Swimming Pool Sunday

Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466879041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
From bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, writing as Madeleine Wickham, comes Swimming Pool Sunday "A fine entertainment."- The Times One shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys open their pool to the whole village for charity. Louise is there with her daughters, and while the children splash and shriek in the cool blue waters, she basks in the sunshine, attempting to ignore her estranged husband and dreaming of the new man in her life, a charismatic lawyer. The day seems perfect. Then a sudden and shocking accident changes everyone's lives forever. Recriminations start to fly. Whose fault was it? Louise's new lover insists that she sues the Delaneys. Her ex-husband isn't so sure. Opinion in the village is split. Old friendships start to crumble. New ones are formed. Will the repercussions from the accident ever end?

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Author: Gil Courtemanche
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307424529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide. All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them–already devastated by AIDS–erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt’s efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover’s shocking fate.

101 Cool Pool Games for Children

Author: Kim Rodomista
Publisher: Hunter House
ISBN: 0897934830
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
Games and exercises for swimmers of all levels.

Contested Waters

Author: Jeff Wiltse
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.

Swimming Pool Sunday

Author: Madeleine Wickham
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312181884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
In an English village a girl injures herself in a neighbor's swimming pool and a lawyer convinces the mother to sue. Unaware he is using her to further his career, she does so, starting a string of unforeseen events. By the author of A Desirable Residence.

The Swimming-Pool Library

Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030780660X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413

Book Description
The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming-Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and Lord Nantwich, an elderly man searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.

Lido

Author: Christopher Beanland
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849946787
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
A celebration of outdoor swimming – looking at the history, design and social aspect of pools. Few experiences can beat diving into a pool in the fresh air, swimming with blue skies above you. Whether it's a dip into a busy and bustling city pool on a sweltering summer day, or taking the plunge in icy waters, the lido provides a place of peace in a frenetic world. The book begins with a history of outdoor pools – their grand beginnings after the buttoned-up Victorian era, their falling popularity in the 20th century, and the newfound appreciation for the outdoor pool, or lido, and outdoor swimming in the 21st century. Journalist and architectural historian Christopher Beanland picks the very best of the outdoor pools around the world, including the Icebergs Pool on Bondi Beach, Australia; the 137m seawater pool in Vancouver, Canada; Siza's concrete sea pools in Porto, Portugal; the restored art deco pool in Saltdean, UK, and the pool at the Zollverein Coal Mines in Essen, Germany. The book also features lost lidos and the fascinating history behind the architecture of the pools, along with essays on swimming pools in art, and the importance of pools in Australia. In addition there are interviews with pool users around the globe about why they swim. The book is illustrated throughout with beautiful colour photography, as well as archive photography and advertising.

The Swimming Pool

Author: Louise Candlish
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405919892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
FROM THE AUTHOR OF ITV'S OUR HOUSE COMES ANOTHER GRIPPING, TWISTY PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN 'A novel that redefines the term "unputdownable"' HEAT ________ One summer can change everything . . . In the heady swelter of a suburban summer, the Elm Hill lido opens. For teacher Natalie Steele, the school holidays are always spent with her husband Ed and daughter Molly. But not this year. Despite Molly's extreme phobia of water, Natalie is drawn to the lido and its dazzling social scene, led by glamorous Lara Channing. Soon she's spending long days with Lara at the pool and intimate evenings at her home. Real life, and the person she used to be, begins to feel very far away. But is the new friendship everything it seems? Or has Natalie been swept dangerously out of her depth? ________ 'Exquisitely written and addictively dark. Sheer perfection' Clare Mackintosh, author of Let Me Lie 'A compulsive psychological thriller that will give you the shivers' Sunday Mirror 'Clever, claustrophobic' Fabulous 'Tautly plotted - a psychological drama with edge' Good Housekeeping

An Elephant's Swimming Pool

Author: Malcolm Cox
Publisher: Dpi Publishing
ISBN: 9781577822066
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Augustine once said that the Gospel of John is deep enough for an elephant to swim and shallow enough for a child not to drown. Here, the author shares a devotional thought on each of the 21 chapters of this beloved Gospel.

Swimming Lessons

Author: Penelope Niven
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156027076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
The author uses metaphors, such as floating, treading water, and swimming with all your might to share her insight on how to live life.