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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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Orange Mosquito
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"We often know and recognize the skyline of cities but are completely unaware of what is hidden underground: discover the underground city in the Australian desert, learn about Canada's shopping arcades or New York's spider web like underground transport network"--Amazon.
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English
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"In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare - wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can...
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's where humans have kept their most sacred treasures and their darkest secrets. It's where we have found evidence of our past and may, at some point, find an escape route for our uncertain future. But what would we find there today? From the underground cities of Cappadocia to smuggling...
6) Underground
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.
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English
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"Thirteen-year-old Sully Stringfellow has always admired the great plumber heroes of Nitro City. These wrench-wielding warriors guarded the sewers faithfully -- until they were discredited by the powerful Ironwater Corporation as part of a sinister scheme to take over the city. Without the plumbers, Nitro is being overrun by mutant creatures, and things are about to go totally nuclear thanks to the potentially explosive Fiftieth Anniversary Burrito...
8) Wool
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Silo series volume 1
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English
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
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Big Picture Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Hundreds of fascinating facts are waiting to be unearthed in this book from Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski, the creative duo behind 'Maps'. Dive below the surface, and find out what happens under the earth and under the water. From early submarines and deep-sea life, to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels - you will never look at the world in the same way again!
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Hyacinth volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"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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Hyacinth volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
"Now that Hyacinth Hayward knows about the enchanted rivers under London, she's determined to find out more. Unfortunately, London isn't cooperating. Instead, Hyacinth stumbles on a new adversary--a girl who is trying to steal all the ancient stones that keep the city in balance. A girl with glowing, magical fingers, whose entire body is tattooed with spells. A girl called Minnie Tickle. (What? Were you expecting something more . . . fearsome?) To...
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Temple volume season 2
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
Daniel Milton's once comfortable world as a talented surgeon is pushed to even greater extremes as he risks everything to stay ahead of his lies in the much-anticipated second season. Daniel's wife Beth has woken from her coma and their daughter Eve is reeling with the discovery that her mother has been alive all this time. Lee, the co-founder of the underground clinic, gets swept up in a fanatical cause and Anna begins luring patients down beneath...
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First Second
Pub. Date
[2023]
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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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Knee deep volume 1
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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...
16) Long past dues
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Unorthodox chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
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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Frederik Sandwich volume 1
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English
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A completely implausible earthquake sets Frederik Sandwich and Pernille, a mysterious stranger, on an adventure through secret and forbidden places in their small town.
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Beauty and the beast volume season 2
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
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.
20) Where she fell
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English
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Teenager Eliza and her friends are going to explore a cave near their upstate New York home, but first her friends insist on dragging her to Drowner's Swamp, a bog legendary for its dangerous sinkholes, and a place which her mother has frequently warned her about; Eliza does not want to go, and when the earth opens up and swallows her she finds herself in a system of caves--and what she finds living there is strange and dangerous beyond anything the...
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