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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The God’s Cycle
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    A small town in transition. The loves of Balder Simon. An omniscient Abenaki storyteller. The Gott’im tire fire burning its way to hell. A monster-killer mentoring a dead man. An invitation to Ragnarök. Jasper Mountain speaks. The Battlefield of Time. THE GOD’S CYCLE - A year woven in the imagination of God. ...
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    44,65 €

  • WITHIN WITHOUT God’s House
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    WITHIN WITHOUT is the second book in God’s House and THE GOD’S CYCLE, 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. As a stranger in Gottheim he experiences...
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    16,33 €

  • God’s House IN WINTER
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    GOD’S HOUSE IN WINTER is the third book in The God’s Cycle. Here begins increasing mythic qualities as Jasper Mountain comes alive, and nature redounds with fury to her glory. The wild creatures and inhabitants of Gott’im suffer.... And, too, they benefit from the recoil of human erring on a grand scale. When it so happens, in God’s House, setting the stage for them to ente...
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    16,34 €

  • MYSTERY GOTTHEIM God’s Wilderness
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    MYSTERY GOTTHEIM starts off the second theme in The God’s Cycle, entitled God’s Wilderness. Mystery Gottheim is a mid-mudseason night’s dream. Its landscape is troubled under a burden of soot, falling ash, and drizzle-outpouring of a tire fire creating its own weather. Many of its characters become lost and disoriented in the woods and on the mountain slopes, some with loving...
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    15,29 €

  • Return to God’s House
    S. Dorman / SDorman
    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 rural village and surrounding wilderness are changing with the influx of newcom...
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    16,23 €