Villard imprint: 271 books
Movie Menus
Recipes for Perfect Meals with Your Favorite Films: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Movie Menus pairs classic movies with easy recipes updated from historic cookbooks to help you create a sensational dining experience for any film genre.
Both foodies and film buffs will find their passions fulfilled in this deliciously cinematic cookbook, which gathers authentic recipes from...
The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
An Adventure with Sixten Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
**BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jon Katz's Going Home.
“Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can’t really be held responsible for what they do. But we can.”
–from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm**
When Jon Katz...
by Michael S. Garvey, D.V.M., Anne E. Hohenhaus
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
The experts reveal how to interpret and understand your cat's symptoms
and what steps to take to ensure its health.
This comprehensive and practical book is designed to assist cat owners in understanding their pets' bodies and health based on signs and symptoms of disease, and in determining...
A Dog Year
Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
“Change loves me, defines and stalks me like a laser-guided smart bomb. It comes at me in all forms, suddenly and with enormous impact, from making shifts in work to having and raising a kid to buying a cabin on a distant mountaintop. Sometimes, change comes on four legs.”
In his popular...
A Good Dog
The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jon Katz's Going Home.
“People who love dogs often talk about a ‘lifetime’ dog. I’d heard the phrase a dozen times before I came to recognize its significance. Lifetime dogs are dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable...
Farewell, My Subaru
One Man's Search for Happiness Living Green Off the Grid
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Advance praise for Farewell, My Subaru
“Fine is Bryson Funny.” ——Santa Cruz Sentinel
“Fine is an amiable and self-deprecating storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams. If you're a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor -- and also looking to find out how to raise...
The Dangerous Book for Dogs
A Parody
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD PARODY: AN lLLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR--AND BY--DOGS, UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF DOGHOOD AND TEACHING THEM HOW TO DO THE VERY ACTIVITIES THAT HUMAN SOCIETY SAYS ARE WRONG.
The Dangerous Book for Dogs asks a simple question: isn't there more to being a dog than wearing a mini cashmere...
Unusually Stupid Americans
A Compendium of All-American Stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A hilarious collection of lists, statistics, news items, quotations, and facts detailing stupid acts of Americans from all walks of life—by the authors of the bestselling The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said
Everyone knows that America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave,”...
Jeff Foxworthy's Complete Redneck Dictionary
All the Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
There’s no such thing as too much redneck. And it’s easy to understand why. A veritable gumbo of indigenous ingenuity, this deliciously distinct dialect rolls off the tongue like drool in the presence of a barbecue sandwich. Now, just in time for no time in particular, Jeff Foxworthy’s three...
Carnivorous Nights
On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, authors Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson take off with renowned artist Alexis Rockman on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. This mysterious, striped predator was once the world’s largest...
Around the Bloc
My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement—commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the “Evil Empire.”
In...
The Traveler's Diet
Eating Right and Staying Fit on the Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Expand your travel horizons without expanding your waistline
No matter how healthy or balanced your diet, the minute you start traveling, all bets are off. And Peter Greenberg should know. After two decades as a television correspondent (logging an average of 400,000 air miles a year), this...
Adventure Divas
Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her...
Wanderlust
Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance includes these forty-one scintillating and sizzling tales of serendipity:
“On the Amazon” by Isabel Allende
“Once Upon a Time in Italy” by Bill Barich
“Naxos Nights” by Laurie Gough
“Passionate and Penniless in Paris” by Maxine...