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Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in a high-rise elevator in Manhattan. Fighting her rising panic, she relies on a handsome stranger to help overcome her claustrophobia. The man, Deke Sargent, is just as attracted to this beautiful and vulnerable woman as she is to him. When the power comes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a passionate embrace that soon leads to a night of love in his apartment. Shocked at her...
2) Blackout
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Accelerated Reader
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.
3) Going home
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Pub. Date
2013.
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When Morgan Carter's car breaks down 250 miles from his home, he figures his weekend plans are ruined. But things are about to get much, much worse: the country's power grid has collapsed. There is no electricity, no running water, no Internet, and no way to know when normalcy will be restored -- if it ever will be. An avid survivalist, Morgan takes to the road with his prepper pack on his back. During the grueling trek from Tallahassee to his home...
4) 96 miles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
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.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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.
6) Yesterday
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that the Beatles have never existed. And he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed.
8) City on fire
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 57
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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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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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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...
10) Burn baby burn
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. Meg Medina transports us to a time when tempers and temperatures ran high to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit.
11) Cosmic blackout!
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 16
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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.
12) Five years after
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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"After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden in the wreckage of the world.
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Amanda and Clay head out 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. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G.H. are an older couple, it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When all technology and electricity has suddenly and mysteriously blacked out, what's left is a post-apocalyptic landscape inhabited by ruthless paramilitary groups, heroic freedom fighters, and a family struggling to survive. Seen through the eyes of the fiercely determined young woman, Charlie Matheson, it follows a band of rebels including Charlie's mother Rachel and Uncle Miles as they face danger in their attempts to overthrow the Militia, and...
16) Dies the fire
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2004
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Michael Havel was flying over Idaho en route to the holiday home of his passengers when the plane's engines inexplicably died, forcing a less than perfect landing in the wilderness. And, as Michael leads his charges to safety, he begins to realize that the engine failure was not an isolated incident.Juniper Mackenzie was singing and playing guitar in a pub when her small Oregon town was thrust into darkness. Cars refused to start. Phones were silent....
17) Surviving home
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"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,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013, 2012
Description
In this epic adventure thriller, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology-computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights-has mysteriously blacked out-forever. A grand romantic saga about family-not just the family born into, but the family chosen. A swashbuckling journey of hope and rebirth, seen through the eyes...
19) Into the forest
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After a worldwide power outage, two sisters must work together in order to survive in their increasingly treacherous new world while fighting intruders, disease, loneliness, and starvation.
20) Lights out
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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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