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Blackout is a sci-fi audio drama that follows Ryan, a man that awakens to a world he doesn't recognize, a world where control is power and life as we know it no longer exits.

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collideand the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

I know all about being afraid of the dark. Like my uncle, in my thirties I found my way into my own dark forest, face-to-face with the big bad wolf. He was so close to me the whole time, I could taste the blood on his breath. Meeting him felt like a fairytale. I fact, I met him at a bar called the Wolf's Lair. A sensational trial for an historic serial murder. A missing woman with a trail of secrets. A top lawyer famous for defending notorious criminals. A retired homicide cop hunting for the truth.

Have you ever had an electrical power outage at home? In 2003, the largest blackout in United States history left millions of people without power for days! Learn how power generation plants are connected to the power grid that distributes electricity to regions of the country and to homes. What causes power outages? How does losing power affect daily life? What can people do to conserve energy?

1940. Britain is at war. Rector’s daughter Wilhelmina Harkness longs to do her duty for her country, but when her strict mother forbids her to enlist, their bitter argument has devasting consequences. Unable to stay in the village she loves, Wilhelmina—reinventing herself as Billie—spends everything she has on a one-way ticket up north. Hull is a distant, dangerous city, but Billie is determined to leave her painful memories behind and start afresh, whatever the cost.

Olvídate de la civilización tal y como la conociste. No hay electricidad, ni transporte, ni agua corriente, ni comida en las tiendas. Pocos saben lo que sucedió aquella fatídica noche: Sólo que, en unos segundos, desapareció de la faz de la tierra cualquier signo de progreso. Por supuesto, un teléfono móvil ya no es más que chatarra. O un arma arrojadiza.

John Milton a eu plusieurs vies : assassin, fugitif, justicier. Mais après des mois de sobriété durement gagnés, il a réussi à se remettre sur les rails… jusqu’à ce qu’un black-out dans une chambre d’hôtel à Manille vienne tout changer. Milton se réveille sans le moindre souvenir de la nuit précédente, avec une femme morte dans la pièce d’à côté et du sang sur les mains. Arrêté et jeté dans l’une des prisons les plus dangereuses d’Asie du Sud-Est, il comprend rapidement qu’il s’agit d’un coup monté.

New York, una festa a Brooklyn in un'afosa notte d'estate, un blackout: mentre l'intera città piomba nel buio e nel caos, un'energia diversa comincia a brillare… Un primo incontro. L'amicizia di una vita. Ex fidanzati. E forse l'inizio di qualcosa di nuovo. Quando si spengono le luci, le persone rivelano le loro verità nascoste. Nascono nuovi amori, alcune amicizie si trasformano in qualcos'altro, e nuove possibilità si spalancano davanti a noi.

Summer, 2022. When Meg and Cat are forced to take a dangerous shortcut home one night, they notice two men silently following them. Suddenly running for their lives, they scramble into an abandoned building to hide and wait for help. One year later. Attempting to escape the horrors of that fateful night, Meg barricades herself into a safehouse at the edge of a crumbling sea cliff. As a storm rages outside, a blackout plunges the house into darkness. But Meg’s not alone.

The virus has spread... and four teens are infected. This new life isn't what I asked for. And if I can't learn to protect myself, it will destroy me. My mission is clear. My enemies will fall. And nothing will stand in my way. I knew there was something wrong with me. But maybe I can be more...

2022 Audie Award Winner! Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the dark. This full-cast audio edition is performed by...

Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in film is losing the industry $10 billion a year. Yet, parity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental issues that the Oscar Awards are only just beginning to address. In this book, award-winning writer, broadcaster, model, and fashion designer, Ben Arogundade, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about Hollywood - documenting the stories and struggles of black artists within the movie industry that have so far been left out of the canon.

Überleben in der Dunkelheit - Marc Elsbergs Thriller "Blackout": Als in ganz Europa die Stromnetze zusammenbrechen, stehen die Menschen vor dem Kampf ums Überleben. Der italienische Informatiker Piero Manzano gerät unter Verdacht. Dabei ist er selbst auf der Suche nach den Verantwortlichen. Auch Europol-Kommissar Bollard kämpft gegen die Hacker, die anscheinend für den Angriff verantwortlich sind.

John Milton's life is about to change. The former government assassin follows a lead to Manila that he hopes will transform everything. But things don't go to plan. He never expected to wake up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body. And, unfortunately for him, Milton doesn't remember a thing about the night before.... Thrown into a gruesome Filipino prison, he puts together the clues of his betrayal. With no allies and even less hope, Milton must use his wits to escape and take revenge....

Berlino, dicembre 1939. Mentre la Germania entra in guerra, i nazisti stringono la loro morsa sulla popolazione. La paranoia nella capitale è intensificata da un rigido blackout che ogni notte, al tramonto del cupo sole invernale, fa sprofondare la città in un'oscurità opprimente. Quando una giovane donna viene trovata brutalmente assassinata, l'ispettore Horst Schenke riceve subito pressioni per risolvere il caso. Trattato con sospetto dai suoi stessi superiori per la mancata adesione al partito nazista, Schenke cammina su una lastra di ghiaccio molto sottile.

Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she’s drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been?

In Pennsylvania quando nevica lo fa sul serio, e i cittadini di Joylet questo lo sanno bene. Nel freddo di gennaio, una serie di sfortune si abbatte su questo piccolo paese di minatori, collegato al resto della nazione da un unico grande ponte. Dapprima una tormenta di neve, poi il crollo del ponte stesso, e per finire un blackout totale che isola completamente la cittadina dai centri abitati vicini. Per via della tormenta, Ethel Goldwyn, da poco trasferitasi a Joylet per il nuovo impiego del marito Christopher, si troverà divisa dal coniuge, a lavoro in una miniera fuori dal paese.

Trembling in the wake of devastating treachery, can the Loxely sisters finally bring down the royals and all they stand for? Jessa and Sasha are finally united in the cause of saving their kingdom and bringing their family back together. The sisters will face their greatest tests yet. Jessa's wedding is coming up faster than she can stop it, but it's Sasha who is running out of time. Things aren't as they seem in the palace, and the one person who can save them is the one they swore to never trust again.

Strait-laced forty-something Franco definitely picked the wrong night to get freaky. A hook-up with a hot guy on his Manhattan rooftop, and a joint he's unaware is laced, leaves him dazed. And—if memory serves him—the sole witness to a murder across the street. Except, the cops can't find a crime scene or a body, and Franco's perforated recollections and conflicting testimony leave the detectives unimpressed.

Young counterterrorist cop Sam Archer arrives for work at the Armed Response Unit expecting a quiet day. But unbeknownst to him, a storm is coming. Three men have already been killed that morning. One committed suicide by the River Thames. Another was strangled in his car in Washington, DC. And the third was shot in the face in his high-rise New York apartment as he slept. The deaths seem random, thousands of miles apart. But they are all connected - by a shocking event 15 years ago.