The Summer of Diving
Title | The Summer of Diving PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Stridsberg |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2022-06-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1644211351 |
The award-winning and beautiful story of a child coping with her father's absence. The book tackles a difficult subject with great tenderness, validating a child's experience of a parent suffering from depression. "This poignant, gentle book . . . will be immensely helpful to anyone caring for the child of someone with major depression. It fills an important gap in literature for young children."—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon (winner of the National Book Award) and Far From the Tree Zoe’s dad isn’t home. She still sees him in photographs, laughing and playing tennis, but for now she can only visit him in a building where everyone looks sad and the walls are an ugly pink color. Some days Zoe’s dad is too sad to see her, but she goes to the hospital anyway. While waiting she meets Sabina who invites her to swim across the world. Zoe’s not sure it’s possible, but Sabina tells her, “A girl can do everything she wants.” Even though Sabina sometimes dives deep into her own thoughts, the two of them swim around the world many times that summer, until eventually Zoe’s dad is ready to come home. The Summer of Diving is a book full of imagination and hope with a tender child’s-eye understanding of the world. Stridsberg’s story and Lundberg’s lush and colorful paintings reflect and validate a child’s feelings of loss and longing for closeness when a parent’s joy for living temporarily fades.
Springboard and Platform Diving
Title | Springboard and Platform Diving PDF eBook |
Author | Huber, Jeffrey |
Publisher | Human Kinetics |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2015-12-02 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1450424457 |
Endorsed by USA Diving, Springboard and Platform Diving breaks down the phases of each dive while providing expert instruction to improve performance. The book includes high-quality photos, mental strategies, and numerous drills, and worksheets, making it the ideal resource for divers and coaches alike.
Scuba Diving-- to the Extreme-- Off the Wall
Title | Scuba Diving-- to the Extreme-- Off the Wall PDF eBook |
Author | Sigmund Brouwer |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | 9780849939549 |
Scuba diving--there's a lot more to worry about than sharks! "I can't breathe!!!" Ian Hill spends his Florida summers helping his uncle run a dive shop. But just when he thinks it's going to be another boring summer hehind the counter, Ian hears that a recent storm has uncovered a pirate shipwreck hidden for years on the ocean floor. Soon Ian's slow summer at the scuba shop turns into a diver's nightmare.
Diving Belles
Title | Diving Belles PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Wood |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012-01-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408816865 |
Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains and worrying about frayed carpets. A teenager's growing pains are sometimes even bigger than him. And, on a windy beach, a small boy and his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories, Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. Hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wrecker's lamps, standing stones and baying hounds, and relationships wax and wane in the glow of a moonlit sea. This luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut collection introduces in Lucy Wood a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction.
The Diving Bell
Title | The Diving Bell PDF eBook |
Author | Todd Strasser |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2005-03 |
Genre | Diving bells |
ISBN | 0595344917 |
During the Spanish colonization of Mexico, a young girl invents a diving bell to save her brother and her people.
Deep Water
Title | Deep Water PDF eBook |
Author | Watt Key |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2018-04-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0374306540 |
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, 12-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
The Diving Pool
Title | The Diving Pool PDF eBook |
Author | Yoko Ogawa |
Publisher | Picador |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2008-01-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429924950 |
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's? A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.