Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
The Black Rhinos of Namibia
Searching for Survivors in the African Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
“An extraordinary exploration and meditation . . . [Bass] transports us along on this wonder-filled tour, full of hardness and hope, into an otherworldly place that mirrors our own.” —National Geographic Traveler
Black rhinos are not actually black. They are, however, giant animals with...
Whatever It Takes
Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What would it take?
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question...
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in...
by Andrew O'Hagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
"Always trust a stranger," said David’s mother when he returned from Rome. "It’s the people you know who let you down."
Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers...
The Great Match Race
When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys...
by Ward Just
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Thomas Railles, an American expatriate and former “odd-jobber” for the CIA, is a successful painter living with his beloved wife, Florette, in a small village in the Pyrenees. On an ordinary autumn day, Florette goes for a walk in the hills and is killed by unknown assailants. Was her death simply...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1991
When America's most distinguished economist turned his observant eye and celebrated brilliance to fiction, the result was hailed by the New York Times as "his wisest and wittiest" novel yet. A respected Harvard professor creates an economic forecasting model identifying speculative folly, enabling him of society's hidden agendas that is at once a morality tale and a comic delight.
by Molly Gloss
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
This breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek tells the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for “gentling” wild horses.
In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss’s doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he...
On Par
The Everyday Golfer’s Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Bill Pennington, author of the beloved and widely read “On Par” golf column for the New York Times, knows how to interpret the experts and pros for the rest of us. For years, he has traveled the globe in search of golf’s essentials—those basic principles, those elusive truths (and who are...
Fenway 1912
The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, for the best book of baseball history or biography
"An irresistible look back on Fenway Park's first season, not just for Sox fans . . . a great choice for anyone who enjoys a dip into baseball history at...
House of Testosterone
One Mom's Survival in a Household of Males
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2008
Every woman has asked herself the question What was he thinking? at least once in her life. When you are the mother of boys, it seems like this question is on a continuous tape loop in your head. Humor columnist Sharon O’Donnell knows this feeling. In House of Testosterone, she chronicles her adventures...
The Last Gentleman Adventurer
Coming of Age in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
"This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could have bargained for. Beautifully written." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes
"As spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as...
A Team for America
The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
"A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war.” — Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter
Each year the Army and Navy football teams meet for one epic game. Across the nation,...
Mind Over Water
Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1999
In this wise and thrilling book, Criag Lambert turns rowing--personal discipline, modern Olympic sport, grand collegiate tradition--into a metaphor for a vigorous and satisfying life.