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1) Wool
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Series
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English
Description
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...
2) Shift
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Series
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English
Description
"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...
3) Dust
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Series
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English
Description
"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
Description
"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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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.
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English
Description
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe...
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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."
Author
Series
Line between volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
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...
11) 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.
12) Knee deep: 1
Author
Series
Knee Deep volume 1
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Description
"Two hundred years in the future, refugees from an environmental cataclysm have fled underground. They survive, scrounging out a living in a twisted maze of tunnels and canals. Scavengers, mistitfs, bandits, renegades and mutants are among the citizens of this subterranean realm. They are sewerfolk, their home, the bowels of a utopian city that was never completed. Life is hard enough, but an overzealous mining company, PERCH wants to get their claws...
13) The unflushables
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sully Stringfellow, his arch-nemesis Izzy Cisco, friend Moleman, and a league of long-forgotten plumber heroes team up to save Nitro City from mutant creatures in the sewers.
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Series
Chiri to Chiriri volume 4
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Behind a hole in their basement wall, Chirri and Chirra discover a network of tunnels. Join them as they visit moles, discover caves full of glowing flowers, poke at the roots of growing plants, traverse a subterranean lake, and spend the night with a family of badgers!" --
15) The lifters
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gran and his new friend, Catalina, journey underground to defeat a strange force that threatens their town, Carousel.
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Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It was supposed to just be a normal basement--some storage boxes, dust, you know, the usual basement stuff. But when Milo is sent by his mother to fetch a sock from the basement of the historic home they've moved into, Milo finds a door in the back that he's never seen before. Turns out that the basement of his house is enormous. In fact, there is a whole world down there. As Milo travels ever deeper into the Basement World, he meets the many Things...
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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"--
Author
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"--
19) 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...
20) Topside
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Jo, a maintenance technician in an underground society, makes a massive error during a routine repair that destabilizes her planet's core, and to set things right, must journey above ground, to a dangerous area swarming with alien life.
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