Ester Village Library

Open hours
2024-01-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-24 15:00 - 18:00, 2024-01-25 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-27 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-07 16:00 - 19:00, 2024-06-20 03:03 (America/Anchorage)

Open hours
2024-01-22 15:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Knit night
2024-01-23 15:00 - 19:00
Join us for a night of knitting and crocheting!

Seed Catalog Party
2024-01-25 17:00 - 19:00
Join us for an evening of flipping through seed catalogs! Order some for yourself, or for GEB

Monday Open hours
2024-01-29 15:00 - 18:00, 2024-02-05 15:00 - 18:00

Knit Night & Open Hours
2024-01-30 15:00 - 19:00

Open Hours - Growing Ester's Biodiversity
2024-02-01 16:00 - 19:00

Book Club
2024-02-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
We’ll be discussing “Still Life” by Sarah Winman
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs sink villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian intent on salvaging paintings from the ruins. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and paint a course of events that will shape Ulysses’s life for the next four decades.
Returning home to London, Ulysses reimmerses himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics—all the while carrying with him his Italian evocations. So, when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate: he must return to the Tuscan hills.

Board Meeting
2024-02-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-04-21 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-05-15 18:00 - 20:00

Book Club
2024-03-02 15:00 - 17:00
Fuzz, by Mary Roach
From Amazon: One of Audible’s Best of 2021
AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
#1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller
#1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller
A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021
Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Join “America’s funniest science writer” (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.
Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and “danger tree” faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.
Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to “problem” wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem – and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

Board Meeting
2024-03-20 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-08-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Easter Egg Hunt
2024-03-31 14:00 - 15:00
Join us to make a house for your lil’ Peeps while you’re waiting for the hunt to begin.

Book Club
2024-04-06 15:00 - 17:00
An Immense World, by Ed Yong
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.
In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.
Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD

SuperHeroes Jazz Night Out
2024-04-13 21:00 - 2024-04-14 00:00
Come out and celebrate spring, jazz and all things library! We’ll have the Badger Street Jazz band to swing to, lots of things being auctioned off (silent auction), and a warm and friendly atmosphere.

Book Club
2024-05-04 15:00 - 17:00
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes—and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.
For a start there’s the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike. Bryson’s acute eye is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail, and as he tells its fascinating history, he makes a moving plea for the conservation of America’s last great wilderness. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is a modern classic of travel literature.

Plant Sale
2024-05-25 12:00 - 16:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Come get some plants for your garden! Edibles, herbs, garlic bulbs and flowering plants….

Happy 4th of July
2024-07-04 00:00

Book Club
2024-07-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten
The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime.
On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.
As subzero temperatures drop even further, a treacherous blizzard sweeps toward Åre. Hanna and Daniel’s investigation is getting more desperate by the hour. Lost or abducted, either way time is running out for the missing girl. Each new clue closes in on something far more sinister than either Hanna or Daniel imagined. In this devious novel by the bestselling author of the Sandhamn Murders series, discover what it will take to solve a case when the truth can be so easily hidden in the coming storm.

Writing Circle (No browsing)
2024-08-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us for some quiet time. The library is NOT open for browsing during this time.

Closed - Happy Labor Day!
2024-09-02

Book Club
2024-09-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged is the “second most influential book for Americans today” after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.
In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts?
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, he sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers will be revealed once you discover the reason behind the baffling events that wreak havoc on the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book.
Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. Atlas Shrugged emerged as a premier moral apologia for capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who had never heard capitalism defended in other than technical terms.
With gorgeous descriptions of the Alaskan wilds and a vivid cast of characters – including Forrester; his wife, Sophie; a mysterious Eyak guide; and a Native American woman who joins the expedition – To the Bright Edge of the World is an epic tale of one of America’s last frontiers, combining myth, history, romance, and adventure.
