Villard imprint: 271 books
The New Vampire's Handbook
A Guide for the Recently Turned Creature of the Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Being turned into a vampire is the easy part.
Actually becoming a vampire is far more difficult.
In today’s world of vampire-obsessed pop culture, misinformation abounds. A newly turned vampire who looks to movies and novels for answers to everlasting life’s questions will inevitably be...
by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life—an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived.
Bill Mason is arguably the greatest...
Play Ball
The Life and Troubled Times of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Unlike any book before it, Play Ball takes on a national pasttime—and baseball will never be the same again.
Baseball is the greatest of all American games. No other sport has the tradition, the mythology, the heroes, and the heroics. Yet baseball is also in the midst of an upheaval unprecedented...
Reclaim Your Power!
A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Reclaim Your Power! A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color is a compact but powerful book in which community philanthropist Terrance Dean provides men of color with meaningful, spiritual meditations that can be practiced anywhere at any time. Quotations and exercises further...
The 12-Step Bush Recovery Program
A Lifesaving Guide to Shaking Off the Horrors of the Last Eight Years, with Practical Advice on Relapse, Remission, and Recounts
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
The first step is admitting that you have a Bush problem–and that you have ten bucks for this book.
• Do you think that after eight years of George Bush, this country is in good shape?
• Do you feel that the U.S. Constitution has too many Amendments?
• Do you often dream of George Bush...
What We Do Is Secret
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Why am I a punk? Because I wasn’t anything before, except different. And now it’s like I’m different, but with a vengeance.”
It’s been months since the suicide of Darby Crash, L.A. punk rock icon and lead singer of the Germs. He checked out on the same day John Lennon was shot:...
F U, Penguin
Telling Cute Animals What's What
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Perfect for the Scrooge in your life—a profane, hilarious takedown of all things cute and cuddly, by the author of the blog sensation of (almost) the same name
Attention, all you clumsy pandas, lovable puffins, huggable bunnies, and penguins that elicit ooohs and aaahs: The jig is up! We...
The Cooking Club Cookbook
Six Friends Show You How to Bake, Broil, and Bond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
The Cooking Club Cookbook is the story of how six friends learned to cook, the meals they created, and the fun they had along the way. Filled with tales of broken broccoli Christmas trees and seduce-me steaks, this book is at once an easy-to-follow guide to starting a cooking club, a collection of...
Clothing Optional
And Other Ways to Read These Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
“Garry, it’s Alan. Look, I’m calling because I just felt the need to tell someone that I’m forty-four years old, and about an hour ago, for the first time in my life, I put suntan lotion on my ass. I’ll explain later. Bye.”
In Clothing Optional, Alan Zweibel offers a collection...
Girlbomb
A Halfway Homeless Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Just two hours ago, I had been heating up some lentil soup at my mom’s in Brooklyn, thinking I’d eat it and maybe read some Edith Wharton before bed. Now here I was at a runaway shelter, staring at a nun’s mustache and wondering where I was going to spend the rest of my adolescence.
At...
Due South
Dispatches from Down Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Now in paperback — the enormously popular essays Fannie Flagg called “as charming and welcome as an early spring down home.”
As satisfying, soothing, and occasionally suprising as a plate of turnip greens with a dash of pepper sauce, Due South is a book to be read and savored.
Naked Republicans
A Full-frontal Exposure of Right-wing Hypocrisy and Greed
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
“Shelley Lewis figured out a way to make me laugh out loud at adultery, corruption, bribery, prevarication, hypocrisy, pumpkin shooting, race baiting, insanity, cat murder, and filthy, groping old men. Naked Republicans is an instruction manual for the things you can get away with and still keep...
How Far Will You Go?
Questions to Test Your Limits
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
What is the strongest opinion you hold? What is the biggest lie you've ever told? What is the one thing you'd most like to change about the world? Who have you most feared in your life? What is the strongest craving you get? What have you lost that you would most like to retrieve? Where and when have...
The Psycho Ex Game
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Lisa Roberty is a successful screenwriter with an impoverished social life who’s enduring a demoralizing job at the mind-numbing sitcom You Go, Girl. Grant Repka is an obscure indie rock musician who, in his forties, finds his career surprisingly resurrected with the success of his comic operetta...