DuPrau, Jeanne.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUPWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "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?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWilde, Jen
Summary: Wealthy, popular Webber Academy senior, Caroline, permits her new friend and classmate Waverly, an autistic, gay, scholarship student, to attend the annual Masquerade Ball disguised as her; but the evening becomes a nightmare when there is a global blackout, and Waverly and her friends discover what the school's dean and top donors really have planned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILSummary: When the power goes out, it sparks an idea for Dot, Hal, Mom, and Dad. But stepping away from gadgets and devices isn't as easy as it seems. No video games, no laptaps or tablet, no drone. A trip to the basement turns up some interesting materials, none of which require electricity, software, or Internet access. What Dot and her family will need to plug into are their imaginations, creativity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZUCReynolds, Justin A.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC REYForstchen, William R.
Summary: "From the author of the smash hit, New York Times bestselling One Second After series comes a thriller in which the survival of humanity itself is at stake. The countdown is on. In less than forty eight hours, Earth will be hit by a major solar storm. At first, it is thought to be a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that will severely damage our world's electronic infrastructure. A crisis to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ForstchenAlam, Rumaan
Summary: Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation. 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 city. But in this rural area--with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service--it's hard to know what to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELSummary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASummary: The puppies of PAW Patrol attempt to plan a surprise birthday party for Chase while dealing with the aftermath of a storm that has left much of Adventure Bay in a blackout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Books 2015
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Summary: When the electric grid and Gotham's cloud computing technology get knocked out on the same night, the Metropolis High Hamsters must figure out how to deal with the city's loss of power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Zoom 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WOLWalters, Eric
Summary: A global blackout forces teenager Adam Daley and his neighbors to turn their community into a fortress, defending against countless enemies, but a new danger threatens to destroy them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAWilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSmith, Jennifer E.
Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SMIAlam, Rumaan
Summary: "A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alam 2020Mills, Kyle
Summary: "When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS's top technology expert, he reveals 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FLYDeibert, Amanda
Summary: Diana Prince is used to being the best in everything in school, but to beat her foe she will have to rely on her friends to help her combat this newly dangerous menace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DEIElsberg, Marc
Summary: One night, the lights go out across Europe. The electrical grids collapse on an epic scale and unleash a devastating chaos in the total blackout. And unbeknownst to the general population, nuclear reactors are starting to overheat. When a former hacker and activist who knows a thing or two about infiltrating networks starts investigating the cause of this disaster, he soon becomes a prime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ELSElsberg, Marc
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELS1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Reynolds, Justin A.
Summary: A new middle-grade from Justin A. Reynolds that asks: What happens when five unsupervised kids face the apocalypseunder outrageously silly circumstances? Twelve-year-old Eddie Gordon Holloway has concocted his most genius plan ever to avoid chores ... especially the dreaded L-A-UN-D-R-Y. If he can wear all the clothes he owns, he'll only have to do the laundry once during his school break. On...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood--but the trade-offs made for safety and security are increasingly wrenching and questionable"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FREKoepp, David
Summary: "When a solar storm knocks out the power across the globe, Aubrey Wheeler, in Aurora, Illinois, becomes the fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood, while across the country, her brother, a Silicon Valley CEO, hunkers down in his gilded desert bunker, leading to a long-overdue reckoning between siblings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022