Citizenship in Shakespeare's England was not attached to nationality but rather to one's city and employment. In this study of urban citizenship, William Casey Caldwell explores the range of economic relationships which existed through a range of dramatic texts.Revealing how citizenship was defined along urban lines and controlled by early forms of corporations, Caldwell argues that playwrights at the time used this context to imagine new opportunities for non-citi...

A spiritual journey may take many forms, from Dante's descent to the pits of Hell and up the other side to the bliss of Paradise, to Pilgrim's progress (or even to Billy Pilgrim, unstuck in time in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five). It could be Elijah running headlong into the desert, or Jonah being flung ashore and shouting in Nineveh, a petulant prophet to the end. Faith can be carried like pennies in the pocket or worn like a coat of many colors. Abraham and Moses, Mary and Peter--all of ...

Meet Hotdog, the wiener dog, and his friends! In this colorful illustrated chapter book series, Anh Do introduces us to a small hero with a big heart.It's Kev's birthday, so Hotdog and Lizzie are throwing him a surprise party! There'll be cake, games, and magic tricks! But will a rude rooster and a cranky donkey ruin the day?

Meet Hotdog, the wiener dog, and his friends! In this colorful illustrated chapter book series, Anh Do introduces us to a small hero with a big heart.Hotdog and his friends are going on a mad adventure to help a baby bird find his missing mom! They'll climb to crazy heights to find her! But can they handle dirty diapers and karate-chopping roosters along the way?

It started as a story……but a mysterious little girl changed everything.Now, a dragon has come to East Texas and they need a hero.An Old man rises to a glory he never thought he’d know again, and all because he was coerced into telling little kids a story.A young boy, a princess, a talking sword and an evil dragon captivate snaggled-tooth munchkins...Then the old man starts to feel it.Something has risen from his past and its coming for him an...

Before the Agency came Delta.Before Delta was the Army Rangers.That’s where Jason Trapp was made.Iraq, 2007. It’s the height of the insurgency. The roads are almost impassable. IEDs kill American soldiers every single day. Tens of thousands of fresh troops are pouring into the country, and they’re barely holding the line.But after dark, Delta Force, SEALs and Rangers are starting to turn the tide. Every sing...

Diana Vertue, known in an earlier life as the terrifying esper Jenny Psycho, had been a hard-core terrorist and a saint of the uber-esper Mater Mundi, but she'd outgrown both those roles. Now it's time for a psychic showdown with the Mater Mundi herself. In another part of the galaxy, Ruby Journey delivers Parliament's offer of a reprieve from Jack Random's persecution as an outlaw, as long as he joins in a desperate plan to save the Empire from the decimating forces of Shub, approaching h...

Two centuries after the nuclear holocaust, fortified villes loom in the wastelands, imposing a menacing rule that's shaping the future.As a warrior, Kane served the lords of the villes, but on a punitive expedition he'd caught a forbidden glimpse of the future that made him an outcast. In exile with him are Brigid Baptiste, golden keeper of the archives and Grant, an only friend in a hostile land. Together they've sworn to uncover the secrets of the world's fate... as written in it...

It took only minutes for human history to derail in a mushroom cloud—now more than a century later, whatever destiny lies ahead for humanity is bound by the rules that have governed survival since the dawn of time: part luck, part skill and part hard experience. For Ryan Cawdor and his band, survival in Deathlands means keeping hold of what you have—or losing it along with your life.In the ancient canyons of New Mexico, the citizens of Little Pueblo prepare to sacrifice Ryan and hi...

The web of treachery, secrecy and manipulation spun by humanity's enslavers to snare mankind in relentless submission has begun to unravel—ripped apart by rebels pledged to free Earth from unearthly domination. Renegades by their own choice, fighting back against the tyranny of the barons and the vast conspiracy they once served, the Cerberus warriors face the shifting tides of a war against an intrepid, inhuman enemy with the resources to restore their reign as overlords of Earth....

Earth remains the volatile prize of aeons of war and domination by two panterrestrial races. Returning the fight to these inhuman overlords, the Cerberus rebels are the champions of the planet's postapocalyptic dark ages. They spark a uniquely human resilience and courage to stand down the forces of infinitely powerful, perhaps unstoppable entities in the ongoing war to retake Earth for humanity.The Bluegrass range, ripe with secrets and magic, hides the operating base of a race of...

Blue is a sixteen-year-old with autism and dissociative identity disorder, a nonverbal teen who communicates through AAC and sees the world through soft eyes and simple truths. Daniel is angry, broken, and terrified of himself - a teen carrying the weight of trauma, psychosis, and a mind that never feels safe.Thrown into the sterile walls of a youth psychiatric facility, the two meet - one guarded, the other open-hearted. As Daniel battles the ghosts in his head and the shame of ne...