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Meghan Volchko is a writer for Libby Life and a collection development librarian. Her English degree set her up perfectly for grad school, where she received her MLIS and has been immersed in the world of books ever since. You can find her reading with her cat, traveling with her friends and family, or chasing after her toddler. HEAs are life.

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Covers of books becoming movies in summer 2024

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Grab that bucket of popcorn and download the Libby app to read or listen to these great books becoming movies and TV shows this season.

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8 books being adapted into film & TV series in summer 2024

Your ticket to great entertainment = your library card!

Madison Stoneburner Simon is a Marketing & Communications Specialist for OverDrive. When she’s not working, you can find her reading or creating content for her Bookstagram, teaching Pilates, or spending time with her husband and their three perfect pups. She is a proud member of The Junior League of Cleveland and loves volunteering in her community. 

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Check out these mesmerizing, new fantasy novels coming out this month available on the Libby app from your library.

11 must-read fantasy books & audiobooks for July

Visit a world ruled by dragons, a library of spellbooks, and the Round Table at Camelot in this month's new releases!

Jen Leitman is Chief Marketing Officer for OverDrive. She dreams of one day living on the top of a mountain and writing the next bestseller. Her hobbies include reading, travel, binging TV, and hiking with her dog and husband. Her favorite book genres are romance, fantasy, and of course, romantasy. 

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Photos from the first stop on the Fiction and Film Tour in Las Vegas

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Read all about the first stop on the nationwide Fiction & Film Tour at AREA15 in partnership with the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. 

Las Vegas, Julia Whalen, club music & more—The “Check Out Your Library Fiction and Film Tour” kicks off

Check out more from our first stop in Las Vegas!

Annie Suhy has been working in the book industry since 2006. When she’s not working, practicing yoga, or petting cats, she’s doing paint-by-numbers and buying more plants. An avid poetry fan, her favorite collection is "The Splinter Factory" by Jeffrey McDaniel.

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Listen to your favorite celebrity narrate their own memoir by borrowing one of these audiobooks on the Libby reading app. 

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New celebrity memoir audiobooks read by the author

Listen to your favorite star tell their story.

Audrey Wynne is part of OverDrive’s North American Public Library team. When she’s not working,  she’s reading sci-fi, nature, romance, and books of all genres by BIPOC and women authors.

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Dive deeper into the champions, history, and controversies of the Olympics Games with these books on the Libby app. 

Go for the gold: 20+ books for the Summer Olympics

Dive deeper into the champions, history, and controversies of the Games.

Gryphon Beyerle is an Account Manager at OverDrive specializing in international publisher services. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she’s stuck in a Groundhog-Day-style loop of snacking, reading, and napping.

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Illustration of a lion's head with the headline: Leo Book Picks

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The confident, generous leaders of the zodiac, Leo will love these books picked just for them on the Libby reading app.

Books for Leo: Our picks for the confident readers of the zodiac

Check out these books for the passionate leaders of the zodiac.

Melissa Marin is a Product Owner, mom of 2 and has loved reading since her days of devouring all the Babysitter Club books she could borrow from the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. When not reading, you can find her listening to comedy, pop culture and true-crime podcasts, watching feel-good TV and movies, and seeing live music.

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"Funny Story" by Emily Henry and a thought balloon with a Check Out Your Library logo

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For Emily Henry’s latest novel, we imagined the characters’ potential to-be-read (TBR) lists, which might just inspire your own!

What would the characters in “Funny Story” be reading?

These potential TBR lists just might inspire your own!

Collage of mystery books and headline: July's top mysteries

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Check out these pulse-pounding mystery and thriller novels coming out this month available on the Libby app from your library.

Top 10 mystery books for July

Check out these pulse-pounding new novels from your library!

Molly McNamara has been working in the book world since 2014. From children’s publishing to higher education and international markets, she’s loved seeing the joy reading brings to people of all ages and places. Outside of work, you can usually find Molly exploring a local brewery, starting but not finishing home décor projects, and wrangling her family to the next travel destination. 

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Collage of covers of books being published in the UK in July

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Discover the UK’s highly anticipated new books being released this July you can borrow in the Libby app.

July’s biggest books in the UK

Collage of books being released in Australia and New Zealand in July

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Discover Australia and New Zealand’s highly anticipated new books being released this July you can borrow in the Libby app.

July’s biggest books in Australia & New Zealand

Add these to your reading queue this month!

Jill Grunenwald has been working in and with libraries since high school and received her MLIS from the University of Kentucky. Currently she works as a Marketing & Communications Specialist at OverDrive, a role that allows her to write about her love for libraries and Libby all day long.

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Join Libby’s global digital book club and borrow the ebook or audiobook of “Twilight Territory” by Andrew X. Pham with no holds or waitlists.

Discover a sweeping novel of love, war, and resistance in “Twilight Territory,” the new Libby book club pick

Read or listen with no holds or waitlists!

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