Griffiths, Simon
Summary: "Whether you want to take your first tentative dip in your local wild swimming spot or take on a long-distance swimming challenge, you'll find everything you need to embrace outdoor swimming and enjoy the health and wellbeing benefits it offers. Have you ever wondered what kit you need for winter swimming or how to fall in love with the cold? This book includes dedicated information about each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sport 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.21 GRIJoof, Emily
Summary: A small child learning to swim becomes familiar with the water through quiet lakes, friendly rivers, and family storytime before attempting a bigger body of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOOGuzman, Ruben J.
Summary: Technique is critical in swimming performance. In the pool or open water, coaches and athletes alike know that efficiency in entering the water and in moving through it equates to milliseconds of improvement--milliseconds that make all the difference in a competition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2017
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Contents: Take the plunge! -- Masters swimming readiness -- Working out -- The Masters swim team -- Sticking with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.21 LUCBusch, Akiko.
Contents: Introduction : The Hudson River, August 29, 2001 -- The Delaware River, September 8, 2002 -- The Connecticut River, August 31, 2003 -- The Susquehanna River, July 21, 2004 -- The Hudson River, September 5, 2004 -- The Monongahela and Cheat Rivers, May 21, 2005 -- The Mississippi River, July 8, 2005 -- The Ohio River, July 10, 2005 -- The Current River, July 12, 2005 -- Afterword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.2 BUSDuffield, Katy
Summary: Ava is a good swimmer. She s also a good teammate. When Alonso is afraid of the water, Ava knows just what to do. She and the team mascot help him have fun in the pool! In Ava Kane, In the Lane, you'll be rooting for Ava as she learns about swimming and teamwork! With full-color illustrations and engaging characters, this humorous, fictional beginning chapter book series introduces children to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educaional Media 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DUFRosenstock, Barb
Summary: Retells the story of the famous thinker's first invention as a young Ben Franklin, troubled by the fact that fish swim better than he does, tries to invent a way to swim more fluidly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAMcLeod, Ian.
Summary: Provides a visual perspective on swimmers' muscles and how they are developed and includes seventy-four effective swimming exercises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.2 MCLTieck, Sarah
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013
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Summary: "Swimming Past 50 offers age-appropriate fitness and competition training programs and insights for swimmers who have lapped the 50-year mark. Written by Masters swimming coaches, this book will help you reach your target fitness level, improve performance, and increase your enjoyment of swimming."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.21 GOLCapucilli, Alyssa Satin
Summary: "Young readers can learn all about what happens at swim class in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read with sweet text and photographs of swimmers-in-training! It's the first day of swim class in this early reader by Biscuit creator Alyssa Satin Capucilli. What will it be like? In swim class, students learn to blow bubbles, float on their backs, kick their legs, and to only swim when an adult or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CAPSabino, David
Summary: "Books in the GAME DAY series give readers a behind the scenes peek at their favorite sports, told from the point of view of a professional insider. This book is all about Olympic swimming/diving"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SABCox, Lynne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 797.2 COXMontgomery, Jim.
Contents: Start with a vision, train with a plan -- Set the stage for success -- Develop your water sense -- Freestyle -- Backstroke -- Butterfly -- Breaststroke -- Starts, turns, and finishes -- Workout essentials -- Pool workouts -- Dry-land training -- Open-water training -- Make your plan for success -- Competing in pool events -- Competing in open water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.21 MONHeminsley, Alexandra
Summary: "At once inspiring, hilarious, and honest, the new book from Alexandra Heminsley chronicles her endeavor to tackle a whole new element, and the ensuing challenges and joys of open water swimming."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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Summary: "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 whatshe couldn't at 30 and how her repeated failures contributed to her success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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Summary: This story is of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to the author when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.2 COXGambril, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goodyear Pub. Co. 1969
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Publisher / Publication Date: Human Kinetics 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.21 HANMeans, Howard B.
Summary: "Swimming is a long thread that connects the Olympic heroes of today with the real and mythic ones of the past across more than ten millennia--a recorded history that begins in a cave in the Egyptian desert and sweeps across athletes and poets, statesmenand emperors, humans and gods; across the whole human experience, the entire human story. Splash! weaves a 10,000-year-old tale that begins in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.2 MEANewman, Virginia Hunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1969
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Summary: Splat does not want to have a playdate with Spike and both are afraid to learn how to swim. When the rest of their classmates rush straight into the pool, Splat and Spike find that they may have more in common than they thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCOCheckoway, Julie
Summary: The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland. At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel-a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes. At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2004