The Silencing Of A Swimmer

Author : Bryan Olmstead
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098346768
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silencing of a Swimmer written by Bryan Olmstead and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of a young girl who decides to try competitive swimming. In a short time she becomes one of her team's best swimmers. However, when she outshines the coach's daughter, the trouble begins. You will not believe the lengths that the coach and his allies go to push the young girl out of swim. The swimming organization would not even allow the young girl to tell her side of the story. Silence was all they wanted from her. Her family went through great effort to help the young girl fight. Although she was never allowed her voice, this book is her voice. This book is also a cry for help for her younger sister who is now being attacked.

Author : Fred Hobson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130971
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays written by Fred Hobson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the preeminent contemporary scholar of southern letters, Fred Hobson is adept at cutting through the many myths and self-illusions spun about the South and exposing a far more intriguing reality. In his inaugural collection of essays, Hobson offers both an astute and deeply personal take on American and southern life. He touches on history, literature, religion, family, race, and sports as he ponders various famous and obscure biographical and autobiographical figures. Rife with stimulating writing and thought, The Silencing of Emily Mullen informs, moves, and entertains all at once. Hobson's own great-grandmother inspires the title essay, in which he investigates the whispered family rumor that Emily Mullen Gregory committed suicide by jumping down a well in the late nineteenth century. Besides the facts of Mullen's death, Hobson inquires into the plight of southern middle-class women's lives generally in that era. A happier female relative animates another absorbing chapter: Hobson's great aunt who left the benighted South with the intent of bringing enlightenment to China as a missionary and teacher from 1909 to 1941, and who became both friend and critic of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Ruminative appraisals of H. L. Mencken, W. J. Cash, progressive journalist Gerald W. Johnson, social critic James McBride Dabbs, man of letters Louis D. Rubin, Jr., African American author Mary Mebane, novelist Richard Ford, and twentieth-century southern literature add incrementally to the collection's overall intellectual pleasures. Hobson's concluding three pieces take a more intimate turn. He reflects on his connection to the hills of North Carolina, the impact the book The Mind of the South had on him, and the love of college basketball he shared with his father. The Silencing of Emily Mullen captures both the richness and deficiencies of the South within the American society at large. It is a book that makes for exceptionally rewarding and enjoyable reading.

Author : Kim Fairley
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647422566
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming for My Life written by Kim Fairley and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim’s overwhelmed, financially stressed parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into swimming—starting with a nearby motel pool—as a way to keep them occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began leaving the kids at home with a sitter while they traveled the Midwest, where they sold imported wooden ornaments from their motorhome. But when Kim’s six-year-old brother crashed his new Cheater Slick bike and the babysitter deserted the children, what started as an accident became a pattern: Mom and Dad leaving for weeks at a time and the kids wrestling with life’s emergencies on their own. As Kim coped in the role of fill-in mother while dealing with the stresses of elite swimming, she struggled to shape her own life. She eventually found strength, competence and achievement through swimming—and became the second female swimmer to win a full ride to the University of Southern California, where she earned two national titles. Swimming for My Life is a peek into the dark side of elite swimming as well as a tale of family bonds, reconciling with the past, and how it is possible to emerge from life’s toxic and lifesaving waters.

Author : James L. Noles
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817313699
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity written by James L. Noles and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-02-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-overdue history of America's "forgotten flattop." On November 24, 1943, a Japanese torpedo plunged into the starboard side of the American escort carrier USS Liscome Bay. The torpedo struck the thin-skinned carrier in the worst possible place the bomb storage area. The resulting explosion could be seen 16 miles away, literally ripping the Liscome Bay in half and killing 644 of her crew. In terms of lives lost, it was the costliest carrier sinking in United States naval history. Liscome Bay's loss came on her first combat operation: the American invasion of the Gilbert Islands. Despite her short career, she touched a number of remarkable and famous lives. Doris Miller, the first black American sailor to win the Navy Cross, lost his life, as did Rear Admiral Henry Mullinax, one of the Navy's first "air admirals." John Crommelin was the senior officer to survive the sinking. Later in his career, Crommelin, a decorated naval aviator himself, sparked the famous Revolt of the Admirals, which helped save the role of naval aviation in America's Cold War military. James Noles's account of the Liscome Bay and those who served aboard her is based on interviews with the ship's survivors and an unpublished memoir that the ship's pay officer made available to the author. This readable, compelling book pays homage to the crew by telling their story of experience and sacrifice. To follow Jim Noles on Twitter, access his stream here: http://www.twitter.com/mightyby

Author : Luke Allan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1988304423
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pace written by Luke Allan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story forms the psychological study of a young man who is both spiritually and morally down and out. He is sick of modern frivolities and seeks refuge in the Canadian Rockies. Here he meets the girl of his heart, who infuses new hope and life into his erstwhile jaded existence.

Author : S. J. Butler
Publisher : Nicholson
ISBN 13 : 9780907664871
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swimmer written by S. J. Butler and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Swimmer tells the story of a writer working in her room overlooking a river during a long, hot summer. Overcoming her initial fear of the river with its power and strength to overwhelm a swimmer, she steps into the water and into an unexplored realm of emotion. ‘Words and pictures swim together’ in the cooling water past tree-lined banks, under a bridge and around curving bends . . . so much is concentrated into this depiction of a self-revelatory experience. Later. A richly inventive photographer reads the story and is inspired to create a suite of images to accompany it, employing both ancient and modern photographic techniques. At this point the book designer/printer feels that the story’s sense of flow and the photographer’s images, which float as if in the water alongside the swimmer, could happily be brought together in a book where type has been chosen for slow contemplative reading and the cover design places the whole in the heart of nature. The story curls across the page slowing the reader to the pace of the swimmer. Emotions crowd in as initial fear moves to exhilaration, apprehension turns to pleasure. S.J. Butler’s words and Steffi Pusch’s pictures together create an atmosphere in which the reader too can share the emotion of the story. They each write a preface to introduce their approach to storytelling and its presentation through photography."--Old Stile Press Website.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2300 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1972 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 2300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest O. Hauser
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1640191852
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy A to Z written by Ernest O. Hauser and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fabulous . . . an eye-opener . . . Every page holds a surprise." - Mary McCarthy Ernest O. Hauser, a resident of Rome for many years, has this to say about his delightful and instructive book: "My purpose was both to enlighten and to entertain. . . . If there is a strong emphasis on personalities - and even most of the impersonal entries lead to people - it is because of my belief that it is the individual that moves the world." Arranged in alphabetical order, Hauser's essays are true gems.

Author : Desiree Punwani
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1638865566
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In High Spirits written by Desiree Punwani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In High Spirits is a straightforward account of the author’s descent into and rise out of alcoholism and the classic and creative ways she used to transform her life completely. She creates a powerful toolbox for the reader by simplifying the robust practices of loving-kindness, forgiveness, gratitude, and joyful living. Her tips for self-empowerment are practical and encouraging, as are her creative suggestions for edging away from unhealthy lifestyles. While it has comprehensive recommendations for overcoming any habit or dependency, however severe or mild, the book is really a treasure chest of anecdotal wisdom. The author addresses the reader directly with warmth and empathy, sharing the lessons she has learned with sensitivity, compassionate humour, and heart-tugging honesty. In High Spirits is both a memoir and handbook you will refer to often for the practical guidelines to happiness and empowerment it offers you. It is also a book you will share with and gift to friends.

Author : C. J. Cooke
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593550218
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Haunting in the Arctic written by C. J. Cooke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it’s just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew – and they’re all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later, the wreck of the Ormen has washed up on the forbidding, remote coast of Iceland. It’s scheduled to be destroyed, but explorer Dominique feels an inexplicable pull to document its last days, even though those who have ventured onto the wreck before her have met uncanny ends. Onboard the boat, Dominique will uncover a dark past riddled with lies, cruelty, and murder—and her discovery will change everything. Because she’ll soon realize she’s not alone. Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for almost a century. Something that craves revenge.