Villard (imprint)

Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a major publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world. It was founded in 1983.^[1] Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House, and are currently an imprint of Ballantine Books, itself a subsidiary of Random House.^[2] It was named after a Stanford White brownstone mansion on Madison Avenue that was the home of Random House for twenty years.^[3]

Books

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1985

• The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James, ISBN 0394537130

1987

• Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, Ricky Jay
• Pattern Crimes, William Bayer

1988

• All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum, ISBN 0394571029

1989

• Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom for a Complicated World, Noah benShea^[4][5], ISBN 0394579259

1990

• Latin for All Occasions, Henry Beard, ISBN 0-394-58660-3

1991

• Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: Rise and Fall of the Ceauşescus, Edward Behr

1992

• The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, ISBN 0-586-21726-6

1993

• Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission, Gloria Brame
• Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi, Morris Dees & Steve Fiffer
• The Fifties, David Halberstam
• Primal Fear, William Diehl, ISBN 0-679-40211-X

1994

• Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times, Edwin Diamond.
• Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell, ISBN 0679432280
• Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received, Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry, ISBN 0679431764
• Mary Cassatt: A Life, Nancy Mowll Mathews, ISBN 0-394-58497-X
• The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia, ISBN 0-679-43293-8

1995

• Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain ISBN 0679435522.
• The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories, Paul Kingsbury
• Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, ISBN 0-679-41588-2

1996

• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, ISBN 067942850X
• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

1997

• Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain, ISBN 0679448802.
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer, ISBN 0679457526

1998

• Children of God, Mary Doria Russell

2000

• The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, written by George Saunders, illustrated by Lane Smith,

2001

• Necessary Targets, Eve Ensler

2004

• Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Ken Goffman, ISBN 0-375-50758-2.

2005

• What We Do Is Secret, Thorn Kief Hillsbery
• Zanesville, Kris Saknussemm

2006

• The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bobby Henderson^[6]

2007

• Macedonia, written by Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson, with illustrations by Ed Piskor

2008

• Nose Down, Eyes Up, Merrill Markoe
• The Big Skinny, Carol Lay
• How Can I Keep From Singing (revised edition), biography of Pete Seeger, by David Dunaway

2009

• Farewell, My Subaru, Doug Fine ISBN 0812977890

External links

• Villard - publisher's website

References

1. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/about/history.html
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