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1) Shift
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"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
2) Wool
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English
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In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace...
4) The lifters
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gran and his new friend, Catalina, journey underground to defeat a strange force that threatens their town, Carousel.
5) Dust
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English
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"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
"Thanks to the heroics of former New York City Mayor Tom Cafferty and his team, the world is once again safe. The villainous Foundation for Human Advancement has been dismantled, the cities of the world are safe from nuclear annihilation, and Cafferty is now on a hunt to decimate every nest of creatures on the planet. When Cafferty enters a nest underneath the Nevada desert, he is horrified to find it completely empty. It can only mean one thing:...
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English
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"Grimsby, the newest Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself in hot water when he intercepts a friend's case in this fast-paced and thrilling urban fantasy. Against all odds, Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby has become an Auditor, enforcing laws about magic for Boston's Department of Unorthodox Affairs. But Grimsby soon realizes the daily grind of his job is far removed from the glamour he imagined. Overlooked for every exciting...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An author-preferred edition of the story of Richard Mayhew, who discovers an alternate city beneath London, reconciles inconsistencies between the U.S. and U.K. versions, reinstates previously cut scenes, and incorporates the Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
9) Underground
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Identification" page.
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Series
Hyacinth volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Hyacinth mixes hot and cold water in a sink in London with disastrous results, she learns that the city was built on magical rivers that are now London's sewers--and somehow her family is connected to the magic"--
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Series
Hyacinth volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Hyacinth Hayward tries to learn more about the magical rivers under London and how her family is connected to them, she stumbles upon a plot to steal the ancient stones that hold the city together"--
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Series
Line between volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged--the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie's life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine...
13) Into the fire
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Series
The Earthburst Saga volume Book 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
I've made it down from the solitude of the station, all the way to an incredible underground bunker complex. I'm surrounded by secret cutting-edge technologies that almost defy belief. In just three days, the final stage of Ignacio Zola's demented plan to reach a new world will eliminate all life on Earth, unless I can pull off a miracle. I'm the man who uncovered Zola's plan. And now, I'm the only man who can stop him.
14) Eight will fall
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Larkin leads a band of magical outlaws through a subterranean realm of horrors and certain death.
In Demura, magic is illegal. Eight criminals led by rebellious Larkin are sent on a mission to rid their realm of an ancient evil lurking beneath the surface. Descending into a world full of unspeakable horrors, Larkin and her crew must use their forbidden magic to survive. Amias, a fellow outlaw with a notorious past, discovers that...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lie below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest among them venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not the only secret preserved in the cool, dark cellars ... In present day, Rosalyn travels to Champagne to select vintages...
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