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When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect...
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"A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. The houseowners, Ruth and G. H., arrive in the middle of the night in...
4) 96 miles
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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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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It may seem unbearable to consider living in a world without television, video games, computers, or smartphones, but all these devices require power. What would happen if electricity could no longer be produced? It's time to start planning for this possibility. This ingenious guide walks readers off the grid and instructs about how to maintain a power-free lifestyle. Besides learning how to solve problems for a long-term, worldwide emergency event,...
6) Yesterday
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Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all.
7) Dawn's light
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As the end of the worldwide blackout comes in sight, thirteen-year-old Beth Branning witnesses two brutal murders and Deni Branning is torn between Mark Green and her ex-fiance, who has returned to Crockett.
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"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
9) Blackout
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IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
10) Lights out
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IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When a storm causes a neighborhood blackout, Sofia and her father come up with a plan for the perfect family night without electricity.
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2006.
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On February 18, 2006 Xcel Energy initiated rolling blackouts due to a power supply shortfall of nearly 400 megawatts on its electric power system. More than 371,000 Colorado electric service customers lost power for an average of more than 41 minutes. The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) asked Xcel Energy for a report on the cause of the outages, the length of time of the outages, and the poor communications the company provided to the people who...
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2006.
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On February 18, 2006 Xcel Energy initiated rolling blackouts due to a power supply shortfall of nearly 400 megawatts on its electric power system. More than 371,000 Colorado electric service customers lost power for an average of more than 41 minutes during subzero temperatures. This document contains the steps Public Service Company of Colorado plans to take to reduce the possibility of such an event happening again.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
17) Aurora: a novel
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"Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest"--
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...
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Regan Reilly mysteries volume 14
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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.
19) Dies the Fire
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A mysterious event, known as the Change, causes all electronic devices, including computers, telephones, engines, and radios, to quit working, and forces a reorganization of society, with groups of survivors banding together for safety and sustenance, or criminal purposes.
20) The switch
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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"Four months after the power went out and his father went missing, Henry travels alone to find his father through the lawless world of the Switch, where he learns just how far people will go to survive"--