Mario Puzo
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In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success after the publication of The Godfather. With equal parts cynicism and humor, Puzo recounts the book deal and his experiences in Hollywood while writing the screenplay for the movie. Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, Peter Bart, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino all make appearances-as does Frank Sinatra, in his famous and disastrous encounter...
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Two-time Academy Award winner Mario Puzo is known around the world for his brilliant book The Godfather, widely considered the finest novel ever written about the Mafia. Two years before Puzo published that iconic work, he released Six Graves to Munich under the pseudonym Mario Cleri. During World War II, intelligence officer Michael Rogan lost everything-including his family-to brutal Nazi interrogators. Now 10 years have passed, and Michael is returning...
3) Fools Die
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English
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From the blockbuster author of The Godfather comes this bold international best-seller about the feverish world of a big-time gambler. Merlyn and his brother, Artie, obey their own code of honor in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organized crime are one and the same. Set within America's golden triangle of corruption and excess—New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas—the novel plunges into the glittering and ruthless worlds of gambling,...
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A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that was passed on from father to son. With its themes of the seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and family allegiance, it resonated with millions of readers across the world-and became the definitive novel of the virile, violent subculture that remains...
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The author transports his readers back to 15th-century Rome, and reveals the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his love of family.
6) The last don
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Don Domenico Clericuzio is determined to retire his Family from the seamier side of Mafia life, and announces his intention to pursue legitimate business interests, but secrets from the past threaten to undermine his plan.
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New York, 1933. The crime families have prospered in the Depression, but with the coming end of Prohibition a battle is looming... one which will determine which organizations will rise, and which will face a violent end. Vito Corleone pushes his oldest child, teenaged Sonny, to be a businessman. But Sonny-- impatient and reckless-- wants to become a part of the real family business.
8) Superman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him.
9) Superman II
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This epic takes up where Superman, the movie leaves off. Superman deals witha trio of villians whose powers rival Superman's own.