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1) The Swimmers
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"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool."--
2) The Swimmers
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Longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021
The black sheep in a family of former competitive swimmers must prepare for the end of her mother's life in this sharp, sparkling debut from a bold New Zealand talent.
'Intense, moving, and darkly comic' New Zealand Herald
When an affair ends badly and takes her career down with it, 26-year-old Erin leaves Auckland to spend the holiday weekend...
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FULL SPEED AHEAD will take you on exciting journeys over land and sea. You have to hang onto your seat as you fly over the Key's in a stunt plane. Later only to top it off jumping out of one! Chapters that make you laugh followed by a tear flow, so have some tissues ready. Experience the fun and all out craziness of playing in bands from the sixties through the decades until the nineties. This adventure will take you into the Air Force for a grand...
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Can learning to say 'yes' change your life?
When Cat Jones is given the opportunity of a lifetime to present one of Ireland's most popular live daytime shows, alongside TV royalty David Fitzgerald she isn't sure she is ready for the challenge.
But after being pushed by her mother's friend Lorraine to say 'yes' to everything for a month, she reluctantly agrees.
What follows is a whirlwind of opportunities where Cat is forced outside her comfort...
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Retta, Johnny, and Roy have no parental rules to follow, so they've made up their own. After their mother passes away, Retta, Johnny, and Roy don't have much parenting in their lives. Their dad is a country singer who keeps them well fed but isn't around much. Older sister Retta takes control, leading her brothers on all sorts of unwise adventures and promising that one day they'll have money, safety, and a nice home. When their dad is away performing...
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Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, and hidden places. Peter Rock's stunning autobiographical novel begins in the '90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. The narrator, a recent college graduate, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and swells carried...
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In “The 100 Greatest Swimmers in History”, John Lohn profiles some of the biggest names the sport has ever seen, from Mark Spitz and Tracy Caulkins to Katie Ledecky and Michael Phelps. Each swimmer is ranked based on achievements such as Olympic medals, world and European championships, and world records. Lohn provides insight into how these swimmers became the best in their sport by detailing their accomplishments, finest performances, records,...
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When a young girl's life is torn apart by the terror and fear of a new communist government, she has to learn to survive within its harsh confines.As she grows, so does her understanding and her hatred of the political situation, and she becomes determined to escape its confines, but the only method also risks many ways to die.Can Suk Hing survive the arduous journey that is fraught with danger, or will she be captured and have to suffer the consequences...
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Candlewick Press
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[2013]
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In the center of Australia lies a strange desert wilderness called the Dead Heart. It is difficult to imagine that anything can exist in such a harsh place. But the Dead Heart has a secret: it holds amazing stories of adaptation and survival. Follow in the footsteps of early explorers such a Charles Sturt and learn what the indigenous people of Australia have long known: not all is quite as it seems.
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The California Current--part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre--flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico. To a casual observer standing on the shore, the vast current betrays no discernible signs, yet life abounds just over the horizon. Stan Ulanski takes us into the water on a journey through this magnificent, unique marine...
15) The swimmer
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Grindhouse Releasing
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2014
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One summer morning a troubled suburbanite decides to "swim" home via the pools of his wealthy friends.
16) The Swimmer
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A fresh twist on a triangular relationship. A novel about love, compassion, selfishness, grief, bravery, sacrifice. An elegy, a reckoning, told with touches of magical realism.
Psychotherapist Bess Lynch makes a sojourn to Cape Cod to deal with her impending demise from pancreatic cancer. While swimming, she encounters an enigmatic, handsome man, Stephen, who is mourning the loss of his husband. Together, they find solace in a tender affair until...
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A searching new collection from America's philosopher-poet
John Koethe, in his tenth volume of poetry, investigates the capricious nature of everyday life, "the late-night jazz, great sex and all / The human shit defining what we are." His poems-always dynamic and in process, never static or complete-luxuriate in the questions that punctuate the most humdrum of routines, rendering a robust portrait of an individual: complicated, quotidian, and resounding...
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Klara Walldeen novels volume 1
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A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew in this electrifying debut thriller-an international sensation billed as "Homeland meets Stieg Larsson" that heralds the arrival of a new master sure to follow in the footsteps of Stieg Larsson, John Le Carré, and Graham Greene.
In the end, you cannot hide who you are.
Klara Walldéen was raised by her grandparents on a remote archipelago in the Baltic Sea, learning to...
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The Swimmer is a disenchanted octogenarian who decides to abandon his home on the island for whatever may come next. Wearing his speedo, his fins and goggles, he crosses oceans, swims in streams, camps by the local swimming pool and enters in and out of a local senior home via the tub in physical therapy, all in search of answers: answers to a forgotten promise that he made long ago to people who were dear. Different mixtures of prescription medications...
20) The Swimmer
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Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and...
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