Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Overdue library books are common, but most are only a few days late. An Australian man found a library book during home ...

July 31 (UPI) -- An Australian library received an unusual return when a book checked out about 150 years ago was found bricked into the fireplace of a home. The Kiama Library in New South Wales said ...

A book that vanished from an Australian public library roughly 150 years ago has finally been returned, after spending decades sealed inside a bricked-up fireplace, according to a report by news ...

An Australian library has welcomed home a book roughly 150 years overdue after it was discovered inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace. Ross Simmons found the water-damaged copy of “The ...

A book on Greek antiquities has been returned to an Australian public library about 150 years late, with water damage from years bricked into a fireplace. The book was returned to the library in the ...