Mario Puzo

Lucia Santa has traveled 3,000 miles, from Italy to New York, hoping for a better life. Instead, she settles in Hell's Kitchen, in a bad marriage, to raise six children on her own.

"The most important unpublished work on one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather, written before filming, by the man who wrote and directed it--Francis Ford Coppola, then only thirty-two years old--reveals the intense creative process that went into creating this seminal film. With meticulous notes and impressions of Mario Puzo's novel, the Notebook was referred to by Coppola daily on set while he directed the movie. [This book] pulls...

For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. He worries most about his eldest son, who wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the family business. A prequel to 'The godfather,' 'The family Corleone' is an exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, and will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of 'The godfather,' as well as introduce it to a...

"Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire. That successor could be fiery Vincent . . . but he may also be the spark that turn Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence."--container.

The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family. Tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In a parallel story, Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Unwittingly released from Phantom Zone imprisonment, three super-powered Planet Krypton criminals plan to enslave Earth. At the same time, Superman decides to show a more romantic side of himself to Lois Lane.