Ruby Sisson Library

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.

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.

On March 13, 1989, the lights went out across Canada and the eastern seaboard of the United States. One of the most serious power grid failures in American history was caused by a magnetic storm. Nova explores one of the most serious threats to life.

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.

In a dystopian future, a tech-savvy teenager and her father flee the city and seek refuge with her grandfather deep in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

He is called 'The Wolf', a spike-jawed serial killer responsible for the murders of fifteen young girls. Arrested by Detectives Elliott Carbon and Johnny Morgan, he has been declared criminally insane and sentenced to the sanitarium of Dr. Parker. But a power failure at the maximum-security facility has unlocked the cell doors and trapped Parker, Johnny, and the hospital staff inside. The inmates, psychopaths, and the Wolf himself are running the...

A series presenting science as a detective story illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Part 1: Beginning in Egypt the program explains how plowing, building, writing, taxation, and astronomy began and how they became interdependent. Man's present dependence on complex technological networks is illustrated with a reconstruction of the New York City power blackout of 1965. The program ends in Kuwait, a...