"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"-- "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...

Isaac Colten is in hell, literally. For Isaac, his death has provided one last opportunity to be there when Sam needs him the most. An unspeakable horror known as the Dullahan is determined to get its hands on Sam and it most assuredly will, if Isaac can't reach him in time. To get there, Isaac has to navigate the unforgiving land known as the Wastes and somehow survive the creatures that call it home. When he was alive, Isaac was a proud, hardworking,...

I've been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently,...

Leaping at his first real opportunity, a director's joy turns to horror when the producer demands one of the stars actually die during filming. With his own life on the line, the director must make the ultimate decision.

Producer Jack Quick knows how to frame a story. So says Curtis Wade, the subject of Jack's new true crime docuseries, convicted of a young woman's murder four years prior. In the eyes of Jack's viewers, flimsy evidence and police bias influenced the final verdict...even though, off screen, Jack himself has his doubts. But when the series finale is wildly successful, a retrial sees Curtis walk free. And then another victim turns up dead. To set things...

A virus kills billions worldwide. A new viral threat looms. Can a pair of grieving sons and their former Black-Ops father stop a terrorist group? Alex and Danny have been training with their former Black-Ops father, Dean since the "Pulse" was set loose on the world five years ago. A terrorist group wants to destroy the remaining governments and military with a new virus. The US Army calls on their father and Alex and Danny to stop the terrorists...

"Meet Sandcastle. Sandcastle's world was new and exciting until their very first... SQUISH! In an effort to protect themselves from ever getting squished again, Sandcastle tries to be bigger and taller and stronger! But is that enough to stop all the squishes? From Breanna Carzoo, the acclaimed creator of Lou and Greenlight, comes an uplifting picture book story that reminds us that while we can't stop all of life's squishes, we can reach out to others,...

For forty years the doors of studio filmmaking were closed to women. But the coming of the women's movement in the late 1960's changed everything. This is the story of the second'wave of Reel Women who, like their early foremothers, once again held the power to greenlight a motion picture. As we move into the 21st century, digital technology takes filmmaking global. Reel'Women can now pioneer their own stories all over the world. This is their remarkable...

THE ULTIMATE PATRIOT MISSION The plane carrying the Secretary of Defense is blown out of the sky. The Defense Intelligence Agency greenlights an unprecedented response-Operation: Sandblast. Pentagon Covert Ops runner Bridget Davenport, must find someone to infiltrate the Taliban, get to the terrorist mastermind, and at all costs stop his plan for an attack more destructive than 9/11. Bridget finds young California-raised Afghan-American Lieutenant...

What does the word "lucky" mean to you? This true story of a girl's harrowing escape from North Korea, will cause you to re-examine the meaning of the word luck. Despite enduring abuse, starvation, homelessness, surveillance, and endless hardships, Songmi feels lucky and grateful to have escaped from North Korea. She shares her account of growing up in North Korea and the series of events that led to her escape across North Korea's border. Within...