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1) Neverwhere
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Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Two Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or...
4) Subway
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"A young girl and her mother enjoy a ride uptown on a city subway."--
7) Subways
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Discusses how subways operate and why people use them.
10) Ravenous things
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Reggie is still grieving the passing of his father when a strange man promises to reunite the two, if Reggie only follows him deep into an underground subway system where horrors worse than Reggie ever imagined lurk around every corner"--
11) The subway mouse
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories of a beautiful but dangerous place called Tunnel's End, a mouse named Nib leaves his dirty, crowded home under a busy subway station and sets out on a long journey, joined by Lola, a mouse he meets along the way.
14) Left behind
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"Publishers Weekly: Christopher's class is going on a field trip to the aquarium. They take the bus into the city and the subway to the aquarium. Christopher is especially excited about the subway, which he has never ridden before. The ride inbound is fun the car rocks back and forth; the brakes squeal around a corner. But on the way out, the crowd pushes Christopher out of the car and he is left behind. After an initial panic, Christopher gets the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The "Metro" of the title of this brilliant and mordant social comedy refers to the Moscow underground-the sparkling subway system that enchants its young hero, seven-year-old Sasha, on his first visit to Moscow. The vaulted ceilings and gleaming escalators appear to his young eyes as emblems of a higher life, of beauty, harmony, and hidden strength. Years later, Sasha escapes the jaws of a provincial ammunition factory and returns to Moscow as an...
18) I am the subway
Author
Publisher
Scribble
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train"--
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Jarvis lets out rooms in the rambling old house he owns in London. When Axel-the enigma who hates London's underground tube, yet spends his free time riding it-moves in, Jarvis' diverse tenants are joined together in a disturbing nightmare.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Franny meets Hayes, it's the opposite of a meet-cute-she's just been laid off, and her dress is caught in the subway doors. As if her day could get any worse, the flimsy fabric rips, and she's left in the hipster equivalent of a hospital gown. Hayes is the stuffy suit who offers to give Franny his coat-alongside an unwelcome zing of attraction. He may have saved her from showing her butt to (more of) the city, but that one act is his only redeeming...
