Compass Rose Books

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We’re an independent bookshop and cafe just up from the town dock in Castine, Maine.

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The goodness and tenderness herein is bone-deep, the language sinewy and fine. 📚❤️ This is a love story, one of music and youth and romance, but that is just the very first of many layers in Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel....... #whattoreadnext #

'I'm so glad we live in a world where there are Octobers.' -LM Montgomery 🍁🤗. October means graduation for Maine Maritime Academy's Midshipmen under Guidance, or MUG students. They will have successfully completed initiation into their regiments a

As meditations, as reminders, as guideposts, these two little books provide an anchor and a path in these polarizing times. People and places reveal themselves in due time, and each of us chooses how we respond and engage with those people and places

'Going Deep is a loving, vibrant, sad, hopeful, funny, exciting and profoundly personal portrait of the dynamic interplay of land, water, and humanity that has always defined the Maine coast.' -H Cox Richardson. 📚 New from photographer and co-founde

Compass Rose Books
3 Main Street
Castine, Maine
04421
207 326 5034
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October 2026 Hours

OPEN Tue- Sat 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

CLOSED Sundays & Mondays

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Open Sat, 9-4, Sun & Mon, 9 - 2

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