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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
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep,...
6) Fallen rogue
Author
Publisher
Leisure
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
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
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.
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
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
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.
15) Night swimming
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At fifteen, Casey Legler is already one of the fastest swimmers in the world. She is also an alcoholic, isolated from her family, and incapable of forming lasting connections with those around her. Driven to compete at the highest levels, sent far away from home to train with the best coaches and teams, she finds herself increasingly alone and alienated, living a life of cheap hotels and chlorine-worn skin, anonymous sexual encounters, and escalating...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U. S. Edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages, 8 unnumberred pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Yusra Mardini fled her native Syria to the Turkish coast in 2015, aboard a small dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat's engine cut out, it began to sink. Yusra, her sister, and two others took to the water, pushing the boat for three and a half hours in open water until they eventually landed on Lesbos, saving the lives of the passengers aboard. Butterfly is the story of that remarkable woman, whose journey...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (594 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thrill of a romance: A war hero takes swimming lessons in order to woo the instructor. Fiesta: A woman disguises herself as a matador to fill in for her brother. This time for keeps: A veteran falls in love with a swimmer. Pagan love song: A love story set on Tahiti. Million dollar mermaid: Dramatizes the life of Annette Kellerman. Easy to love: A water skier falls in love with her agent.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Annette wanted one thing: to feel free. As a girl she found freedom in the water, where she could swim without the leg braces she needed on land. As she grew up, Annette swam in Australia and England and America and beyond, performing synchronized swimming--which she invented!--and competing in swim races and diving exhibitions. But always she was bogged down by her heavy swim clothes. Clothes that only women had to wear, not men. So...
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