Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Winter Hours
Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2000
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. (One of the essays has been chosen as among the best of the year by The...
by Yann Martel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION COPIES SOLD
The beloved and bestselling novel and winner of the Booker Prize, Life of Pi.
New York Times Bestseller * Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Washington Post Bestseller * San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * Chicago Tribune Bestseller
"A story...
Record Collecting for Girls
Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“Record Collecting for Girls is an invitation for all of you stereophiles (who happen to be female), to make your own top-five lists, and then, armed and ready with the book’s fun facts, to argue their merits to the ever-present boys’ club of music snobs in your life.” —Sarahbeth Purcell,...
West Wind
Poems and Prose Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 1998
The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform...
by Rodney Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A new collection from a Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet
Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones’s distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation...
by Mark Helprin
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2007
An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói, overlooking the ocean.
As he reminisces and writes, placing...
Common Prayers
Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey Through the Jewish Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
Harvey Cox, the eminent Christian theologian and scholar of religion, offers an intimate tour through the Jewish year certain to inform and enlighten Jews and non-Jews alike. As a member of an interfaith household, Cox has had ample opportunity to reflect upon the essence of Judaism and its complex...
The Go-Between
A Novel of the Kennedy Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
A faded newspaperman downs a double Maker’s Mark and contemplates life as a “ham-and-egger,” a hack. Then one day he finds the scoop of a lifetime in a Chicago basement: diaries belonging to the infamous Judith Campbell Exner. Right, that Judy, the game girl who waltzed into the midst of America’s...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams.
Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this...
The Tigress of Forli
Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
“In this insightful, fascinating portrayal, Elizabeth Lev brings Caterina Sforza and her times very much to life.”—Kathleen Turner, actress and author of Send Yourself Roses
A strategist to match Machiavelli; a warrior who stood toe to toe with the Borgias; a wife whose three marriages...
The Arsenal of Democracy
FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“A touching and absorbing portrait of one of the forgotten heroes of World War II . . . A. J. Baime has given us a memorable portrait not just of an industry going to war but of a remarkable figure who helped to make victory possible.”—Wall Street Journal
As the United States entered...
The Unquiet Ghost
Russians Remember Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless...
by Philip K. Dick
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.” —New York Times
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty...
The Eerie Silence
Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
One of the world’s leading scientists explains why—and how—the search for intelligent life beyond Earth should be expanded.
Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization....