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After a breast cancer scare last year, Charity Herndon decided to pursue a dream of opening a bookshop. The result is a Jane Austen-themed mobile bookstore called Austen's Shelf.

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Chairty Herndon outside her mobile bookstore, which is based in South Jersey.

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Shelves are divided into different categories, which range from children's and middle grade books to adult fiction and memoirs.

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One of the shelves inside the bookstore displays some of Austen's work.

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Lisa Dukart, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Write a book. Sing lead in an Afropunk band. Be a professor. Open a bookstore.

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