Compass Rose Books

We’re a cozy little bookshop and cafe near the town dock. Stop in and find a book and an adventure on the coast of Maine.

Dayswork
Old God's Time
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Postcard
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
This Other Eden
The Marriage Portrait
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
The Barbarian Nurseries (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
The Maytrees
Matrix
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary)
Bewilderment
Sea Dog
The Circus Ship
Nic and Nellie
Big Truck Little Island
Miss Rumphius
The Summer Visitors
The Little Fisherman
How to Catch a Keeper!
Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man
Time of Wonder
One Morning in Maine
Blueberries for Sal
A Fine Orange Bucket
Moby-Dick
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition) (Revised)
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Anniversary)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave
The Sea Journal: Seafarers' Sketchbooks
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Wanderer: Lyons Press Maritime Classics
Lobstering Women of Maine: Paintings and Stories of Women and Girls Who Fish the Maine Coast
Reading the Glass: A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
Letters from the Ecotone: Ecology, Theology, and Climate Change
Silver Alert
Notes on the Landscape of Home
The Weir: A Novel of the Maine Coast
When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
The Maine Roadshow: A Roadside Tour of the State's History, Culture, Food, Funk & Oddities
Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
Our Maine: Exploring Its Rich Natural Heritage
Fellowship Point
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
One Man's Meat