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Chain-Gang All-Stars / by Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,author.;
"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.; Novels.; Lesbians; Private prisons; Women gladiators; Women prisoners;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The boy with the star tattoo : a novel / by Carner, Talia,author.;
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice and escapes to Spain, leaving her baby in the care of his nursemaid. By the time Claudette is able to return years later, her son has disappeared. Unbeknown to his anguished mother, the boy has been rescued by a Youth Aliyah agent searching for Jewish orphans. 1968: When Israeli naval officer Daniel Yarden recruits Sharon Bloomenthal for a secret naval operation in Cherbourg, France, he can't imagine that he is the target of the agenda of the twenty-year-old grieving the recent loss of her fiancé in a drowned submarine. Sharon suspects that Danny's past in Youth Aliyah may reflect that of her mysterious late mother and she sets out to track her boss's extraordinary journey as an orphan in a quaint French village all the way to Israel. As Danny focuses on the future of his people and on executing a daring, crucial operation under France's radar, he is unaware that the obsessed Sharon follows the breadcrumbs of clues across the country to find her answers. But she is wholly unprepared for the dilemma she must face upon solving the puzzle"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Jews; Orphans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as herself / by Blume, Judy.;
While spending the winter of 1947-48 in Miami Beach with her family, ten-year-old Sally makes up stories, casts herself in starring roles in movies, and encounters a sinister stranger."Ages 8-12"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Families; Jews; Moving, Household; Imagination;
© 2014, c1977., Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
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Ultimate duels / by Kent, Lindsay.;
Subjects: Star Wars fiction.; Science fiction.;
© c2011., DK Publishing,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Trapped in the Death Star / by Siglain, Michael.; Pilot Studio.;
Junior reader: Kindergarten-Grade 2.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Star Wars fiction.; Movie novels.; Vader, Darth (Fictitious character); Solo, Han (Fictitious character); Skywalker, Luke (Fictitious character); Space ships; Space warfare;
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Where to hide a star / by Jeffers, Oliver.;
Once there was a boy who would often play hide-and-seek with his friends the star and the penguin. The star was always easy to find, but one day it went missing. So, the boy radioed the Martian for help and soon found himself on an exciting spaceship rescue mission to the North Pole! But there, he discovered that he wasn't the only one who had always dreamed of having a star as a friend... The out-of-this-world, long-awaited sequel to the much-loved Boy stories, loved all around the world - now introducing a brand-new character!
Subjects: Picture books.; Boys; Penguins; Stars; Extraterrestrial beings; Friendship;
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The oceans and the stars : a sea story, a war story, a love story : the seven battles and mutiny of Athena, Patrol Coastal Ship 15 / by Helprin, Mark,author.;
"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena's fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy. As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial"--
Subjects: Sea fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; United States. Navy; Warships; Man-woman relationships; Ship captains; Trials (Military offenses); Trials (Naval offenses);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Breakout squad / by Windham, Ryder.; Lo, Wayne.;
Subjects: Star Wars fiction.; Science fiction.;
© c2009., Grosset & Dunlap,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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When the stars came home / by Luby, Brittany.; Donovan, Natasha.;
After his family moves to the city, young Ojiig misses the life he knew back home and the night sky full of stars until his parents help him find ways to make the city feel more like home.
Subjects: Picture books.; Moving, Household; Ojibwa Indians; Indigenous peoples;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stars in an Italian sky / by Santopolo, Jill,author.;
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a sweeping story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy, and a blossoming relationship generations later that will reveal a long-buried family secret"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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