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7561954Shut Up and Readhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/shut-up-and-read-9780063428263/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7182844/image.jpg?v=638847433872670000574574MXNHarperCollinsInStock/Audiolibros/<p><strong>The author of <em>Its Me They Follow</em> chronicles the improbable true story of how to she left an abusive past to build a bookshop that would survived the Covid pandemic and become an international sensation.</strong></p><p>Jeannine Cook always thought shed 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 hadnt fulfilled her purpose.</p><p>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 womanand how she could become one too.</p><p>On February 1, 2020, Jeannine fulfilled her dream and opened a bookstore in Philadelphia which she named after her hero and inspiration, Harriet Tubman. Harriets Bookshop would be a place to celebrate women authors, artists, and activists. While the name was ironicHarriet could neither read nor writeit was also fitting. The City of Brotherly love was one of Harriets first stops to freedom on the Underground Railroad. But in only six weeks, Jeanne would be forced to shut the shops doors when Covid turned the world upside downnot knowing whether her dream would survive.</p><p>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, Jeannies shops have survived. <em>Shut Up & Read</em> is her storythe story of the little bookseller who could, and of the woman who has been the driving force behind it all.</p>...7176784Shut Up and Read574574https://www.gandhi.com.mx/shut-up-and-read-9780063428263/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7182844/image.jpg?v=638847433872670000InStockMXN99999PR_DIAudiolibro2026Inglés