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Swimming To Freedom
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Author : Kent Wong
language : en
Publisher: Abrams Press
Release Date : 2022-04-26
Swimming To Freedom written by Kent Wong and has been published by Abrams Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A deeply personal, heart-wrenching memoir of the author's upbringing in Communist China during the Cultural Revolution and his tenacious flight to freedom against all odds When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People's Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao's China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward. Kent Wong's Swimming to Freedom is a memoir of a childhood amid revolutionary times, where boyish adventures and school days mixed with dire poverty and political persecution, and a moving story of an inextinguishable yearning to be free. Mao's Hundred Flower Campaign ensnared Kent's father. A decade later the Cultural Revolution closed schools, plunged the country into chaos, and scattered Kent and his sisters to disparate villages where they struggled to eke out a bare existence. Kent began to realize that with higher education closed to him (as the son of a "capitalist rightist"), he had no future in China. So, when he hooked up with a dissident underground and heard about fellow countrymen braving extraordinary hardship to reach freedom by swimming across miles of open water to Hong Kong, he decided to risk his life for a better future. Swimming to Freedom is an extraordinary account of a largely unknown chapter in history, when an estimated half million "Freedom Swimmers" risked everything to escape hardship and oppression. It is a gripping memoir and a moving testament to the human spirit.
Swimming To Freedom
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Author : Kent Wong
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2021-04-27
Swimming To Freedom written by Kent Wong and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao’s China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en-masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward.
Freedom Swimmer
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Author : Wai Chim
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2016-08-24
Freedom Swimmer written by Wai Chim and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-24 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's 'Great Leap Forward', and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. They're not used to hard labour and village life. But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.
Swimming For Freedom
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Author : Tera Bradham
language : en
Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Release Date : 2020-06-02
Swimming For Freedom written by Tera Bradham and has been published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Religion categories.
Tera Bradham was born to prove people wrong. The fastest swimmer her age in the United States by age ten, many believed “Tera the Terror” was destined for the Olympics. Her fiercely competitive spirit and unmatched intensity knew no limits until Tera suffered a sudden, devastating shoulder injury that derailed her promising career. Although she trusted in God, she also wrestled with doubts of his goodness throughout subsequent years of misdiagnoses, chronic pain, and crippling disappointment. Her injury finally forced her to fully surrender to God. Then her miracle came, or so she thought. Her shoulder was successfully reconstructed, and after two more years of grueling recovery, Tera found the courage to swim again and pursue her dreams with renewed faith. Swimming for Freedom tells the story of Tera’s unconventional comeback and shows that through God, all things are possible. What started as an Olympic dream ended in her true miracle: the freedom of a life in Christ. Tera’s story will inspire you to rise up, dream again, and fight for his calling on your life.
Freedom Summer
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Author : Deborah Wiles
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001
Freedom Summer written by Deborah Wiles and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, this work introduces a white boy living in the South of 1964, who recounts his first experience of racial prejudice--and his friendship with a black boy that defied it. Full color.
Freedom
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Author : Jaycee Dugard
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-07-11
Freedom written by Jaycee Dugard and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
The Memory Pool
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Author : Therese Spruhan
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth
Release Date : 2019-11-01
The Memory Pool written by Therese Spruhan and has been published by NewSouth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool. Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool – is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and romance. For some they are places of hard-core swimming training. This delightful, nostalgic anthology brings together reflections and recollections about the swimming pools of childhood from a range of Australians of diverse ages and backgrounds, well known and not-so-famous, including Trent Dalton, Leah Purcell, Shane Gould, Bryan Brown and Merrick Watts. Evocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, 28 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods. Everyone who has ever dived into their local Olympic pool, bush waterhole or saltwater baths will want to submerge themselves in this beautiful book.
Swim
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Author : Lynn Sherr
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-04-03
Swim written by Lynn Sherr and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It's an inquiry into why we swim -- the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It's a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It's about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear. You'll even find a few songs to sing when you push out those next laps. Swimming enthusiast Lynn Sherr explores every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming to the fame of Esther Williams; from turquoise pools and wild water to the training of Olympians; and she reveals the secret of buoyancy so that anyone can avoid the example of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lamented, "Why can't I swim, it seems so very easy?" When his friend, the biographer Edward John Trelawny, said, "because you think you can't," Shelley plunged into Italy's Arno River and dropped like a rock. With Swim, you can avoid that happening to you.
Swimming Lessons
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Author : Claire Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Swimming Lessons written by Claire Fuller and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with Fiction categories.
The second novel from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground explores the mysterious truths of a troubled marriage and the ripples it creates. 'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.' Twelve years ago Flora's mother Ingrid disappeared, vanishing from a Dorset beach, presumed drowned. Everyone - especially her sister and father Gil - believes Ingrid is long dead. Everyone, except Flora. So when she hears that her father has had an accident, and is insisting that he saw his wife, Floral rushes home. But the answers she seeks are nowhere to be found - only further questions: Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children? 'Thrilling, transporting, delicately realised and held together by a sophisticated sense of suspense' Sunday Times 'Assured, multi-layered, wellcrafted, compelling, excellent' Mail on Sunday 'A beautifully told story of motherhood, marriage and infidelity' Good Housekeeping *A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick*
The First Rule Of Swimming
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Author : Courtney Angela Brkic
language : en
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Release Date : 2013-05-28
The First Rule Of Swimming written by Courtney Angela Brkic and has been published by Hachette+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Fiction categories.
A woman must leave her island home to search for her missing sister -- and confront the haunted history of her family. Magdalena does not panic when she learns that her younger sister has disappeared. A free-spirit, Jadranka has always been prone to mysterious absences. But when weeks pass with no word, Magdalena leaves the isolated Croatian island where their family has always lived and sets off to New York to find her sister. Her search begins to unspool the dark history of their family, reaching back three generations to a country torn by war. A haunting and sure-footed debut by an award-winning writer, The First Rule of Swimming explores the legacy of betrayal and loss in a place where beauty is fused inextricably with hardship, and where individuals are forced to make wrenching choices as they are swept up in the tides of history.