Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Turing's Delirium
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Set in a near-future Bolivia, this “hybrid of cyberpunk and political thrillers [is] sleek, brisk, and clever” (Entertainment Weekly).
Set against a backdrop of advancing globalization, this award-winning, “fast-paced” literary thriller puts a cutting-edge digital spin on the age-old...
by Andrew Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
“A compelling thriller” set against the historical backdrop of Edwardian England’s railway system (Daily Mail).
Assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Blackpool in the hot summer of 1905, Jim Stringer is happy to have left behind the grime and danger of life in London....
Inside the Dream Palace
The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Winner of the National Award for Arts Writing: “If there were a course in Chelsea Hotel-iana, this would be the textbook” (The New York Times).
It’s where Dylan Thomas lived his last days, Bob Dylan wrote Blonde on Blonde, and Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is memorialized...
by Stephen Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this “utterly fascinating” look at the growth of data mining and analysis (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).
Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the “global math elite”: computer scientists who invent...
How to Travel with a Salmon
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
“Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly).
A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both...
The Far Traveler
Voyages of a Viking Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to...
The Secret War for the Union
The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
“A treasure trove for historians . . . A real addition to Civil War history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
At the end of the American Civil War, most of the intelligence records disappeared—remaining hidden for over a century. As a result, little has been understood about the role...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1976
The story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel—by Virginia Woolf, who has “made him a real and vivid personality . . . in her most delightful style” (Kirkus Reviews).
Wanting to “ease [her] brain” after writing The Waves, Virginia Woolf turned to the correspondence between...
A Cat Named Darwin
Embracing the Bond Between Man and Pet
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2003
A scientist contemplates his bond with a sick stray cat in this “gripping and powerful” memoir (The San Diego Union-Tribune).
Bill Jordan’s life changed forever the day a stray cat nesting under his bougainvillea bit him on the hand. Trained in biology, Jordan had no particular love for...
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
“A fascinating glimpse into the canine world, possibly deeper and more accurate than any we have had until now” (The New York Times Book Review).
Long before the Dog Whisperer, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas revealed to readers the nature of pack dynamics, leading to a completely...
Scent of the Missing
Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
A “haunting meditation on trust, hope and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People).
In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson’s attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a canine handler, his...
Kant and the Platypus
Essays on Language and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
How do we know a cat is a cat . . . and why do we call it a cat? An “intriguing and often fascinating” look at words, perceptions, and the relationship between them (Newark Star-Ledger).
In Kant and the Platypus, the renowned semiotician, philosopher, and bestselling author of The Name...
Good Old Dog
Expert Advice for Keeping Your Aging Dog Happy, Healthy, and Comfortable
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
From the renowned veterinary school at Tufts University: “A must read for pet lovers who want to ensure their dog has quality golden years” (USA Today).
Our dogs are living longer than ever thanks to enormous advances in medical treatment and a highly evolved understanding of what they...
by October Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
He’s a dog with a phone . . .
My dog sends me texts. Yeah. It’s weird.
When October Jones figured out he could send text messages to himself on his mobile phone, he naturally decided that the best use of this discovery was to send passive-aggressive messages to himself under the...