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Villard
Parent companyBallantine Books
Random House
Founded1983
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City, New York
Publication typesBooks
Official websiteballantine.atrandom.com[dead link]

Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House,[1] one of the largest publishing companies in the world,[citation needed] owned in full by Bertelsmann since its acquisition of a final 25% stake in 2019, and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013.[2] Villard was founded in 1983.[3]

Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House and is currently a sub-imprint of Ballantine Books, itself an imprint of Random House.[citation needed] 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

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

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

1992

1993

1994

  • Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times, Edwin Diamond.
  • Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, John Boswell
  • 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 0-679-43176-4
  • Mary Cassatt: A Life, Nancy Mowll Mathews
  • The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia

1995

1996

1997

1998

2000

2001

2003

  • Vagabonding: An uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel, Rolf Potts
  • A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, Jane Juska

2004

  • Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Ken Goffman.

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

  • I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, Eve Ensler
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References

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  1. ^ PRH Staff (March 7, 2024). "Penguin Random House [PRH] Imprints". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
  2. ^ Germano, Sara (December 18, 2019). "Bertelsmann Takes Full Ownership of Penguin Random House". The Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com). Retrieved March 7, 2024. The [2019] acquisition [through purchase of the remaining 25% stake] completes a joint venture between Bertelsmann and British publisher Pearson PLC, who in 2013 combined their respective book units, Random House and Penguin.
  3. ^ a b Random House Staff (March 6, 2009). "The Random House Publishing Group: About Us". RandomHouse.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
  4. ^ "Noah benShea's The Journey to Greatness". Thejourneytogreatness.com. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  5. ^ "AUTHOR, AUTHOR, AUTHOR : Bagels : Noah benShea writes about the person he aspires to be. In 'Jacob's Journey,' that man sets out to reconcile his route to reality". Los Angeles Times. October 17, 1991.
  6. ^ http://www.classicbands.com/JackJonesInterview.html Interview with investigative reporter Jack Jones about Let Me Take You Down - Inside The Mind of Mark David Chapman
  7. ^ $80,000 for Pastafarian Bible AngsumanNovember 14th, 2005 (November 14, 2005). "$80,000 for Pastafarian Bible". Angsuman.taragana.net. Retrieved January 28, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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