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A treasured early manuscript version of one of the most enduring children’s stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Immersed in imaginative journeys, the Baron Trump stories showcase the eponymous character—a wealthy young boy residing in Trump Castle. While his official name is Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, he opts to be addressed by his title, Baron Trump, for simplicity. Venturing into time travel escapades across human history, the young Baron encounters ancient societies, engaging with their languages and social customs. Accompanied by his loyal and protective companion, Bulger the hound, Baron Trump navigates diverse adventures, overcoming numerous challenges.

The Underground City is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.

Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged boy who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series - a mix of fantasy and young-listener-oriented science fiction - anticipated and may have influenced L. Frank Baum's Oz series. The second in that series, Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, describes Baron's trip to the Earth's interior via an opening in the Russian Arctic.

How can humans survive and prosper 1,500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark yet magnificent story into this equally dark world.

"Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey" is a novel by Ingersoll Lockwood, first published in 1893. The story follows young Baron Trump, who, along with his dog Bulgar, discovers a hidden portal within the family castle, leading to a subterranean world known as the "World within a World." The narrative unfolds as Baron encounters peculiar characters, engages in extraordinary adventures, and unravels mysteries in this fantastical realm.

Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood was published in 1893. The novel recounts the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian von Troomp, who goes by the name "Baron Trump", and his dog Bulger, as they discover fantastic underground civilizations, offend the natives, escape from their involvements, and repeat this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump. The novel was part of a trend in American children's literature that responded to the demand for fantastic adventure stories created by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

On the cusp of graduation, Cadence is finally feeling in control. She’s about to become one of the prestigious Elites working in the Hall of Love. Plus, she can take her place as a full member of the underground Sirens who meet secretly in Love City. She’ll finally be able to use her memory skills for good, instead of reporting people as a Watcher. But a dangerous trap is set, throwing Cadence into unwelcome and unfamiliar territory. Someone in the Collective remembers things that could very well get her killed. The Muse is by her side, after all, but will she be protected?

A quest to save the free world. In this third and final book in Jerry Sanders’s epic trilogy, Troy Kensington, a powerful and talented warrior, faces his most ambitious quest yet. A secret underground society of misguided but brilliant Ashkenazi Jews has but one mission: military domination. If they succeed, millions of people from England to Israel will be killed.

As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder - and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream.

They're hunting our kind, burning vampires at the stake. The man leading the charge isn't the "reverend" he pretends to be. He has a deadly secret. Can I uncover the truth? We have no choice but to fight. But if we aren't careful, we'll give the "reverend" what he wants. We'll become the murderous monsters he claims us to be. Listen now to find out if Mercy and the Vampire Underground can expose the "reverend's" secret and quell the angry mob of vampire-haters.

Penn Mitchell vanishes from the NYU campus and shows up three months later on his mother's doorstep with a book screaming to get out of his head. When the FBI discovers the novel discloses top-secret information, they bring Penn in for questioning. The interrogation goes sideways and Penn escapes into a subterranean world he thought was a figment of his imagination, a world where the US government is hiding, and at war with, an ancient race that has existed since the dawn of time.

Keiner von ihnen konnte wissen, wie gut das Fallen sein kann. Bis jetzt. Seine Berührung ist sanft und soll Trost spenden. Schutz. Heilung. All das, was ich nicht bin. Aber der Engel Gui zieht mich zu sich, wie die Erde den Mond anzieht. Ich habe versucht zu fliehen. Ich wollte weglaufen. Ich war schon fast weg, und dann tauchte sie auf. Eine andere Frau. Ihre Berührung war besitzergreifend, ihre Macht etwas, vor dem sogar ich mein Knie beugen musste.

In Raging Into the Night: Stories from the Underground, step into the intoxicating world of David William Vancil, a bartender whose life reads like a cocktail mixed with danger, desire, and redemption. From the sun-soaked shores of Waikiki to Tokyo’s neon labyrinth, from the glittering madness of Hollywood to the heat of Mexico, Vancil’s journey is a relentless ride through love, loss, and survival within the surreal world of bartending. In Waikiki, he seeks solace in paradise but finds that even under endless sunsets and swaying palms, heartbreak lingers.

As Amara prepares for a supply run that will see her father restored and the Silver Rose reinforced she finds herself conflicted. She has discovered both strength and weakness in herself and must work to improve both. Further more, a new relationship tugs at her heart as she tries to navigate her feelings for a certain guitar-playing bard that has made no secret of his feelings for her. At the same time, friends from the past and present war with each other for Amara's attention even as new family grows around her. And even now a great danger is waiting in the dark to draw blood.

Sie ist Feuer, ich bin Licht. Ich bringe Trost, sie bringt Chaos. Obwohl unsere Partnerschaft erzwungen wurde, habe ich mich in sie verliebt, wie ein Planet in eine Sonne gesogen wird. Sie ist alles, was ich nicht bin: Ich heile, sie zerstört. Ich bringe Trost, sie bringt Feuer und Schwefel. Ein paar Tage auf der Erde ohne meinen Heiligenschein und jetzt weiß ich, was die Hölle ist—mehr als ein Ort voller seelenloser Dämonen, es ist die Qual, wenn Cin Morgaines Zuneigung sich auf jemand anderen konzentriert.

Alissa Maravilla has spent her life playing it safe. She gave up her dream of being a professional musician for the steady, predictable world of nursing at a Chicago hospital. No risks. No chaos. Just straight lines and sensible choices. Until she meets Maddox Hathaway. The moment Alissa steps into his enigmatic haberdashery, she feels the shift—his piercing gaze, his effortless charm, his debonair style. Maddox is temptation wrapped in silk and sin, and when he invites her into his world, she can’t resist.

For the first time in decades, the Martyrs have something to celebrate: Pride is gone. While the Underground revels in this victory, seeing hope through a darkness so thick they never thought they’d escape it, Darius Jones only has one thing on his mind: How can they do it again? The hunt to bring more Virtues into the Underground begins, but everything is thrown into chaos when bombs start lighting up New York City and Thorn Rose is nearly killed. The Martyrs are pulled between stopping the violence, protecting their own, and bringing in the only people who can eradicate the Sins for good.

The deeper you go down the rabbit hole, the darker it gets… Alissa Maravilla thought she was ready for Maddox Hathaway's world—the intensity, the heat, the exquisite chaos. Their passion is electric and undeniable, but so are the secrets they've uncovered beneath the surface of Aces Underground. The club that awakened her deepest desires is hiding something far more sinister than velvet ropes and whispered fantasies. And Alissa can't look away. Not when people are begging for help. Not when the dead are piling up—and she may be next. Not when the truth is bleeding through the cracks.

A half-orc discarded at birth, a fairy-elf part of neither world they both long to belong. They just want lives where they matter. They are worlds apart in everything. But together Nyc and Stel are a wrecking ball that is almost unstoppable.