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Trudy S Big Swim
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Author : Sue Macy
language : en
Publisher: Holiday House
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Trudy S Big Swim written by Sue Macy and has been published by Holiday House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned. Lyrical text, stunning illustrations and fascinating back matter put the reader right alongside Ederle in her bid to be the first woman to swim the Channel—and contextualizes her record-smashing victory as a defining moment in sports history. Time line, bibliography, source notes.
Young Woman And The Sea
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Author : Glenn Stout
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2009-07-28
Young Woman And The Sea written by Glenn Stout and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY STARRING DAISY RIDLEY. The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspire a new era for women in sports By age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer in the world. She’d won Olympic gold and set a host of world records. But the greatest challenge remained: the English Channel. Only a few swimmers, none of them women, had ever made the treacherous twenty-one mile crossing. Trudy’s failed first attempt seemed to confirm what many naysayers believed: No woman could possibly accomplish such a thing. In 1926, Ederle proved them wrong. As her German immigrant parents cheered her, and her sister and fellow swimmer Meg helped fashion both her scandalous two-piece swimsuit and leak-proof goggles, Trudy was determined to succeed. “England or drown is my motto,” she said, plunging into the frigid Channel for her second attempt at the crossing. Fourteen hours later, two hours faster than any man, and after weathering a gale and waves that approached six-feet, she stepped onto Kingsdowne Beach as the most famous woman in the world. Based on years of archival research that unearthed Ederle’s memory from obscurity, Young Woman and the Sea brings to life the real Trudy Ederle, the challenges that came with her fame, and the historic mark her achievement made for all women athletes who followed.
America S Champion Swimmer
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Author : David A. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2000
America S Champion Swimmer written by David A. Adler and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One woman's gritty determination to succeed
America S Girl
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Author : Tim Dahlberg
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2009-08-04
America S Girl written by Tim Dahlberg and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
America's Girl is an intimate look at the life and trials of Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 not only became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, but broke the record set by men. The feat so thrilled America that it welcomed her home with a ticker tape parade that drew two million people. This fascinating portrait follows Ederle from her early days as a competitive swimmer through her gold medal triumph at the 1924 Olympics, to the first attempt the next year by Ederle to swim from France to England in frigid and turbulent waters, a feat that had been conquered by only five men up to that time. This is also a stirring look at the go-go era of the 1920s, when the country was about to recognize that women not only could vote, but compete on an international scale as athletes. At the height of Prohibition, Ederle's triumph over the formidable Channel was a triumph for women everywhere. America's Girl immerses readers in a pivotal era of American history and brings to life the spirit of that time.
Trudy Swimming Against The Odds
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Author : Felecia Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Flt Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06
Trudy Swimming Against The Odds written by Felecia Tucker and has been published by Flt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06 with categories.
Trudy is about a young African American girl who aspires to be an Olympic Swimmer. She faces adversity and overcomes many obstacles along the way.
The Great Swim
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Author : Gavin Mortimer
language : en
Publisher: Walker Books
Release Date : 2008-02-19
The Great Swim written by Gavin Mortimer and has been published by Walker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Draws on primary sources, diaries, and family interviews to document the story of four American athletes who in 1926 became the first women to swim the English Channel, in an account that also cites the media frenzy that surrounded their achievement.
Swimming Home
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Author : Mary-Rose MacColl
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-06-20
Swimming Home written by Mary-Rose MacColl and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-20 with Fiction categories.
From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow. In 1925, a young woman swimmer will defy the odds to swim the English Channel—a chance to make history. London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she’s done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her. Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did. Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her.
Savage Season
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Author : Joe R. Lansdale
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Savage Season written by Joe R. Lansdale and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Fiction categories.
Meet Hap and Leonard, the unlikely detective duo now on screen in the highly praised series starring James Purefoy, Michael K. Williams and Christina Hendricks. A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money and bloody mayhem. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn't be more different. Hap is an East Texas white boy with a weakness for women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that's just the way they like it. When an ex-flame of Hap's returns promising a huge score, Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that's when things get interesting. Chock-full of action and laughs, Savage Season is the masterpiece of dark suspense that introduced Hap and Leonard to the thriller scene. It hasn't been the same since.
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.
Who Are You Trudy Herman
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Author : B.E. Beck
language : en
Publisher: She Writes Press
Release Date : 2018-05-08
Who Are You Trudy Herman written by B.E. Beck and has been published by She Writes Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
As a little girl, Trudy Herman is taught to stand up for truth by her much-loved grandfather. Then in 1943, Trudy’s childhood drastically changes when her family is sent to a German-American Internment Camp in Texas. On the journey to the camp, Trudy meets Ruth, who tells her and her friend Eddie the legend of the Paladins—knights of Emperor Charlemagne who used magic gifted to them by the heavens to stand up for virtue and truth. Ruth insists both Trudy and Eddie will become modern-day Paladins—defenders of truth and justice—but Trudy’s experiences inside the camp soon convince her that she doesn’t have what it takes to be a knight. After two years, her family is released from the camp and they move to Mississippi. Here, Trudy struggles to deal with injustice when she comes face to face with the ingrained bigotries of the local white residents and the abject poverty of the black citizens of Willow Bay. Then their black housekeeper—a woman Trudy has come to care for—finds herself in crisis, and Trudy faces a choice: look the other way, or become the person her grandfather and Ruth believed she could be?