Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
The Race
Extreme Sailing and Its Ultimate Event: Nonstop, Round-the-World, No Holds Barred
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
An invigorating behind-the-scenes look at the world of extreme sailing, The Race is also a taut, engrossing account of the first running of the competition called The Race, which began on December 31, 2000, in Barcelona and ended sixty-two days later in Marseilles. The most intense event of its kind...
Big Coal
The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengeance. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is growing, driven by rising oil prices and calls for...
Riding the Iron Rooster
By Train Through China
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society.
Revolution 2.0
The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
“A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google executive in the summer of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. They had some good times. There was a whiteboard in the conference room,...
Rise
A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
**“Harrowing, heartbreaking, redemptive.” —Sports Illustrated
“An inspiring story of a resilient warrior who knows what it means to keep a promise. “ —Eric Greitens, Navy SEAL and best-selling author of The Heart and the Fist**
Daniel Rodriguez joined the army just weeks...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Dave Eggers and his students at the 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs compile fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, as well as category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.
by Mohsin Hamid
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Now a major motion picture
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize
A New York Times bestseller
A Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book
“Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary...
by Marcus Wicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless–Wicker’s mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman.”
—Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and finalist for the National Book Award
A suburban park, church, a good job, a cocktail...
Mrs. Astor Regrets
The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public
The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke....
by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the last years of Salazar’s dictatorship. A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint...
by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1970
Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.
One Bullet Away
The Making of a Marine Officer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
If the Marines are “the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacle—Recon— two years later,...