Cannot open Aperture library

I have multiple Aperture 3 libraries. I have the most current version of Aperture (3.5.1) and OS10.9.1. I can open all my libraries except one - the one I need for Christmas! I have tried all threee repair steps multiple times. Sometimes it gets as far a showing me albums, but that is as far as it gets before it locks up. I also moved it from a remote HD to my main iMac HD with still no luck. What other steps can I use?

Léonie,
Wow, I so appreciate your input!
To summarize:
You tried all three First Aid Tools - repair database, repair permissions, rebuild, right?
You can open other Aperture libraries, right?
Your Aperture library is on your system drive?
Deferring the generation of previews did not help
All true
Does your christmas library contain other media types than the other libraries that work well? Videos, raw files?
Most images are RAW files and there is also some video
Do you have enough free disk space?
Yes, plenty
It worked for a couple hours this moring and when it woke up, it was locked up again...
What are you trying to do? Printing a photo book? Rendering a slideshow?
Organizing images into a photo book, printing, all of the above.
So Aperture does not immediately hang? Try to start Aperture's Activity window right after startup: Window > Show Activity. Watch it, so you can tell what Aperture is doing, when the "Hang" starts.
Also watch the Console, so you can see what immediately befor the hang will happen, perhaps what it causing it.
I am not able to really start anything in that library immedniatly after start-up, but will try again to watch.
When did this hang start? After you imported new images, or after you installed or upgraded software?
Software is updated automatically now. It started about 3 weeks ago.

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