Porch Light Books

Porch Light Books Used and new bookshop in Edmonton, Alberta. A real nice one, too!

05/07/2026

Reporting live from the kids’ nook 🎙️💡

Hello, .echlin! 💡Kim came by the shop this morning to sign copies of her new book, Tell Others, in advance of a couple o...
05/05/2026

Hello, .echlin! 💡

Kim came by the shop this morning to sign copies of her new book, Tell Others, in advance of a couple of events in town tonight and tomorrow.

From the publisher:

“In this moving collection, critically acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin examines how we turn to literature to measure our lives against the darknesses of our time. Tell Others explores how literature resists silencing and repression with truth and imagination.

Echlin skillfully blends her lived experience in different parts of the world—teaching in post-revolutionary China, researching war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, studying under one of Canada’s most respected Elders, Basil H. Johnston—with wide-ranging reading that offers solace and highlights the possibility to transform outrage into understanding and resistance.

Looking to her favourite writers—Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Ma Jian, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Haruki Murakami, to name a few—Echlin grapples in fresh ways with tyranny, war, sexual violence, and censorship to bear witness to the past and look to the future. Written in characteristically unsparing and evocative prose, Tell Others is an invitation to all readers to acknowledge histories that are difficult to see and to make meaning from the stories that buried bones tell.”

Find signed copies of Tell Others on our feature table now. Thank you, Kim!

A few souvenirs from Edmonton Indie Bookstore Extravaganza this past weekend. There would be more, if we weren’t almost ...
04/29/2026

A few souvenirs from Edmonton Indie Bookstore Extravaganza this past weekend. There would be more, if we weren’t almost literally run off of our feet for two days straight. An enormous thank you to everyone who came by, to the other 15 shops around town who were part of it, to the organizers and volunteers and bus drivers and everyone who scraped freaking snow off their windshields in late *April* to hang out—and to our friends at .press for bringing the . How lucky are we to sell books in a city like this? 💡

04/24/2026

T’was the night before …

Here’s a quick last trip around the PLB feature table before the biggest weekend of the year. Can’t wait to see you all tomorrow and/or Sunday.

A reminder we are open 10-6 both days, so plan your route accordingly!

Also, don’t forget:

- free-scoop cards from our neighbours for the first 100 customers (Saturday only)
- a surprise $20 gift card for every 20th customer
- and a special $5 table full of choice used fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels

What a world. See you this weekend! 💡

🪿🪉 GOOSE MUSIC 🪿🪉New in store, the third birdy zine from —this one celebrating the oft-misunderstood song of the Canada...
04/24/2026

🪿🪉 GOOSE MUSIC 🪿🪉

New in store, the third birdy zine from —this one celebrating the oft-misunderstood song of the Canada goose.

Devin’s previous zines, about the magpie and pigeon, respectively, are beloved around PLB, and this new one is just as delightful.

In store now!

Honk honk honk honk honk (cont’d in comments)

Smile! The PLB new (used) arrivals case, photographically accurate and certified as of April 16, 2026, 11:03 a.m. 📸
04/16/2026

Smile! The PLB new (used) arrivals case, photographically accurate and certified as of April 16, 2026, 11:03 a.m. 📸

04/03/2026

PLB bestsellers, March 2026. 💡

✍️🐺🪱 SIGNED KINGFISHER ✍️🐺🪱Just arrived in store: the latest gothic horror from T. Kingfisher, every copy in the stack s...
03/31/2026

✍️🐺🪱 SIGNED KINGFISHER ✍️🐺🪱

Just arrived in store: the latest gothic horror from T. Kingfisher, every copy in the stack signed by the author!

From the publisher:

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The year is 1899 and Sonia Wilson is a scientific illustrator without work, prospects or hope. When the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use.

But soon enough she finds that there are darker things at work in the Carolina woods.

What happened to her predecessor, Halder’s wife?

Why are animals acting so strangely?

And what is behind the peculiar local whispers about ‘blood thieves’?

With the aid of the housekeeper and a local healer, Sonia discovers that Halder’s entomological studies have taken him down a dark road full of parasitic maggots that burrow into human flesh - and that his monstrous experiments may grow to encompass his newest illustrator…

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On the PLB feature table now. 💡

Where were you during the Great Borges Surplus of 2026?
03/19/2026

Where were you during the Great Borges Surplus of 2026?

🎩 PLB HATS 🎩Protect and/or support your noggin with our new Porch Light headwear, including dad hats (mossy green), snap...
03/17/2026

🎩 PLB HATS 🎩

Protect and/or support your noggin with our new Porch Light headwear, including dad hats (mossy green), snapbacks (black), and toques (grey and black).

Hats $35
Toques $20
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9867 89 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB
T6E3Y3

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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