Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Whitetail Nation
My Season in Pursuit of the Monster Buck
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
A dedicated deer hunter “writes with humor and insight” about his adventures—and misadventures—in the wild (Orlando Sentinel).
Every autumn, millions of men and women across the country don their camo, stock up on doe urine, and undertake a quintessential American tradition—deer hunting....
Travel Writing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
“A rich character study and a twisty whodunit, adding one more voice to the lively conversation about the boundaries between memoir and fiction” (Entertainment Weekly).
Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel...
First You Build a Cloud
And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This clearly written and compelling look at physics and physicists offers “thousands of new ways to see our daily world more richly” (Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach).
For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning...
The Hole in the Universe
How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“A compelling, enjoyable, and widely accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental scientific issues of our age” (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe).
In The Hole in the Universe, an award-winning science writer “provides an illuminating slant on physics and mathematics...
The Life of the Mind
The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1981
“A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates.” —Newsweek
Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt’s greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in...
by Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The seventh and final volume of the author’s “remarkable” diary is filled with the reflections of an older woman as she journeys through the world (Los Angeles Times).
“One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” ends as the author wished: not with her last two years...
Avalon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
A novel of England during the Viking era, from an author who “has vividly and colorfully portrayed life during the tumultuous Dark Ages” (Historical Novels Review).
The last quarter of the tenth century was a time of conflict and exploration—while the Anglo-Saxons fought against the Vikings,...
A Sliver of Light
Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Hikers held captive in Tehran tell their story in “a moving memoir by three individuals who found the strength to survive” (San Jose Mercury News).
During the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly...
by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
From a Nobel Prize winner: “A psychological, even metaphysical thriller that will keep you turning the pages . . . with growing alarm and alacrity.” —The Seattle Times
A Washington Post Book World Favorite Book of the Year
Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city’s Central...
The Pure Gold Baby
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An “achingly wise” novel about the challenges of motherhood: “Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book” (The Wall Street Journal).
Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair...
Becoming George Sand
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
A married woman’s affair makes her reconsider the nature of love in this “beautiful, wise novel” (Edmund White).
Maria Jameson is having an affair—a passionate, life-changing affair. Yet she wonders whether this has to mean an end to the love she shares with her husband.
For...
Rodin's Debutante
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A “beguiling and unnerving” novel of a young man haunted by an act of violence, from the award-winning author of An Unfinished Season (Booklist, starred review).
As a small-town boy in the early twentieth century, Lee Goodell learned about a brutal crime—and the efforts of his father, a judge,...
Triumph
The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
This New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” (Sports Illustrated).
At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American...
Christianity and Evolution
Reflections on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
The author of The Phenomenon of Man reconciles passionate faith with the rigor of scientific thinking.
With his unique background as a geologist, paleontologist, and Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a powerful exponent of the view that scientific theories could comfortably coexist...