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 journey through Earth's extinct worlds
Halliday, Thomas (Paleobiologist)
Paper Book
"Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth--from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago."--The Economist LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "One of those rare...
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? ...
Lives in ruins : archeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble
Johnson, Marilyn 1954-
Paper Book
The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue! turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones--the archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps, ancient landfills, volcanic islands, and other dirty places to reclaim history for us all. ...
Dragon teeth
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 1962-
Paper Book
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John...
Labyrinth
Mosse, Kate
Paper Book
In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes...
Dinosaurs at the dinner party : how an eccentric group of Victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world
Dolnick, Edward 1952-
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an "utterly delightful...hugely entertaining" (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.
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...
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...
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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