Random House: True Stories
Our top our top nonfiction picks this week explore subjects ranging from addiction and grief to parenting and the lives of great leaders.
All That You Leave Behind is a poignant coming-of-age story that offers an honest glimpse into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and a father. It is a window into love, with all of its fierceness and frustrations.
“A documentary filmmaker and daughter of the late, great New York Times columnist David Carr celebrates and wrestles with her father’s legacy in a raw, redemptive memoir.”
—O: The Oprah Magazine (The Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out in 2019)
“A breathtaking read . . . a testimony equal parts love and candor.”
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, bestselling author of Between the World and Me
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For more than a decade, Katie Arnold chased adventure around the world, reporting on extreme athletes who performed outlandish feats—walking high lines a thousand feet off the ground without a harness, or running one hundred miles through the night. She wrote her stories by living them, until eventually life on the thin edge of risk began to seem normal. After she married, Katie and her husband vowed to raise their daughters to be adventurous, too, in the mountains and canyons of New Mexico. But when her father died of cancer, she was forced to confront her own mortality.
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A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”
—Celeste Ng
“How brown is too brown?”
“Can Indians be racist?”
“What does real love between really different people look like?”
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From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, defined the American character
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“Bill Burns is a treasure of American diplomacy.”
—Hillary Clinton
“The Back Channel shows how diplomacy works, why it matters, and why its recent demise is so tragic.”
—Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo da Vinci
The Back Channel is an eloquent, deeply informed, and timely story of a life spent in service of American interests abroad. It is also a powerful reminder, in a time of great turmoil, of the enduring importance of diplomacy.
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A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it
“This book has the potential to change the reader’s life forever.”
—George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat, following the ancient practice of holy mendicants. His goal was to throw off his titles and roles in order to explore the deepest aspects of his being.
Order In Love with the World