The distinguished producer-director illuminates significant scenes from his life and career, recounting his prolonged, victorious struggle with manic depression and chronicling his involvement in such productions as South Pacific, Mister Roberts, and Picnic.

The distinguished producer-director illuminates significant scenes from his life and career, recounting his prolonged, victorious struggle with manic depression and chronicling his involvement in such productions as South Pacific, Mister Roberts, and Picnic.

Video game lover Josh Baxter knows that seventh grade at a new school may be his hardest challenge yet, but he's not afraid to level up and win! Josh Baxter is sick and tired of hitting the reset button. It's not easy being the new kid for the third time in two years. One mistake and now the middle school football star is out to get him. And Josh's sister keeps offering him lame advice about how to make friends, as if he needs her help finding allies!Josh knows that his best bet is to keep his head down and stay under the radar. If no one notices him, nothing can touch him, right? But when Josh's mom sees his terrible grades and takes away his video games, it's clear his strategy has failed. Josh needs a new plan, or he'll never make it to the next level, let alone the next grade.He's been playing not to lose. It's time to play to win.

Traces the public librarian author's inspiring story as a Mormon youth with Tourette's Syndrome who after a sequence of radical and ineffective treatments overcame nightmarish tics through education, military service, and strength training.

Do you constantly feel like you are getting in your own way and holding yourself back from experiencing success? You're not alone. Josh's honest, straight-forward, no BS approach in Just Suck It Up will help you finally get out of your own way and make some lasting changes in your mindset, health, finances, and relationships. As someone who dealt with severe bullying as a child, extreme financial adversity, terrible self-confidence, and a debilitating disease, it would have been easy for Josh to give up. But he didn't and was able to gain confidence, become a millionaire from the online fitness business he built from scratch, heal him-self from disease, and create an incredible relationship with his wife, children, and friends. Drawing on his personal experiences, he provides you with his step-by-step process, mapping out exactly what he did to overcome it all. You can do this too! In Just Suck It Up you will learn: How to stop excuses, conquer fear, eliminate anxiety, gain confidence, and create a mindset ready for success. How to use nutrition and exercise to become healthy and strong. How to eliminate debt and gain complete control of your finances. How to be a good spouse, parent, and friend. It's time for you to change! It's time to get out of your own way and let Josh teach you how to create a successful life.

From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the lumberjacks. In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It’s the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon’s struggle as a boy to keep his father’s inherited timber claim, the Lost Lot, from the ravenous clutches of Linden Laughlin. Ever since young Weldon stepped foot in the deep Cordelia woods as a child, he dreamed of joining the rowdy ranks of his ancestors in their epic axe-swinging adventures. Local legend says their family line boasts some of the greatest lumberjacks to ever roam the American West, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, the jacks are dying out, and it’s up to Weldon to defend his family legacy. Braided with haunting saloon tunes and just the right dose of magic, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All is a novel bursting with heart, humor and an utterly transporting adventure that is sure to sweep you away into the beauty of the tall snowy mountain timber.

Hunted by his former comrades and labeled a traitor after he refuses to murder an innocent Afghan family, Mason Kane works to unravel a conspiracy that reaches all the way up to the highest levels of the government.

Offers wisdom and guidance for Christians to strengthen their faith, discussing how God speaks to individuals, how Jesus' death on the cross paid for sins, who the Holy Spirit is, and more.

The National Book Award finalist and debut novel by the bestselling author of The Dinner Party: "A readymade classic of the office-novel genre. . . . A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness." --Seattle Times No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.