"In 1966 Vienna, Robert Simon, a determined man from a war orphanage, refurbishes a rundown café in a struggling neighborhood, attracting customers seeking companionship and renewal, creating a refuge for diverse stories of love, loss, and transformation amid the city’s changes"- **Also available on Hoopla in audiobook and eBook.

"Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever. Heralded as a masterpiece, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery, is at once fantastic and realist, covering themes of family, spirituality, and political struggle"- **Also available on Hoopla in audiobook in English and Portuguese.

"An electrifying story of love, betrayal, and the complicated allure of bougie domesticity. "Dinan writes like some kind of demigod. Her fictions make thinkable new realities for how we live and what we might expect from each other." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby "Approaching thirty, Max, a trans woman, attempts to embrace heteronormativity by dating Vincent, but as his past resurfaces, she must use love and forgiveness to determine whether it’s possible to move beyond her dissatisfaction and their shared mistakes"-

"The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured new voice in genre fiction." "As a witch in a walled city, Kosara has had practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying bloodsucking upirs. There’s only one monster she can’t defeat: her ex, the Tsar of Monsters. She’s defied him one too many times and now he’s hunting her. Kosara’s only choice is to trade her shadow—the source of her powers—for an escape. Unfortunately, Kosara develops a sickness that plagues shadowless witches—and only reclaiming her magic can cure her. To find it, she has to team up with a suspicious detective. Even worse, all the clues point in one direction: To get her shadow back, Kosara will have to face a huge threat without it. And she’s only got twelve days"-

"The "brilliant" (Daily Mail, London) bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they navigate queerness, multiracial identity, and family drama, all while flailing their way to love—for fans of Schitt's Creek and Sally Rooney's Normal People." "Valdin still loves his ex, Xabi, now in Buenos Aires. Greta loves her colleague Holly, who can’t pronounce her surname, Vladisavljevic. From their Auckland apartment, the siblings navigate modern romance and the quirks of their Maori-Russian-Catalonian family"- **Also available on Hoopla in eBook.

"When Dr. Gul Delani receives a call in the middle of the night from the Sindh police, she thinks they may have finally found her niece, Mahnaz-a precocious, politically conscious teenage girl who went missing three years prior. Gul has been racked with grief since Mahnaz's disappearance, and distracts herself through work: she's a talented curator at the Museum of Heritage and History in Karachi, one of the country's leading experts in archaeology and ancient civilizations, a hard-won position for a woman. But there is no news of Mahnaz. Instead, Gul is summoned to a narcotics investigation in a remote desert region in western Pakistan. ... A portrait of a city fueled by corruption and a woman relentlessly in pursuit of justice, The Museum Detective is an exciting, gritty new crime thriller that announces a whip-smart and brilliant sleuth and builds to a stunning, emotional conclusion that readers won’t soon forget"-

"At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When Kunle's younger brother disappears as his country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission behind enemy lines. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt and shame who must go to war to free himself. Kunle's search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see Kunle conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army and forced to fight a war he hardly understands"-

"The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (Publishers Weekly starred review) that has taken Japan by storm--an eerie fresh take on mystery-horror in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches." "Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all"-

"A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth" (Charmaine Wilkerson), Sweetness in the Skin is a funny and heartbreaking story about a young girl figuring out who she is, what she is capable of--and where she truly belongs. // A winning debut novel about a Jamaican girl determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime"- **Also available on Hoopla in audiobook and eBook.

WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE "A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power. // In May 1938, young novelist Aoyama Chizuko travels from Nagasaki to Taiwan, uninterested in the Japanese government’s agenda. She seeks authentic island life and cuisine. A younger Taiwanese woman, sharing her name’s characters, becomes her interpreter, helping Chizuko fulfill her dreams"- **Also available on Hoopla in audiobook.

"After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, an actress returns to Haifa to visit her older sister. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents...On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new. She meets a charismatic...local director and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank...A brilliant rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad's highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite feat, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation"- **Also available as a CD audiobook.

"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. It is at once a gripping investigation into family trauma, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life...Fifteen years after the arrival of an anonymous postcard with the names of her maternal great-grandparents and their children--all killed at Auschwitz. Anne Berest is moved to discover who sent it and why and embarks on a journey to learn the fate of the Rabinovitch family...What emerges is a moving saga of a family devastated by the travails of the twentieth century and partly restored through the power of storytelling"- **Also available on Hoopla in audiobook and eBook.

"From Ukraine's most celebrated novelist, "a gift for crime fiction fans" (NYT Book Review) that introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he tackles his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early twentieth century. Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political turmoil, young Samson Kolechko is forced to place his engineering career on hold...When two Red Army soldiers commandeer his home...[Samson] winds up overhearing their secret plans. Deciding to report them...[he] finds himself unwittingly recruited as an investigator for the city's new police force. His first case involves two murders, a long bone made of pure silver, and a suit of decidedly unusual proportions tailored from fine English cloth...Inflected with Kurkov's signature humor and off kilter universe, The Silver Bone takes its inspiration from the archives of Kyiv's secret police, crafting a propulsive narrative bursting to life with rich historical detail"- **Also available on Hoopla in audiobook and eBook.

"The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos." "From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape." "A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror"-

"In a cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world"-

"Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the Château d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him"-

2025 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM. "While Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva, a mother of five, is forced to reinvent herself and her family, resisting the oppression that hangs over the country. From the acclaimed director of Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles and based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir, this story portrays an important part of Brazil's hidden history"-

"A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival"-

"Unclear about her family's lack of personal photos, director Asmae El Moudir learns that her grandmother Zahra strictly prohibited the creation of any images or photographs. El Moudir and her father Mohamed open an atelier where they craft a set of miniature clay figurines that recreate her childhood street in Sebata district in Casablanca. Friends, neighbors, and, more difficultly, Zahra are brought to the workshop to interact with the miniatures and reflect upon their past. As she investigates her family's history, she unravels its connection to the collective history of the neighborhood, particularly to the 1981 Casablanca bread riots which resulted in the massacre of many residents"-

2025 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM. "In Tehran, the exemplary family of an investigating judge is tested by the dramatic events following a young woman's death in police custody"-