Mark Johnson
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What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer? When Mark Johnson left the United Way to become the oldest rookie in the Mobile, Alabama, police department, he didn't just have to adjust to a new career-he had to adjust to an entirely new life of danger, violence, and stark moral choices. "Apprehensions and Convictions" is Johnson's explosive memoir of...
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Mark Johnson tells a timeless tale of the struggle to find truth in belief, faith in fact, and friendship in times of fear. It is a new survival story, one that takes place post-climate apocalypse where our main character, Elon, thirty-seven, alone, hungry, and desperate to hear just another voice, is determined to discover what is next for a world sunken and on fire. When Elon discovers a hidden retreat deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, he...
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A Minister's Son is a moving nonfiction account of a young man's struggle with his strict religious upbringing. It recounts his touching relationship with his evangelical father, a minister; his steamy experiences with young women in his father's church; his escapades as a competitive public speaker, and his eventual lapse into addiction. The book will be of interest to anyone who has had a troubled relationship with God, organized religion and/or...
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From Muscle Shoals to Mobile, Alabamians enjoy fabulous barbecue at home, at club meetings and at countless eateries. In the 1820's, however, a group of reformers wanted to eliminate the southern staple because politicians used it to entice voters. As the state and nation changed through wars and the civil rights movement, so did Alabama barbecue. Alabama restaurants like Big Bob Gibson's, Dreamland and Jim 'n Nick's have earned fans across the country....
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While Life As Play chronicles the author's life-long spiritual journey, his goal is to provide a road map for those seeking Oneness with Everything.
In its pages, you will discover how to allow your innate Playful essence to express itself in every moment. Think of Mark's story as a tour and initiation into a life of Play. This book is filled with tales of the unexpected and the unique circumstances that characterize a life of Play. This is not a...
6) Whetstone: The Complete Guide to Using a Knife Sharpening Stone; Learn How to Sharpen Your Knives A
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If you want the highest quality knife blade you need to learn how to use a whetstone, the most effective Japanese way of sharpening knives is to maintain their edge crisp and sharp. Whetstone will not only teach you the basics of knife sharpening, but also an essential range of other essential skills. You will learn how to thin old knives to renew them and make them as good as new. You will also learn how to create a knife sharpening plan that will...
7) Avalon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.
10) Simon Birch
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Simon Birch believes that God made him for a special, heroic purpose. Simon and his best friend Joe Wenteworth are both outcasts in their tiny New England town: Joe is the illegitimate son of the town beauty, and Simon, at age 12, is so small that he still plays the infant Jesus in the church Christmas pageant. In the summer of 1964, friendship is put to the test when Little Leaguer Simon hits a foul ball that strikes and kills Joe's mother. Together,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tight knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
14) Bugsy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 149 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is a brilliant and violent gangster who leaves behind his criminal empire in New York to run the powerful rackets in Los Angeles. But his tumultuous affair with a Hollywood starlet inspires him to build something even bigger than his growing infamy. By doing this, he enrages his criminal backers. Bugsy will go to any length to see his dream realized, even if it costs him his life.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
16) The holdovers
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc.
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It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tight knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
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Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
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1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Vacationing journalists try to track down a missing war criminal in one of Eastern Europe's deadliest regions. What begins as an impulsive reporting adventure immediately turns dangerous, as hostile locals, shady underworld figures and a case of mistaken identity put them squarely in their target's crosshairs. Amid the bullets and bombs, they discover that getting the scoop is one thing-- getting out alive is something else entirely. Inspired by true...
19) Galaxy quest
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The unemployed actors of the Galaxy Quest television series are reduced to convention appearances and store openings. But when a distressed interstellar cadre of benevolent aliens beam Jason Nesmith and his crew of has-beens onto their ship, they have the misguided hope that these 'historical documents' can defeat a genocidal space warlord.
20) Bless me, Ultima
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In New Mexico in the time of WWII, a young man goes to an aged medicine woman and forms a relationship which helps him challenge the fight amid the good and the evil that storms through his village.