{"product_id":"the-headmasters-9781989398845","title":"The Headmasters","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHow do you learn from the past if there isn't one?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixty years ago, something awful happened. Something that killed everyone except the people at Blue Ring. Something that caused the Headmasters to appear. But Maple doesn't know what it was. Because talking about the past is forbidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone at Blue Ring has a Headmaster. They sink their sinewy coils into your skull and control you, using your body for backbreaking toil and your mind to communicate with each other. When someone dies, their Headmaster transfers to someone new. But so do the dead person's memories, and if one of those memories surfaces in the new host's mind, their brain breaks. That's why talking about the past is forbidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaple hates this world where the past can't exist and the future promises only more suffering. And she hates the Headmasters for making it that way. But she doesn't know how to fight them - until memories start to surface in her mind from someone who long ago came close to defeating the Headmasters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut whose memories are they? Why aren't they harming her? And how can she use them to defeat the Headmasters? Maple has to find the answers herself, unable to tell anyone what she's experiencing or planning--not even Thorn, the young man she's falling in love with. Thorn, who has some forbidden secrets of his own . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Morton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shadowpaw Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781989398845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorton, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARK MORTON is also the author of four works of nonfiction: \u003cem\u003eCupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities\u003c\/em\u003e (nominated for a Julia Child Award); \u003cem\u003eThe End: Closing Words for a Millennium\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Alexander Isbister Award for nonfiction); \u003cem\u003eThe Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex\u003c\/em\u003e (republished in the UK as \u003cem\u003eDirty Words\u003c\/em\u003e), and \u003cem\u003eCooking with Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e. He's also the author of more than 50 columns for \u003cem\u003eGastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press) and has written and broadcast more than a hundred columns about language and culture for CBC Radio. Mark has a PhD in sixteenth-century literature from the University of Toronto and has taught at several universities in France and Canada. He currently works at the University of Waterloo. He and his wife, Melanie Cameron, (also an author) have four children, three dogs, one rabbit, and no time. \u003cem\u003eThe Headmasters\u003c\/em\u003e is his first YA novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shadowpaw Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43781760745587,"sku":"9.78199E+12","price":30.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e58ac230-985b-469b-aedd-7d09fe5e9c01.jpg?v=1757593693","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-headmasters-9781989398845","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}