Jordan Mechner
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"In this intergenerational graphic memoir, renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces his family's journey through war, Nazi occupation, and everyday marital strife. 1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I. 1938. A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun the rapidly expanding Nazi...
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"Five very different people are about to be put to death for a crime they didn't commit. Well, one of them may have done it. But the only way they can escape the hangman's noose is to find the common thread that ties them together. The one man they have all encountered, and who changed their lives--Dastan, the prince of Persia! Through six tales of adventure, excitement, love, sorcery, and death, the truth behind both the Sands of Time and the prince...
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Martin, a Templar Knight, returns from the Crusades to find his love married to someone else, and soon discovers that others are out to destroy the Templar Order and steal their treasure. He bands together with other Templars to keep the Templar treasure safe from the corrupt officials of the Catholic Church.
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"As a young boy on the streets of Persia, Dastan knew nothing of royal life. Then, one day, King Sharaman crossed his path and forever changed the boy's destiny... Years later, Prince Dastan is framed for a horrible crime. Now he must set off on a dangerous journey across Persia to restore his honor and help a princess recover a special dagger. If the Dagger fall into the wrong hands, the powerful Sands of Time will be released--and all of humankind...
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This documentary captures how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone astray. Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build an enormous low-income housing project. Instead, the federally purchased land was used for Dodger Stadium.