Welcome to the cyber-home of Earthlight Books. We are a family owned and operated full-service bookstore with a storefront located in
Walla Walla, Washington and our online warehouse located in Shelton, Washington. Since 1973 we have been filling the literary
needs of this wonderful community in the Walla Walla Valley. Over the past 35 years our shop here has become a staple of this vibrant local economy, a beautiful downtown scene and an informed intelligentsia. We sell books through our storefront, this website, and a book-mobile that travels to festivals and fairs. We also sell through Alibris, ABE, Amazon, Ebay and several other online outlets through their third-party programs.
In 2002 we
aided in the opening of Last Word Books, an independent bookstore in downtown Olympia, Washington.
Please bear with us as we enter the 21st Century kicking and screaming.
This website platform is new to us and we are still ironing out some
kinks and assigning categories for our books. As it stands, only a
small portion of our inventory has been assigned categories, which
means the bulk of our books are currently listed under 'Other' but are
still searchable by title, author, keyword, etc. Also, it will take us awhile to get descriptions and pictures of our books uploaded, so feel free to write for more info on a particular title in the meantime.
Some of the books we sell online are through a partnership with the Penrose Memorial
Library at Whitman College in Walla Walla and Last Word Books sells
books for the Friends of the Evergreen State College Library in
Olympia. Proceeds from the sales of these donated and discarded library books go to benefit the
libraries as well as fund various student projects. We have found this to be an educational, entertaining and profitable experiment in local culture and economics and it has furthered the relationships between two colleges and their local bookstores and reader bases.
See below for some of our featured items pertaining to local issues or at least decidedly 'cool' enough to stick on the front page. Please search or browse our online inventory of books, but remember, this still only represents a tiny fraction of our actual book inventory. If you can't find what you like please fill out our off-line search form and we will search our additional inventory, other bookstores and book search services for you and get back to you with a quote.
