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 GRIChristmas, Johnnie
Summary: "Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHR (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Rosenstock, 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 FRATieck, Sarah
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 797.21 TIEGoldstein, Mel
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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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 MONGambril, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goodyear Pub. Co. 1969
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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 MEACheckoway, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Wat CheckowayLaughlin, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Total Immersion, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.21 LAUColwin, Cecil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Masters Press 1999
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Summary: "A woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Cuban immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 OMOGregory, Josh.
Summary: Provides information about dolphins, including anatomy, behavior, and intelligence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 GRECopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 GREZabludoff, Marc.
Summary: "Explore Kronosaurus, its physical characteristics, when and where it lived, how it lived, what other animals lived alongside it, and how we know this"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2011
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Contents: Orientation -- Observing : focus on awareness -- Wading : focus on wonder -- Swimming : focus on methods -- Diving : focus on depth -- Floating : focus on flow -- List of exercises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abingdon Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.46 GROLawrence, Ellen
Summary: Explores the eating habits, physical features, habitat, and life cycle of cottonmouths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 597.96 LAWSexton, Colleen A.
Summary: "A platypus leaves its burrow and waddles towards a river. It dives down and pokes the muddy bottom with its flat bill. The platypus surfaces to eat its catch and dives again! Whether on land or underwater, platypuses are awesome!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.2 SEXBrown, Carron
Summary: Olympic athletes achieve incredible sporting feats. But did you know that some animals are amazing athletes, too? Great animal athletes include the southern elephant seal, which can dive over 450 times deeper than an Olympic diving pool, and a grasshopper that can jump so far it would be the same as you jumping from one side of a swimming pool to the other! Find out which animals are the gold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 BROHarbo, Christopher L.
Summary: Instructions for creating easy origami animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2011