Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Aristotle's Children
How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
A true account of a turning point in medieval history that shaped the modern world, from “a superb storyteller” and the author of When Jesus Became God (Los Angeles Times).
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but...
Winter Brothers
A Season at the Edge of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1982
A blend of modern-day travel memoir and nineteenth-century history, “infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest” (The New York Times Book Review).
The author of the acclaimed This House of Sky and Mountain Time provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through...
PrairyErth
A Deep Map
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and...
The Evil Hours
A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
“An essential book” on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians (The New York Times Book Review).
Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers....
Forgotten Ally
China's World War II, 1937–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: “Superb” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War...
Kingbird Highway
The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
An ornithologist’s account of his youthful, year-long, cross-country birdwatching adventure: “A fascinating memoir of an obsession.” —Booklist
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across...
Failure
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
A Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection of “heartbreaking tenderness” (Gerald Stern).
A driven immigrant father; an old poet; Isaac Babel in the author’s dreams: Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too—family, beaches, dogs,...
The Wrong Enemy
America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times).
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed...
by Stanislaw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Essays by the author of Solaris: “Lem’s delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity’s possible fate” (Publishers Weekly).
In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications...
In the Land of Israel
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1993
A snapshot of Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s, through the voices of its inhabitants, from the National Jewish Book Award–winning author of Judas.
Notebook in hand, renowned author and onetime kibbutznik Amos Oz traveled throughout his homeland to talk with people—workers, soldiers,...
When Jesus Became God
The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
“[A] panoramic view of early Christianity as it developed against the backdrop of the Roman Empire of the fourth century” (Publishers Weekly).
The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife,...
Jerusalem, Jerusalem
How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
A “masterful” history of the city and its holy wars past and present, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword (The Boston Globe).
How did this ancient Middle Eastern city become a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth?...
With Head and Heart
The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1981
“One of the great religious leaders of [the twentieth] century” tells his story of growing up under segregation and finding his calling as a minister (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Howard Thurman was a singular man—a minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched...
Farewell to Fairacre
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2001
In this small English village, when one door closes, another opens for its favorite schoolteacher. “You’ll****relish a visit to Fairacre” (Jan Karon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author).
Gradually worsening health forces Miss Read to consider an early retirement from her job as the...