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Swift as Desire

by Laura Esquivel, Stephen Lytle

Published: 2002-08-27

Paperback: 207 pages

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A Swift Pure Cry

by Siobhan Dowd

Published: 2007-04-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Ireland 1984.After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest...

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Swim

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2012-05-08

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The short story that inspired Jennifer Weiner?s forthcoming novel The Next Best Thing.Ruth has left her job writing for a hit television show for reasons she?d rather not discuss and is supplementing her increasingly dwindling savings with freelance writing...

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Swim Back to Me

by Ann Packer

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course o...

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Swim to Me: A Novel

by Betsy Carter

Published: 2007-08-01

Hardcover: 280 pages

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Sometimes to be who you really are, you have to pretend you’re already who you want to be. At two, Delores’s mother dropped her into the shallow end of a lake, trusting instinct would teach her daughter to swim. From then on, the water is where Delores Walker feels most at home. Now, nearly seventeen,...

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Swim: A Memoir of Survival

by Bill Coon

Published: 2010-09-13

Paperback: 268 pages

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In 1989, Bill Coon was born with a congenital heart defect. That year, he became the fourth infant heart transplant in the Midwest and the eighth in America. At the age of twenty, his transplanted heart began to fail. Due to a lifetime of taking medication, his kidneys failed as well. After he was diagnosed...

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Swimming (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Nicola Keegan

Published: 2010-07-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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Born in a landlocked town in the center of Kansas, Pip is tall, flat, smart, funny, and supernaturally buoyant. On land, she has her share of troubles: an agoraphobic mother, a lost father, and a school full of nuns who just want her to sit still. But in the water, Pip is unstoppable. Swimming her way...

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Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans

by Paul Molyneaux

Published: 2006-12-19

Paperback: 304 pages

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Expanding on the author's year-long study of the shrimp and salmon aquaculture industries as an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, the book lays out the rationale behind aquaculture development: increasing the world food supply and creating jobs in areas hard hit by declining landings in ...

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Swimming Lessons

by Mary Alice Monroe

Published: 2012-11-15

Kindle Edition: 451 pages

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Toy Sooner has dealt with enough rough waves in her troubled past. It's only been through the enduring love of a close-knit group of women on this tiny island that she's finally started to find her footing. But as new challenges in her career arise for this young single mother, the choices...

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Swimming Pool Sunday

by Madeleine Wickham

Published: 2004-08-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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When everything changes in an instant. . .On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys opened their pool to the entire village for charity. Louise was there, so were her daughters Amelia and Katie – and so, glaring at her resentfully, was her estranged husband Barnaby. While the...