BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:265@jewishlifect.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T150000 DTSTAMP:20250406T012504Z URL:https://jewishlifect.org/events/coalitions-reading-room/ SUMMARY:Coalition's READING ROOM DESCRIPTION:Be a part of this next discussion\, get the book and begin read ing!  \;Or... come and see if you'd want to read this book!  \;Or. ..  \;just come to join the discussions that come up\, consider the to pics that are explored.\nWhatever happens\, it's a fun way to spend an aft ernoon. JOIN US!\n \;\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dMOu4Wdtc\n\n  \;\n “The Dictionary of Lost Words\,” by Pip Williams\nNEW YOR K TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a ] captivating and\nslyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whos e work on the Oxford English\nDictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review.\nEsme is born into a world of words. Motherle ss and irrepressibly curious\, she spends\nher childhood in the Scriptoriu m\, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a\nteam of dedicated lex icographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English\nDictio nary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table\, unseen and unhea rd.\nOne day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She\nrescues the slip and\, learning that the word means “sl ave girl\,” begins to collect other\nwords that have been discarded or n eglected by the dictionary men. Set during the\nheight of the women’s su ffrage movement and with the Great War looming\, The Diction\nJoin us!\n\n  \;\n\n[gravityform id="3" title="true" description="true"] END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR