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These books are NOT ALL owned by Cornell, but if you find one you want that we don't own we can get it for you!
Just click on the title and then select either the BorrowDirect or Interlibrary Loan option.
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Got some time on your hands while you wait to be rescued?
Search the library for books! Here are some places to find books and a few guides for using them to help you find something to read.
- Library CatalogUse this to find materials held by Cornell. If you are not finding what you want, select "Request from Libraries Worldwide" on the search results page.
- Catalog Advanced SearchMany more options for restricting items to only ones that meet certain criteria. Because really, who needs books about zombies from 1920?
- Finding Books (and Music, Video, and Audio Materials)Books are great because they can be enjoyed quietly. If you do choose to search use music, video or audio materials, be careful not to play it too loud as zombies could hear it and realize that there is someone in the abandoned house you are hiding in.
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* Hence the category, FICTION. Fiction = Done been made up. Or perhaps it was MEANT to be non-fiction, but the world just isn't ready to accept it yet...
Fiction - All of these books are owned by Cornell
Careful! These books are meant for pleasure only. Do NOT use them to research the undead! They rarely contain authoritative information for combat. In fact, it is like the authors had NO ACTUAL FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE OF ZOMBIES.*
Zombies and Calculus by Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead.
Generation Dead by Phoebe is just your typical goth girl with a crush. He’s strong and silent&and dead. All over the country, a strange phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. No one can believe it when Phoebe falls for Tommy Williams, the leader of the dead kids.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature's most enduring novel.
World War Z by Now a major motion picture The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result.
Rise by Collected here for the first time is every piece of short fiction from New York Times Bestseller Mira Grant's acclaimed Newsflesh series, with two new never-before-published novellas and all eight short works available for the first time in print. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, a man-made virus taking over bodies and minds, filling them with one, unstoppable command...FEED. Mira Grant creates a chilling portrait of an America paralyzed with fear. No one leaves their houses and entire swaths of the country have been abandoned. And only the brave, the determined, or the very stupid, venture out into the wild.
Gil's All Fright Diner by Bloodier than Fried Green Tomatoes! Funnier than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Welcome to Gil's All Night Diner, where zombie attacks are a regular occurrence and you never know what might be lurking in the freezer . . .
Monster Island by It's one month after a global disaster. Only a few pockets of humanity survive -- in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One amongst them is different; though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies, Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world -- and perhaps the evil genius behind it all.
Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology by Contains Robert Heinlein's "---All You Zombies---"
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead by Mark Twain once said "The rumors of my death were greatly exaggerat--BRAINS!!!!!" Pulled from the grip of Mark Twain's rotting zombie hands, is Tom Sawyer like you've never seen him before, in a swashbuckling, treasure-seeking adventure, spiked with blood, gore, and zombie madness.
The First Days by The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde. Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a powerful zombie-killing partnership, mowing down zombies as they rescue Jenni's stepson, Jason, from an infected campground.
The Hidden by Is this the end of the world? How did it happen? Why did it happen? There is one man who knows... Take a walk with the dazed survivors of a mysterious worldwide catastrophe. They are bound for a place, somewhere in the desert, where a terrible truth awaits them.
The Reapers Are the Angels by Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free. For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart.
The Stupidest Angel by Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.- Vampires, zombies, and monster menFrom the Witchcraft Collection. Who even knew there *was* a witchcraft section in the Rare Manuscripts Collection in the basement of Olin/Kroch Library? Maybe they have spells that would end this zombie threat...
Zombies of the Gene Pool by In the 1950s, a group of young science fiction writers, dreaming of literary immortality and calling themselves the Lanthanides, buried a time capsule with their stories and relics from the time. Now, in the 1990s, when several of them have become famous, the surviving Lanthanides are getting together at a special convention to dig up the capsule and open it.
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! by Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!is the darkest, the living-deadliest, scariest--and dare we say most tasteful--collection of zombie stories ever assembled. It's so good, it's a no-brainer. There is never a dull moment in the world of zombies. Now, with his wide sweep of knowledge and keen eye for great storytelling, Otto Penzler offers a remarkable catalog of zombie literature.
Zombie by Quentin P. seeks to create a zombie out of an unsuspecting young man. He intends to find a perfect young male companion and re-wire his brain, thereby turning the victim into a mindless sex slave.
Zone One by In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo.
Zombie Blondes by From the moment Hannah Sanders arrived in town, she felt there was something wrong. A lot of houses were for sale, and the town seemed infected by an unearthly quiet. And then, on Hannah's first day of classes, she ran into a group of cheerleaders-the most popular girls in school. The odd thing was that they were nearly identical in appearance: blonde, beautiful, and deathly pale. But if she doesn't watch her back, she's going to be blonde and popular and dead-just like all the other zombies in this town. . . .
Your Zombie Librarian
Christian Miller
Contact:
Research Librarian, Catherwood Library
Lecturer, Human Resources Studies
ILR School
239-A Ives Hall
607-255-5576
Check out my Zombie Survival Guide!
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/zombies
Website
Lecturer, Human Resources Studies
ILR School
239-A Ives Hall
607-255-5576
Check out my Zombie Survival Guide!
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/zombies
Subjects: Human Resources, Labor & Employment