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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sinner. Villain. Ruthless.These are wicked names the Prince of Envy welcomes. They remind him what he isn't: a saint. And when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows he'll be called much worse before it ends. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way. With a powerful artifact and his own future at stake, Envy is determined to win, though none of his meticulous plans prepare him for...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years of human history, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind's next great leap. But will it mark a new chapter in our development. or our extinction? A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today. In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist...
3) Subterranean
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Archaelogist Ashley Carter and a team of specialists attempt to explore a labyrinth deep beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth, a deadly maze that holds things that should not be disturbed.
Author
Series
Adam Binder novels volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Adam Binder has lost what matters most to him. Having finally learned the true identity of the warlock preying on his family, what was supposed to be a final confrontation with the fiend instead became a trap that sent Adam's beloved Vicente into the realm of the dead, where none living are meant to be. Bound by debt, oath, and love, Adam blazes his own trail into the underworld to get Vicente back, and to end the threat of the warlock once and for...
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is a guide to the other side. To heaven, hell, and in between, from the golden halls of Valhalla to the ancient Egyptian journey of judgment. Prepare to explore eternal paradises, ghostly isles, and kingdoms of the dead. Through history, folklore, fact, and fantasy, discover how people across the world have sought to answer the unanswerable question: where do we go after we die?"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A melancholy masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century. In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist--together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans--discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne's imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction...
8) Grumbones
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Budding sleuths Helena and her best friend Ben hire an insufferable ghostly guide named Grumbones to track down her recently deceased grandmother in the underworld.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished--an...
10) The Aeneid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of the west. For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey...
Author
Series
Shadow bruja volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After negotiating with the queen of the underworld for ten days aboveground, teenage bruja Ren sets out to save her friends and put the Lords of Night back to sleep forever, all without the help of her shadow magic and time rope.
12) Schrader's chord
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After his estranged father's mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four ancient records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead. When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror....
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or, they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reincarnated in the mortal world. Whichever road they decide...
Series
Made in Abyss volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Riko and Reg have left the Seeker Camp and ventured further into the Abyss! The mysteries and peril that await them are the stuff of nightmares-but these nightmares are ruthless, deadly and very real. Do they have the courage and strength to survive as they descend into the deeper layers?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pat thought being mayor was hard—but now, it’s more than just the village that’s in danger. Captain Cookie has been struck by a terrifying vision. He’s learned that if anyone dares disturb the Cookie Islands, it will trigger the destruction of all the realms of existence! And Jen has just found the final clue to find the islands by herself! Now Pat and his friends have to go back to the Overworld, through the Nether, and to the Underworld...
Series
Made in Abyss volume 8
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"So close, yet so far. The trio have arrived at Ido Front! The depths' sixth layer is almost within reach, but getting there is easier said than done. Before they can continue their journey, they have to get past the Sovereign of Dawn: Bondrewd!"-- cover page 4.
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A dark past Vueko, once one of the Three Sages, tells the harrowing origin story of the Village of the Hollows! What terrors did the members of the suicide squad Ganja and their leader, Wazukyan, find on their adventure into the Abyss?!"-- cover page 4.
18) Ghost book
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"July Chen sees ghosts. But her dad insists ghosts aren't real. So she pretends they don't exist. Which is incredibly difficult now as it's Hungry Ghost month, when the Gates of the Underworld open and dangerous ghosts run amok in the living world. When July saves a boy ghost from being devoured by a Hungry Ghost, he becomes her first ever friend. Except William is not a ghost. He's a wandering soul wavering between life and death. As the new friends...
Series
Made in Abyss volume 7
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A DESPERATE SEARCH. Riko awakens in the sixth layer, but Reg and Nanachi are nowhere to be found. Riko's search for her companions takes her deep into the village of the Hollows, where she must make a decision that could mean the end of Nanachi's freedom--or the end of Riko's life."-- cover page 4.
Series
Made in Abyss volume 6
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The path of no return. Riko and her friends have finally made it to the sixth layer! Not long after taking their last dive, they find themselves in a village populated by Hollows who possess a peculiar sense of value. Mysteries, terrors, and bewildering truths await them in the Abyss deepest depths!"-- cover page 4.
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