<p>Inside Marilyn Monroe is an intense, personal memoir spanning more than a decade (1952-1962) by the then-actor John Gilmore, detailing his acquaintanceship with the most important movie star in the world, Marilyn Monroe. From Hollywood to New York, from New York back to Hollywood, the casual hello-goodbye friendship building to a point where Monroe and Gilmore were about to make a picture together but tragedy struck in Marilyn's life. Gilmore turned from acting to devote himself to writing and his memoir gathers Marilyn's personal life through many associates and stars known to Marilyn and Gilmore. Revealed is a treasure-trove of facets of Marilyn's life previously unknown. Gilmore's memoir shuns the conspiracy theories as he instead focuses on Marilyn as she really was, not as the media-created, cardboard sexpot, but the living and breathing "wonder" that she was. This haunting, highly personal memoir contains many photographs never before published and are made public for the first time.</p>

Inside Marilyn Monroe

John Gilmore

Humor & Entertainment

Ferine Books

James Dean: A Rendezvous With Immortality

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Ethan McRae, a volatile and gifted "outcast" is failing his classes at North Valley High. His abilities and talents conflict with the impersonal, administrative structure, and through his difficulties we glimpse the failure of education in general. Ethan becomes obsessed with the sexy sister of Jesse Quinn, a flamboyant and outspoken critic of the system. Finding in Ethan a kindred "spirit in danger of suffocation," Jesse enlightens Ethan to the truth of the public school's rapidly increasing disintegration through corporate and government greed. As the duo of Ethan and Jesse take a stand to salvage what little quality remains in the system-and their private lives, vicious rumors, sexual pressures, sexual confusions, alcohol and drug abuse compounds with the pair's doubts and shortcomings, threatening to send them spiraling further into failure, isolation, and hopelessness. Boy on Fire, authored by an individualist akin to his protagonist, starkly documents the destructive effect of the No Child Left Behind program on talented and creative students who might otherwise explore new, positive values in the American way of life. Boy on Fire propels themes as seen in "La Dolce Vita" into the present; and lends itself to being the "Catcher in the Rye" of the 21st Century.

Boy On Fire: A Novel by Carson Gilmore

Literature & Fiction

Gilmore, Carson

Contemporary

<p>A well-researched, in-depth study of the true natures of the notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, "Road Without End" breaks away from the usual police-blotter procedurals on these outlaw lovers and delves into their true character.</p>

Road Without End: On the Run with Bonnie & Clyde

History

Gilmore, John

Americas

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