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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....
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.
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.
6) Total power
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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...
7) City on fire
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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...
8) 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.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 153
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Aldens are visiting Port Elizabeth when a bad storm rolls in, knocking out the power--and leaving behind a mystery! Can the powered-down Aldens figure out what's going on?
10) The big dark
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Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When something knocks out everything electrical at midnight on New Year's Eve, the world is plunged into chaos, including the town of Harmony, New Hampshire, where Webster Bragg, a vicious survivalist, sees an opportunity to dominate his fellow citizens--but as the town struggles to maintain order and civilization, young Charlie Cobb sets out on a dangerous journey through the snow to find medicine for his diabetic mother.
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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.
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