Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Agent Garbo
The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
“The book presses ever forward down a path of historical marvels and astonishing facts. The effect is like a master class that’s accessible to anyone, and Agent Garbo often reads as though it were written in a single, perfect draft.”—The Atlantic
Before he remade himself as the master...
A Flame of Pure Fire
Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion...
While They're at War
The True Story of American Families on the Homefront
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Many Americans will never experience the gut-wrenching act of sending a loved one off to war, or the joy and stress of welcoming him or her home. Still less known to most of us are the anxiety-ridden moments between these two scenes, the day-to-day reality of life in a military family when a loved...
Uncommon Learning
Thoreau on Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1999
"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know," Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. Uncommon Learning brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time.
by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
#1 Italian bestseller
“Witty and wry . . . It’s hard not to be charmed.” — New York Times Book Review
“One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” — Los Angeles Times
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
“Lively, eclectic and surprising.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the enormously popular young adult series A Series of Unfortunate Events, takes over as editor for this volume. He will work with the students of 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing...
by Hope Jahren, Tim Folger
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**“Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova
“An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian
“[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful...
A Journey in Ladakh
Encounters with Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by...
by Italo Calvino
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” — from Invisible Cities
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo —...
Fanatic
Ten Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
The sport lover's ultimate road trip
When Jim Gorant, a Sports Illustrated staffer and lifelong sports fan, discovered that he had never attended a single one of sports' most iconic events, he wondered, What kind of sports fan am I, anyway? And if he had to pick the top ten, what would those...
The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These...
Inventing the Enemy
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
“Underscores the writer’s profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco’s pleasure in such explorations is obvious and contagious.” — Booklist
Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Eco has written and lectured over the...
Hurricane
The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In 1967, the black boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Carter gradually amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of celebrities...
by Inger Ash Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
There were thirteen crime-scene pictures. Dead faces set in grimaces and shouts. Faces howling, whistling, moaning, crying, hissing. Hazel pinned them to the wall and stood back. It was a silent opera of ghosts.
Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of...