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1) The Swimmers
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"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"--
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"Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again...
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In a lesson that would change his life, Greg Mockett taught his Elder's Quorum that God guarantees miraculous power to help them do hard things, but only when they are aligned with His will for them. Greg knew this principle was true—for everyone who hadn't spent thirty-five years as an addict, out of line with God's will.
Compelled in recovery to turn his life and will over to God, Greg obeys when the Spirit commands him to swim the English Channel....
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The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.
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