Ester Village Library

Adult Book Club
2025-09-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Anchorage) | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt
From Amazon:
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn’t share his brother’s appetite for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. But their prey isn’t an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living-and whom he does it for.
With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters-losers, cheaters, and ne’er-do-wells from all stripes of life-and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

Open Hours
2025-09-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-03 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-30 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-27 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-23 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-20 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-16 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-13 17:00 - 19:00 and 2 more dates

Adult paint workshop
2025-09-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us for some fun times painting whatever your heart desires!

Knit Night/Open Hours
2025-09-02 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-26 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-19 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-12 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-08-05 16:00 - 19:00

Writing Circle/Open hours
2025-08-31 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-24 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-17 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-10 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Paint-in
2025-08-28 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-14 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Come join us for an adult paint workshop!

Monthly Board Meeting
2025-08-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Children's Book Club
2025-08-23 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-08-09 14:30 - 16:00

Adult Book Club
2025-08-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
This month’s selection: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof
From Amazon: With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.
They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
