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The Swan

A Novel

By: Jim Cohee

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“Alternately funny, entertaining, and heartbreaking, The Swan is a fictional memoir about love, death and what a family can―and cannot―endure.” —Publishers Weekly Indianapolis, 1957. Ten-year-old Aaron Cooper has witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, and the trauma has left him unwilling to speak. Aaron copes with life’s challenges by disappearing into his own imagination, envisioning being captain of the Kon Tiki, driving his sled in the snowy Klondike, and tiger hunting in India. He is guarded by secret friends like deposed Hungarian Count Blurtz Shemshoian and Blurtz’s wonder dog, Nipper, who protect him from the Creature from the Black Lagoon—who hides in Aaron’s closet at night. The tales he constructs for himself, the real life stories he is witness to, and his mother’s desperate efforts to bring her son back from the brink, all come to a head at an emotional family dinner. “Funny, poignant and as endearing as its central character, The Swan is a wholly original tribute to childhood resilience.” —San Jose Mercury News “Had Kurt Vonnegut, William Saroyan, J. D. Salinger, Carlos Castaneda, Raymond Carver and James Thurber ever gathered at a writer’s workshop to co-author a short novel, the product might well have been The Swan.” —Terre Haute Tribune Star “A surreal study of a grief observed indirectly, The Swan serves as a testament to the unbridled power of childhood vision, even and especially in the wake of tragedy.” —Bloom magazine

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Indiana University Press

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0253005396

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9780253005397

From POW to Blue Angel

The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes

By: Jim Armstrong

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From POW to Blue Angel

The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes

By: Jim Armstrong

As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story—a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero. Jim Armstrong has drawn on extensive interviews and Dusty’s scrapbooks and flight logs to produce a rare account of the Blue Angels in the late 1940s. Readers will experience the stress of practice and the exhilaration of air shows as Armstrong takes them inside Dusty’s cockpit during the era when the Blues first found fame, perfecting their trademark formations and maneuvers. This book is also a moving account of the degradation that Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war, and includes his rare, ground observer’s view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama. Armstrong poignantly captures Dusty’s return to a changed postwar America, and also recounts his tour as a fighter pilot in Korea. From POW to Blue Angel is an intimate story of service and survival that will carve a place in naval aviation history—and inspire all who keep their eyes skyward.

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419

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806154233

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9780806154237

On Wisconsin!

The History of Badger Athletics from 1896-1998

By: Don Kopriva,Jim Mott

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On Wisconsin!

The History of Badger Athletics from 1896-1998

By: Don Kopriva,Jim Mott

This book relates the history of athletics at the University of Wisconsin. From its beginnings on the Madison campus in the 1870s with rudimentary rowing and baseball teams to the opening of the Kohl Center in 1998, sports has played a profound role at Wisconsin.

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264

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1571670386

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9781571670380

The Swan

A Novel

By: Jim Cohee

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The Swan

A Novel

By: Jim Cohee

Set in Indianapolis in 1957, The Swan is a fictional memoir about enduring love and the weighty nature of mortality.

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0253223431

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