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  A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book 6

  The Ersatz Elevator

  by Lemony Snicket

  Dear Reader,If you have just picked up this particular book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Like the previous books in A Series of Unfortunate Events, there is nothing to be found in these pages but misery, despair, and discomfort, and you still have time to choose something else to read. Within the chapters of this story, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire encounter a darkened staircase, a red... (more)
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  Tunnels: Book 2

  Deeper

  by Roderick Gordon, Brian James Williams

  In TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father--and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend Chester and his brother Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx's dastardly plan to exterminate all Topsoilers by unleashing a lethal plague. Slowly he begins to piece together the plot. But how can Will save the... (more)
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  Sula

  by Toni Morrison

  Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and... (more)
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  Seven sorcerers

  by Caro King

  `In the cellar,' Toby whispered. `Something horrid.' When her brother Toby vanishes so that even their mother has no memory of him, Ninevah Redstone realises that the reason she still remembers is because whoever took Toby is about to take her too. Enter Skerridge the Bogeyman, who steals kids for Mr Strood. With his spindle, he winds away all memories of Nin. She escapes to the Drift, a world filled with the... (more)
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  Cemetery Street

  by John Zunski

  “In a world of presumptuous people, irony is alive and well,” concludes James Morrison, the narrator of this touching coming of age novel. A view Shannie Ortolan - James’s longtime friend, sometimes lover, and fulltime obsession - wouldn’t argue. From their first encounter as teenagers until Shannie’s death, experience the twists, turns and enthralling characters that populate Cemetery Street.On the cusp of... (more)
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  The Railway Children

  by Edith Nesbit

  Three children, forced to alter their comfortable lifestyle when their father is taken away by strangers, move with their mother to a simple cottage near a railway station where their days are filled with excitement and adventure. First published in 1906, this beloved children’s classic has charmed generations of readers and more recently, has delighted TV and motion picture audiences.
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  The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Architecture of Despair)

  by Margaret Morton

  This book, the first in a group of three books documenting the lives and living spaces of New York City`s homeless population, is narrated entirely by residents of an underground train tunnel, a community that has been hidden from public view for over twenty years. Margaret Morton combines her photographs with four years of audiotaped oral histories to create a unique archive of extraordinary individuals living in... (more)
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  Underground Alien Bases

  by Commander X

  Here is an intelligence agent's shocking report offering evidence that at least some flying sauers COME FROM INSIDE EARTH. Aliens have established undergound bases around the planet. An ancient tunnel system has existed since the time of Atlantis. Entrance ways can be found in many major cities. Some government and military officials have taken the side of the aliens in an attempt to control earth's human... (more)