The following are new books available at the Ellinwood Library.

"The Secret Holocaust Diaries" by Nonna Bannister. This is the haunting eyewitness account of Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister, a remarkable Russian-American woman who saw and survived unspeakable evils as a young girl survived the Nazi regime. She locked all her photos, documents, diaries and dark memories from World War II in a truck, and only recently opened her materials and memories for her family and the rest of the world.

"Fallen" by Karin Slaughter. When Faith Mitchell charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn, she discovers a man dead in the laundry room and a hostage situation in the bedroom. When she doesn’t see is her mother. To find her mother, she’ll need her partner and all her resources. But Faith isn’t just a cop anymore--she’s a witness and also a suspect.

"Smokin’ Seventeen" by Janet Evanovich. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves in the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s name is on the killer’s list.

"Something Borrowed" by Emily Giffin. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm, Rachel has always played by all the rules, and always been the sidekick to the charming Darcy. But all that changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy’s fiancé and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. Sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

"The Information" by James Gleick. Gleick brings us an astonishing work that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality, the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. From the invention of alphabets to talking drums to computer applications, the author shares the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness.

"The Righteous Among the Nations" by Mordecai Paldiel. During Hitler’s Nazi regime many ordinary citizens risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust and had not preconditioned such aid on any reward or compensation. These were the moral heroes of that time. This book has gathered approximately 150 of the most riveting and moving stories of these heroes, the legacy of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations.’