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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...

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The Swimming Pool

by Holly LeCraw

Published: 2010-04-06

Hardcover: 307 pages

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A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut.Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was foun...

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Swimming Upstream, Slowly: A Novel

by Melissa Clark

Published: 2006-09-12

Paperback: 240 pages

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After too many vodka tonics at her best friend's baby shower, twenty-seven-year-old Sasha finds herself having a ladies' room epiphany. How quickly life can change, she thinks to herself: one minute she's writing a master's thesis about a TV comedy show for kids–and the next, the pro...

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Swimming with the Dead: An Underwater Investigation

by Kathy Brandt

Published: 2003-10-07

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Murder runs deep in a thrilling new series. An Underwater Investigation featuring C.S.I. diver Hannah Sampson. Summoned to the sun-drenched beaches of the British Virgin Islands, Hannah Sampson is fully prepared to face unknowable dangers beneath the crystal-clear waters of an idyllic par...

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Swimming without a Net (Fred the Mermaid, Book 2)

by MaryJanice Davidson

Published: 2007-11-27

Mass Market Paperback: 281 pages

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As Fred the Mermaid tries to fit in with her own kind, she finds herself hooked on both Artur, the High Prince of the undersea realm, and Thomas, a hunky marine biologist. She's also caught between two factions of merfolk: those happy with swimming under the radar-and those who want to bri...

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The Swimming-Pool Library

by Alan Hollinghurst

Published: 1989-09-19

Paperback: 352 pages

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The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived...