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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The champion Paralympic swimmer, born in Russia with a condition that would result in the amputation of both legs below her knee, presents a photographic memoir of the life-changing moments that helped shape who she is today.
Author
Series
Shark school volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Harry Hammer's new hero is Turbo Tex, an Olimpet gold medal-winning tiger shark. When Harry meets Tony, an awesome tiger shark at Shark Point Sea-cub Camp, he wants to be friends, but can't seem to win over Tony.
87) Pride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of inner city Philadelphia swim coach Jim Ellis. The story revolves around Ellis' fight to build a swim team in one of Philly's toughest neighborhoods in the 1970s. Ultimately, Ellis leads the swimmers to the state championships.
88) Swimmers
Author
Publisher
Tapioca Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fish dream of becoming Olympic swimmers. Olympic swimmers dream that they're fish. Filled with quirky text and amusing illustrations of sturgeons in swimwear and tuna taking the gold, Swimmers merges the worlds of fish and people in this English-language translation of an entirely original book.
90) The swimmer
Language
English
Description
One summer morning a troubled suburbanite decides to "swim" home via the pools of his wealthy friends.
Series
Criterion collection volume 578
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Français
Description
Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunũel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles.
92) Beyto
Publisher
Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him to their home village and plan his wedding with Seher, his childhood friend. Suddenly, Beyto finds himself in a disruptive love triangle. A subtle, summerly sensuous love story about three young people.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Bathing beauty: Esther Williams' first starring role, playing a teacher in a women's college whose ex-fiancé enrolls to be near her. On an island with you: A musical in which Williams portrays a film star at a tropical island shoot. Neptune's daughter: A musical in which Williams interacts with a polo team in town. Dangerous when wet: Cartoon cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry join Williams who is preparing to swim the English Channel.
94) Swimming
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as American Michael Phelps--of the Olympic sport of swimming, which has been part of the modern Summer Games since 1896"--Provided by Publisher.
95) The swimmer
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Wealthy suburbanite Ned Merrill loses everything and, by blocking out the last two or so years of years of his life, he deceives himself that he hasn't lost anything. His deception is revealed as he confronts former friends while swimming from one pool to another on his way to his old home. Some genuinely try to help him. As he proceeds, though, he runs into people who he mistreated in the past, and now speaks hostilely to him. He finally arrives...
96) Evergreen
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Language
English
Description
"Yoshimatsu Hotaka has a dark past, although you'd never know it. As a second year high school student and president of the school's manga club, Yoshimatsu seems like your average, well-acclimated teenager, but a past surgery and a present handicap haunt him. Lacking the confidence to approach the radiant female ace of the swim club, Niki Awaya, Yoshimitsu can only admire her dazzling beauty from afar. So when a chance opportunity allows for a meeting...
98) Watermarks
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The story of the surviving members of the Viennese Hakoah sports club women's swim team, a world-dominating competitor in the 1930s. The club was eventually shut down during Hitler's reign, though all the women managed to escape capture. Combines historical footage and contemporary interviews to reconnect the women's lives and memories.
99) Pride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of inner city Philadelphia swim coach Jim Ellis. The story revolves around Ellis' fight to build a swim team in one of Philly's toughest neighborhoods in the 1970s. Ultimately, Ellis leads the swimmers to the state championships.
100) Splash
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Claire Cashmore, MBE and Paralympic gold medallist, was born without a left forearm - but she never let being different stand in the way of her big dreams. Splash is based on Claire's real-life experience: this gold-medal-winning swimmer really was scared of water ... until one day, everything changed! These are Claire's big sisters. They call her Bear and ruffle her hair. And whatever Claire's sisters can do, Claire can do too ... But there is one...
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