Transform your technique & become a better swimmer with this remarkable new approach to freestyle swimming Written for both fitness & competitive swimmers Swim Smooth contains the latest breakthroughs in swimming to help you radically improve your speed enjoyment & success. Hundreds of full-color photographs & three-dimensional graphics help you put theory into practice while detailed advice offers help for intermediate advanced & elite swimmers alike. The book's approach lets you identify the strengths & weaknesses of your stroke & drills & training tips let you make the most of your time in the water. Swim Efficently. Swim Fast. Swim Smooth. ...

A gripping captivating novel about love loss & what home really means. Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father & since then she has struggled to find love. That is until she discovers the swimmer. Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior & theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance defying both boundaries & cultures
- & the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is until tragedy occurs.
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As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails walking naked out of the water & into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? & why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound & thrilling Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. ...

Frankie hasn't had a proper relationship for years. But though she tells everyone this is how she wants it secretly she's in love with her best friend Patrick. Tor didn't think she could have a baby but now she is pregnant by her younger lover. Could this mean the end of a romance that has started to mean more to her than she expected? Leila seems to have it all
- a happy marriage a beautiful daughter & a successful career. But Leila is harbouring a secret that could destroy her marriage forever. On an idyllic Greek island the three women try to keep their secrets hidden. But emotions are running high & when an unexpected guest arrives events start to spin out of control.
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On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May Louise is at a neighbours pool with her daughters
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Swimming Studies" is a wonderful unique book from the writer & artist Leanne Shapton author of " Important Artifacts & Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan & Harold Morris Including Books Street Fashion & Jewelry" along with her artwork. As a teenager Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist she is still drawn inexorably to swimming in pools & on beaches across the world. What do you with an all-absorbing activity once its past its relevance & yet you cant quite give it up? Is it possible to find a new purpose for its rigours & focus? " Swimming Studies" is an original meditative work that explores what it is like to move from a world of competition & discipline to one of recreation & introspection. Giving a fascinating glimpse into the private realms of swimming & drawing Shapton tells an intimate story of suburban adolescence family ties & the solitary underwater moments that now ground her artistic habits. " Whenever I come across something of Leanne Shaptons I feel like I have found a hidden treasure". (Amy Sedaris)." ...

Jamie & Tom are off for a spot of snorkelling in Dinosaur Cove & theyve even brought a bodyboard for Wanna! As the boys dive under the water Wanna drifts out to sea
- how are they ever going to save him? Especially when a huge plesiosaur is lurking beneath the waves with his terrible snapping jaws! Perhaps a passing school of dolphin-like ichthyosaurs may just be able to help.. .
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A breathtakingly beautiful supermodel disappears from a swimsuit photo shoot at the most glamorous hotel in Hawaii. Only hours after she goes missing Kim Mc Daniels parents receive a terrifying phone call. Fearing the worst they board the first flight to Maui & begin the hunt for their daughter. Ex-cop Ben Hawkins now a reporter for the LA Times gets the Mc Daniels assignment. The ineptitude of the local police force defies belief
- Ben has to start his own investigation for Kim Mc Daniels to have a prayer.. .and for Ben to have the story of his life. All the while the killer sets the stage for his next production. His audience expects the best
- & they wont be disappointed. Swimsuit" is a heart-pounding story of fear & desire transporting you to a place where beauty & murder collide & unspeakable horrors are hidden within paradise."

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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Old Town the original Swindon developed slowly & modestly throughout the medieval period on a hill some 450 feet above sea level. By the middle of the nineteenth century it was still a small country town. Almost every worker was employed in some form of agriculture or as a servant to the gentry who were beginning to build their villas a decent distance from the low thatched cottages & the traders premises at its centre. The railway arrived in 1840 & changed all that. As the new industrial town snarled & snapped at the foot of the hill Old Town remained self-contained & independent. It expanded slowly advancing inexorably towards that watershed in its future when the old settlement & the new town would conjoin physically & administratively allowing the latter to dominate. Yet Old Town is still a place apart within the conurbation; it is where Swindon began & where its history can best be felt. ...