Pride and Prejudice and by Seth World War Z: An oral history of the zom- Grahame-Smith bie war by Max Brooks As a mysterious plague falls upon the vil- An account of the decade-long conflict lage of Meryton and zombies start rising between humankind and hordes of the from the dead, Elizabeth Bennett is deter- predatory undead is told from the per- mined to destroy the evil menace, but be- spective of dozens of survivors who de- comes distracted by the arrival of the scribe, in their own words, the epic hu- dashing and arrogant Mr. Darcy. man battle for survival. The Return Man by V.M. Zito Xombies. Apocalypso by Walter Henry Marco, who earns his living hunting Greatshell down and killing people's rela- As the Agent X plague consumes the pop- tives, travels through the zombie-infested ulation, Lulu Pangloss and the Xombified western United States to California in crew of the USS No Name convert every search of a scientist who may have a cure mortal human into immortal Xombies to for the zombie plague. survive the coming cataclysm, but a group The Walking Dead by of women who are immune to Agent X Police Officer Rick Grimes is shot on the bring hope to the remaining humans and job and wakes up a month later to find must be kept safe from Lulu and her the world that he knows is gone. Zombies Xombie army. (Series) have taken over and are killing and eating Zone One by Colin Whitehead Fiction for those who those who are still alive. He sets out to- In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by like their protagonists ward Atlanta in the hope that his family is zombies, survivor efforts to rebuild are still alive and endures many horrors along focused on Manhattan, where civilian reanimated! the way. (Graphic Novel Series) team member Mark Spitz works to elimi- Working Stiff by Rachel Caine nate remaining infected stragglers and When she discovers that her bosses are remembers his horrifying experiences at using a drug that resurrects the clientele the height of the zombie plague. as part of an extortion racket, Bryn Davis, Annotations courtesy of NoveL- who works at Fairview Mortuary, must ist, an online tool to help you place her trust in corporate double agent find your next good novel! Patrick McCallister to stop a big pharma- Find it on our website: Click Tewksbury Public Library ceutical company from turning them all “Research”, then “Online Research”, then “NoveList”! 300 Chandler Street, Tewksbury, MA 01876 into zombie slaves. (Series) 978-640-4490 www.tewksburypl.org

8/13 Autumn by David Moody Devil’s Wake by Steven Barnes Handling the Undead by John Ajvide A hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night An unprecedented infection has swept Lindqvist of the , chronicles the struggle across the world, bringing and epidemic of Something very peculiar is happening in of a small group of survivors forced to mindless biting attacks from the infected Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and contend with a world torn apart by a that leave their victims “changed.” Society people cannot turn their lights out or deadly disease. (Series) has broken down. The victims are more switch their appliances off. Then the terri- Carnage Road by Gregory Lamberson than mindless zombies; they are the result ble news breaks. In the city morgue, the Boone & Walker are the last members of of a sinister alien life-form in the wake of dead are waking up. What do they want? the Floating Dragons motorcycle gang. the aliens’ insidious plot. What everybody wants: to come home. When the zombie apocalypse turns the Dust by Joan Frances Turner Patient Zero by world upside down, they hit the open Nine years after dying in a car crash and Joe Ledger is a Baltimore detective that road to discover America. Along the way, being reborn as a zombie, Jessie has found has just been secretly recruited by the guns blaze, rotting flesh bakes on the as- her place in a zombie gang, but when a government to lead a new taskforce phalt, and friendship and loyalty are test- mysterious illness threatens both humans called the Department of Military Scienc- ed to their limits. and zombies, Jessie must make a choice es. His first mission is to help stop a group Daybreak by Brian Ralph between ignoring the threat or hanging on- of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio- In this Graphic Novel, told through the to the life she knows. weapon that can turn ordinary people in- perspective of a silent observer, a one- Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues to zombies. (Series) armed companion guides the reader by Diana Rowland Plague Town by Dana Fredsti through a post-apocalyptic works with a Finally coming to terms with her new life as When a pandemic turns the human popu- zombie-infested landscape. a brain-eating zombie, Angel Crawford lation into zombies, Ashley, a "Wild Card" Dead City by Joe McKinney must elude zombie hunters, a scientific con- who is immune to the virus, is recuited to Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in spiracy and the zombie mafia to stay some- fight back and try to control the outbreak. three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast is reel- what alive. (Series) (Series) ing from the worst devastation in history. The First Days by Rhiannon Frater Portlandtown by Rob DeBorde But the worst is only beginning, for amid The first installment of an award-winning When Joseph Wylde's former marshal fa- the wreckage, a deadly virus has broken Internet trilogy finds lawyer Katie and ther-in-law moves in with him and his out, returning the dead to live with an in- housewife Jenni thrown together by cir- family, they have no idea that the old satiable hunger for human flesh. (Series) cumstance and fleeing for the lives when a man's past has come after him, and they Death Warmed Over by Kevin J. Anderson horde of zombies takes over the world, a soon find themselves battling zombie Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vam- situation that forcers the pair to become a hordes. pires, werewolves and other undead deni- powerful zombie-killing team! zens on the world, it's been hell for zom- bie P.I. Dan Shamble who works with a human lawyer as his partner. While solv- ing crimes he also searches for his own killer! (Series)