Rivers, Francine
Summary: Atretes, German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness ... but his life is changed forever when he learns his son is alive. Atretes vows to find his son and return to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, the young widow who adopted his abandoned baby. But Atretes is undaunted. One woman should be no trouble at all. It doesn't take him long to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RivLivingston, Lesley
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RazorBill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIVEstep, Jennifer
Summary: Lady Everleigh's lack of magical ability relegates her to the shadows of the royal court of Bellona, a kingdom steeped in gladiator tradition. Seventeenth in line for the throne, Evie is nothing more than a ceremonial fixture, overlooked and mostly forgotten. When her cousin Vasilia, the crown princess, assassinates her mother the queen and takes the throne by force, Evie is also attacked,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTLivingston, Lesley
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIVLivingston, Lesley
Summary: When Caesar is murdered, Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices lose their protector and, realizing that Cleopatra is now in grave danger, travel to Alexandria, Egypt, for her safety and theirs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIVAdjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RivGong, Chloe
Summary: "Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to win unimaginable riches. Princess Calla Tuoleimi lurks in hiding. Five years ago, a massacre killed her parents and left the palace of Er...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GONDurham, David Anthony
Summary: "A historical novel of one of the most storied uprisings of classic times by an emerging master of the genre. From the author of Pride of Carthage, the superb fictional rendering of Hannibal's epic military campaigns against Carthage's archenemy Rome, comes the perfect follow-up: an equally superb novel of the legendary gladiator Spartacus and the vast slave revolt he led that came ever so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURKane, Ben.
Summary: Returning to his village after escaping the Roman army, Spartacus is betrayed by his jealous king and forced into life as a gladiator before executing a daring overthrow and assuming leadership over an army of escaped slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANRuocchio, Christopher
Summary: "Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries. Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2019
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Summary: In 48 B.C., having survived a disastrous campaign in Pythia as part of the Forgotten Legion and spent years fighting their way back to Rome, Romulus and Tarquinius have finally made it as far as Alexandria. On arrival, though, they find themselves in the midst of the Roman Civil War, are press-ganged into Caesar’s thinning legions and greatly outnumbered and fighting for their lives against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANScieszka, Jon.
Summary: Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SCIMessner, Kate
Summary: The mysterious box that Ranger the golden retriever found in the garden transports him back to first century Rome, where he must rescue Marcus, a young servant boy, and Quintus, a volunteer gladiator, from the brutal world of the Colosseum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021