Get Outside and Move - May Sweetbean - Adults

The May Sweetbean challenge is all about getting outside and moving! Join the fun with books and activities that motivate you to get active, explore nature, and enjoy the great outdoors. Let’s stretch, jump, and play our way to a healthy, happy day!

Updated April 30, 2025
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All Rhodes lead here
Zapata, Mariana
Paper Book
Losing people you love is hard.Aurora De La Torre knows moving back to a place that was once home isn't going to be easy. Starting your whole life over probably isn't supposed to be.But a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart.Checking out her landlord across the...
Buried in the sky : the extraordinary story of the Sherpa climbers on K2's deadliest day
Zuckerman, Peter
Paper Book
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature "Gripping, intense...Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]." --Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe When eleven climbers died on K2 in...
The Emerald Mile : the epic story of the fastest ride in history through the heart of the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paper Book
From one of Outside magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever through the Grand Canyon, atop the legendary Colorado River flood of 1983. In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River...
Gathering mist
Mizushima, Margaret
Paper Book
Deputy Mattie Wray, formerly Mattie Cobb, is summoned to Washington's Olympic peninsula for an urgent search and rescue mission to find a celebrity's missing child. With only a week left before her wedding, Mattie is hesitant to leave Timber Creek, but her K-9 partner Robo's tracking skills are...
Happiness for beginners
Center, Katherine
Paper Book
As seen on Netflix - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bodyguard and Hello Stranger Helen Carpenter can't quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So...
Hunted
Coates, Darcy
Paper Book
From bestselling horror author Darcy Coates comes Hunted, a story about the things that wait for you in the dark. Her disappearance wasn't an accident. Her rescue will be a mistake. A masterful blend of atmospheric horror and survivalist wilderness fiction, this book...
Instant attraction
Shalvis, Jill
Paper Book
Numbers cruncher Katie Kramer has been the good girl all her life, and yet she's still a fish out of water. At wits' end and rock bottom, she stares up at the L.A. night sky and falls asleep dreaming about a huge falling star, and makes three wishes. The next day she reads an ad about a small...
Into the wild
Krakauer, Jon.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson...
Mother, nature : a 5,000-mile journey to discover if a mother and son can survive their differences
Jenkins, Jedidiah
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . . "Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent-child...
The night woods
Munier, Paula
Paper Book
The sixth Mercy Carr Mystery in which Mercy and Elvis must prove the innocence of a new friend accused of murder. Record snow and sleet and rain are pummeling Vermont and a wild boar has escaped from an exclusive hunting club nearby--but that won't stop a very pregnant and very...
Nowhere for very long : the unexpected road to an unconventional life
Madia, Brianna
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named...
The ritual
Nevill, Adam L. G.
Paper Book
From Britain's 'master of horror', Adam Nevill, comes The Ritual, winner of the August Derleth Award and perfect for fans of Stephen King. Now a major film with Rafe Spall. Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the...
The simple wild : a novel
Tucker, K. A.
Paper Book
City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. Tucker.
Summit's edge
Driscoll, Sara
Paper Book
FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, vie to rescue plane crash survivors from a Colorado mountain--and contend with a hijacker determined to stop them. For fans of harder-edged crime fiction by authors like Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot, Iris Johansen, and Robert Crais. ...
This wretched valley
Kiefer, Jenny
Paper Book
2024 Bram Stoker Award®️ Nominee for Superior Achievement in a First Novel "A hallucinatory nightmare of a novel that blends adventure, horror and historical fiction, and isn't shy about violence or strangeness."--New York Times "If you love...
Three-inch teeth
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's...
Tough broad : from boogie boarding to wing walking--how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age
Paul, Caroline
Paper Book
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age. Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain...
The troop
Cutter, Nick
Paper Book
"The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. This is old-school horror at its best." --Stephen King This "grim microcosm of terror and desperation haunting" (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) follows a scout troop on a...
A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bryson, Bill.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body  ...
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Paper Book
A Best Nonfiction Book of 2012: "The Boston Globe," "Entertainment Weekly "A Best Book of the Year: NPR, "St. Louis Dispatch, Vogue" At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mothers death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed...

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