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 : a novel
Zapata, Mariana
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author and the Queen of Slow Burn Romance Mariana Zapata's fan favorite All Rhodes Lead Here, a story about finding love when you least expect it--now with new exclusive content! The people we lose take a part of us with them...but they leave a part of themselves...
Buried in the sky : the extraordinary story of the Sherpa climbers on K2's deadliest day
Zuckerman, Peter.
Paper Book
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous...
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...
Forgotten trail : a national parks mystery
Kells, Claire
Paper Book
When a guest turns up dead at the newly-opened Pinnacles Grand Hotel, ISB agent Felicity Harland finds herself summoned to a peculiar scene. A gentle breeze blows in from the balcony window, belying the violence of a man stabbed to death in his hotel room. It's clear to Harland that this murder was...
Hunted
Coates, Darcy
Digital file
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...
Leave no trace : a national parks thriller
Landau, A. J.
Paper Book
The Statue of Liberty is the target of a terrorist attack, the first in a possible series of attacks, in this thrilling series from A. J. Landau, featuring Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service. In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and...
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 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
Bryson, Bill.
Paper Book
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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