About Libby Reads
For more than a decade, libraries around the world have brought their communities together through shared reading experiences like Big Library Read and Together We Read. These programs have celebrated storytelling, sparked conversations, and connected millions of readers with books.
We’re thrilled to announce a new chapter in that journey: Big Library Read and Together We Read are uniting under one name — Libby Reads.
Libby Reads is the world’s largest digital book club. Booklovers can join over 100,000 others around the world and read the featured title - or listen to the eAudiobook - with no waitlists or holds. Readers can download a Reading guide, access extra and connect with other readers on the Discussion Board.
Libby Reads is a reading programme that connects readers around the world with the same book (in eBook or eAudiobook format) at the same time - no wait lists or holds. It’s a worldwide digital version of a local book club, the program is free and all you need to get started reading is a library card and password/PIN.
If you find yourself between Libby Reads, here's more book group-worthy eBooks and audiobooks that are always available.
Libby Reads
Libby Reads has finished for now but you can still borrow The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba eBook or eAudiobook. There just might be a bit of a wait list.
“Kashiwaba’s novel is indeed transporting. . . . Pick up this book and be spirited away.” — Gregory Maguire, The New York Times
From the bestselling, Batchelder Award-winning author and translator of Temple Alley Summer and The House of the Lost on the Cape comes the fantastic adventure that first inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved film, Spirited Away.
Lina’s father had suggested she go “someplace different” for the summer, and she’s beginning to wish she hadn’t listened. She could be at her grandma’s house in Nagano now, instead of trudging through a forest in search of a town that might not even exist. But when a gust of wind carries off her umbrella, it leads Lina down a secret path between the trees to a strange and incredible world. In the hidden village of Misty Valley, centaurs roam the cobblestone streets and gnomes visit shops stuffed with spellbooks and enchanted desserts. All magic has a dark side, though, and sometimes even sorcerers need a human’s helping hand.
Now, fifty years after its debut and decades of blockbuster success in Japan, Sachiko Kashiwaba’s acclaimed novel is available in English and certain to delight readers of all ages.
Watch the author talk with Sachiko Kashiwaba.
If you liked The Village in the mist, try these next
- Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Di Camillo
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- The Library of unruly treasures by Jean Birdsall
- Kwame crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer
