Villard imprint: 271 books
Unusually Stupid Politicians
Washington's Weak in Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, bestselling authors of the scathingly funny Unusually Stupid Americans and Unusually Stupid Celebrities, now set their bipartisan sights on the hallowed halls of the United States government. Unusually Stupid Politicians exposes the mind-boggling but true political...
FM
The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
"It was all so honest, before the end of our collective innocence. Top Forty jocks screamed and yelled and sounded mightier than God on millions of transistor radios. But on FM radio it was all spun out for only you. On a golden web by a master weaver driven by fifty thousand magical watts of...
Mixed
My Life in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Tell anyone who asks that you’re half-black and half-white, just like David Hasselhoff from Knight Rider.”–Angela’s mother
“Love has no color,” insist Angela Nissel’s parents, but does it have a clue? In this candid, funny, and poignant memoir, Angela recounts growing up biracial...
What the Dogs Have Taught Me
And Other Amazing Things I've Learned
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Award-winning comedy writer Merrill Markoe, the slightly warped mind behind Stupid Pet Tricks, is an old hand with dogs. She knows who’s boss (they are) and the myriad ways a loving pet can make you feel guilty twenty-four hours a day. This new edition of Merrill Markoe’s classic collection of...
Have You Found Her
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?
Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful...
Stupid Movie Lines
The 776 Dumbest Things Ever Uttered on the Silver Screen
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
The creme de la crud of screen history
"War! War! That's all you think of, Dick Plantagenet! You burner! You pillager!"
--Virginia Mayo as Lady Edith to George Sanders in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
"Visits? That would indicate visitors."
--Army captain...
Lads
A Memoir of Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
"What I wanted after college was a job and my own apartment, but what I needed was a good comeuppance, and that’s what I got."
When Dave Itzkoff graduated from Princeton in 1998–the first member of his family to earn a college degree–he expected to be rewarded with a career,...
Opium Fiend
A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the world’s oldest and most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery.
A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic adventure,...
Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid?
The Serial Monogamist's Guide to Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Wallowing in the murky haze of unhallowed unions everywhere, Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid? offers solutions to some of life’s most vexing relationship predicaments, such as:
-Things to Do on a Date--If, in Fact, That’s What This Is
-Living Together vs. Marriage: A Handy Guide to...
The Bridal Wave
A Survival Guide to the Everyone-I-Know-Is-Getting-Married Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
It starts with the IGBN (I’ve Got Big News) phone calls and a mailbox full of Save the Dates. Next comes the meltdown: I always thought I’d be married by now. Why does she have a ring on her finger and I don’t? Soon you’re buying outrageously expensive china, dancing the electric slide with...
by Bobby Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Can I get a “ramen” from the congregation?!
Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying...
Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success
A Resource Guide for Boys Who Want to Be Girls
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
Veronica Vera, creator and founder of the world’s first cross-dressing academy, knows that a host of goods and services for the girl with something extra are just a mouse click away. But who wants to spend hours surfing the Net? Fear no more: Miss Vera has done the legwork, combing the Internet...
If...
Questions for Teens
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Adolescence is one of the most challenging times of our lives — and, of course, the most fun. What do teens want to know about and ask about? It may be friends, TV, school, romance, music, peer pressure, cliques, proms, parties, gossip, parents, food, hair, videos, shopping, sports, card, the future...
The New Work of Dogs
Tending to Life, Love, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
“Sometimes human-dog relationships are simple, unrelated to the emotional lives and histories of either species. But often people acquire and love dogs with little awareness that they might have complex and revealing reasons for choosing the dog or pet they choose, loving it the way they do.”
Writing...