Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Coyote
Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
A “beautifully written” tribute to this tenacious and much-misunderstood creature of the wild (Bill McKibben).
When Catherine Reid returned to the Berkshires to live after decades away, she became fascinated by another recent arrival: the eastern coyote. This species, which shares some...
Blood Matters
From BRCA1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing.
Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to...
Health and Healing
The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine and Optimum Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
A comprehensive handbook on alternative treatments from the New York Times–bestselling author of Mind Over Meds.
In Health and Healing, Harvard-trained physician Andrew Weil explores the full spectrum of alternative healing practices available today, including holistic medicine, homeopathy,...
by Joseph A. Citro
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
Take a chilling tour of spooky New England legends . . .
Visit Vermont with this comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories, and strange-but-true facts—and enjoy supernatural side trips to the surrounding areas of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Quebec—with...
Mind Over Matter
Conversations with the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2004
“Ruminations on every scientific subject over the sun—and plenty beyond it”—from the bestselling author of The Universe and the Teacup (The Boston Globe).
A San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the Year
A recipient of the American Institute of Physics Award for Best Science Writer,...
Rational Mysticism
Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
The author of The End of Science chronicles the most advanced research into such experiences as prayer, fasting, and trances in this “great read” (The Washington Post).
How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
This diary of a monastic life is “a continuation of The Seven Storey Mountain . . . Astonishing” (Commonweal).
Chronicling six years of Thomas Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, The Sign of Jonas takes us through his day-to-day experiences at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, where...
Concussions and Our Kids
America's Leading Expert on How to Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A leading doctor “shines the light” on concussions, CTE, and keeping youth sports safe (Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN football columnist).
See the movie Concussion. But first read the classic book from the acclaimed concussion doctor who’s changing how America thinks about safety in youth sports....
My Michael
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
“Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.” —The New York Times Book Review
Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1979
From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France.
“The word ‘Trappist’ has become synonymous with ‘ascetic’ and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very hard life. But . . . Penance and asceticism...
by James Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1998
New York Times Bestseller: A priest struggles against the Vietnam War—and his own passions—in “a classic page-turner” (Chicago Tribune).
Vietnam was bitterly contested not only on the battlefields of Southeast Asia but on the American home front. This novel filled with “probing psychological...
Saddled
How a Spirited Horse Reined Me In and Set Me Free
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The New York Times bestselling author of Chosen by a Horse explains how caring for an animal taught her to care for herself.
One day, at the age of thirty-one, Susan Richards realized that she was an alcoholic. She wrote it down in her journal, struck by the fact that it had taken nine years...
Easter Rising
A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An “alternately funny and heartbreaking” memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Newsweek).
In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish...
My Life in Orange
Growing Up with the Guru
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A memoir of formative years spent on a series of communes: A “wonderful account of a frankly ghastly childhood . . . Hilarious and heartbreaking” (Daily Mail).
At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan...