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Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Unemployed, divorced, and estranged from his daughter, Frederik is stuck in Loserville with no hope of getting back on the right track. His luck changes when a botched prank gives him the idea to mold his motley buddies into Sweden's only all-male synchronized swimming team, with the World Cup finals in Berlin as the seemingly unattainable goal.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been inseparable since dominating their college swim team; swimming has always been an escape from their own problems, but now their shared passion has turned deadly. How can it be true that Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, drowned? Granted, there is something strange about Kanu Cove, where Lissa was last seen, swimming off the coast of the fabulous island resort she owned with her husband. Lissa's closest...
4) Find a way
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On September 2, 2013, at the age of 64, Diana Nyad emerged onto the shores of Key West after completing a 110 mile, 53 hour, record-breaking swim through shark-infested waters from Cuba to Florida. Her memoir shows why, at 64 she was able to achieve what she couldn't at 30 and how her repeated failures contributed to her success"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The four-time Olympic Gold medalist and her parents trace the inspirational story of how she became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, achievements that were accomplished by doing things their own way and making the right choices for their family. --Publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Description
A "debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her--only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness"--Amazon.com.
Avery Delacorte, a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked swim team, struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. That all changes when...
Author
Publisher
Dales Large Print
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From local girl to international star is a big step for any young woman, and Linda's brilliance as a swimmer, combined with her beauty and charm, make her a coveted prize for both men in her life. Andy Blane, unscrupulous and sophisticated, takes an interest in her career but when she meets the fabulous film promoter Max, life takes a romantic turn. Andy, for reasons of his own, conceals Max's true identity from Linda, but their mutual attraction...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Gertrude Ederle's 1926 swim across the English Channel, describing how she overcame difficult environmental, physical, and cultural challenges to become the first woman to establish her historic record.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xiii, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1926, a plucky American teenager named Trudy Ederle captured the imagination of the world when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Stout offers the dramatic and inspiring story of Ederle's pursuit of a goal no one believed possible, and the price she paid.
11) Moment of truth
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she is--a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don't agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood's latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn't amused. Instead, she's determined to make sure he doesn't bother her again. Only she's not sure exactly who he is. The swim meet isn't the first event the imposter has interrupted,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final memories together. Except Bronwyn is miserable. Her grandmother is dying, everyone is standoffish. All she hears are warnings about going in the water, despite a gorgeous lake. And a pool at the abandoned rec center. And another in the high school basement. Anais tries...
13) Swimming
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
14) The swimmers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel and a figure in the early women's rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
As a child growing up in Australia, Annette Kellerman was a frail ugly duckling who dreamed of becoming a graceful ballerina. With courage and determination, she confronted a crippling illness to become an internationally known record-setting athlete who revolutionized the sport of swimming for women, a movie star who invented water ballet, and a fashion revolutionary who modernized the swimsuit.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sidney and Asher should have clicked. Two star swimmers forced to spend their summers on a lake together sounds like the perfect match. But, it's the same every year -- in between cookouts and boat rides and family-imposed bonfires, Sidney and Asher spend the dog days of summer finding the ultimate ways to prank each other. And now, after their senior year, they're determined to make it the most epic summer yet. But, their plans are thrown in sudden...
20) Swimming home
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
557 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1925 and fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands and swim, as she's done since she was a tiny child. But now, with her recent move to London where she lives with her aunt Louisa, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away.
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