Established in 1997, BookStacks is a terrific little independent bookstore boasting over 20,000 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, 9am to 8pm Monday through Saturday, and 9am to 5pm on Sundays. 

BookClub at BookStacks - Second Thursday of every month from 6:30pm. to 8:00pm. Members receive a discount on monthly selections.

Knotty Knitters Club - The knitting group is back and working those needles every Sunday from 1 p.m. until whenever. Come, sit a spell, enjoy the company, knitting tips and all the free tea or coffee you can drink!

Massage - Vanessa Gray, Chair Massages- Every Wednesday & Friday from 11:45-1pm - $1 per minute - therapeutic massage for the working person's muscles

Shop Here (or There)-- Get Gas!
Did you know that you can save on gas everytime you shop in dowtown Bucksport? Here's how it works: Spend $50 at a participating store and get a coupon worth 10 cents off a gallon at Wilson's Exxon. Spend another $50 and now you've got TWO coupons to combine and get 20 cents off a gallon. The deal is for up to 20 gallons on one purchase. You can combine coupons for up to the price of a gallon, so in effect you could get a free tank of gas courtesy of your local Bucksport merchants.

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For the Benefit of Lance Sanborn, Bookstacks will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of 23 copies of "Building the Penobscot Narrows Bridge"

Lance Sanborn, a FF/Paramedic for Bucksport, was involved in a car accident on February 11. If you would like to help Lance and Kim, please send donations to:

Seaboard Federal Credit Union - P.O. Box G, Bucksport, Maine 04416 C/O: Lance & Kim Sanborn - Make checks out to Kim Sanborn.

Andy's Pick: Plague of Doves, Louis Erdrich, redemption, murder and vengeance, finds its roots in the 1911 slaughter of a farming family near Pluto, N.Dak. The family's infant daughter is spared, and a posse forms, incorrectly blames three Indians and lynches them. One, Mooshum Milk, miraculously survives. Over the next century, descendants of both the hanged men and the lynch mob develop relationships that become deeply entangled, and their disparate stories are held together via principal narrator Evelina, Mooshum Milk's granddaughter, who comes of age on an Indian reservation near Pluto in the 1960s and '70s and forms two fateful adolescent crushes: one on bad-boy schoolmate Corwin Peace and one on a nun. Though Evelina doesn't know it, both are descendants of lynch mob members.

Judy's Pick: Dirty Little Secrets from Otherwise Perfect Moms -- Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids. It didn't take long before these moms began to reveal their Dirty Little Secrets-surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn't told anyone else. Cringe-worthy moments ("I bit my daughter's finger trying to steal a bite of her cookie.") meet real insights ("I love my kids but I didn't always. It took time to fall in love with them."). These are the private thoughts that every mom has-and every mom can relate to.