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August 18, 2012 By Meg Waite Clayton

Harvard Books, Cambridge MA

an indie store on Harvard Square

We’re headed to the east coast for Thanksgiving this year, and one of the things I’m looking forward to is a return to Harvard Books. Browsing this wonderful indie on Harvard Square earlier this year made me much more comfortable that my son would be happy in his new home. The store has been family-owned since 1932 – opened originally with $300 borrowed from parents. (I guess that investment worked out pretty well.) It changed hands in 2008, sold to booklover and longtime Harvard Books customer Jeff Mayersohn and his wife, Linda Seamonson.
One of the most wonderful and unusual things about this store: Harvard Books has bicycle delivery if you don’t have time to pop into the store. If you do, though, it’s wonderful: shelves of new and used books and terrific author readings in a charming setting. They also have a “book-making robot” (an espresso machine) very cleverly named Paige M. Gutenborg for printing on demand books they may not have in stock. And enjoy their “Fiction Fridays” this month, with 15% off fiction purchases in the store and online. – Meg
I do occasional posts highlighting independent booksellers, who are so important to helping new literary voices find their audiences; the independents–especially those in the bay area–were instrumental in helping me find mine. If you have a favorite bookstore, please email me and I’ll do my best to have it featured here.

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com

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