Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
by Rust Hills
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
Wise advice on plot, character, and style from a legendary Esquire editor: “Every aspiring fiction writer ought to read this.” —Writer’s Digest
Over the course of his long and colorful career as fiction editor for Esquire magazine, L. Rust Hills championed the early work of literary...
Eating for Beginners
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
A memoir of a year spent working at a Brooklyn restaurant—and on a series of farms—to get the lowdown on organic, local, ethical cooking. Includes recipes!
Food was always important to Melanie Rehak. She studied the experts on healthy nutrition, from Michael Pollan to Eric Schlosser to...
Key Grip
A Memoir of Endless Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
An award-winning memoir of an adventurous and winding journey through life: “A nonstop pleasure” (Susan Isaacs).
A key grip, Dustin Beall Smith explains, is the person on a film set who supervises the rigging of lights, set wall construction, dolly shots, stunt preparation, and more. Smith...
The Kingdom by the Sea
A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This “interesting, insightful book” by the author of Deep South reveals “a side of Britain few visitors see” (The New York Times Book Review).
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of...
North Country
A Personal Journey Through the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
“A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler’s delight” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,” North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United...
by Robert Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
Bruce Medway is the target of a deadly conspiracy in “this darkly tangled thriller” by the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon (Kirkus Reviews).
As a fixer, Bruce Medway makes his living doing things other people don’t want to do. And in the seedier corners of...
by Carlene Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
A “dazzling and gorgeously written” novel of art, faith, and life-changing friendship inspired by the correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell (Ann Packer).
In the summer of 1957, two writers are immersed in their craft at an artist’s colony nestled in upstate New York...
Totalitarianism
Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1968
The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states.
In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state...
The Sparkling-Eyed Boy
A Memoir of Love, Grown Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
A creative memoir reflecting on a long-ago summer love and the choices we make—“built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have” (USA Today).
Exploring the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire, this work of creative nonfiction—a Bakeless Prize winner—re-creates...
Crises of the Republic
Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 1972
Four thought-provoking political essays by the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Taking an in-depth look at the tumult of the 1960s and ’70s, one of the great political philosophers of our era examines how these crises challenged the American form of government. “Lying in Politics”...
Gossip
The Untrivial Pursuit
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
A look at the delights—and dangers—of gossip, from a New York Times–bestselling, “erudite writer, gifted with rare insight and a wry sense of humor” (USA Today).
Gossip is no trivial matter. In this enlightening and entertaining study, the author of Snobbery takes a look at a human...
by James Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book: The People vs. God in “a funny, ferocious fantasy” from the two-time Nebula Award–winning author (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Hallelujah! God is not dead. He’s just been a deep-freeze coma in the Arctic. Strapped for cash, the Vatican has sold the body (a...
Linotte
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914–1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This “amazingly precocious” diary of girlhood in the early twentieth century is filled with a “special charm” (The Christian Science Monitor).
Born in Paris, Anaïs Nin started her celebrated diary at age eleven, when she was immigrating to New York with her mother and two young brothers....
The Evening Chorus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A “delicate and incandescent” novel of love, loss, escape, and the ways the natural world can save us amid the chaos of war (San Francisco Chronicle).
World War II. Downed during his first mission, James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide his time, he studies a nest of redstarts...