Ester Village Library

Writing Circle/Open hours
2026-01-11 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-01-04 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-28 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-07 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Anchorage) | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Open Hours
2026-01-10 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-07 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-01-03 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-31 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-27 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-24 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-17 17:00 - 19:00 and 4 more dates

Knit Night/Open Hours
2026-01-06 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-30 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-23 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-16 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-09 16:00 - 19:00

Kid's art and crafts
2026-01-05 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-29 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-22 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-15 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-08 15:00 - 18:00

Adult Book Club
2026-01-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Please join us for a discussion of “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. This is from Amazon:
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant, is a Hazara – a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons – their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope for redemption.

Adult Book Club
2025-12-06 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us for a discussion of “Why We Sleep”, by Matthew Walker.
This is from Amazon:
The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert – Professor Matthew Walker, director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab – reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don’t sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life – eating, drinking, and reproducing – the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
But an explosion of scientific discoveries in the last 20 years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Among so many other things, within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity.
Walker answers important questions about sleep: How do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us, and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and immensely accessible, Why We Sleep is the crucial account on sleep that will forever change listeners’ minds on the subject.
