Patrick Moran

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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The Soccer Advantage is a valuable tool for soccer coaches of all levels and ages. It contains sections on methodology, technique, tactics, club development, coach development, player development, the training environment and more. In addition to the...

• Nov-2009
• / General Fiction
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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 a...

• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction
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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 fai...

• May-2011
• / Science Fiction
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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...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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Tyrone Clancy's father Randon is chosen to participate in the Ironman Triathlon, in Hawaii. Along with his mother and two sisters, Tyrone, fourteen, accompanies his father to the Big Island for the final week of training. Randon’s youngest girl...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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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 adventu...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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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,...

• Feb-2015
• / General Fiction
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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....

• Dec-2015
• / Fantasy
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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 fi...

• Dec-2016
• / General Fiction
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Parker buries his loyal yellow Labrador retriever in a century-old and long-neglected pet cemetery in the Wine Country of Northern California, only to find that the graveyard itself is scheduled to be plowed under to make room for an upscale Pinot No...

• Jan-2017
• / General Fiction
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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 kille...

• Mar-2017
• / Fantasy
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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 possibl...

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Mar-2019
• / Dystopian
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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 devel...

• Mar-2020
• / General Fiction
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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....

• Feb-2021
• / Fantasy
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Norma Christianstead is the first person raised from conception to adulthood in zero gravity. The year is 2200. The stated goal is to determine how micro-gravity interacts with physical, intellectual, social and psychological development. While aboar...