Villard imprint: 271 books
A Certain Chemistry
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Brooding, self-loathing Tom Cartwright is a modestly successful ghostwriter whose ability to spell correctly and meet his deadlines has landed him the job of writing the autobiography of the wildly popular soap-opera star Georgina Nye. His imbibing, chain-smoking agent is swooning, and his offbeat,...
Class Dismissed
75 Outrageous, Mind-Expanding College Exploits (and Lessons That Won't Be on the Final)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Your diploma says it, your student loans prove it: You went to college. But be honest: What you really learned had nothing to do with your GPA.
Just when you thought it was safe to matriculate, three university grads reveal amazing campus stories of hilarious extracurricular adventures and...
Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
An Incurable Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
One week in 1989, Rosemary Breslin got a headache that wouldn't go away. After countless tests and treatments, doctors knew little about her strange disease except that it wasn't AIDS or cancer. Two years later, out of a job, in debt, and worried about insurance, Rosemary was invited out by friends--not...
The Cubicle Survival Guide
Keeping Your Cool in the Least Hospitable Environment on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Help. . . . Cubicle Life Is Killing Me!
Leaving no stone unturned, no ergonomic chair unadjusted, and no leftovers in the communal fridge uneaten, this hilarious guide to cubicle life will be the salvation for the more than forty million Americans stuck in cubicles. By turns uproariously funny...
You Belong in a Zoo!
Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creature s
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From catching alligators in the reservoirs of New York and capturing giant crocodiles in Venezuela and giant frogs in West Africa to finding mummified human heads in a Bronx apartment, eels on a bus, cobras on the loose, and crocodiles that make change—a memoir of one man’s career working with...
by Ellen Kreidman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Remember a time when you and your mate weren’t too tired for romance? When you could take off on the spur of the moment for a glamorous evening or sexy weekend? Before listening for the patter of little feet put a damper on lovemaking? Believe it or not, you’re about to recapture the rapture!
From...
Travel Detective Flight Crew Confidential
People Who Fly for a Living Reveal Insider Secrets and Hidden Values in Cities and Airports Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective brings you insider travel secrets only pilots and flight attendants know.
Pilots are notoriously frugal, and flight attendants are underpaid and on a budget. They may hit one city four to six times a month, but they are there...
Estrogen: The Natural Way
Over 250 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Menopause
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Women need estrogen, but estrogen levels diminish with age. In the short term, estrogen's departure leaves most women in a frequently overheated, uncomfortable state. In the long term, its exodus places their hearts, bones, and brains in harm's way. And conventional hormone replacement therapy, with...
Spilling Open
The Art of Becoming Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
"We are all facing choices that define us. No choice, however messy, is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it is only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself. This book is my life in progress."
Spilling...
The Presidential Book of Lists
From Most to Least, Elected to Rejected, Worst to Cursed-Fascinating Facts About Our Chief Executives
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
An entertaining and informative compendium of facts and trivia about the U.S. presidents ranges from George Washington to the results of the 2008 presidential election in a volume organized into more than one hundred different categories.
Death of a Jewish American Princess
The True Story of a Victim on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses...
I'll Be Home Late Tonight
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Reminiscent of the works of Kaye Gibbons and Mona Simpson, Susan Thames' I'll Be Home Late Tonight offers an incandescent examination of the bond between a mother and a daughter. During a car trip through the South of a generation ago, two women learn about each other's strengths, failings, and secrets.
Carryin' On
And Other Strange Things Southerners Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Pat Conroy said that R. Scott Brunner’s Due South “delivers the goods and delivers them Southern fried”; Rick Bragg said that Brunner “writes like people down here talk, with beauty.” Carryin’ On more than delivers on the promise of its predecessor, with more of the disarming and hilarious...
by Nicole Chaison
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Behold, brave readers! Herein lies the first epic hero’s journey told by a mother–the Hausfrau, whose odyssey is a 24/7 adventure of pandemonium, sleep deprivation, madness, and transcendence. But beware! This journey is not for the faint of heart, as Nicole Chaison (a.k.a. the Hausfrau) boldly...