There are new books at the Ellinwood School/Community Library. They are:

"Falling Home" by Karen White. Cassis has done everything possible to forget her roots and leave it all behind her, especially her sister Harriet, who stole her fiancé and married him. But now, her sister is on the phone with the news that their father is dying. Cassie discovers that moving on doesn’t always mean moving away from who you really are.

"State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett. Research scientist Dr. Marina Singh is sent into the depths of the Amazon to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson. Dr. Swenson has all but disappeared while working on what is destined to be a valuable new drug. If Marina can find Dr. Swenson, she may also find answers to troubling questions about a friend’s death and find sacrifices beyond imagination.

"44 Charles Street" by Danielle Steel. To save her Greenwich Village townhouse from foreclosure, Francesca Thayer does the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her house becomes a whole new world. She soon realizes that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life.

"Graveminder" by Melissa Marr. It turns out that in the small town of Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected. If the dead are not properly cared for, they will come back to satiate themselves in the land of the living. Only the Graveminder and her Undertaker can set things right once the dead begin to walk.

"Breaking Silence" by Linda Castillo. The Slabaughs are model Amish farmers with four children and a happy extended family. But when the parent and an uncle are found dead in their barn, it soon becomes apparent that foul play was involved. Are these murders somehow related to a recent string of shocking hate crimes against the Amish? Two investigators soon find a dark secret at work beneath the placid surface of this idyllic Amish community.

"Sister" by Rosamund Lupton. Bee’s sister Tess goes missing, and soon is found dead...apparently by her own hand. Yet Bee is convinced that free-spirited Tess would never commit suicide and Bee throws herself headlong into her sister’s life to find the killer. Soon Bee discovers a myriad of life complications in Tess’s tumultuous life that could lead to murder.

"Merciless" by Diana Palmer. Can Joceline convince FBI agent Jon Blackhawk to let down his defenses when he’s set on guarding his heart? After all, she stands by his side no matter what. When the smoke clears, will the man who avoided love realize that all he ever needed was right there all along?