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1) Shift
Author
Series
Silo series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future less than 50 years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground. The history of the silo is about to be written. Our future is about to begin.
2) Dust
Author
Series
Language
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?"--...
3) Underground
Author
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 Indentification" page.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Awakened novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
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:...
Series
Knee deep volume 1
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
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...
Author
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.".
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In order to stop the Killing Stone Ritual and rescue Haruhime, Bell and Mikoto return to Ishtar Familia's domain. With a thunderous roar, Bell unleashes a Firebolt--but just as victory seems within reach, his hopes are dashed when he finds himself face-to-face with Aisha Belka, the woman who soundly defeated him in their last battle. Swelling with resolve, Bell is determined to win against all odds, but with the princess's freedom on the line, the...
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After a disastrous trip to Orario's Pleasure Quarter, Bell has made it back home in one piece, thanks to a little help from a courtesan named Haruhime. Her plight lingers in his mind, and after he tells the rest of Hestia Familia about her, Mikoto perks up, recognizing the name of her long-lost friend! But if they want to save her from her cruel fate, they'll have to get through Ishtar Familia, and that's no easy feat..."-- provided by publisher....
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Adventurer Bell Cranell's life changed forever when he met the goddess Hestia, becoming the first member of her familia. Since then, he's gone on many adventures, growing much stronger in the process. But when he steps foot into Orario's pleasure quarter, where Ishtar Familia reigns supreme, he soon finds himself in way over his head... With enemies all around him, he'll need the help of a beautiful, fox-eared courtesan if he's to have any hope of...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
14) Long past dues
Author
Series
Unorthodox chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
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...
15) Social fiction
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An anonymous official chides a man under surveillance for stepping out of view of a security camera; visitors to an underground mall are forced to form a new society when a nuclear strike may (or may not) have left them as the sole survivors on Earth; newlyweds living in an authoritarian New York City attempt to navigate the insidious hurdles of being permitted to have a child; and a Puerto Rican boxer discovers that segregation continues in America,...
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