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Books & Coffee Book Club Sets Reading List
Rodman Public Library’s Books and Coffee Book Club meets every second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Rodman Branch Library. The Club has announced its reading list for January through June 2025. Copies of the books will be available at the Main and Branch libraries, through the library’s catalog, or digitally through the Ohio Digital Library and Hoopla. For more information, call 330-821-1313. |
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by Sy Montgomery
In this astonishing book, which is Alliance's 2026 One Book One Community selection, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus -- a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature -- and the remarkable connections it makes with humans.
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by Layne Fargo
She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family's support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating -- and each other -- to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and roller-coaster relationship. Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end. As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha, claiming to uncover the real story through interviews with their closest friends and fiercest rivals. |
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by Sonia Purnell
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her. The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and -- despite her prosthetic leg -- helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. |
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by Amity Gaige
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is 42-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a 76-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie's disappearance may not be accidental. |
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by Sophie Elmhirst
First published in hardcover in Great Britain as Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, A Shipwreck, A Love Story, Elmhirst chronicles the real-life odyssey of a British couple who abandoned suburban life in 1972 to sail off in search of freedom — only to have their yacht struck by a whale deep in the Pacific. They spent 118 harrowing days adrift on a tiny raft, subsisting on sea turtles, sharks, and rainwater while their relationship was tested to its limits. The result is a gripping, visceral tale of survival, obsession, and a love stretched to breaking — and beyond. |
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by Hernan Diaz
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth -- all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winner Trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another -- and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. |
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Have questions? Call Charlene Duro at 330-821-1313 or email cduro@rodmanlibrary.com |
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