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  • Does God Have Free Will?
    S. Dorman
    The book’s subtitle is Miscellany of Satire, Crafting and Creativity, its title Does God have Free Will?. The book’s tone moves from farce through deep lament, and from things tacky to the sublime. From remarks on the extrapolated stereotypical character, to essaying T-cells and astrophysics. Does God have Free Will? engages with speculative fiction, fantasy, 19th and 20th ce...
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    11,84 €

  • Gott’im Men
    S. Dorman
    Gott’im Men is a story collection about the men of fictional Gottheim, Maine, a 1980s rural town in the Western Mountains-in transition from an agricultural/ woods economy, to a four-seasons resort town. The characters run the economic, heritable, cultural, and age gamut, creating tension for both local people and newcomers alike. Here, in short stories, the forces of history...
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    10,88 €

  • Balder’s Wilderness
    S. Dorman
    Point is, how is he ever going to find someone lost on this monster sooty mountain? Balder’s son has been lost all night long somewhere on Blackwell adjacent Jasper Mountain in the cold and dark drizzle, and he going to look for him. The pulp logs won’t get cut, the pines for the sawlog mill won’t get marked, and Robbie is probably sitting down there telling himself some stuff ...
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    9,68 €

  • Fantastic Travelogue
    S. Dorman
    Fantastic Travelogue is speculative fiction, a phantasmic conversation between two literary giants, Mark Twain and C.S. Lewis. The talk and action are set in the dreamscape of creation--from creation’s photonics and micro biology to its most outer energetic and cosmic origins. Other participants in the conversation include Johannes Kepler and George MacDonald. ...
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    9,71 €

  • Pilot of Varying Lights
    S. Dorman
    When the prototype of space shuttle ENTERPRISE was gliding its way toward feasibility, before the first launch of COLUMBIA, the program inspired S. Dorman to write a short story whose title would be that of a light-thematic collection. She wrote the first draft before the first launch in the late ’70s, using research based on Apollo missions, then waited for what the shuttle a...
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    9,94 €

  • SiXPointz HiTopOLis
    S. Dorman
    The boys and girls of the FivePoints neighborhood gang are transformed into dark matter, slipping into an alternate universe. During medieval times in that alternate universe, a desert father lives among natives, writing about these natives, cataloging, and also transcribing his own visions. In visions he sees forward in time to the strange technological progress of the world...
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    14,90 €

  • Five Points Akropolis
    S. Dorman
    An alternate future? An insecure past? Another present made of dense woodlands and waterways ... or of streets and buildings and crowds? Are its populations living beside one another in a welter of frequencies or wavelengths not generally experienced in Place and Time? What is FIVE POINTS AKROPOLIS? A particular place called Five Points Akropolis -- Anno Domine 1769, 1900 A.D.,...
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    14,97 €

  • Gott’im’s Monster 1808
    S. Dorman
    What about an 1808 New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? Gott’im’s Monster is roaming the western mountains of Maine. While setting snares in the woods, young Abner Bartlett, sees his former one-room school master sitting dazed against a giant tree, apparently starving, ill. Abner cares for the master and learns that he is running from his own monster ...
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    9,74 €

  • God’s House
    S. Dorman
    God’s House is a novel in three parts. In the first part, -Return to God’s House-like her namesake in Pilgrim’s Progress, Chrischana Twitchell is fleeing a destructive life in a place she thinks of as the City of Destruction. With her three sons she returns to Gottheim, Maine, and an uncertain welcome in the Meguntic Mountains she loves. Called Gott’im by its inhabitants, this ...
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  • God’s Wilderness
    S. Dorman
    God’s Wilderness comprises the last two books of The God’s Cycle.Mystery Gottheim begins God’s Wilderness, fourth book of The God’s Cycle, in which the Gothic New England landscape comes alive in its original hold upon the yankee imagination. Whether it’s the man-dog apparition, a visitation of mythic Forest Folk, or the strange case of loose bones in a deserted graveyard, or l...
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    18,51 €

  • Return to God’s House
    S. Dorman
    In -Return to God’s House-, like her namesake in Pilgrim’s Progress, Chrischana Twitchell flees a destructive life. With her three sons she returns to Gottheim, Maine, and an uncertain welcome in the Meguntic Mountains she loves. Tensions between descendents of yankee settlers and those ’from away’ have made it a place in transition where neighbors struggle to know one another ...
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    10,70 €

  • Gott’im’s Monster
    S. Dorman
    GOTT’IM’S MONSTER is an addition tp God’s Wilderness and is coming-of-age speculative fiction. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Gott’im’s Monster is part of The God’s Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808. Its fantastic elements sparse in beginning, The God’s Cycle moves through its story in time and place with increasing mythic ...
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    10,78 €

  • Mystery Gottheim
    S. Dorman
    Mystery Gottheim begins God’s Wilderness, fourth book of The God’s Cycle, in which the Gothic New England landscape comes alive in its original hold upon the yankee imagination. Whether it’s the man-dog apparition, a visitation of mythic Forest Folk, or the strange case of loose bones in a deserted graveyard, or lost boy in an ash storm, the woods are alive with both fancy and ...
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  • Within Without
    S. Dorman
    -Within Without-the second book in the Cycle, is the story of a rural Maine village in transition. Full of local color and character, it continues the story of Chrischana Twitchell’s return to Gott’im, and introduces Peter Prince, her troubled common-law spouse who follows her from the desert to reclaim his family. First book in the Cycle, in -Return to God’s House- like her n...
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    10,70 €

  • God’s House in Winter
    S. Dorman
    -In Winter- is the third book in God’s House. Here begins increasing mythic qualities as Jasper Mountain comes alive, and nature redounds with fury to her glory. When it so happens, in God’s House, setting the stage for them to enter into God’s Wilderness. God’s Wilderness is the completion of The God’s Cycle. The God’s Cycle is five books, or can be purchased in two parts: God...
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    10,73 €

  • Maine Metaphor
    S. Dorman
    Each summer weekend can be like a holiday here in Maine. Once, to the Vikings, it was rugged Vineland; today Maine is Vacationland. After a hard, dirty winter, mild air and watery sunlit places are calling: an abundance of evocative coastal places within a couple minutes’ or couple of hours’ drive. The author experienced one beach not typical of Maine. It was different in a liv...
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    15,02 €

  • Maine Metaphor
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    Maine in Winter bears toward the new millennium and beyond, heading into maturity of body, soul, and insight. Here are thoughts and experiences from entries in S. Dorman’s everyday winter and reader’s journals. Here are themes of snowy twilight since stopping in Maine, just so, at the beginning of her family’s first winter in the Northeast--when the Salvation Army came to their...
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    15,04 €

  • DuOPolis
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    DuOPolis is speculative fiction about three young ''gangs'' living in the same territory in different times. These youths hail from circa Anno Domini 1769, 1900 A.D. and 2017 CE. By an aberration in Time they meet unexpectedly in the 21st century neighborhood of FivePoints to engage with one another and untie the knot of Time. Inadvertent time-travelers, each group is trying to...
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    18,25 €

  • Five Points Akropolis
    S. Dorman
    An alternate future? An insecure past? Another present made of dense woodlands and waterways ... or of streets and buildings and crowds? Are its populations living beside one another in a welter of frequencies or wavelengths not generally experienced in Place and Time? What is FIVE POINTS AKROPOLIS? A particular place called Five Points Akropolis -- This is what Anno Domi...
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    17,46 €

  • DuOPolis
    S. Dorman
    DuOPolis is unconventional speculative fiction about three young 'gangs' living in the same area in alternate times. By an aberration in Time they meet unexpectedly in the 21st century neighborhood of FivePoints and engage with one another to untie the knot of Time. These teenagers are from circa Anno Domini 1769, 1900 A.D. and 2017 CE; displaced inadvertent time-travelers tryi...
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    16,87 €

  • Visiting the Eastern Uplands
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    What is it about that word? Aroostook. ''The County,'' they call it in Maine.She sat in the Ohio kitchen with books spread out, having just read a word. She said the word aloud. Someone little called. A door slammed. She stood automatically, walked a step, reached up and got out peanut butter. There was cold milk in the refrigerator, and bread speckled with cracked wheat on the...
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    19,42 €

  • Chosen People
    Jacob S Dorman
    Named Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE ...
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    60,14 €

  • Maine Metaphor
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    S. Dorman began Maine Metaphor with The Green and Blue House. She continued her explorations in the Western Mountains of Maine, studying Maine’s characteristic ways and natural realm, possessing the experience, studies, and journaling of rural life and creation. And she wanted to learn about the character of the people who sometimes must live a hardscrabble life. Her quest bega...
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    19,45 €

  • Maine Metaphor
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    How to live in rural Maine? How--in the 1980s, when descendants of Maine’s settlers wonder about our coming out of the Rust Belt in search of work, in search of a life? They were not bitter about our coming here, where jobs were already scarce--they were incredulous. Why did we come? Sometimes I answered, ''God.'' God brought us, the formerly middle-class inept, to live among t...
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    19,43 €

  • Gott’im’s Monster
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    Gott’im’s Monster is YA coming-of-age speculative fiction for teenagers with heads. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Gott’im’s Monster is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808 and the 1980s.''Gott’im refers to Gottheim, a small Maine town. The locals call it Gott’im. If I had to reduce a complicated, vivid book to a one-liner, I’d say that ...
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    18,31 €

  • Gott’im’s Monster 1808
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    GOTT’IM’S MONSTER 1808 is coming-of-age speculative fiction. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Gott’im’s Monster is part of The God’s Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808. Its fantastic elements sparse in beginning, The God’s Cycle moves through its story in time and place with increasing mythic emphasis. This version of Gott’im’...
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    15,06 €

  • Standardization of Epidemiologic Studies of Host Susceptibility
    Janice S. Dorman
    The incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (100M) varies dramatically across racial groups and countries, with annual age-adjusted rates of approximately 40/100,000 per year in Finland, but only 0.51100,000 per year in China. Although reasons for these marked geographic differences are unknown, it is likely that genetic variations across pop...
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    207,65 €

  • FANTASTIC TRAVELOGUE
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    Looking for understanding and adventure, two giants of English literature-the fictional Jack Lewis and Mark Twain-meet as if by accident to begin an exploration ranging through Great Creation and the imagined supernatural. They experience aspects of the astronomical, of terrestrial geography and biology, and of Western cultural history. Two others take part in their conversatio...
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    17,41 €

  • SiXPointz HiTopOLis
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    What is SiXPointz HiTopOLis?Companion to Five Points Akropolis, and telling a story of the FivePoints neighborhood in a parallel universe, SiXPointz HiTopOLis fuses history, religion and quantum field theory to adventurous high purpose. Inadvertently ...
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    17,44 €

  • Essays
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    The Essays comprise 'Neophyte Papers, 'Familiarizing Papers,' 'Commentary,' and 'The Thesis Paper.' Here called a Triologue, the book is devoted to essays published specifically to companion 'Fantastic Travelogue: Mark Twain and CS Lewis Talk Things over in The Hereafter.' This speculative fiction was the raison d’être for a humanities thesis paper positing humanism’s Christia...
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    12,34 €


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