Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Blue Arabesque
A Search for the Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are “a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds.” —The New York Times Book Review
Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the Year
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Jane Fonda
The Private Life of a Public Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
“The definitive portrait of a woman conflicted, torn between ferocious ambition, family, and feminist causes” (Gail Sheehy, author of Passages).
Jane Fonda emerged from a heartbreaking Hollywood family drama to become a ’60s onscreen ingénue and then an Oscar-winning actress. At the...
Lonelyhearts
The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A “breezily entertaining” look at the comic couple who hobnobbed with Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and other luminaries of their day (The New York Times Book Review).
Nathanael West—author, screenwriter, playwright—was famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts...
by Joachim Fest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
“The best single volume available on the torturous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler.” —Time
A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest’s Hitler has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era.
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by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life.
The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known...
Lee
The Last Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1998
A New York Times bestselling author’s revealing account of General Robert E. Lee’s life after Appomattox: “An American classic" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
After his surrender at Appomattox in 1865, Robert E. Lee, commanding general for the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia...
The Pirates Laffite
The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review).
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans’ history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of...
Westmoreland
The General Who Lost Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“A terrific book, lively and brisk . . . a must read for anyone who tries to understand the Vietnam War**.” —Thomas E. Ricks**
Is it possible that the riddle of America’s military failure in Vietnam has a one-word, one-man answer?
Until we understand Gen. William Westmoreland,...
Elizabeth
Renaissance Prince
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This surprising portrait of the Tudor queen offers an “ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy” (The New York Times Book Review).
Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “‘weak and feeble’ woman’s...
J.R.R. Tolkien
Author of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The definitive Tolkien companion—an indispensable guide to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and more, from the author of The Road to Middle-earth.
This “highly erudite celebration and exploration of Tolkien’s works [is] enormous fun,” declared the Houston Chronicle, and Tom Shippey,...
by Jonah Lehrer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The New York Times–bestselling author provides an “entertaining” look at how artists enlighten us about the workings of the brain (New York magazine).
In this book, the author of How We Decide and Imagine: How Creativity Works “writes skillfully and coherently about both art and science”—and...
The Peabody Sisters
Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times).
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
In her journals and writing exercises, this novelist “comes to us with all the brilliance, perceptiveness, and restraint we could wish” (Kirkus Reviews).
From 1918 to 1941, even as she penned masterpiece upon masterpiece, Virginia Woolf kept a diary. She poured into it her thoughts, feelings,...
A Literate Passion
Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller: 1932–1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1989
A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers—Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of...