Blue Water Women

This book is for the young and young at heart who yearn for adventure. It is written for those women considering a life-changing direction and those seeking a career at sea. It is not an instruction book, but you will learn from the experience of other blue water women what you need to know to have your own adventures. Interviewed within are other blue water sailing women. Shared advice and experiences show you how to make the most of your adventure This book will see you safely and confidently make that leap of faith to experience the joys of a life lived at sea.

Follows three generations of Indian women beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably bound together by kinship.

Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize How can a search for self‑knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi’s arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective. Between the contrast of high lyric and direct prose poems, Yanyi invites the reader to consider how to speak with multiple identities through trauma, transition, and ordinary life. These poems constitute an artifact of a groundbreaking and original author whose work reflects a long journey self‑guided through tarot, therapy, and the arts. Foregrounding the power of friendship, Yanyi’s poems converse with friends as much as with artists both living and dead, from Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis. This instructive collection gives voice to the multifaceted humanity within all of us and inspires attention, clarity, and hope through art-making and community.

Collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by the artist Meilo So.

In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often unacknowledged operations regularly performed by American military personnel in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Vivid and illuminating, this book takes us deep into the highly technical and exotic cultures of the armed forces, telling soldiers' stories from the perspective of the troops on the ground.

Paramedic Ashley Grant is settling into her new life in the Caribbean, although sometimes she still feels like a fish out of water. The ambulance is called to a fire at a prestigious resort, and Ashley recognizes the victim as a hotel chef and the cousin of her friend Darlene. When a second death occurs, the police are quick to close the case. But Darlene isn't satisfied, and she drags the unwitting Ashley into the investigation. Does this idyllic beach resort have a dark side? Blue Water Hues is the second book in the Ashley Grant Mystery series.

When Megan and Rex Van Dorn sail into Houndfish Cay, they look to all the world like a couple who have left the cares of the shore behind them to live their dream. But when people ask, "Do you have children?", Megan doesn't know how to answer. For Megan and Rex took to the water following the death of their only child, Evan.

List of illustrations [photographs]: "Small boys of the Truxton Canyon Training School -- A group of our older boys at Truxton -- Baskets woven by the Walapai and Havasupai women -- Tent in which peyote cult services were held -- Walapai school children -- An old Walapai woman carrying her water jars -- A packtrain on the trail from Hilltop into the Havasu canyon -- Two stone pillars in which the protective god-spirit of the Havasupai lived -- Manakadja -- Old Ute -- winter scene showing our cottage -- Havasupai woman preparing to bake bread -- Framework of Havasupai sweat lodge -- Havasupai signs and symbosl painted on a rock surface -- The country of the Walapai and Havasupai Indians [map] -- Policeman Vesnor -- Some Havasupai children have an uninhibited watermelon feast -- Mooney Falls -- Ladder into Mooney Falls Gorge -- The old basket weaver's home -- Havasupai mother carrying her baby in a burden basket -- Havasupai woman bearing load of alfalfa -- Mescal trimmed for the roasting pit -- Havasupai homes of today."