Adventure Begins at Your Library

This summer, dive into captivating tales of adventure or uncover new authors, titles, and genres waiting to be explored. Whether you're following a character on a journey of self-discovery or immersing yourself in an exploration of the South Pole, this reading list is designed to inspire your sense of adventure.
 

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1. Kim

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Author:
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for [the author's] native India, [he] is widely acknowledged as the ... greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of an orphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is unwittingly dragged into the Great Game of Imperialism. During his many adventures, he befriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms his life. As Pankaj Mishra...

2. The last of the Mohicans

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Author:
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Series:
Leatherstocking tales volume 2.
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4.5 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
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COOPER
Leesville Community - Adult Fiction
COOPER
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Chingachgook and Uncas are the last living members of the great Mahican tribe. Hawk eye, a colonial scout, is their companion and loyal friend. In the midst of the French and Indian War, the three take great risks to lead the two daughters of a British colonel to safety through the battle-torn northern wilderness. When the girls are captured by the vicious Huron tribe, Chingachgook, Uncas, and Hawk eye risk their very lives to rescue them.

3. The Scarlet Pimpernel

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Author:
Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947
Series:
Scarlet Pimpernel series volume 3.
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5 stars
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Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
ORCZY

4. Shantaram

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Author:
Roberts, Gregory David
Series:
Shantaram volume 1.
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4.3 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
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Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.