A community bookshop serving the Washington Heights and Inwood community. Shop online at our site. Word Up is a community bookshop in Northern Manhattan. Word Up es una librería comunitaria en el Alto Manhattan. Seven Stories Institute (SSI) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide books to communities that do not otherwise have access to them—due to socioecomonics, geography, language, and other factors—to stimulate discussion of important policy issues within those communities who have the most to lose in the current political and economic crises but have the least access to the terms of the debate; to provide access to basic information; and to foster a lifelong love of reading. Seven Stories Institute’s signature program is Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria, which serves as the headquarters for all of SSI’s operations. Begun in 2011, Word Up is a volunteer-run, multilingual, general-interest community bookshop and arts space in Washington Heights, NYC.