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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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"Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in the Neverwhere--a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely...
3) Neverwhere
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2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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On his way to dinner with his fiancee, Richard Mayhew helps a mysterious wounded girl lying on the sidewalk. The next day, he discovers his actions have erased him from existence and he is now consigned to the underground world of London Below.
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369 pages ; 24 cm
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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...
5) Underground
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.
7) Above
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326 pages ; 22 cm
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Pat O'Toole, his brother Coop, and their new companion, Kate, have narrowly escaped the cultlike community below New York City but must try to stop the cult's leader, Kate's grandfather.
8) Caída libre
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Tunnels volume 3
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573 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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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.
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230 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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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...
13) The unflushables
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321 pages ; 21 cm
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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.
15) Neverwhere
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414 pages ; 23 cm
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"Neverwhere" cuenta la historia de Richard Mayhew, un joven londinense con una vida ordinaria que cambia para siempre cuando se sumerge a través de los intersticios de la realidad en el subsuelo de Londres. Allí, como debajo de cada gran ciudad, existe un mundo desconocido e invisible, plagado de seres extraños, en el que sobrevivir dependerá de abrir las puertas adecuadas.
After he helps a stranger on a London sidewalk, Richard Mayhew discovers...
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Underland chronicles volume 2
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In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld. Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable...
19) The lifters
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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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"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...
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