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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-04-19/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-04-05/
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:This month\, “Delicate\, Edible Birds”\, by Lauren Groff. \nThis\, from Amazon: \nFollowing the publication of Groff’s first novel\, The Monsters of Templeton (2008)\, comes this collection of nine short stories\, six of which have never been published. The richly conceived\, finely detailed stories offer portraits of smart\, daring women who are in search of\, in thrall to\, or disillusioned by love. In “Lucky Chow Fun\,” winner of a Pushcart Prize\, Groff returns to the town of Templeton to tell the story of a high-school swimmer who uncovers the sordid sexual secrets of her seemingly idyllic small town. “L. DeBard and Aliette\,” included in the latest edition of Best American Short Stories\, is a reimagining of the love story of Abelard and Héloïse that sees the couple recast as an Olympic swimmer and his pupil\, both of whom suffer through the flu epidemic of 1918. And in the title story\, an unconventional female reporter\, fleeing the Nazis in rural France along with a band of male correspondents\, must strike a sordid bargain with a brutal farmer to secure their safe passage.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-8/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260331T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20260216T072404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T212910Z
UID:10001161-1774981800-1774989000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Board of Director's Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/board-of-directors-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260329T180000
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-29/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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UID:10000639-1774195200-1774202400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-22/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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UID:10000638-1773590400-1773597600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-15/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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UID:10000637-1772985600-1772992800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-08/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260307T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260307T170000
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CREATED:20260204T024907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T220518Z
UID:10001155-1772897400-1772902800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Monthly Book Club
DESCRIPTION:West with Giraffes\, by Lynda Rutledge \nFrom Amazon: \nWoodrow Wilson Nickel\, age 105\, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct\, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. \nIt’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe\, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events\, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones\, including the world’s first female zoo director\, a crusty old man with a past\, a young female photographer with a secret\, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. \nPart adventure\, part historical saga\, and part coming-of-age love story\, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals\, the kindness of strangers\, the passing of time\, and a story told before it’s too late.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/monthly-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260302T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260302T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20260216T070217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T070217Z
UID:10001157-1772476200-1772483400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Library Board of Director's Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/library-board-of-directors-meeting/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Board,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260301T160000
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UID:10000636-1772380800-1772388000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-03-01/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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UID:10001156-1772038800-1772046000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Seed Catalog Party
DESCRIPTION:Come browse our assortment of catalogs\, and band together with others to order seeds for the upcoming season! \nAlso featuring Ester Library’s own Kristin Haney\, who will discuss her attendance at the 2025 Circumpolar Agricultural Conference in Norway\, offering insights into northern agriculture and resilient gardening in a changing world.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/seed-catalog-party/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
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UID:10000635-1771776000-1771783200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-22/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260215T180000
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UID:10000634-1771171200-1771178400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-15/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260208T180000
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UID:10000633-1770566400-1770573600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-08/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260207T170000
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CREATED:20260204T024108Z
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UID:10001154-1770478200-1770483600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Monthly Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Between Two Kingdoms\, by Suleika Jaouad \nFrom Amazon: \nIn the summer after graduating from college\, Suleika Jaouad was preparing\, as they say in commencement speeches\, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found\, however\, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. \nIt started with an itch—first on her feet\, then up her legs\, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion\, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and\, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday\, a diagnosis: leukemia\, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that\, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York\, she had lost her job\, her apartment\, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed\, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. \nWhen Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo\, a clinical trial\, and a bone marrow transplant—she was\, according to the doctors\, cured. But as she would soon learn\, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1\,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so\, she realized that she had no idea how to live. \nHow would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend\, Oscar\, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day\, 15\,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous\, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce\, tender\, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/monthly-book-club/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000632-1769961600-1769968800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-02-01/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-01-25/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
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UID:10000630-1768752000-1768759200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-01-18/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260111T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000629-1768147200-1768154400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-01-11/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000628-1767542400-1767549600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2026-01-04/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260103T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20260103T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20251102T212003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251102T212003Z
UID:10001153-1767452400-1767457800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. This is from Amazon: \nTaking 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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-7/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251228T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251228T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000627-1766937600-1766944800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2025-12-28/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251221T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251221T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000626-1766332800-1766340000@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2025-12-21/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251214T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000625-1765728000-1765735200@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2025-12-14/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000624-1765123200-1765130400@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2025-12-07/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251206T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20251102T211730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251102T211730Z
UID:10001152-1765033200-1765038600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of “Why We Sleep”\, by Matthew Walker. \nThis is from Amazon: \nThe 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. \nSleep 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. \nBut 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. \nWalker 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.
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-6/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Announcements,Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000623-1764518400-1764525600@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2025-11-30/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20251123T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T101125
CREATED:20250902T200832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T200833Z
UID:10000622-1763913600-1763920800@www.esterlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Writing Circle/Open hours
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.esterlibrary.org/event/writing-circle-open-hours-2/2025-11-23/
LOCATION:Clausen Cabin\, 3629 Main Street\, Ester\, 99725
CATEGORIES:Events
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