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The valiant / by Livingston, Lesley,author.(CARDINAL)496162;
The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.890LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Science fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Caesar, Julius; Women gladiators; Murder; Abduction;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 16
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Blood and sand / by Wyk, C. V.(Christine Isabel Van),author.(CARDINAL)351377;
Set in Ancient Rome, "Blood and Sand" reimagines Spartacus as a seventeen-year-old girl. When Attia is sold as a slave to the House of Timeus, no one knows she's actually the warrior princess of Thrace, and the last of her people. She is given to Xanthus, a fellow slave and gladiator champion of Rome, as a gift from his master. Attia and Xanthus begin to build a trust through their shared skill in combat and a driving desire to seek revenge on the Roman leaders who wiped out their respective homes. While their burgeoning love leaves them both with something to lose, Attia never takes her eyes off her goal of vengeance. The fights and battles are clear, exciting, and plentiful without being terribly graphic, and the love story, while a little quick, is deeply felt. Attia is a strong and skilled protagonist who, as the fiery ending indicates, has the tools and motivation to lead a rebellion.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Historical fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Spartacus, -71 B.C.; Enslaved women; Gladiators;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Chain-gang all-stars [large print] / by Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,author.(CARDINAL)803678;
"Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the ancient gladiator games, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo, and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences."--Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Large print books.; Women prisoners; Prison-industrial complex; African American prisoners; Private prisons; Lesbians; Contests; Women gladiators; Lesbians.; Lesbian fiction.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 7
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Chain-gang all-stars / by Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,author.(CARDINAL)803678;
The freeing of Melancholia Bishop -- Part I -- Hurricane Staxxx -- B3 -- Teacup -- The bandwagon -- Electric -- Hendrix "Scorpion Singer" Young -- The van -- Personhood link -- Circuit -- Sports Central -- Salt bath -- Simon -- The new -- Food -- Door Four -- Stable -- Part II -- Simon Craft -- Children of incarcerated people -- Vega -- The board -- Melee -- To be influenced -- The art of influence -- Sing-Attica-sing -- Vacation -- Grounded -- Simon J. Craft -- Sung -- Babe? -- The ride -- McCleskey -- Hamara -- Presser -- We the enslaved -- Interview -- Kai -- Balloon archway -- The farmers market -- Deane's creams -- This -- Part III -- Sunset Harkless -- Tear gas -- The legend of the one-arm Scorpion Singer Hendrix and the unkillable Jungle Craft -- Bad water -- The regional -- Preparation -- The drive -- The morning of -- Shareef -- The feeling -- Yes -- Through the door -- Season 22 -- Suck my dick, America -- BlackOut -- Game -- Colossal -- Freeing day -- Loretta Thurwar."The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a "new and necessary American voice" (Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review)"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Political fiction.; African American prisoners; Mass incarceration; Women gladiators; Women prisoners; Private prisons; Contests; Lesbians; Lesbians.; Lesbian fiction.;
Available copies: 64 / Total copies: 86
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Chain-gang all-stars / [audio-enabled device]. by Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,author.(CARDINAL)803678; Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame author(CARDINAL)803678;
The freeing of Melancholia Bishop -- Part I -- Hurricane Staxxx -- B3 -- Teacup -- The bandwagon -- Electric -- Hendrix "Scorpion Singer" Young -- The van -- Personhood link -- Circuit -- Sports Central -- Salt bath -- Simon -- The new -- Food -- Door Four -- Stable -- Part II -- Simon Craft -- Children of incarcerated people -- Vega -- The board -- Melee -- To be influenced -- The art of influence -- Sing-Attica-sing -- Vacation -- Grounded -- Simon J. Craft -- Sung -- Babe? -- The ride -- McCleskey -- Hamara -- Presser -- We the enslaved -- Interview -- Kai -- Balloon archway -- The farmers market -- Deane's creams -- This -- Part III -- Sunset Harkless -- Tear gas -- The legend of the one-arm Scorpion Singer Hendrix and the unkillable Jungle Craft -- Bad water -- The regional -- Preparation -- The drive -- The morning of -- Shareef -- The feeling -- Yes -- Through the door -- Season 22 -- Suck my dick, America -- BlackOut -- Game -- Colossal -- Freeing day -- Loretta Thurwar."The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a "new and necessary American voice" (Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review)"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Political fiction.; African American prisoners; Mass incarceration; Women gladiators; Women prisoners; Private prisons; Contests; Lesbians; Lesbians.; Lesbian fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Liberty / by Iverson, Kimberly.(CARDINAL)483789;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Enslaved women; Gladiators; Romans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mistress of Rome / by Quinn, Kate.(CARDINAL)341863;
Beautiful and musical Judaean slave Thea attempts to survive and prosper in first century Rome despite a spiteful mistress, a broken love affair with a gladiator, and, most dangerous of all, an interested Emperor.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 51-96; Enslaved women; Gladiators;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 6
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The defiant : a Valiant novel by Livingston, Lesley,author.(CARDINAL)496162;
When Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, the only thing that might save them is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.Accelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Science fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Caesar, Julius; Princesses; Gladiators; Women soldiers; Amazons; Amazons.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The valiant / by Livingston, Lesley,author.(CARDINAL)496162;
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Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Caesar, Julius; Gladiators; Amazons; Women soldiers; Amazons.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A voice in the wind / by Rivers, Francine,1947-author.(CARDINAL)352106;
Foreword / by Mark D. Taylor -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map: the Roman Empire c. 117 A.D. -- Part I: Jerusalem -- Part II: Germania -- Part III: Rome -- Part IV: Ephesus -- Epilogue -- An Echo in the Darkness, chapter 1 -- Glossary of Terms -- Discussion guide.The holy city of Jerusalem has fallen. By the mercy of God, Hadassah, a young Christian girl survives famine, the deaths of her entire family, and unspeakable atrocities. And in Germania, a heroic young chieftain named Atretes battles the Romans with unmatched fury. It is prophesied tha Atretes will drive the Romans from his lands, and someday meet a dark complexioned woman from an exotic land whom he will come to love.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Christian fiction.; Church history; Enslaved women; Germanic peoples; Gladiators;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 11
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