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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...
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
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Laney McLeod's chance encounter in a Manhattan elevator leads to a one-night stand with a wealthy playboy — but a few months later he's back with shocking news, as irresistible as ever.Laney's life changes the minute she gets stuck in an elevator in Manhattan — and relies on a handsome stranger named Deke Sargent to help her fight her claustrophobia. When the power comes back on, the two find themselves in a passionate embrace that...
5) 96 miles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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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....
7) City on fire
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2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 57
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English
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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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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...
10) Burn baby burn
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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) Lights out!
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English
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"A winter storm knocks the power out at Caillou's house. Mommy and Daddy turn this dark night into an indoor camping adventure."--Page 4 of cover.
12) Lights out
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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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...
14) Dies the fire
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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....
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Loup River Public Power District
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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The Loup Power district, in partnership with the Nebraska Library Commission are providing the book "Power and Progress : the history of Loup Power District, 1933-2006" in honor of the district's 75th anniverary. The book relates the story of the first public power district in Nebraska and the accompanying DVD illustrates the history and how the District opperates today.
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