Keeping Marilyn in Mind: A Hundred Years of a Woman the World Can’t Forget
On a gray January afternoon in 1955, a secretary at the Actors Studio on West 44th Street in Manhattan looked up to see a familiar face—too familiar, in fact, for that cramped little lobby. Marilyn Monroe, the most photographed woman in the world, had come alone to enroll in Lee Strasberg’s legendary acting workshop, the same crucible that had shaped Marlon Brando and James Dean. No press, no studio escort, no staged publicity shots—just Marilyn, signing herself in like any other student who wanted to get better at the work.
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The Marilyn Diaries
The woman the world adored.
The voice she never got to share.
In this intimate and inventive work of creative fiction, Aubrey Malone, offers a haunting portrait of Marilyn Monroe through imagined diary entries. Blending fact with lyrical invention, The Marilyn Diaries reveals the private thoughts of Norma Jeane as she becomes the mythic Marilyn: a woman adored for her beauty, yet plagued by loneliness, longing, and a past she could never outrun.
Why It Matters
• A reimagined confessional that blends fact and fiction to startling effect.
• The Marilyn Diaries unfolds through fictional diary entries that give voice to Norma Jeane’s transformation into the mythic Marilyn, illuminating the private pain behind the public persona.
• Aubrey Malone crafts a portrait of Monroe that is as vulnerable as it is vivid.
About the Author
Aubrey Malone is an Irish writer known for his imaginative blend of biography and fiction, with a particular focus on iconic cultural figures. His previous work, The Elvis Diaries, was praised for its poignant insight and inventive narrative voice. In The Marilyn Diaries, Malone once again gives voice to a legend, capturing the fragile humanity behind the fame.
Publisher Casa Carlini
Imprint Vita
Author Aubrey Malone
Publication Date April 15, 2026
Paperback $18.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-47-6
Hardback $27.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-28-5
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When one man bought Italy's books
Silvio Berlusconi is remembered for many things: three terms as prime minister, a talent for legal evasion, and a personal style that kept tabloids in business for decades. Less remembered is the moment in the early 1990s when he acquired Arnoldo Mondadori Editore—Italy's largest and most prestigious publishing house—through a corporate battle that a court would later determine had been decided by a bribed judge.
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The Pact That Terrorized a Continent: Francesca Lessa on the Hidden Machinery of Operation Condor
On the morning of September 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier climbed into his car on Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C., and began his commute to work. He was a former Chilean ambassador and cabinet minister who had survived imprisonment and torture under Augusto Pinochet's regime and had rebuilt his life in exile as one of the most effective critics of the dictatorship. The car bomb that killed him, along with his American colleague Ronni Moffitt, had been planted by agents of Chile's secret police operating freely in the capital of the United States. It was the most audacious act of state-sponsored terrorism ever carried out on American soil, and it was not an improvisation. It was an operation, planned and executed within a framework that connected the intelligence services of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil in a coordinated machinery of transnational repression. That machinery had a name: Operation Condor. For decades, its full dimensions remained obscured, buried in classified archives, suppressed by the governments that had run it, and silenced by the fear of the survivors who had lived through it.
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Martin Heidegger: The Man Who Took Being Too Seriously
In late May 1933, students and professors gathered in Freiburg to hear their new rector speak. The swastika hung over the university, books by Jewish and “un-German” authors were already burning in German squares, and Martin Heidegger, freshly joined to the Nazi Party, stepped forward to tell them that the “self-assertion” of the German university and the destiny of the German people belonged to the same historic mission. He spoke the language of fate and renewal, not footnotes. The man who had asked philosophy to confront anxiety, finitude, and the question of Being now wrapped those themes around a regime that promised rebirth through obedience.
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Simply Caesar
The man who changed the world and the empire he built, simply told.
Julius Caesar, one of history's most iconic and controversial figures, is renowned for his military conquests, political prowess, and the legacy of the Roman Empire. Yet his life remains complex and multi-faceted, marked by both extraordinary achievements and turbulent conflicts. In Simply Caesar, historians J. David Markham and Matthew Zarzeczny provide an accessible and engaging guide to Caesar's remarkable life, demystifying the man behind the legend and offering a fresh perspective on his influence in shaping Western history. From the Rubicon to the Ides of March, from the conquest of Gaul to the affair with Cleopatra, this book strips away the myth and reveals the brilliant, ruthless, and endlessly fascinating strategist who never stopped reaching for more.
Why It Matters
- Reframes Julius Caesar not just as a conqueror, but as a political innovator who reshaped the Roman world and set the stage for empire.
- Cuts through myth and legend to reveal the real dynamics of power, ambition, and reform at the end of the Roman Republic.
- Illuminates how Caesar’s rise and fall continue to shape modern ideas of leadership, populism, and the fragility of democratic systems.
About the Authors
J. David Markham is a leading Napoleonic scholar, president of the International Napoleonic Society, and author or contributor to ten books, including Napoleon for Dummies and The Road to St Helena. He has appeared in documentaries, lectured globally, co-created the “Napoleon 101” podcast, and was named a Knight of the French Academic Palms in 2014. He has also received top honors from both the International Napoleonic Society and the Napoleonic Historical Society.
Matthew D. Zarzeczny is a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society and adjunct instructor at Ashland, Kent State Stark, and John Carroll University. He is the author of Meteors That Enlighten the Earth and founder of the website historyandheadlines.com.
Publisher Casa Carlini
Imprint Simply Charly
Author J. David Markham & Matthew D. Zarzeczny
Publication Date October 23, 2025
Paperback $14.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-92-6
Hardback $19.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-58-2
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David Hume and the Habit of Doubt
On an ordinary afternoon in Edinburgh, David Hume liked to walk. Not to pray, not to preach, but to think—and then to doubt what he had just thought. Neighbors saw an amiable, heavy-set gentleman strolling the streets; posterity would see the man who quietly asked whether any of us truly knows what we think we know.
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Niccolò Machiavelli: The Man Who Made Scheming Respectable
Few writers have acquired such a sinister afterlife for describing politics with unnerving frankness. Niccolò Machiavelli served as a Florentine secretary and diplomat rather than as a prince. Still, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, both published after his death, made his name synonymous with cunning, duplicity, and hard-headed realism. Where earlier political writing often wrapped rule in the language of virtue or providence, Machiavelli began from a darker anthropology: men are self-interested, fortune is unstable, and states that ignore those facts do not remain states for long.
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Operation Condor
The secret pact that terrorized a continent.
Operation Condor: The Pact that Terrorized a Continent traces the shadowy alliance of South America’s military dictatorships as they waged a secret war on their own people. Through gripping narrative and meticulous research, the book exposes how intelligence services from multiple regimes coordinated kidnappings, torture, and disappearances across borders, turning an entire region into a laboratory of state terror. Both chilling and deeply human, it follows the victims, perpetrators, and resisters whose lives were shattered and whose stories demand to be heard.
Why It Matters
- Reveals how a clandestine transnational pact turned South America into a borderless zone of repression.
- Braids archival evidence, testimony, and on-the-ground history into a propulsive, accessible account of state terror.
- Illuminates the machinery behind forced disappearances, showing how “security cooperation” became a tool of continental-scale persecution.
About the Author
Francesca Lessa is Associate Professor in International Relations of the Americas at University College London and a leading scholar of human rights and state violence in Latin America. With over a decade documenting Operation Condor through archives and survivor testimonies, she delivers this definitive English account, blending evidence, empathy, and moral clarity. Sebastián Santana Camargo is an award-winning Uruguayan visual artist and activist whose illustrations explore memory, state violence, and resistance. His striking imagery serves as visual testimony, deepening the book’s emotional resonance and preserving the stories of the disappeared.
Publisher Casa Carlini
Imprint Storia
Author Francesca Lessa & Sebastián Santana
Publication Date May 12, 2026
Paperback $17.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-23-0
Hardback $24.99
ISBN 978-1-943657-56-8
Charles Carlini, Publisher
info@casacarlini.com
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Marcus Aurelius and the Discipline of the Inner Empire
Few rulers have exercised such quiet influence over posterity with so little regard for their own reputation. Marcus Aurelius commanded legions, governed a vast empire, and bore the titles of power. Yet his most enduring work was written not for the Senate or the army, but for himself, in a private notebook he never meant to publish. There, he did not defend conquests or laws. He interrogated his own mind. In an age of spectacles and public acts, Marcus turned authority inward and asked what it meant to rule justly when the most ungovernable province was one’s own thoughts.
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