Shut up and read : a memoir from Harriett's Bookshop / Jeannine A. Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Jeannine A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cook, Jeannine A.

Harriett's Bookshop (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Bookstore owners--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.

Bookstores--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2026]

Summary:

"Jeannine Cook always thought she'd open a bookshop in her old age. Raised by a blind librarian, books were integral to her life, and she expected she would eventually write one as well. Instead, Jeannine found herself a burnt-out workaholic with three jobs and no time to read or write, feeling like she hadn't fulfilled her purpose. In her journal, Jeannine began an imaginary dialogue with Harriet Tubman, "Q&As" she dubbed Conversations with Harriett. Jeannine wondered how Harriet became a "wade through waist-high water in the winter: type of woman--and how she could become one too. On February 1, 2020, Jeannine fulfilled her dream and opened a bookstore in Philadelphia which she named after her hero and inspiration, Harriet Tubman. Harriet's Bookshop would be a place to celebrate women authors, artists, and activists. While the name was ironic--Harriet could neither read nor write--it was also fitting. The City of Brotherly love was one of Harriet's first stops to freedom on the Underground Railroad. But in only six weeks, Jeanne would be forced to shut the shop's doors when Covid turned the world upside down--not knowing whether her dream would survive. Five years later, this small independent bookshop is thriving, with satellite stores in unconventional places, from movie theaters to horse trailers. Despite global death and destruction, book bans, the downward spiral in readership, the lack of physical customers, AI, and more, Jeannine's shops have survived. Shut Up & Read is her story--the story of the little bookseller who could, and of the woman who has been the driving force behind it all"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version Cook, Jeannine A. Shut up and read

ISBN:

9780063428232

0063428237

9780063428249

0063428245

OCLC:

1564430267