Brandon Weis, who lives in Ottawa, Ohio, will discuss his experiences in writing This Is Gonna Hurt, the result of unrelenting pursuit of a singular goal to hike more than 7,000 miles in a year,  tackling the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year, when he visits August 11.

 

Katrina Kittle, a writer from Dayton,

will discus her career and works of fiction,

which includes her latest novel, Morning in This Broken World. Published in 2023, it is described as a poignant and life-affirming novel about our connections to the past, and the promise for the future during the least promising of times.

At 45, Sarah Gormley left her corporate career in San Francisco to care for her dying mother on their Ohio family farm. She expected grief. What she didn’t expect was to find love and to be totally transformed. Told with unflinching honesty and wry humor, The Order of Things is a memoir about letting go, showing up, and choosing a future you never imagined.

 

David Fierst, an attorney from Dayton, wrote Hidden Disgrace: Revealing the Distress Signals Covered by North American Indian Myths, after a visit to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and the result of researching the history of Native Americans in the U.S. and gauging whether that history is accurately depicted. It also incorporates views of Native American writers.

 

 

Tabletop Gaming, a popular all-ages program continues at the Main Library at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1.

 

Each month, a new game is featured so that patrons can learn a new game. Of course, other games available in the library’s collection, which can also be borrowed with a valid library card, are also available and visitors are

welcome to bring their own games.

 

The free monthly event is held on the first Tuesday of each month.

 

The aim of the family program is to give area residents an opportunity to gather with others to play their favorite card and board games and make new friends.

 

Light snacks will be offered and no registration is required to attend the monthly program.

 

Although the program is open to players of all ages, children under 13 should be accompanied by an adult.

 

For more information about Tabletop Gaming, call 330-821-2665, ext. 217.

 

a children's assistant 

 who started at RPL

 

 

 

Open to all, the club hosted by the

Jain Bain Chapter

of the Daughters of the American Revolution meets quarterly at the Main Library.

 

The next meeting will be held

at 3 p.m. on Friday, August 8

 when the selection will be

 

Registration is Required.

 

For information, call 330-821-2665, ext. 204.

 

The Rodman Public Library Bookmobile

will make 12 weekly public stops

during the summer.

Printed schedule brochures are available

at the Main and Branch libraries.

It can also be viewed as a PDF

and as a map online at

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