Recent Arrivals from I Cannot Live Without Books

The Inheritance Games (Inheritance Games Series, Book #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her luck changes in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves her virtually his entire fortune. The only catch? Avery must move into his sprawling mansion, full of… Read more about this item

John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial by Dan Abrams and David Fisher History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials… Read more about this item

Lore by Alexandra Bracken Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals. They are hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality. Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world, turning her back on the… Read more about this item

Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours Series, Book #3) by Cassandra Clare Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble. Even worse, she is now bound to a powerful demon,… Read more about this item

Under a Darkening Sky: The American Experience in Nazi Europe, 1939 - 1941 by Robert Lyman A poignant and powerful portrait of Europe in the years between 1939 and 1941 -- as the Nazi menace marches toward the greatest man-made catastrophe the world has ever experienced -- Under a Darkening Sky focuses on a diverse group of expatriate Americans. Told through… Read more about this item

The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945 - 1947 by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan THERE IS A "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of the Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission -- this time not to win… Read more about this item

The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet -- in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport --… Read more about this item

On May 1, 1915, with World War I entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone.… Read more about this item

Churchill's Menagerie: Winston Churchill and the Animal Kingdom by Piers Brendon Winston Churchill was known for his great love and admiration of animals. In fact, one of Churchill's key characteristics was his fascination with the animal kingdom -- creatures of all sorts were a crucial element throughout his life. He was amused, intrigued, enchanted by, and sometimes even besotted with a vast… Read more about this item

Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history: he skillfully crafted his own career and his relationship with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance,… Read more about this item

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of… Read more about this item

Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America by Jared Cohen Eight times in our republic a vice president has succeeded on the death of the president -- history altered by a heartbeat. In many cases, the men who came to fill the shoes of presidents had been spouses in marriages of political convenience chosen for the candidate's strategy, or to court a… Read more about this item

Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and fhe Fight for a New Nation by J.D. Dickey THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. Antebellum America was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan gridlock and ideological warfare. There were angry voices in the streets and the statehouses, and furious clashes over race and immigration, coupled with a growing… Read more about this item

Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby by Dan Abrams and David Fisher No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas police station and assassinated the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Millions of Americans witnessed… Read more about this item

The Knights of Crystallia (Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book #3) by Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Smedry is famous! At least he is in the Free Kingdoms city of Nathalla, where castles are skyscrapers and dragons are taxis. Complete strangers are asking for his autograph! But the novelty of fame is short-lived. The Evil Librarians have arrived in the city with a… Read more about this item

The Scrivener's Bones (Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book #2) by Brandon Sanderson In his second skirmish against the Evil Librarians who rull the world, Alcatraz and his ragtag crew of freedom fighters track Grandpa Smedry to the ancient and mysterious Library of Alexandria. Hushlanders -- people who live in the Librarian-controlled lands, such as Canada, Europe, and the United States… Read more about this item

Secret of Metal (Elementals, Book #5) by Jennifer L. Kelly The colonists of Xon 9 are dying. The Imminent Darkness has unleashed its ultimate weapon: a bio-contagion that is a ticking time bomb of death. Ka Waylon must save them. But first, she must break out of a maximum security prison. Then, if she survives that, she must travel to the Land… Read more about this item

The Water Queen (Elementals, Book #4) by Jennifer L. Kelly It's time for Ka Waylon to finally face her deepest fear in the Land of Water. With Sloan by her side, Ka searches for the Water stone. But when they arrive in the Land of Water, Ka quickly learns that not all her family is keen on her success. The Water queen… Read more about this item

Genesis of Wood (Elementals, Book #3) by Jennifer L. Kelly Ka Waylon is determined to retrieve the third stone which will restore her fractured personality: the Wood stone. Accompanied by her boyfriend, Sloan Braden, they travel back to the Elemental Abyss. Only the Imminent Darkness is seeping into the other lands, bringing chaos and destruction in its wake. Ka and Sloan travel… Read more about this item

The Earth Key (Elementals, Book #2) by Jennifer L. Kelly After retrieving and destroying the first Elemental stone, Ka Waylon is ready to head back to the Elemental Abyss and take back what's rightfully hers: the Earth stone. Racked with guilt over the scars her friend Li now has to bear, and with Fire coursing through her veins, she's more determined than… Read more about this item