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
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Otherlands : A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Halliday, Thomas.
Ebook
"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...
Lives in ruins : archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble
Johnson, Marilyn
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. ...
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...

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