Perhaps check out The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead . Might not be quite what you're looking for as it reimagines that system as an actual railroad system that runs underground.
"As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation ...

Reefs have come and gone several times in the past, and their remains crop up on all sorts of unlikely places. The ruins from the Triassic, for example, can now be found towering thousands of feet above sea level in the Austrian Alps.
...This extinction shows up in the geologic record as (among ...

... One Tree Island sits at the southernmost tip of the Great Barrier Reef, about fifty miles off the coast of Australia.
...The whole island consists of pieces of coral rubble, ranging in size from small marbles to huge boulders.
p. 125
...reefs are constantly being eaten away at by fish and ...

That's just in the Catholic hemisphere. In the Protestant hemisphere there is much more going on in Oklahoma!
..."The left has driven the Bible out of schools, driven prayer out of schools, and everything in education has gotten worse since," Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters told ...

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti

Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti presents us with a story of popular ...

what's a transcendent value? honestly, sounds like gobbledegook.
Ant, I'll attempt an answer just to keep the conversation going, since Harry Marks has not been 'round for a while.
Transcendent values appear to be similar to Objective Morality, where there are (usually god given) unchanging ...

Wow...welcome back!

This suggestion is just a little bit different from the previous two. 😨 I don't know much about it, but sounds like a hard hitting but little known history of US involvement in "the cold war." The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by ...

I didn't know Carl Sagan had a daughter, but Sasha Sagan wrote a book similar to the one above. For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World . It also looks very good. I don't know if we are interested in a book like these, but if we want to vote recommend ...

I'd like to read something by Friedrich Nietzsche, but haven't tried mainly due to one detail. At one point he went insane and it would be my luck to crack open a book when he was in that phase. I don't know if that's a valid point, but there it is. Anyway, here is a work of fiction he wrote - Thus ...