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. 
Click on a title or book cover to place a hold.
 
JANUARY 13
 
The Guernsey Literary
and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Schaffer

In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. 
 
 
FEBRUARY 10
 
The Radium Girls:
The Dark Story
of America's Shining Women 
 
by Kate Moore

Recounts the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to radium while working factory jobs during World War I, describing how they were misled by their employers and became embroiled in a battle for workers' rights.
 
MARCH 10
 
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
 
by Robert Dugoni

Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill, who was called “Devil Boy” in his youth, must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown and the life he'd always known — a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.
 
APRIL 14
 
The Demon of Unrest:
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak,
and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
 
by Erik Larson

Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers and plantation ledgers, the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author of The Splendid and the Vile offers a gripping account of the months between Lincoln's election and the start of the Civil War, which tore a deeply divided nation in two.
 
MAY 12
 
The Berry Pickers
 
by Peters, Amanda

Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
 
JUNE 9
 
The Covenant of Water
 
by Abraham Verghese

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction - in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
Have questions?
Call Charlene Duro at 330-821-1313
or email cduro@rodmanlibrary.com
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