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"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,...

"Descubre las memorias que han inspirado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo a través de la honestidad sin límites, la sabiduría no convencional y las lecciones aprendidas de éxitos y fracasos, alegrías y tristezas del actor Matthew McConaughey. He estado en esta vida durante cincuenta años, he intentado resolver su misterio durante cuarenta y dos, y he estado llenando diarios con pistas para ese enigma durante los últimos treinta y cinco....

When an American expatriate plans to sell his profitable London marijuana business, it triggers various plots to steal his domain out from under him.

Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide, now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife.

The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., an undercover informant for the FBI who was convicted and given a lifetime prison sentence for drug-trafficking.

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away. After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.

An explorer and a doctor join forces to uncover the connection between a deadly plague and a rare coin from a cargo ship lost during the Civil War.

Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...

Just as a U.S. Navy Captain and his crew are beginning to enjoy their shore leave, they are called back to active duty in order to infiltrate a Nazi U-boat and steal a top-secret encoding device.

"Mickey Haller is L.A.'s top criminal defense lawyer - a fast-living, freewheeling pro who does business out of the back seat of his classic Lincoln town car. He knows all the ins and outs of the legal system and how to exploit them to his clients' advantage. But after agreeing to defend a wealthy young man accused of rape and murder, Mickey suddenly finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of violence, vengeance and deception that threatens to not...