This poignant posthumous collection of essays and short stories by wunderkind Marina Keegan, who tragically died in a car crash just days after her graduation from Yale, offers just as much hope as heartbreak. Keegan lives on through her words, and at the soul of her work lies an unrelenting striving for greater things and a light that never goes out.

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In A CURIOUS MIND, Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer shares his secret for success. For years, he's conducted what he calls "curiosity conversations" with remarkable people-from spies, to royals, to artists, to Nobel laureates-to help him see far beyond his own worldview and think in totally new ways. These discussions have inspired many of his most famous movies and TV shows, such as Apollo 13, Arrested Development, 24, and 8 Mile. A CURIOUS MIND offers a glimpse into these fascinating conversations and celebrates the power of curiosity to continually push our boundaries.

Now that you've graduated, put your knowledge to the test, make your voice heard, and run for something. As Amanda Litman, Hillary Clinton's email marketing director, tells us in the powerful and inspiring RUN FOR SOMETHING, running for local office is the most effective way to make a difference in your community, and it's much more doable than you might think. This guide spells out everything you need to know about running for local office and how to make an impact.

Can we ever really understand other people-their pain, their joys, their lives? Inspired by her work as a medical actor, Leslie Jamison contemplates this timeless question in her stirring collection of essays—through the lenses of poverty, illness, violence, reality TV, and more. No matter what, THE EMPATHY EXAMS will make you feel and show you how to live a more compassionate, enlightened life.

How do you know yourself? What is a world? What is insanity? Former journalist Christopher Phillips chronicles his journey to schools, churches, community centers, prisons, nursing homes—and more—across the country to reinstate the Socratic tradition of integrating philosophical discussions into everyday life. He tells us that even if we don't know the answers to big questions such as these, it's imperative to ask them anyway.

Chloe Caldwell's collection of personal essays offers a fresh and sincere take on the meaning of adulthood. She doesn't skimp on the candid details of her false starts, and the result is a page-turner that feels like a really juicy email from that older, cooler, friend who seems to know all the answers.

What if everything you thought you knew turned out to be wrong? It's happened before. In WHAT IF WE'RE WRONG?, Chuck Klosterman shows us that the truth can be relative—drawing examples ranging from the 2000 election to the shelf life of television-and reminds us to keep exercising throughout our lives those critical thinking skills we learned in school.