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
July through December 2025.
 
For more information,
call 330-821-1313. 
Click on a title or book cover to place a hold.
 
JULY 14
 
The Last House on the Street
 
by Diane Chamberlain

Recently widowed architect Kayla Carter moves into her new home in Round Hill where she is faced with threatening notes and a neighbor who is harboring long-buried secrets about the dark history of the land on which her house was built. 
 
AUGUST 11
 
Valiant Women:
The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped
Win World War II

by Lena S. Andrews

In this groundbreaking new history of the role of American women in World War II, a top military analyst for the CIA presents the inspiring, shocking and heartbreaking stories of these servicewomen that reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of combat in the war and illustrates important realities about modern warfighting. 
 
SEPTEMBER 8
 
The Music of Bees
 
by Eileen Garvin

Three strangers navigating grief and devastating setbacks cross paths in a rural Oregon town, where they find unexpected friendship, healing and new chances on a local honeybee farm. 
 
OCTOBER 13
 
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
 
by Marie Bostwick

In suburban Virginia of the 1960s, Margaret Ryan forms an impromptu book club with three neighbors, discovering shared dissatisfaction with societal expectations, as the group bonds over personal struggles, feminist ideas and the transformative power of friendship during a life-changing year. 
 
NOVEMBER 10
 
James
 
by Percival Everett

Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
 
DECEMBER 8
 
Rock Crystal : A Christmas Tale
 
by Adalbert Stifter

Novella by Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter originally published in 1845 tells the story of two children who become lost in the Alps on Christmas Eve. The book influenced Thomas Mann.
Have questions?
Call Charlene Duro at 330-821-1313
or email cduro@rodmanlibrary.com
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