Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
The Optimistic Child
A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
The epidemic of depression in America strikes 30% of all children. Now Martin E. P. Seligman, the best-selling author of Learned Optimism, and his colleagues offer parents and educators a program clinically proven to cut that risk in half. With this startling new research, parents can teach children...
by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death?
On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors....
Odd Girl Out
The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
REVISED AND UPDATED
WITH NEW MATERIAL ON CYBERBULLYING AND
HELPING GIRLS HANDLE THE DANGERS OF LIFE ONLINE
When Odd Girl Out was first published, it became an instant bestseller and ignited a long-overdue conversation about the hidden culture of female bullying. Today the dirty looks, taunting...
Cheating Destiny
Living with Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A candid, provocative, and moving account of one of America’s fastest-growing health issues
If you or someone you love has diabetes, you are not alone — more than twenty million Americans now live with the disease. In Cheating Destiny, the best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an incisive,...
It's Not Yet Dark
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
“A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we’re given.”
—People Magazine, Book of the Week
In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with...
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
“Entertaining, illuminating and—when you recognize yourself in the stories it tells—mortifying.” —Wall Street Journal
“Every page sparkles with sharp insight and keen observation. Mistakes were made—but not in this book!” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
Why...
Eat and Run
My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
“In pursuing the mental side of endurance, Jurek uncovers the most important secrets any runner can learn.”—Amby Burfoot, author of The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force—and darling—in the grueling and growing sport...
Madness
A Bipolar Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights
When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her...
Riot and Remembrance
The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A best-selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades.
On a warm night in May 1921, thousands of whites, many deputized by the local police, swarmed through the Greenwood...
The Winter Fortress
The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**“Riveting and poignant . . . The Winter Fortress metamorphoses from engrossing history into a smashing thriller . . . Mr. Bascomb’s research and, especially, his storytelling skills are first-rate.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Weaving together his typically intense research and a riveting...
by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1973
“How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and “Origins” raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise and the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which...
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1999
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its...
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho,...
The Other Slavery
The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
**“Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A necessary work . . . [Reséndez’s] reportage will likely surprise you.”—NPR
“One of the most profound contributions...