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New england mobile book fair, 241 needham st, newton, ma. Stop in, and make lots of new connections over coffee and light breakfast. And for more than six decades its worked, even as bookstores have found it increasingly difficult to stay afloat. The new england mobile book fair, a newton treasure, is need of a new, smaller, lessexpensive, location or will be forced to stop operating, the boston globe reports. Mobile book fairs former home is reborn as small business hub. Boston realty advisors to sell new england mobile book. Hammers, dust and broken pieces of wood are flying inside the building that served for a halfcentury as the home of the new england mobile book fair. New england mobile book fairs former site on the market news.
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