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English
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In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood. Across the country lives Aubrey’s estranged brother, Thom....
2) Total power
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS’s top technology expert, he reveals that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America’s power grid. Rapp is determined to eliminate this shadowy figure, but the CIA’s trap fails. The Agency is still trying to determine what went wrong when ISIS operatives help this cyber terrorist do what he said he could—plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented...
3) City on fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 57
Language
English
Description
The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have...
6) 96 miles
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water cross the desert for help.
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Series
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English
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Returning home from their honeymoon to discover that their neighbor has put his Manhattan apartment up for sale, Regan Reilly and her husband Jack decide to buy it to enlarge their own loft, but the renovation process spawns its own set of problems and an unexpected case.
8) Blackout
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
When a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve, they find that laughter, romance, and a little holiday magic will get them through, and change their lives in unexpected ways. A heartless real estate tycoon clings to life in a precarious construction elevator hundreds of feet off the ground. Unexpected relationships bloom for a musician stuck with her dysfunctional orchestra mates.
10) Cosmic blackout!
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 16
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zack loves everything about his new planet, Nebulon, until there is a complete cosmic blackout and he must try to function without his Indoor Robotic Assistant and hyperphone.
11) Going home
Author
Series
Survivalist (A. American) volume 1
Publisher
Xlibris
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Imagine youre driving down the interstate, its Friday and all you can think about is getting your weekend started. Then to begin the ruination of your much anticipated weekend the grating tone of the Emergency Alert System flashes over the radio, then promptly dies. This is the beginning of a 250 mile odyssey for Morgan Carter.
13) High-rise
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Robert Laing is the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
Publisher
Universal City Studios
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story of a mysterious power failure that leads to the social breakdown of a major city. All forms of communication are wiped out--no electricity, no cash machines, no telecommunication. The system and the rules of society begin to crumble.
15) Blackout!
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using a power outage as an example, describes how electrical circuits and batteries work and what appliances and transportation systems run on electricity.
16) Fight for pow3r
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood--but the trade-offs made for safety and security are increasingly wrenching and questionable"--
Author
Series
Rule of three trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A teen's suburban neighborhood bands together for its own survival in a world stricken by a catastrophic blackout"--
18) Will to survive
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Will to Survive is the gripping conclusion to the acclaimed Rule of Three trilogy from Eric Walters about one suburban neighborhood's existence after a global blackout. Teenager Adam Daley has killed again. It had to be done, part of him knows that, but murder changes a person. It can certainly change a kid who's already grown up too quickly, too harshly, in the wake of the catastrophic global shutdown four months ago. In the name of safety and survival,...
20) Surviving home
Author
Series
Survivalist (A. American) volume 2
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"No electricity. No running water. No food. No end in sight. If life as you knew it changed in an instant, would you be prepared? In A. American's first novel, Going Home, readers were introduced to Morgan Carter, the resourceful, tough-as-nails survivalist who embarks on a treacherous 250-mile journey across Florida following the collapse of the nation's power grid. Now reunited with his loving wife and daughters in this follow-up to Going Home,...
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