Unearth a Story

The 2026 Summer Reading Theme is Unearth a Story 🪏 Get in the spirit with a book about archeology, paleontology, shipwrecks, or buried treasure, and then join our adult summer reading program to get a kickoff bag, earn door prizes by writing reviews, and play book bingo to earn points for a chance to win one of three Grand Prizes! 🦖

Updated June 4, 2026
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Otherlands : a world in the making
Halliday, Thomas (Paleobiologist)
Paper Book
What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature today? To actually visit the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among their spectacular flora and fauna, to witness their continental shifts? In Otherlands, the multi-talented...
Fossil men : the quest for the oldest skeleton and the origins of humankind
Pattison, Kermit
Paper Book
"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." --New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)  "Brilliant. ... A work of staggering depth." --Minneapolis Star Tribune ...
The antique hunter's guide to murder : a novel
Miller, C. L. (Cara L.)
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this fun, cozy, debut mystery, an antiques hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her in the high-stakes world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? ...
Dragon teeth : a novel
Crichton, Michael
Paper Book
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel--a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting. The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still...
Village in the sky
McDevitt, Jack
Paper Book
In Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevitt's ninth installment in the beloved Alex Benedict science fiction mystery series, humanity discovers new intelligent life lightyears away--only for it to disappear without a trace. Centuries after a war with the Mutes, the first aliens...
A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks
Gibbins, David
Paper Book
'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times'Fascinating... wonderful...
Labyrinth
Mosse, Kate
Paper Book
'Labyrinth' spans eight centuries to unite the destinies of two women - a modern-day archaeologist who uncovers a tomb with strange inscriptions on the walls, and a 13th-century herbalist and healer entrusted with a book that contains great secrets.
Finders keepers
Adler, Sarah 1991-
Paper Book
Two estranged best friends find that their long-abandoned treasure hunt might be the key to a fresh start--for both their futures and their feelings, from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Adler. Last week, Nina Hunnicutt was a professor about to move into a gorgeous new...
Four lost cities : a secret history of the urban age
Newitz, Annalee 1969-
Paper Book
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a...
The Stolen Queen
Davis, Fiona
Paper Book
*A New York Times Bestseller* From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City's most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back. Egypt, 1936: When anthropology...
When the Earth was green : plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance
Black, Riley
Paper Book
NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024 A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from...
A true account : Hannah Masury's sojourn amongst the pyrates, written by herself
Howe, Katherine
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time. In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury -...

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