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When a strange electrical storm over the island of Nantucket suddenly causes all electronic devices to cease functioning, the world is faced with an unimaginable transformation, one that is complicated by some individuals' ruthless quest for ultimate domination.
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Judy Moody and Stink volume 3
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English
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Judy and Stink and the whole Moody family hunker down with beans and batteries, ready to wait out the storm. Along with massive rain and strong winds, Elmer throws down ghosts, squirrels, and aliens. Spooky! Just when things couldn't possibly gat any freakier--flicker, flicker, fulp!--the lights go O-U-T out. The Boodys are smack-dab in the middle of a big bad blackout.
5) 96 miles
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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.
6) Lights out
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a storm causes a neighborhood blackout, Sofia and her father come up with a plan for the perfect family night without electricity.
7) Zap!
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-olds Luis and Maura investigate the cause of a long-term, city-wide power outage in Hampton, New Jersey. Includes facts about electric power and instructions for assembling an emergency kit.
8) City on fire
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Pub. Date
2015.
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...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
"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"--
Sparks fly when Lucy Patterson and Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout....
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
11) Aurora: a novel
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English
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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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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this young adult novel, a teenage girl sets out by foot to find her autistic brother in the aftermath of a catastrophic power outage"--
The blackout has been going on for three weeks, but to Alex it feels like a year. Her brother, who has autism, was removed from the house, something Alex blames herself for. So when her best friend, Anthony, asks her to trek to another town to figure out the truth about the blackout, Alex says yes. On a journey...
13) Blackout
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Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
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.
14) Blackout
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As a summer heatwave blankets New York City, the light go out. The city is thrown into confusion-- and a different kind of electricity sparks. People reveal hidden truths. Love blossoms, friendship transforms, and possibilities take flight. And their stories shine a bright light through the darkness. -- adapted from jacket
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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.
16) Cosmic blackout!
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 16
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
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