![]() ![]() "This pirate thriller starts off running and doesn't stop. for both the living and the dead.Ĭhosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, The Soul Keepers is a pulse-pounding, cinematic adventure by debut author Devon Taylor. And if she gets it, it could mean the end of everything. ![]() But then a new threat emerges, a demon who wants something that Rhett has. ![]() Rhett and his new friends have a hard enough time fighting back the monsters that grow bolder and more ferocious every day. But the crew must get the souls there, and along the way protect them from vicious soul-eating monsters that will stop at nothing to take the ship and all of its occupants. You'll root for Rhett and his fellow reapers through every twist and turn!" -Rin Chupeco, author of The Bone Witch and The Girl from the WellĪfter dying in a terrible car accident, Rhett awakens in the afterlife and is recruited to join the crew of the Harbinger, a colossal seafaring vessel tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead. "A fantastic high-stakes adventure on a ghost ship sailing forever into eternity, where every soul is (literally) worth fighting for-what's not to love? Devon Taylor weaves an endearing tale of friendship and loss with heart-stopping action and a whole lot of terrifying monsters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A vehicle is not a person if there is a vast area left undefined in the theatrical character, there is such an area in the person. We have no choice but to permit Shakespeare, and his Hamlet, everything, because neither has a rival." This is an argument, and a brilliant one, of why Hamlet is a great theatrical figure, but it is also why he is not entirely real. Permit this dramatist a concourse of contraries, and he will show us everybody and nobody, all at once. ![]() The chapter is full of dazzling insight, but no passage is more telling about the theatricality of Hamlet than this one: "There is no 'real' Hamlet as there is no 'real' Shakespeare: the character, like the writer, is a reflecting pool, a spacious mirror in which we need must see ourselves. Bloom's other great love is Hamlet, about whom he supplies a wealth of scholarly detail, including a running, highly speculative argument that Shakespeare himself was the author of the "Ur-Hamlet" of 1589. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves.Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife.An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. ![]() The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her slave, Mehuru. ![]() |