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." 

We're Back to Winter Hours Starting... Now!
Monday through Saturday 9 to 6, Sunday's 9 to 4, but we're open Thursdays till 8.

They Call it Black Friday,
But you can call it just Awesome!
20% OFF
All Books, Cards & Gifts
This Friday, Nov. 25, 9 to 6,
at BookStacks.

Sale does not include gift certificates, special orders, or cats.  But you knew that.

I recently finished reading a manuscipt copy of a young adult novel due out the middle of January: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green.  It blew me away.  Written in the voice of a 16 year old girl named Hazel, who has terminal cancer.  This is one YA novel that will cross over to the adult side of the store, it's so good. 
I go to  three Maine cancer conferences every year with a load of books on the subject, so I see a good number of people fighting the fight and living in a place I can only attempt to imagine.  I have a ton of respect for these people, the ones who are in the midst of it, the survivors,  the caregivers, and the ones who lost somebody.  I'm sure they don't care about my respect, they just want to be not sick.  And that's what Hazel's story so brilliantly proclaims. 
Cancer's bad enough without hitting kids;  it's an old-guy disease, and has no business trying to wreck a life barely launched.  And Hazel tells her story without ever hitting me over the head with this, and her voice is spot-on teenager, albeit a very well-read, articulate teenager, and no that's NOT an oxymoron;  I've actually heard a teenager utter a polysylabic sentence... at least I'm pretty sure I have.  Hazel says her lungs "suck at being lungs."

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.