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"In Underland, Macfarlane 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...
2) Neverwhere
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"Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl--an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere--a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl...
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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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Imagine a world without suffering, hunger, or inequality-- one in which every person has a job and a purpose. Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley is among the youngest generation of citizens living in America-5, a high-tech, underground utopia where everyone lifes in peace and every conceivable need is provided for. America-Five is one of many settlements established after a global catastrophe known as the Storm radically altered the course of the...
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Books of Ember volume 1
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English
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In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions
6) Tunnels
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Tunnels volume 1
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English
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When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father
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First Second
Pub. Date
[2023]
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230 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"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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"Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I.... Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies 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 and most defiant women venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not...
10) Freefall
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Tunnels volume 3
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Chicken House/Scholastic
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English
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As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
11) The evolution underground: burrows, bunkers, and the marvelous subterranean world beneath our feet
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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405 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Humans have “gone underground” for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold Warera bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on earth. Without burrowing, the planet would be very different today. Many animal lineages alive nowincluding our ownonly survived a cataclysmic meteorite strike 65 million years ago because they went underground.On a grander scale, the chemistry of...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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6 videodiscs (1,066 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A man-beast living under the streets of New York City saves and befriends a wealthy and shallow attorney after she is beaten and left for dead. From the moment these two cross paths, they share a strong psychic bond, and though they live in separate worlds, their love continues to grow without measure.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2008]
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6 videodiscs (1,043 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A man-beast living under the streets of New York City saves and befriends a wealthy and shallow attorney after she is beaten and left for dead. From the moment these two cross paths, they share a strong psychic bond, and though they live in separate worlds, their love continues to grow without measure.
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