Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: novel, honolulu, hotel
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-05-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618219153
ISBN-13: 9780618219155

In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel’s narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach. Honeymooners, vacationers, wanderers, mythomaniacs, soldiers, and families all check in to the hotel. Like the Canterbury pilgrims, every guest has come in search of something -- sun, love, happiness, objects of unnameable longing -- and everyone has a story. By turns hilarious, ribald, tender, and tragic, H

Author: J. Richard Gott
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: time, travel, possibilities, physical, einstein, universe
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-09-19
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0618257357
ISBN-13: 9780618257355

In this fascinating book, the renowned astrophysicist J. Richard Gott leads time travel out of the world of H. G. Wells and into the realm of scientific possibility. Building on theories posited by Einstein and advanced by scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne, Gott explains how time travel can actually occur. He describes, with boundless enthusiasm and humor, how travel to the future is not only possible but has already happened, and he contemplates whether travel to the past is also conceivable. Notable not only for its extraordinary subject matter and scientific brilliance, Time

Author: Miss Read
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: fairacre, retirement, peaceful
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-11-07
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0618884386
ISBN-13: 9780618884384

Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It is not entirely so, of course. She finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, helping with church and school affairs, and offering a kindly ear to her eccentric neighbors. With her teaching days behind her, Miss Read discovers her talent for writing, opening a new and exciting chapter in her life — and bringing to a close her stories of life in Fairacre, the timeless En

Authors:Rachel Carson,  Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilso,
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: spring, silent
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-10-22
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0618249060
ISBN-13: 9780618249060

Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson’s book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough

Author: Greg Critser
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: world, people, fattest, americans, land
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-01-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0618380604
ISBN-13: 9780618380602

In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser’s sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly alarming book. Critser investigates the many factors of American life -- from supersize to Super Mario, from high-fructose corn syrup to the high cost of physical education in schools -- that have converged and conspired to make us some of the fattest people on the planet. He also explains why pediatricians are treating conditions rarely b

Author: Jerome Groopma
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: think, doctors
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-03-12
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0547053649
ISBN-13: 9780547053646

How Doctors Think is a window into the mind of the physician and an insightful examination of the all-important relationship between doctors and their patients. In this myth-shattering work, Jerome Groopman explores the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. He pinpints why doctors succeed and why they err. Most important, Groopman shows when and how doctors can -- with our help -- avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health.

Author: Carson McCuller
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: wedding, ballad, sad, cafe, member, including, stories, carson, mccullers, collected
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0395925053
ISBN-13: 9780395925058

Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredly among the masterpieces of our language." (A Mariner Reissue)