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Established in 1997, BookStacks is a terrific little independent bookstore boasting over 5,000 new book titles, more than 1500 periodicals, and an assortment of greeting cards and gifts. BookStacks offers free wireless high speed internet connection 24/7--the signal is strong enough to allow internet users parked outside access even when the store is closed.
Coffee lovers enjoy sitting in the sunny bay window and sipping what BookStacks calls its "pretty good coffee." Open seven days a week, Monday through Sunday. |
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What's Happening at BookStacks? |
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We're Back to Summer Hours Starting... Now!
Just like the good old days:
Monday through Saturday, 9 to 8
Sunday 9 to 4 |
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Used Books at BookStacks: ReStacks!
Last October we launched a new and exciting program for you to bring in your gently read books for store credit. Well. We were overwhelmed with a ton of books coming in, and just a little underwhelmed with their subsequent sales. I made a Command Decision this week and moved all the hardcovers from the ReStacks shelves and changed them over to Reamainders, for the Bargain Book table at the front of the store, with much lower prices than before. This made a lot of space for more books, paperbacks, both mass market and trade size, on the ReStacks shelves, which is to say---I'm open to buy again.
Bring in a bag or a box of your books (paperbacks only, please), and we'll give you a receipt for the lot; within a week I'll get back to you with what I've decided to keep, and issue you a store credit for 20% of their cover price. The books then go on the ReStacks shelves at 50% of their cover price. |
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The BookStacks Reading Group |
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BookClub at BookStacks - at BookStacks, the second Thursday of the month, at 6:30. Below is a list of our upcoming books. August Book- The Piano Teacher, by Janice Lee |
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BookStacks has many of the titles discussed and reviewed on Bookwaves, a radio show carried by our friends at WERU. Click here to find out more about
Bookwaves 2010 |
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Knotty Knitters Club |
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The knitting group is back and working those needles every Sunday from 1 p.m. until whenever. Come, sit a spell, enjoy the company and knitting tips. |
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Book Signings at Bookstacks |
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This of course is Tess Gerritsen, who will be here at BookStacks real soon. I love her. James Hayman loves her, too. I just finsished her new book, Ice Cold, and it's really good. The story takes place in Wyoming, and it deals with a religeous cult and... a surprise. Tess willl be here at the store Thursday evening, Sept. 2, at 6 p.m., fresh from touring the European Continent and the United States. In the meantime, her characters and stories have been adapted to the tv set, and all reports are it's a pretty good weekly cable (I don't know which one, but it's BIG) series (I don't get tv--at more than a couple-three levels). I did, however, get a DVD and some wicked cool bookmarks from her publisher of the first shoe, as Ed Sullivan would say, and it was pretty good; a liberal adaptation of The Apprentice; it came real close. Close to the book; it's just that they had to wrap up the whole potato, 300 some pages, in 40 minutes. What's up with that? |
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My advice ( not surprisingly): stick to the books. Please. I think Tess will agree. I'm awful glad for her that she made tv for the wider audience--(face it, Andy)-- but her books are way better. WAY better. Plus, she's a great, friendly, funny, smart person you'll want to meet and listen to. I'll see you then. I can't wait. |
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Why shop Indie?
When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits:
The Economy
- Spend $100 at a local and $68 of that stays in your community. Spend the same $100 at a national chain, and your community only sees $43.
- Local businesses create higher-paying jobs for our neighbors.
- More of your taxes are reinvested in your community--where they belong.
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A Few Words from Andy.. |
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Okay. This is my rant.
Thank you again for shopping locally. I mean it. You alone are personally responsible for keeping BookStacks alive by keeping your local (and often union) dollars local. As you well know Walmart is publicly anti-union. But, whether it's doing business with Radio Shack or Bitter Sweet or Rosens or MacLeods or any of the other local businesses (and admittedly there's not a whole lot of of us in Bucksport, Maine), including our poor, poor Hannafords-- or, you know, especially BookStacks-- every dime you spend here helps your community, it helps your backyard, it helps your schools, it helps your roads, it helps your fire department. It helps your town. So, you know, it helps you. And your kids.
YOU can chose to be merely a voiceless, simple property-tax-paying resident of a town--any town. Oryou can be a True Citizen of Bucksport, Maine. Online corpororte monster giants from far away like Amazon do not collect sales tax the way Bookstacks does. They pay no property taxes or unemployment taxes in the state of Maine like BookStacks does. They sure as hell don't pay community service donations. They don't help with any spaghetti suppers, or silent auctions, or benefits, or scholarship funds; they don't sell tickets to community events for free. Listen, I'm only asking you to tell your friends to think twice, please, before clicking on to Amazon in order to buy a book at my cost, (less sales tax, less shipping)--please just ask just them: How bloody expensive is that seemingly "low cost"?
Okay. I remain Your humble bookseller, and I REALLY love what I do, I just get a little muffled when I see somebody using my free Wi-Fi to order from you-know-who. You gotta smile.
Thanks.
Andy Lacher
BookStacks |
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Videos We Would Like To Share |
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Friends of BookStacks |
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| Bittersweet Gift Shop - Local store fillled with Mainemade items & holiday collectibles ~207-469-5971 |
| Bucksport Area Cultural Arts Society - tickets for these events can be purchased at BookStacks |
| Bucksport Chimney Sweep - ~ 54 Broadway, Bucksport, ME ~ 207-469-7932 |
| Bucksport.maine.2010 - this almost daily blog documents life in bucksport, maine throughout 2010. the intent is that each image be the message. some images document an event, some represent our town and others are ones i simply like. ENJOY! |
| Five Elements Gallery ~ PO Box 45 ~ Vinalhaven, ME ~ 04863 ~ 207- 863-2262 |
| Friends of Maine Seabird Islands - New Map Highlights Seabird Nesting Islands on Maine Coast |
| Fort Knox Inn - Walk Across the street from us and you will be there |
| Heavenly Socks Yarns - 82 Main Street, Belfast, ME 04915 ~ 207-338-8388 |
| Island Pool & Spa - Verona Island, Maine ~ 207-469-6004 |
| Left Bank Books - Searsport, Maine ~ 207-548-6400 |
| Maine Supernatural - is dedicated to researching Unsolved Murder Mysteries from Maine. |
| MargaretsCards - Maine watercolors by Margaret Fellows |
| Northeast Historic Film: A Moving Image Archive Specializing in Northern New England |
| Sign Language Graphics and Signs - Bucksport, Maine 207-469-6300 |
| Silkweeds - Beautiful Country Primitives in Searsport, Maine 207-548-6501 |
| Sundial Framing and Photography - Bucksport, Maine 207-469-6060 |
| Riverbend Players is a group of enthusiasts from the local area who enjoy live theatre, music, comedy, and all other aspects of performing and producing entertainment for the community that is intended for people of all ages. |
| Rosen's - Wonderful Clothing Store on Main Street, in Bucksport! |
| Stephanie Tourles - Local Author |
| Ted Bastien's Bugsport's Tribute to BookStacks |
| Wahl's Dairy Port - best ice cream on the coast! |
| WERU FM Community Radio 89.9 Blue Hill & 102.9 Bangor |
| Williams Pond Lodge ~ 327 Williams Pond Road Bucksport, ME ~ Phone:207-460-6064 |
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