{"id":1670,"date":"2011-10-11T13:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2012-04-10T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T18:30:16","slug":"the-book-bear-offers-a-vast-selection-of-affordable-books-in-west-brookfield-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"The Book Bear Offers a Vast Selection of Affordable Books in West Brookfield, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1671\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1671\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/P1140062.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1671\" title=\"Book Bear, West Brookfield MA\" src=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/P1140062-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Book Bear, West Brookfield, Mass. (photo by Eric)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you love independently-owned book stores, we recommend checking out The Book Bear in West Brookfield, Mass., in your next chapter of book browsing. After all, you can&#8217;t go wrong with a selection of around 90,000 used, rare and out of print books!<\/p>\n<p>In business for more than 30 years and with no computer inventory of its books, the Book Bear is old-school in its business model, as well as its prices. I found a health book that originally cost $26, but marked down to $6.50. There&#8217;s a great mix of fiction and non fiction books.<\/p>\n<p>This long-sized building with the big bear on the outside (fake, of course!), and a wonderful book smell, well-marked category sections and friendly staff on the inside will surely delight book lovers. It&#8217;s so nice to find stores like the Book Bear thriving in this day of age, and we support them every time we visit West Brookfield (central Massachusetts). I&#8217;d say the Book Bear is one of our favorite locally-owned book stores in New England, mainly due to its vast selection but also based on a love for friendly, viable, long standing locally-owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbear.com\/\">The Book Bear<\/a><br \/>\n80 West Main St.<br \/>\nWest Brookfield, Mass.<br \/>\nTel. (508) 867-8705<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love independently-owned book stores, we recommend checking out The Book Bear in West Brookfield, Mass., in your next chapter of book browsing. After all, you can&#8217;t go wrong with a selection of around 90,000 used, rare and out of print books! In business for more than 30 years and with no computer inventory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[275],"tags":[1441,1440,1442,1443,1444,879],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}