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 : 192

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.

Reflections on the Pool

Author: Cleo Baldon
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Swimming pools
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
"Reflections on the Pool" spotlights forty stellar examples of pool design, ranging from the nature-inspired designs of Isabelle Greene to the vanguard mid-century pools of Thomas Church and the brilliant Mexican-style architecture of Ricardo Legorreta, plus popular tourist sites. An engaging text details the swimming pool's spread to America in the 19th century and California's influence on its popularity, while 100 luminous photos showcase the pools themselves in all their splendor.

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.

Freedom Summer

Author: Deborah Wiles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689830165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
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.

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.

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

A Taste of Chlorine

Author: Bastien Vivès
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224090968
Category : Back
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
A teenage boy suffering from curvature of the spine begins swimming every week at the local pool, at the repeated request of his chiropractor. In the interior and echoing world of the swimming pool, surrounded by anonymous bodies and in between lengths, he becomes acquainted with a girl who agrees to give him pointers on his technique.The French original won the Essentiel Revelation prize at the Festival d'Angouleme in January 2009. The author was 25 years old at the time."

Pool

Author: JiHyeon Lee
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452150389
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
What happens when two shy children meet at a very crowded pool? Dive in to find out! Deceptively simple, this masterful book tells a story of quiet moments and surprising encounters, and reminds us that friendship and imagination have no bounds.

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.