life is hard, but if he can help his clients balance mourning, letting go, and doing right, together they might reverse the trend. ...
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    9,81 €

  • Once in Two Lifetimes
    Sean Boling
    Book Two of The Current Mr. Orr, in which he wonders if he visited the afterlife after all. It seemed real. One of the few people who knows his identity suspects he really was there, and approaches him about going back. When he does, finding out it was all true provides no peace. His contact in the afterlife wants to help people on earth, but his creator on earth holds the key ...
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    9,77 €

  • Devin’s Best Afterlife
    Sean Boling
    Book One of The Current Mr. Orr, in which Devin Orr’s clone learns anything is possible in the afterlife, but our baggage from earth comes with us. He was only supposed to help Devin multitask in this life, not scout the life to come and soothe any hard feelings toward Devin among the deceased. But challenges to the natural order tend not to go as planned. The universe is funny...
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    9,82 €

  • Moral Adjacent
    Sean Boling
    Doing the right thing feels good. It feels even better when you can put it on your college application. Esme has been designing her life with this in mind since elementary school, so when an opportunity presents itself during her junior year that may be the ultimate combination of doing good and looking good, she is eager to cross the streams. While working on a story for her s...
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    9,80 €

  • Should
    Sean Boling
    Writing a book can lead to a kind of immortality. Maybe he took that too literally by writing a book about being immortal. He wonders if there is a place for it. Maybe he should have made immortality sound more appealing. When one of the few people who reads it turns out to be someone with the connections to create fans, he wonders if there is a place for him in the events that...
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    9,86 €

  • The Name Field
    Sean Boling
    Field and Lulu were the best of childhood friends, bonded by their challenges growing up together in the Special Education program in a coastal valley known for wine and ag tourism. But even their unique connection was not immune to the divergence that often happens when childhood friends reach high school. Thanks to the mentoring of a dedicated volunteer coach, Field followed ...
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    10,85 €

  • Show Them What They Won
    Sean Boling
    They both want to change some minds in the wake of losing their little boy in a school shooting. Megan has devoted her time to advocating for gun legislation. Quentin has come to believe the only way to change someone’s worldview is to change their world, and the world he opposes hasn’t felt his pain. He doesn’t have the skills to inflict that kind of change. But Megan’s father...
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    11,92 €

  • The Latest Version of My Love Story
    Sean Boling
    Feeling old doesn’t bother Fina that much. Feeling useless is the problem. Her marriage is on cruise control, her stepdaughter resists the comfort she so obviously needs (and Fina so desperately wants to provide), and her biological daughter is making the choices Fina warned her against. She could have found meaning in her work at the state hospital, had it not been ripped from...
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    8,74 €

  • A Charter to That Other Place
    Sean Boling
    Live Oak Charter Academy is the latest elixir to arrive in the valley. Drought cycles, crop yields, and market forces have left a trail of previous solutions: an army base, a state mental hospital, a shipping warehouse for an online retailer, and a prison. But the charter is about the future, and not just that of the children. The wealthiest board member sees a chance to leave ...
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    13,94 €

  • Satellite Campus
    Sean Boling
    Twain has always been able to work a room. He’s also good at avoiding the room where his mother progresses more deeply into Alzheimer’s, thanks to the live-in care he is able to hire. When it seems likely that her battle is almost over, he puts his career as a celebrity astronomer on hold to be with her. She takes longer to surrender than anticipated, however, so he teaches a s...
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    12,86 €

  • The Summer of Our Foreclosure
    Sean Boling
    Of all the indicators of a housing bubble, the biggest may be how many people are willing to buy into a housing development as remote as Rancho Hacienda, a walled community built next to a rickety village of laborers stuck in the most arid section of a vast farming valley. The initial delight of the parents and frustration of their children at buying a home so far away from civ...
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    12,83 €

  • Abraham the Anchor Baby Terrorist
    Sean Boling
    As the inaugural birth in service to the Anchor Baby Terrorist Training Program, Abraham represents different things to different people. He is a way to make money, a means to leave an oppressive home in favor of America, an excuse to fall in love, an opportunity to expand power, a good son, a best friend, a big man on campus, a murder suspect, a media plaything, a source of pr...
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    12,85 €

  • Cut Flowers
    Sean Boling
    Stanford and Dodge are both looking for redemption, each having arrived at their current purgatory via extremely different paths: Stanford from the top-down, and Dodge from the bottom-up. Dodge wasted the greater part of his adult life in a drug-induced stupor, consequently neglecting the family he started when he was much younger. Stanford wasted an upscale career in business ...
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    15,96 €