Books with title Underground Man

A USA Book News Best Books Award finalist in literary fiction.Haunted by his mother's sudden death when he was young, Ben Gates spends his life trying to be a hero, but can never seem to get it right. When wildfires rage through the Everglades, destroying natural habitat and creeping closer to town, folks around Cypress City suspect somebody's lighting them. Ben, now an idealistic park ranger, believes he's the man to find the arsonist. Trouble is, folks also suspect he might be the culprit.Rumor gives way to conspiracy theory gives way to local legend as Ben races to save the town, and himself, while confronting his own secret past with the mysterious Mangrove Underground.

The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott. She has a terrific best friend, she's dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team. So when her widowed dad says it's time for them to move, she's not exactly thrilled. And when he tells her that he intends to move to Communist Poland to help with a radical underground movement . . . Well, it's all downhill from there. Soon Eva has been transplanted from her comfortable Chicago suburb to a land that doesn't even have meat in its stores, let alone Peter Frampton records. And everywhere she goes, the government is watching. But Eva begins to warm to her new life. Sometime between eating lard on bread and dodging the militia, she makes a handsome new friend, Tomek. And soon she is wondering if maybe she's found home in the most unlikely of places.

Who was this boy that could stop a bullet with the palm of his hand? And why had someone wanted to kill him?Headed north to Washington D.C. aboard the wrong bus, Phoebe Faegen turns for help from the handsome boy seated on her left. But his instructions are strange from the start and his ability to stop a shooting with just the palm of his hand, when they arrive at their destination, too much to be believed.Yet, life in this altered future is too dangerous to risk as a girl living on her own and so drawn into the mystery that is superhuman, Crowne Dawkins, she descends Underground into a world that with every second that passes grows more and more dangerous.Nothing is what it seems, not her existence or his, not the threats to their lives, or the one final, horrible moment which might destroy their future forever.A wild ride into science fiction romance, book 1 of 5, from best-selling author, SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS.

In this reissue of the classic novel, Josh, a logger on the Ohio River, helps runaway slaves to freedom until he is betrayed, captured, and thrown in prison. “In an afterword the reader learns a bit about the sources Meltzer consulted--histories, autobiographies, first-person accounts, and religious and anti-slavery tracts, among others. All add to the historically accurate depiction of the danger, dedication, and perseverance that Josh shows.”--VOYA

After her surprise discovery of a mystical gift, fourteen-year-old Rose Wilson thinks her life is ruined. It turns out she comes from a long line of gifted women, and despite her protests, Rose's mom ships her off to her grandmother's house to spend the summer learning about her family's well-hidden secrets. To make matters worse, Rose is expected to carry out this tradition alongside her mousy, bookworm cousin, Megan. What a waste of a summer.With some effort, Rose and Megan manage to find common ground and by the time they get home, they're working together to adjust to their new life. But everything is turned upside down again when their families are exposed by witch hunters who call themselves The Witches' Hammer. With killers on the loose, their tiny town isn't safe anymore. Rose's entire family is fragmented and forced to flee through a network of hiding places, dubbed The Witches' Underground Railroad. As she journeys to the sea, Rose learns more and more about who she really is. The closer she gets to her destination, the more danger she encounters, until she is forced to make the ultimate decision: follow her family's edict of non-violence and become an orphan, or save her mom's life.

Alizabeth and her brother David Steele’s long-awaited vacation to the Bahamas takes a menacing turn when they land at Houston’s airport. When Allie’s carbon fiber computer case is mistaken for an identical one, she is hunted down by suspected smugglers and a mysterious FBI agent. With their energetic Aunt Marcie, and jovial Chief Inspector Maclean of the Royal Bahaman Police, Allie and David try to trace and identify the smugglers, but they are too late. The gang closes in on the family, and a struggle for survival begins in the Bahaman tropical paradise.