Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola Gene Phillips blends biography, studio history, and film criticism to complete the most comprehensive work on Coppola ever written. The force behind such popular and critically acclaimed films as Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy, Coppola has imprinted his distinct style on each of his movies and on the landscape of American popular culture. In Godfather , Phillips argues that Coppola has repeatedly bucked the Hollywood "factory system" in an attempt to create distinct films that reflect his own artistic vision-often to the detriment of his career and finances.

The Godfather of Kathmandu

Sonchai Jitpleecheep -- John Burdett's inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul -- is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru.

Heaven's Net is Wide by Lian Hearn

Heaven's Net Is Wide is the new first volume of the now complete Tales of the Otori- prequel to Across the Nightingale Floor, the book that first introduced Hearn's mythical, medieval Japanese world. This is the story of Lord Otori Shigeru-who has presided over the entire series as a sort of spiritual warrior-godfather-the man who saved Takeo and raised him as his own and heir to the Otori clan. This sweeping novel expands on what has been only hinted at before...

This is the best-known tale of the American Mafia ever told. Don Corleone is the Godfather, the head of one of the richest families in New York. He is a gangster and his business is crime, violence and murder. His favourite son Michael is a lawyer who wants to lead a quiet, peaceful life. But when his father is nearly killed by rival gangsters Michael gets pulled into the dangerous world of the 'family business' …
The Godfather starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, is one of the most popular films ever made. So popular in fact that three sequels were made about the Corleone family.

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Don Vito Corleone controls one of the most powerful and richest mafia families in New York, Godfather, as he's nicknamed . He has three sons and a daughter: Sonny, the eldest, Fredo, Michael, the youngest and Connie Corleone. He has also an adoptive son, Tom Hagen. Michael was different from the others in his family. He wants a quiet and honest life with Kay, his fiancé. This isn’t as easy as he thinks. Michael will be forced to change by dramatic events.