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English
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called "mole people" living alone and in communities, in the frescoed waiting rooms of long-forgotten subway tunnels and in pick-axed compartments below busway platforms. It is about how and why people move undergraound, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the treacherous "topside" world...
3) The Lifters
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English
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When Gran and his family move to Carousel, he has no idea that the town is built atop a secret. Little does he suspect, as he walks his sister to school or casually eats a banana, that mysterious forces lurk mere inches beneath his feet, tearing up the earth like mini-hurricanes and causing the town to slowly but surely sink. When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway...
5) Mouseheart
Author
Series
Mouseheart volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The Warriors series meets Redwall in this first book in an epic animal adventure series set in the subway tunnels of Brooklyn. Hopper is just an ordinary pet shop mouse before he escapes. Soon he finds himself below the bustling streets of Brooklyn, deep within the untamed tangles of transit tunnels, and in Atlantia, a glorious utopian rat civilization. But all is not what it seems. Though Hopper is treated as a royal guest, he misses his siblings...
7) Tunnels
Author
Publisher
Garrett Educational Corp
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Describes different types of tunnels and how they are made.
8) Tunnels
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
A brief introduction to tunnels--their types, shapes, and parts, and how they are built.
9) Exile
Author
Series
Forgotten realms. Dark Elf series volume 2
Legend of Drizzt volume 2
Dark Elf trilogy volume Book 2
Forgotten realms fantasy adventure
Legend of Drizzt volume 2
Dark Elf trilogy volume Book 2
Forgotten realms fantasy adventure
Language
English
Description
Drizzt Do'Urden has been exiled from his country and forced to wander the tunnel-mazes of the Underdark, which are haunted by the evil dark elves.
13) Tunnel trouble
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Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hot Wheels race cars race on an underground track.
14) Grave mistakes
Author
Series
Hello Neighbor volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As construction begins on the Golden Apple Amusement Park, Aaron Peterson is becoming increasingly worried about his father. Working late nights in his study, Aaron's dad seems to be fraying at the edges-pushing, and sometimes breaking, the laws of engineering with his new schematics. And with the added pressure he's under to complete the park by this summer, Aaron can't help but feel his father's inventions are doomed to end in tragedy once again....
16) Under the Ground
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In simple text, this book talks about the many things that live under the ground.
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
He escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting...
18) The tunnels: escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films.