Events Coming Soon
Up coming events:
August 17th: Book club title arrives for the September discussion
August 19th: Library Foundation Meeting 5:15 p.m.
August 25th: Hand Craft Club 5:30 - 6:45 p.m.
All of September: National Library Card Sign-Up Month
September 2nd: Library Board Meeting 5 p.m.
September 3rd-23rd: Nebraska Art Club Traveling Show
September 7th: Closed for Labor Day
September 8th: Storytime 4-5 p.m.
September 15th: Hearth Information Class (Blood pressure, CPR) 12 noon to 4 p.m. with Tylin Dodd
September 21st: Book Club 2 p.m.
September 22nd: Storytime 4-5 p.m.
Book Club to Restart for 2026-2027
The Ainsworth Library has books available now for the September Book Club. We are featuring a title by Jenna Blum this month. "Those Who Save Us" has multiple themes in it (mother and daughter relationships, inherited guilt, and a story of survival in WWII Germany).
For fifty years, Anna refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer. Driven by guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investing the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life. This story is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive.
The library has copies for you to read. Come check it out and then join us for our book discussion on September 21st at 2 p.m. as we share thoughts on the book.