Upcoming Featured Events

Tuesday, March 5, 2024
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Lecture Hall

Presented in partnership with the Sun Valley Music Festival, featuring Alasdair Neale, Jon Kimura Parker, and Festival Orchestra Concertmaster Jeremy Constant and Principal Cellist Amos Yang in conversation.

This program will be livestreamed and available to watch later.

Reservations open on Wednesday, February 21st at 9:00 a.m. through the Festival’s website here.

The Sun Valley Music Festival’s sixth Winter Season will be held at the Argyros Performing Arts Center March 6-9 and focuses on “The Romance of Brahms,” curated by Music Director Alasdair Neale and featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker—winner of the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition—and string musicians from the all-star Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra.

A Virtual Conversation with Jennifer Lang

Tuesday, February 20, 2024
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Lecture Hall
More/register here.

When American-born Jennifer falls in love with French-born Philippe during the First Intifada in Israel, she understands their relationship isn’t perfect. 

Both 23, both Jewish, they lead very different lives: she’s a secular tourist, he’s an observant immigrant. Despite their opposing outlooks on two fundamental issues—country and religion—they are determined to make it work. For the next 20 years, they root and uproot their growing family, each longing for a singular place to call home.

In Places We Left Behind, Jennifer puts her marriage under a microscope, examining commitment and compromise, faith and family while moving between prose and poetry, playing with language and form, daring the reader to read between the lines.

Join us for a virtual conversation with Jennifer, who will join us over Zoom. Jennifer will be in conversation with Leslie Kaplan of the Wood River Jewish Community, a partner on this event.

The program will be livestreamed, and attendees are also welcome to join us in the library’s John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall. 

Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jennifer Lang lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs israelwriterstudio.com. Her prize-winning essays appear in Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is an Assistant Editor at Brevity Journal, longtime yoga practitioner and instructor. Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature (September 2023) and Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses (October 2024) are both with Vine Leaves Press.

with Molly Guptill Manning

Thursday, February 22, 2024
5:30-6:30 p.m.
John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall
More/register here.

As part of the 2024 Winter Read of The Great Gatsby, join us for an evening with Molly Guptill Manning, author of When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II.

When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years later, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million specially printed paperbacks designed for troops to carry in their pockets and rucksacks in every theater of war.

These small, lightweight Armed Services Editions were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. This pioneering project not only lifted soldiers’ spirits, but also helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity and made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon.

This program will be livestreamed and available to view later. 

Molly Guptill Manning is an author, historian, curator, and associate professor of law at New York Law School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller When Books Went to War, The Myth of Ephraim Tutt, and has recently released The War of Words: How America’s GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II. She has written numerous articles and has spoken across the country about the power of the written word. Molly is the curator of the exhibit, “The Best-Read Army in the World,” which was on display in New York City in 2023 and will be traveling to California later this year. The exhibit showcases the essential role that books, magazines, and newspapers played in World War II. 

Before she became a professor, Molly worked in the federal courts of New York for thirteen years. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in American history from the University at Albany and a J.D. at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She will complete an M.A. in Museum Studies from NYU in 2024. Molly lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.

The Gold Mine Holiday sales event opens November 24, 2025. Find ornaments, decorations, garlands, wreaths, artificial trees, tree stands, lights, and more.

As Christmas Eve approaches, the Progressive Sale begins. Discounts start at 20% and increase until they reach 60%, then FREE! Here’s the schedule…

• December 20: 20% off
• December 22: 40% off
• December 23: 60% off
• December 24: All Christmas items are FREE (early close at 3pm)

Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library.

View/download our Seasonal Sales Schedule here.

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The Gold Mine Halloween sales event opens September 25, 2025. Find all manner of costumes, “get-ups,” masks, and accessories for the spookiest night of the year.

• October 28:  All Halloween items 20% discount
• October 29:  All Halloween items 40% discount
• October 30:  All Halloween items 60% discount
• October 31:  All Halloween items FREE

Doors open at 10:00 a.m. Gold Mine Thrift is located at 331 Walnut Avenue in Ketchum. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library.

View/download our Seasonal Sales Schedule here.

See what’s new on our Facebook page.