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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her of the Underground Railroad and they plot their escape.Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds on each leg of her journey...Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors of black life in pre-Civil War America. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage, and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Distraction
Part #3 of "Underground Kings" series by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
Sven is a man who takes pride in his ability to separate himself from his emotions. He's a man who knows who he is and where he's going in life, a man who needs no one, because needing someone, anyone, is a weakness. Maggie wants the happily ever after but has never picked the right men, or stuck around long enough, to build a forever. It's always been easier to get out early, before emotions make things messy.
When Maggie wakes up naked in Sven's bed, with no memory of the night before, these two must be honest about their feelings and face their fears, so they can build a future together. Will love be enough for them to get their happy ending together, or will a threat from outside strike them down before they ever have a chance?
A Cool Breeze on the Underground
Don Winslow
Mystery & Thrillers
Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met Joe Graham, a one-armed P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive New England institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook-- from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room.
Now it's payback time. The Bank wants Neal to put his skills to work in finding Allie Chase, the rebellious teenage daughter of a prominent senator. The problem: Allie has gone underground in London, and to get her back, Neal has to follow her into the punk scene, a violent netherworld where drugs run rampant and rage is the name of the game. Up against punk junkies, antique book thieves, and murderous betrayal, Neal has his work cut out for him to save Allie-- and get back above ground for good.
Assumption
Part #1 of "Underground Kings" series by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
[as·sump·tion:]
a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof
They say when you assume that you make an ass out of you and me.
Kenton Mayson learned this lesson firsthand when he made assumptions about Autumn Freeman and the kind of woman she is based on what little information he had. What he finds out is she’s not only beautiful, but also smart, funny, a fighter, and exactly the kind of woman he wants to share his life with.
Autumn made assumptions of her own about Kenton, and now he needs to prove her wrong in order to protect her and their future.
Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fiction / Psychology / Philosophy
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
Underground Guardians Box Set
Lisa Renee Jones
Romance / Suspense / Mystery
About Protector:
Mason Alexander is the leader of the elite Black Knights, a special forces unit that have all been genetically enhanced. He must lead his team to stop a rogue group of Knights lead by his brother. Holly Hart, a beautiful doctor who has devoted her life to genetic research, is the woman who can help achieve his goal of capturing his brother. Dark danger and hot passion will bring them together, but will Mason's secrets, drive them apart, before love can save them?
About Healer:
The genetically enhanced elite Special Forces Unit The Black Knights continues to battle to save the world from a rogue group of their own men who wish to rule the world. Marcella Alexander, a woman considered myth by most, is named the Witch Doctor for her unique healing powers that the enemy wishes to use for evil. Diego, doctor of the Knights, is enlisted to find Marcella and bring her to safety before she can be captured. Marcella doesn't know who to trust and she will not go with Diego freely. Diego will have to become her captor to save her life, and now, on the run through a danger infested territory inside Mexico, they will find both obstacles, and burning hot passion. But Diego must earn more than Marcella's passion. He must earn her heart and her trust, and do so quickly if he is to save her from a madman who is determined to possess her himself.
Deep
Part #8 of "Chicago Underground" series by Skye Warren
Romance / Suspense / Contemporary
Dark. Powerful. Dangerous.
Philip Murphy has all of Chicago under his thumb. Except me.
We met in a perfect storm of violence and lust. He saved me and then disappeared from my life. Now I pretend I never knew that kind of darkness. I focus on midterms and campus parties, as if they can wipe the slate clean.
Then he turns up outside my dorm room—wounded and barely conscious. He’s the head of a crime syndicate, a powerful man, but he needs me now. There are traitors in his midst.
I can help him, but I can’t fall for him.
Not again.
The Underground
K. A. Applegate
Science Fiction / Young Adult / Fiction
What's tasty, good for you, and only takes sixty seconds to make? Oatmeal. And it's making the Yeerks more than a little crazy. Now Rachel, the other Animorphs, and Ax have a new weapon against the Yeerks. Sounds good, right?
Children of the Underground
Trevor Shane
Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers
Even if you have choices, sometimes you only have one worth making.
The war had been raging for as long as anyone could remember. The secret, endless war between two opposing sides—one good, one evil. Neither side knows which is which; it is kill or be killed in an invisible conflict where assassination is the weapon of choice.
When she was just seventeen, Maria was pulled into this secret war and they killed her lover and stole her child. Now they are telling her to go home. To ignore what she knows is going on in the shadows all around her. They told Maria to forget all she’d lost. The trouble is, some things simply can’t be forgotten.
Now, with a loose-cannon killer at her side, Maria is going to do whatever it takes to get back what belongs to her. And that means starting a war of her own…
Emails from the Underground Lab
Andrew Day
Politics / Nonfiction / Sociology
Scientific research can be hard enough without the added danger of zombies overrunning your lab, or someone tearing a hole in the fabric of space/time. Not to mention inconsiderate people throwing garbage down the bottomless pit. Luckily your new Occupational Health and Safety Officer is here to keep the risks to a minimum, so you can focus on the science, and not on the impending death.Scientific research can be hard enough without the added danger of zombies overrunning your lab, or someone tearing a hole in the fabric of space/time. Not to mention inconsiderate people throwing garbage down the bottomless pit. Luckily your new Occupational Health and Safety Officer is here to keep the risks to a minimum, so you can focus on the science, and not on the impending death.Presented here are the internal emails from the Henry Bishop Institute of Science, where OHS Officer Sarah Tanner does her best to ensure that when the question “What’s the worst that can happen?” is asked, the answer doesn’t have to be “Doom upon us all”.
Balzac's War: A Tale of Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
Literature & Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy
A deadly invasion of a far-future ecologically ravaged earth. A terrible secret discovered in a ruined city. Earth is no longer ruled by humans, but by the species they uplifted. Creatures called fleshdogs are their emissaries, and humanity must fight this implacable enemy or face extinction. Balzac must confront monsters and more trying to find his lover. And when he does find her, will the price be too great? This novella is part of Jeff VanderMeer’s cycle of far-future stories, which culminated with the critically acclaimed novel Veniss Underground. As an added bonus, this e-book also includes two extras: an incomplete story set during the same time period as “Balzac’s War” and VanderMeer’s original afterword to the UK edition of Veniss Underground, shedding light on the original creator of the creatures that take center stage in “Balzac’s War.”
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Haruki Murakami
Fiction / Surrealism / Magical Realism
It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.
In an attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and arguably Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, talked to the people who lived through the catastrophe—from a Subway Authority employee with survivor guilt, to a fashion salesman with more venom for the media than for the perpetrators, to a young cult member who vehemently condemns the attack though he has not quit Aum. Through these and many other voices, Murakami exposes intriguing aspects of the Japanese psyche. And as he discerns the fundamental issues leading to the attack, we achieve a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere. Hauntingly compelling and inescapably important, Underground is a powerful work of journalistic literature from one of the world’s most perceptive writers.
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Zombie King and Other Scary Short Stories for Halloween (Mystery Underground)
David Anthony & Charles David Clasman
MYSTERY UNDERGROUNDZOMBIE KING AND OTHER SCARY STORIESMystery Underground is a collection of scary short stories for kids, middle grade readers, and everyone who likes a good scare. The stories combine the monsters and mystery of Goosebumps with the surprise endings of the Twilight Zone. They are the perfect scary stories to read in the dark, around the campfire, or under the covers at night.MYSTERY UNDERGROUNDZOMBIE KING AND OTHER SCARY SHORT STORIESBy Charles David Clasman and David AnthonyMystery Underground is a collection of scary short stories for kids, middle grade readers, and everyone who likes a good scare. The stories combine the monsters and mystery of Goosebumps with the surprise endings of The Twilight Zone. They are the perfect scary stories to read on Halloween, in the dark, around the campfire, or under the covers at night with a flashlight.Be warned. This bloodcurdling book contains eight terrifying tales. Read a scare … if you dare!#1: ZOMBIE KINGBryce doesn’t want to dress up as something silly for Halloween. He wants to be a zombie. He even calls himself the Zombie King. Does he get his wish in the graveyard on a haunted foggy night?#2: GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARDBeneath the eerie glow of the Harvest Moon, Noah and his friends sneak into the cemetery for a game of Ghost in the Graveyard. While getting in is a challenge, getting out may be impossible.#3: SECRET OF THE SINKHOLEBrady, Calvin, and Troy discover a sinkhole in a Florida orange grove. There are police cars and flashing lights all around, but no other people. When they climb into the hole, the boys discover the frightening truth about how—and what—causes sinkholes to form.#4: TAR PIT TERRORThe fossils of many prehistoric animals—from dire wolves to mastodons—have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits. When Liam and Charlotte discover a saber-toothed cat’s paw, they realize that not all fossils want to be found.#5: HAPPY HAIRY BIRTHDAYIt’s Cody Wolf’s birthday and a party waits for him. To get there, he takes a dangerous short cut. Halfway along, a snarling werewolf appears in his path. Cody runs but the werewolf pursues. The chase in on!#6: DEEP GREEN SEAEmma and her family return wearily home after a hurricane. The devastation left behind looks like a zombie apocalypse. But are zombies the scariest things that can rise from the ruin?#7: NO. 13 PENCILJackson is an amazing artist. His drawings of monsters, beasts, and witches are realistic and terrifying. What happens when the creatures come to life?#8: SLEEPING BEAR DOOMMany legends surround the majestic and mysterious Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes. What caused the dunes to form? Why do they continue to grow year after year? Are the dunes really devouring the surrounding land like a ravenous beast? Caleb and Katie wonder many things as they begin to climb. Will the answers they find allow them to escape?ALSO AVAILABLEMYSTERY UNDERGROUND: MICHIGAN MONSTERSDive into Terror in the Great Lakes StateMYSTERY UNDERGROUND: FRIGHTENING FLORIDAFear Strikes Florida When the Sunshine State Goes Dark MYSTERY UNDERGROUND: CALIFORNIA CREATURESBeware the Glitter of the Golden State
Underground
Soyeon Park
Seoul is a city where hundreds years of history is buried. Now the secret place reveals. A rich old man is obsessed with a crappy rundown house. Min is living in and protecting it because the house is only place his autism sister knows. Min discover why the old man wants his place.This book is an English version of
The Friendly Creeper Diaries: The Moon City, Book 4: The Underground City
Mark Mulle
Childrens
After saving his village from Lucas, the creeper king who lived in the Nether, Mike has wanted nothing more than to unwind at home. But his best friend David stumbled upon a legend he believes can be true. Even though Mike just wants to relax, he doesn’t want his best friend to run into any danger without some help. Is there really a Moon City after all?GENRE: Children’s Adventure (An Unofficial Minecraft Book for Kids Ages 9 - 12 (Preteen)After saving his village from Lucas, the creeper king who lived in the Nether, Mike has wanted nothing more than to unwind at home. Turning down the chance to be mayor, he works on collecting books and forming a library.However, his best friend, David, isn’t as content to settle down. Still yearning for adventure, he believes that all legends can be true – he just has to find the right one.When David discovers that there might be another city underneath the Sun City, he is excited to go explore. Even though Mike just wants to relax, he doesn’t want his best friend to run into any danger without some help.Together, the friends head towards the Sun City. But Mike quickly discovers there might be more truth to this legend than the other ones that David had dragged him along to explore. With the king possibly not being the man they thought he was, and the appearance of a strange girl, the friends quickly find themselves in over their heads.Author’s Note: This short story is for your reading pleasure. The characters in this "Minecraft Adventure Series" such as Steve, Endermen, Creeper or Herobrine...etc are based on the Minecraft Game coming from Minecraft ®/TM & © 2009-2013 Mojang / Notch
Death Magic
Part #3 of "Abnormals Underground" series by Holly Hook
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
Alyssa is now faced with an impossible choice. Save her battle partner and her love, Xavier, or save the world.
After defeating the Thoreau and the dragon Gaozu in Turkey's most ancient ruins, Alyssa and Xavier return to Cumberland with nothing left to do but to rescue their parents from the dreaded Infernal Dimension. But not only is Thoreau, the demonic mayor, a lot less defeated that the two of them hoped, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with Xavier. Alyssa's always dismissed him as confusing and moody, especially since he's just pushed her away AGAIN--but when Xavier goes over the edge and sinks into a despair that makes him helpless, it's clear to Alyssa there's more than teen angst at work.
Xavier's kept a little secret from Alyssa this whole time.
He's cursed to turn into a horrible creature soon and only Alyssa, who is descended from the most powerful Abnormals ever to live, can save him from his past. Easy, right? NOPE. Saving Xavier means that Alyssa must go to Thoreau and let him awaken another terrifying part of her, a part from a distant and terrifying relative she has no interest in meeting. And if that happens, she's one step closer to becoming the being who can help Thoreau enslave the world.
Things are bad enough now that Alyssa is a vampire with a fire magic. This will make Alyssa even less normal.
It will make her face the fact that she may be the most horrible monster ever to live.
And it may force her to give up the chance to have anything close to a Normal life ever again.
It's an impossible choice.
Death Magic is the third book of the Abnormals Underground series, a young adult urban fantasy with vampires, shifters, mages, demons and other creatures of the night. It is the third book of what will likely be a five-book series.
**
Tales From The Underground: 3 The Dirgible
Wanda La Claire
Horror / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers
Thinking they are safe, Rachael and the dirigible crew land to make repairs. This is the third installment.In the future, society has fractured. Rachael works in a library on the surface, very close to the entrance of an underground city. They are dangerous places; at least, she has been told that they are dangerous for people like her… people who are a little… different from normal. Rachael met someone, someone from the city and he changed her life but not in a good way. Now, she is on the run, pursued by people who want to kill her but she doesn’t know why.
Rough Hard Fierce, Chicago Underground 1-3 (Rough Hard Fierce)
Part #1 of "Chicago Underground" series by Skye Warren
Romance / Suspense / Contemporary
Contains ROUGH, HARD, and FIERCE - all three books in Colin and Allie's complete story! This boxed set in the Chicago Underground series is over 400 pages.
Meet the woman shaped by betrayal and the man determined to save her at any cost...
ROUGH (Book One)
I'm a cautionary tale. A statistic. A victim. A single teenage mother from the poor part of town. Most of the time I'm too busy working and struggling to care what people think. Survival doesn't come easy.
I have a dark secret, a pressure valve, a rare moment just for myself. On these nights I visit a club. There I find men who give me what I need.
Men like Colin.
But he wants more than a few stolen hours. He demands more than my body. He wants my heart and soul--my happily ever after. I never thought I'd be Cinderella. I never thought a man that rough could be my prince.
HARD (Book Two)
What Colin doesn't know can't hurt him.
At least that's what I tell myself about the secrets I keep. I don't have a choice, not if I want to keep my daughter safe. And keep him Colin safe too. There are enemies in the shadows waiting to strike from all sides. I'm holding them out with my bare hands, but it's hard not to get crushed in the process.
And the truth has a way of coming out.
If I'm not careful, the past I've been working so hard to hide, the pain I've been fighting so long to outrun, will wipe out the man I love.
FIERCE (Book Three)
I'm torn between what I want and what I need. Between the men in my past and the man by my side. Colin has tried to control me, to use me. But he also guards me so fiercely my heart aches.
Raincheck. Business. Don't wait up. --C
That's the note he leaves for me, as if I could sit around while he fights my dragons. As if I could let himself get killed in some vain attempt to protect me.
There's no protection left for me. No redemption either.
This is my battle, and I've already lost.
Boxed sets in the Chicago Underground series:
Rough Hard Fierce - Colin and Allie's story
Wild Dirty Secret - Luke and Shelly's story
Royale
Part #2 of "The Underground Series" series by Kennedy Plumb
The highly anticipated second book in ‘The Underground’ series.
Samuel Carmichael’s worst nightmare became reality when he came face to face with the notorious villain Vegas. Now he can’t shake the feeling that things in her glittery casino are not what they appear. Forced to form new alliances and launch himself straight into the middle of a dangerous power conflict, Sam will do anything to make sure Ella is freed from Vegas’s clutches.
C9 began to implode the day Sam escaped to find Ella, leaving Mateo and his brother Eddie with heavy responsibilities they never asked for but now can’t run away from. As the Zone begins to collapse from the inside out, Teo must ask himself if survival is worth fighting for. His brother’s life depends on it.
Two brothers on opposite sides of a crumbling Underground face insurmountable odds to fight for the siblings they have given up everything for.
Will their lives be next?
Will a brother’s love be enough?
Praise for **
“I love a good dystopian book and this just hit the mark for me.” -Bee, Goodreads Reviewer
“I’ve been on the hunt for a book that could transport me back to the way I felt when I first fell in love with the Dystopian genre and Buried went above and beyond!” -Kora Greenwood, Author of Gifted
“This one was PERFECTION!” -Annie, Goodreads Reviewer
“Wow. I am obsessed with this book and I am currently planning when I can reread it to somehow experience it again.” -Lill, Goodreads Reviewer
The White Wolf's Son: The Albino Underground
Michael Moorcock
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Historical Fiction / Literature & Fiction
Aspect published the previous novel in the series, The Skrayling Tree, in hardcover (0-446-53104-9) in 2003 and in mass market (0-446-61340-1) in 7/04. The prior novel. The Dreamthief's Daughter (Aspect hardcover, 2001, 0-446-52618-5; mass market, 2002, 0-446-61120-4) received praise from the Washington Post, Denver Post, and Locus, where it was featured on the 2001 Recommended Reading list. - Aspect reissued Moorcock's classic Gloriana, or the Unfulfill'd Queen in trade paperback in 8/04. Gloriana won Moorcock the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the British Fantasy Award. - Moorcock's Elric the Eternal Champion saga has been optioned by Universal Pictures, with Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie) producing. - Michael Moorcock is a vanguard author, editor, journalist, critic, and rock musician, who is editor of the controversial magazine New Worlds. A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Moorcock has won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the British Fantasy Award, among others.
Scenes from the Underground
Gabriel Cholette
Finalist, Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging WritersI have just heard for the first time the expression "to make soup": it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.In Instagram-style vignettes that span Montreal, New York, and Berlin, our narrator — a doctoral student in medieval studies — leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves as he explores the sex, drugs, and music that define queer nightlife.Accompanied by Jacob Pyne's full-colour illustrations, which perfectly punctuate the narrator's occasional self-destructive melancholy, Scenes from the Underground delivers the fully uninhibited field notes of the club scene.
The Vinyl Underground
Rob Rufus
Dig it.
During the tumultuous year of 1968, four teens are drawn together: Ronnie Bingham, who is grieving his brother’s death in Vietnam; Milo, Ronnie’s bookish best friend; “Ramrod,” a star athlete who is secretly avoiding the draft; and Hana, the new girl, a half-Japanese badass rock-n-roller whose presence doesn’t sit well with their segregated high school.
The four outcasts find sanctuary in “The Vinyl Underground,” a record club where they spin music, joke, debate, and escape the stifling norms of their small southern town. But Ronnie’s eighteenth birthday is looming. Together, they hatch a plan to keep Ronnie from being drafted. But when a horrific act of racial-charged violence rocks the gang to their core, they decide it’s time for an epic act of rebellion.
Everything Sucks #1, Underground
Mark McAnaney
What does a small town theater in Montana have in common with a medieval Underground city? A guy named Hector. Read and find it why.Have you ever read a book and thought, "gee I'd really like to know more about all those background characters!" Well we here at Team Pop Culture thought of that; because we're awesome, and we've got you covered. Behold, the Everything Sucks series! All of these short stories are stand-alones, and will make sense even if you haven't read the novel "Pop Culture Sucks, Manifesto of a Vampire" (*cough* it's a great book though *cough*)The series will either introduce you to, or expand on, various characters from the Pop Culture Universe. You'll get peeks at things like: Iris's time in the Underground Gary's life in the late 1940's Stitch, the Speakeasy barkeep And many all new charactersSo whether you're familiar with these guys or not, this is a series you should check out!
Poems From the Underground Volume 2
Robert C. Waggoner
The second volume of random poetry I've written from 2006 to 2011, covering love, sex, hate, angst, frustration, and longing of the soul. The first in a set to be released.Experience time travel and romance in this novella for mature young adults.Virgil was ready to risk danger crossing the prairie to find his father and a fortune in gold. After the long wagon journey to Colorado, his difficulties should have been over. But they were only beginning. Soon he would find himself among among mammoth hunters and falling in love.During his puberty rite, Virgil was given a vision. But now there's danger. Will he live to make his vision real or perish in an age when humanity is extinct? This time travel romance is intended for adults and mature young adults.
The Underground Toy Society Saves Peggy
Jessica Adams
Womens Fiction / Chick Lit / Fiction
Peggy remembers a time when she was the only baby doll in the house. Janice loved Peggy so much, but as all little girls do, Janice grew up. Peggy was passed down to Janice's two daughters, Jessica and Jennifer. Peggy had to learn to share her time with other toys. After the two girls grew up, and Janice passed away, Peggy was forgotten. What will happen to Peggy?Peggy remembers a time when she was the only baby doll in the house. Janice loved Peggy so much, but as all little girls do, Janice grew up. Peggy was passed down to Janice's two daughters, Jessica and Jennifer. Peggy had to learn to share her time with other toys. After the two girls grew up, and Janice passed away, Peggy was forgotten. What will happen to Peggy? How will she ever find children to love her again?
London Underground: An Unofficial Legend of The Secret World (Unofficial Legends of The Secret World Book 2)
Blodwedd Mallory
When she leaves Innsmouth Academy to join with the Templars, Blodwedd “Wedd” Mallory hopes to finish her training and be assigned to the field as an agent like her mother. But, will her chances be sidelined by Special Assignment Supervisor Dame Julia and Master-of-Arms Brigadier Lethe when a deadly supernatural bomb in Tokyo throws the world into an uproar and her mother goes missing?
Deeper
Part #3 of "The Underground" series by Jenika Snow
Romance / Paranormal / Contemporary
When Stella Vincent's father gambled away her childhood home, it was up to her to get it back. But when she finally met the man who held the deed, she realized just how dangerous he really was.
And how much she wanted him.
Tate Wessen knew he was dangerous, and he counted on others realizing the same thing in order for him to get what he wanted. Running an illegal underground fight club wasn't the worst thing he'd ever done.
When Stella walked into his office, the obsession was instant. She'd do anything to get her father's house back, and he was depraved enough to use that to his advantage. What he offered her was very simple.
She must submit to him in any way he saw fit for two weeks. After that, her father's debt would be absolved.
The only problem was, he found himself falling for Stella and knowing that letting her walk away wasn't going to be an option.
Warning: This story was previously published under the same title. It's since been re-edited, revised, and new content has been added. There may be graphic material some readers find offensive.
Demon Magic
Part #5 of "Abnormals Underground" series by Holly Hook
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
This is the fifth and final book of the Abnormals Underground series.
Alyssa is now only one step from becoming the Dark Pentagram, the being the demon Thoreau will use to merge Earth with the Infernal Dimension, and she's seriously freaking out. Since she has the touch of Death, the fire of a dragon, deadly War Magic, and the curse of having to drink blood, Alyssa's done her fair share of bad things lately. It really puts a damper on the fact that she and Xavier are finally free to be a real couple.
The worst is yet to come. The most horrible part of Alyssa remains to be awakened, and it's darker than anything she's faced so far. She vows to avoid it at all costs.
As if.
When she and Xavier learn that Thoreau has enslaved the only beings in the world capable of killing him, there's no choice left--Alyssa must venture into the Infernal Dimension to free them and save the world. But doing so will awaken the darkest part of her, completing the Dark Pentagram, and it just might rip Alyssa and Xavier apart and destroy everything she knows. **
Underground
Craig Spector
Once upon a time there were seven good friends. They were the forgotten little brothers and sisters of the Big Chill generation, born in the turbulent year when the flames of Watts lit the City of Angels and napalm kissed the war-torn skies of Vietnam. They called themselves The Underground. For Justin and Mia, Josh and Caroline, Amy, Seth, and Simon, there was nothing but drugs and music, combined with boundless cynicism and a deep yearning for something that really mattered.As graduation rolled around, they knew they would drift apart. By Labor Day weekend, there was just enough time to throw one last private party. But where? Creepy old Custis Manor was temporarily uninhabited. So they motored out to the moldering southern plantation, ready to party the night away.They could not have known that on the other side of the mirrors, something watched: a corrupt, voracious force, neither fully living nor truly dead. It was a soulless spirit of evil that had spent...
The Underground Village
Kang Kyeong-ae
Kang Kyeong-ae (1906-1944) was a Korean writer whose stories are remarkable for their rejection of colonialism, patriarchy, and ethnic nationalism during a period when such views were truly radical and dangerous. Born in what is now North Korea, Kang wrote all her fiction in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation and witnessed the violence and daily struggles experienced by ethnic Koreans living in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Kang's riveting stories are full of sensitivity, defiance, and a deep understanding of the oppressed people she wrote about.This collection, beautifully translated by Anton Hur, contains all the Korean-language short stories by Kang Kyeong-ae. Sang-kyung Lee's excellent introduction provides deep insight into Kang's achievements and the social and historical contexts in which she wrote.
A Russian Vision Underground
Amber Wallace
Romance / Contemporary / Paranormal
A Russian, Jewish farm boy experiences God, and bring his family and to a deeper level of contact with the supernatural. The young boy Jonathan Knowles, grows up, and moves away from the family farm. He has no idea he is going to be the hope and leader to save his culture from annihilation.A Russian, Jewish farm boy named Jonathan Knowles has a supernatural experience on his families' farm. He is young, novice Writer, and is given a vision by God. He brings his family and friends to a deeper level of contact with God. He grows up, moves away from his family farm, and travels where God leads him, like a Missionary. Trouble breaks out in Russia, near where is living, and he is directed by God to hide people underground, and save his people from genocide.
Blood Magic
Part #1 of "Abnormals Underground" series by Holly Hook
Young Adult / Fantasy / Science Fiction
Turned into a vampire at the age of two, Alyssa has spent the last 14 years pretending to be human in a society who hates "Abnormals" like her. She's done just fine gossiping with the other girls, wearing pink, and becoming an expert sword fighter in order to vent her killer instincts.
But then the Mage Xavier shows up at her school and introduces her to a whole other reality under her feet - Abnormals Underground, an entire society of supernatural beings hiding under the city of Cumberland. Alyssa can ignore his pleas for her to join them as a warrior - for about two hours. When her father goes missing, Alyssa will have no choice but to become a part of the world she's fought to avoid her entire life if she's to get him back from the mayor of Cumberland. That wouldn't be so hard, except that it turns out he's a demon bent on world domination.
But joining Abnormals Underground means more than just facing her true nature. Alyssa will have no choice but to draw close to Xavier and share his magic if she's to have any hope of rescuing her father. Both she and Xavier hold secrets, and Alyssa has only begun to discover that she's far more Abnormal than she thought...
Blood Magic is the first book of the Abnormals Underground series. It is a dark teen urban fantasy with plenty of action, romance, a strong heroine, and secrets waiting to be unraveled.
Galactic Underground
Olusheyi Banjo
This is the fourth poetry book by Olusheyi Banjo.This book is also a sequel to "Choose The Stars." In this book Olusheyi explores through poetry the darker side of life and the universeThis is the fourth poetry book by Olusheyi Banjo.This book is also a sequel to "Choose The Stars." In this book Olusheyi explores through poetry the darker side of life and the univers
UNDERGROUND
Macosta
Underground is a book about a creature/monster that lives in the London Underground.The book was a big hit, a massive best seller and inevitably Hollywood wants to turn it into a film. So Big Bill, a studio executive under pressure goes to London. With the pressure to get the film done in record time and under the lowest budget, chaos erupts and the real adventure begins...Underground is a book about a creature/monster that lives in the London Underground system.The book was a big hit, a massive best seller and inevitably Hollywood wants to turn it into a film. So Big Bill, a studio executive under huge pressure to make money in an age were movies are made by spotty kids with camcorders and break box office records, goes to London himself with he’s assistant Sue and an intern Frank, just out of college, to meet the writer and buy the rights for a film. The author of the book, UNDERGROUND is in a psychiatric hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown unable to cope with his new success, he’s left in the care of the Hollywood trio and even stars in the film.With the pressure to get the film done in record time and under the lowest budget possible, the pressure piles on and a chaotic scenario develops. The already vulnerable book author who plays the monster in a suit with huge sharp claws he has a nervous breakdown, taking on the monster persona he chases everyone down the corridors and tunnels. But there is a twist...I have created a story that appeals to a wide audience range and by having Americans in the story, my idea is to also make it attractive to Hollywood and the possibility of having it turned into a film. As you will be able to read I have exploited every angle possible in this book it has been 20 years in the making.I paid careful attention to highlight the differences between the two cultures (British and American) and exploit it to the maximum playing on stereotypes but without being too obvious. The way the story is written at the moment, in this format is its strength. It’s direct and straight to the point, descriptive just enough to make the characters and plot understandable without going on and on.pedromacosta@yahoo.com
Obligation
Part #2 of "Underground Kings" series by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
[ob-li-gey-shuh n]
An obligation is a course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral.
At six years old, Myla was sent to a family her father and mother had chosen for her when they knew their time on earth was almost up. What they were unaware of was what they thought would be her safe haven would become her living hell.
Kai has been watching Myla from afar since he took over the family business from his father and inherited the responsibility of keeping her safe. When word gets back to Kai that Myla is not only in danger, but that his assets are being compromised, he immediately jumps into action and does the only thing that can be done at the time by marrying her.
Neither Myla nor Kai would have thought that something that started off as a farce would become the most important thing either of them could've ever done.
The Underground (Animorphs 18)
K. A. Applegate
Science Fiction / Young Adult / Fiction
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Rachel, the other Animorphs, and Ax have discovered a new super weapon against the Yeerks. It's easy to get. It's lightweight. It's instant oatmeal. It doesn't actually destroy the aliens, but its effect on them is so powerful that the kids know they have to try to use it. To help slow down the invasion. It means another trip down to the Yeerk pool. And the possibility of not being able to get back up to the surface.
Secret
Part #6 of "Chicago Underground" series by Skye Warren
Romance / Suspense / Contemporary
I'm the one with the dark past, the scarlet letter, the soul so black there's no hope of redemption.
At least, that's what I always believed...
Luke
has secrets of his own, and the more I search, the more I'm afraid of
what I'll find. But I have to know, my survival depends on it.
He's the man I love. The man who can destroy me.
He's the only one who can save me.
Author's Note: SECRET is a dark new adult romantic suspense novella in the Chicago Underground series. This part was previously published in Selling Out by Amber Lin.
Books in the Chicago Underground series:
1. Rough
2. Hard
3. Fierce
4. Wild
5. Dirty
6. Secret
7. Sweet
Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground
Victor Appleton
Science Fiction / Fiction / Childrens
Excerpt: ...Ned. "Rad, get the things packed up," directed Tom quickly. "We\'ve had enough to eat and I want to make a good distance before we camp for the night." He wanted to get the colored man busy so the Mexican would have no chance to further question him. "Surely the senors are not going to start off again at once--immediately!" protested Delazes. "We have not yet taken the siesta--the noon-day sleep, and--" "We\'re going to cut out the siestas on this trip," interposed Tom. "We don\'t want to stay here too long. We want to find some good ruins that we can study, and the sooner we find them the better." "Ah, then it is but to study--to photograph ruined cities and get relics, that the senors came to Mexico?" Once more that look of cunning came in the Mexican\'s eyes. "That\'s about it," answered Tom shortly. He did not want to encourage too much familiarity on the part of the contractor. "So, no siestas if you please, Senor Delazes. We can all siesta to-night." "Ah, you Americanos!" exclaimed the Mexican with a shrug of his shoulders. He stroked his shiny black moustache. "You are ever so on the alert! Always moving. Well, be it so, we will travel on--to the ruined city--if we can find one," and he gave Tom a look that the latter could not quite understand. It was hot--very hot--but Tom noticed that about a mile farther on, the trail led into a thick jungle of trees, where it would be shady, and make the going more comfortable. "We\'ll be all right when we get there," he said to the others. It was not with very good grace that the Mexicans got their ox teams ready. They had not objected very much when, on the day before Tom had insisted on starting off right after the mid-day meal, but now when it seemed that it was going to be a settled policy to omit the siesta, or noon sleep, there was some grumbling. "They may make trouble for us, Tom," said in a low voice. "Maybe you\'d better give in to them." "Not much!" exclaimed the young inventor. "If I do they\'ll...
Notes from Underground
Orrin Grey
A boy becomes fascinated with an elderly, insect-eating neighbor; inhuman bodies begin to wash ashore in a small coastal town; a closed rest stop that played host to a horrific crime may be a gateway to another world; the exhumation of a magician's grave reveals an empty coffin...Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection, Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle. These seven uncanny tales include works featured at Pseudopod and in The Best Horror of the Year, as well as the new novelette "Leandra's Story," and together form a linked story sequence of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness.
Alpha Underground Trilogy
Aimee Easterling
Fantasy / Paranormal
This compilation of the complete Alpha Underground Trilogy plus five bonus short stories is chock full of danger, adventure, and romance.Fen Young is a half-shifter whose inner beast is more mouse than wolf. Home is her castle, the only place she's ever felt safe.Enter Hunter Green, an uber-alpha strong enough to stop traffic with a single look. He's handsome and enticing and seems like just the ticket to broaden Fen's horizons...until the uber-alpha brushes off his admirer and summarily ejects her from her home pack.Now treading water in the no-man's land of outpack territory, Fen must confront a missing pack mate, a tantalizing stranger, and a serial killer targeting half-werewolves. Will she be able to shore up her waning power in time to save her friend...and half-breeds everywhere...before it's too late?USA Today bestselling author Aimee Easterling's completed urban-fantasy series has racked up over 300...
The Absinthe Underground
Jamie Pacton
Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy!This lavish and decedent LGBTQ+ fantasy romance will leave fans of Divine Rivals and Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries utterly enchanted!“A romantic and thrilling story of ambition, magic, and peril.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewAfter running away from home, Sybil Clarion is eager to embrace all the freedom the Belle Époque city of Severon has to offer. Instead, she’s traded high-society soirées for empty pockets. At least she has Esme, the girl who offered Sybil a home, and if either of them dared, something more. While Esme would rather spend the night tinkering with her clocks and snuggling her cats, Sybil craves excitement and needs money. She plans to get both by stealing the rare posters that crop up around town. But when she’s caught selling a poster by none other than its subject,...
The Man Who Lived Underground
Richard Wright
Fiction / Short Stories / Politics
"The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any 'greatest writers of the 20th century' list that doesn't start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright's most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book." —Kiese LaymonA major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in...
London Underground's Strangest Tales
Iain Spragg
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of London's Underground, or as it is affectionately referred to, the Tube. Though this isnt the usual side of the Tube the tourists, travellers and residents see. (Though, of course, they do see a great deal of strangeness in their daily commutes!). This is the real Underground, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of what happens hundreds of metres below millions of London legs from its peculiar past through to its paranormal present and looking forward to its fascinating future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to London's globally envied, and much loved, public transport system. Located deep beneath the heart of Greater London, the Underground is awash with more strangeness than you can shake your pre-paid Oyster card at. In 2013 the whole city will be celebrating the Underground's 150th birthday the oldest underground in the world. So, pack up your old kit bag and travel...
Veniss Underground
Jeff VanderMeer
Literature & Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy
In his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triumph of the imagination that reveals the magical and mysterious city of Veniss through three intertwined voices. First, Nicholas, a would-be Living Artist, seeks to escape his demons in the shadowy underground–but in doing so makes a deal with the devil himself. In her fevered search for him, his twin sister, Nicola, spins her own unusual and hypnotic tale as she discovers the hidden secrets of the city. And finally, haunted by Nicola’s sudden, mysterious disappearance and gripped by despair, Shadrach, Nicola’s lover, embarks on a mythic journey to the nightmarish levels deep beneath the surface of the city to bring his love back to light. There he will find wonders beyond imagining…and horrors greater than the heart can bear.
By turns beautiful, horrifying, delicate, and powerful, Veniss Underground explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession in a landscape that defies the boundaries of the imagination. This special edition includes the short stories “The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight”; “Detectives and Cadavers”; and “A Heart for Lucretia” and the novella Balzac’s War, offering a complete tour of the fantastic world of Veniss.
Underground Scouts
Marie Sontag
Warsaw, PolandSeptember 8, 1939 Their scoutmaster's chair squeaked as he shifted his weight. "What I am about to ask from all of you is a personal sacrifice on behalf of Poland. Your final decision is, of course, up to you. You must each make your own decision."A hush filled the room. The Scouts' pale faces betrayed the struggle that plagued them all.Tadzio broke the spell. "I mean no disrespect, Professor. I don't know why my father had to leave, but since he's gone, my family is my priority."Squaring her shoulders, Magdalena inched forward on her chair. "And earlier this week my father's brother and his wife were killed when a bomb hit their apartment building in Warsaw." Her voice quivered. "Now, we're also caring for our orphaned 11-year-old cousin, Józefina."Tadzio nodded. "Since I am the eldest son, my first responsibility is to my family.""Well spoken, son." Professor...
Mollie Peer, Or The Underground Adventure of the Moosepath League
Van Reid
Once again, Van Reid enthralls with a story filled with wonderment, romance, and old-fashioned adventure, from the catacomb-like underground of the Portland waterfront to a perilous night pursuit on the October coast. During the autumn of 1896 in Portland, Maine, feisty society columnist Mollie Peer believes that a little ragamuffin boy, known only as Bird, is merely the subject of a story that will propel her to the level of a true reporter. Instead, the chain of events she sets in motion, and the heroic people she comes to know, lead her to better understand her own valor and compassion as she follows the boy into the dark world of the nightrunners. She is joined in her pursuit of these shadowy figures by the hapless, yet loveable members of the Moosepath League. This is an entertaining novel about the triumph of simply kindness
Zom-B Underground
Part #2 of "Zom-B" series by Darren Shan
Horror / Children's Books / Science Fiction & Fantasy
From Darren Shan, the Master of Horror, comes the gripping second book in the Zom-B series. * *
Waking up in a military complex, months after zombies attacked school, B has no memory of the last few months. Life in the UK has turned tough since the outbreak, and B is woven into life- and battle- in the new military regime quickly. But as B learns more about the zombies held in the complex and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. Why exactly was B saved? And is there anyone left in the world to trust?
Nick Bones Underground
Phil M. Cohen
Shmulie Shimmer promised he'd call his father, Abe, but he never did. And Shmulie never broke a promise to his father.Professor Nick Friedman takes a wild ride through a dystopic and dangerous New York City searching for his old high school buddy Shmulie Shimmer. Shmulie is the inventor of Lerbs, the most popular designer drug ever. Friedman and his wisecracking AI computer, Maggie, encounter a world of odd and sometimes deadly characters above and below ground. Told with sardonic humor, Nick Bones Underground offers an imaginative world and asks thought provoking questions: Is it possible to overcome the burden of past deeds? What is the nature of being human? Can an AI computer change gender and convert to Judaism? How did Nick Friedman become Nick Bones? Who is Robbie the Rabbi? Is it possible to get a good cup of coffee at the Outtaluck Café?
The Ishim Underground
Carrie Bailey
Science Fiction / Fantasy / Humor and Comedy
Post-apocalyptic adventure. Two cultures at odds, the emerging city state of Auckland and the nomadic peoples who surround it. An extremely organized young man tries to hide from the consequences of a rash decision, being robbed by old ladies and genetically modified megafauna that roam the waste.After unwittingly being posted as Regional Sanitation Specialist in a dry-as-toast village on the edge of oblivion, fate thrusts Eron into the middle of the biggest social upheaval since the apocolypse 500 years earlier. Cast feet first into the vast network of roads inhabited by a highly organized nomadic subculture and genetically engineered megafauna, Eron finds himself on the run from the Auckian Guard, even though he's technically a member. Unable to go home, he and a wild boy from the wastelands head Westward at the dubious advice of local villagers, but one question remains. Will they find a good place to hide?
Five Thousand Miles Underground; Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth
Roy Rockwood
Young Adult / Fiction
Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy\'s adventure books. Edward Stratemeyer had earlier used the pseudonym "Roy Rockwood" for the book The Wizard of the Sea; or a Trip Under the Ocean.
Whispers Underground
Ben Aaronovitch
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers
'This fast, engrossing novel is enjoyable, cheerful, and accessible to new readers.' — Publishers WeeklyMy name is Peter Grant, police officer, apprentice wizard and well dressed man about town. I work for ECD9, otherwise known as the Folly, and to the Murder Investigation Team as 'oh god not them again.' But even their governor, the arch sceptic and professional northerner DCI Seawoll, knows that sometimes, when things go bump in the night, they have to call us in.Which was why I found myself in an underground station at five o'clock, looking at the body of James Gallagher, US citizen and Arts Student. How did he avoid the underground's ubiquitous CCTV to reach his final destination, and why is the ceramic shard he was stabbed with so strongly magical?As the case took me into the labyrinth of conduits, tunnels and abandoned bomb shelters that lay beneath the streets I realised that London below might just be as complicated and inhabited as London...
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fiction / Psychology / Philosophy
Notes From The Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man\'s diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky\'s What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow", and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.
Underground Prince's New Pet: Gay Fantasy Romance
Dr. D
Greed--An inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs
Dezi was well accustomed to what the palace looked like on the outside--tall, apart, superior, and untouchable.
Like most people from the bottom of society, he had never even dreamed of a day that he would witness the glory within.
But one day, the impossible suddenly fell upon him; he was brought into the palace and asked to be the pet of an expressionless and peculiar prince.
After the initial anger, Dezi slowly realized how easy it was for him to obtain money from the prince with the least amount of effort. Accomplishments, women, and status had never come so easily to him.
When Dezi realized that the prince, who would listen to everything he said, was a rightful heir to the crown, his greed swelled like never before.
However, Dezi only saw the palace shining like a gold mine in the sunlight. He didn’t know that it also buried calamity, hatred, and treachery in the shadows. Behind the prince’s oddity lay the deepest and ugliest secret of the royal family.
As the battle for the crown intensified, dark, sinister clouds gathered above this splendid resident.
What will happen to Dezi, who had got lost in the illusion of his ego?
Will he ever turn around and really look into the affection in the prince’s eyes?
Main plot - Gay Romance/Character development.
Notes: Fantasy historical universe. Magical elements. Dragons. Suspense. Anti-hero. Twisted and abusive romance.
Warning: Dark and disturbing backstories. Contains minor m/f sex theme.
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