The List: Latest DVDs, CDs, books, May 14
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDs
“Cloud Atlas” (R): Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant star in what is essentially six movies woven together to tell a larger tale, as its actors play multiple characters, representing different races and genders, to tell the story of a handful of souls as they change over the centuries.
Elsewhere, decades after the events of the original movie, a young woman (Alexandra Daddario) inherits a Texas estate, only to discover untold horrors in the mansion’s cellars, in “Texas Chainsaw” (R).
Topping today’s TV transfers: Lindsay Lohan in the Lifetime movie “Liz & Dick”; “Dexter: The Seventh Season”; “Roseanne — Season Nine” and “Top Gear 19.”
CDs
George Strait, “Love is Everything”: Country music’s neck is sore, because George Strait has had it in a headlock for the past three decades.
Strait has sold more than 70 million albums, and now with “Love is Everything,” his 40th record, he’s about to sell a few more, as the “King of Country” welcomes you into his court once again.
Also in stores: Trace Adkins, “Love Will …”; ADULT., “The Way Things Fall”; The Dillinger Escape Plan, “One of Us Is the Killer”; Escape the Fate, “Ungrateful”; Amy Grant, “How Mercy Looks from Here”; Demi Lovato, “Demi”; Bobby McFerrin, “spirityouall”; Mindless Self Indulgence, “How I Learned to Stop Giving a Sh*t and Love Mindless Self Indulgence”; Popa Chubby, “Universal Breakdown Blues”; Vampire Weekend, “Modern Vampires of the City”; and The Wonder Years, “The Greatest Generation.”
BOOKS
“Inferno” by Dan Brown: Harvard professor Robert Langdon draws from Dante’s epic poem to solve a riddle that pulls him into a world of art, science and secrets.
In nonfiction, Jimmy Connors shares stories from the tennis court as well as details about his relationship with his mother, romance with Chris Evert, his struggles with gambling and more in his autobiography, “The Outsider.”
Also hitting shelves: “Confessions of a Sociopath” by M.E. Thomas; “The DiMaggios” by Tom Clavin; “The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys” by Dean King; “Gettysburg: The Last Invasion” by Allen C. Guelzo; “The Guns at Last Light” by Rick Atkinson; “The Human Division” by John Scalzi; “It’s Time!” by Bruce Buffer; “Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery” by Walter Mosley; “Lucky Bastard” by Deborah Coonts; “Magician’s End” by Raymond E. Feist; “Mickey and Willie” by Allen Barra; “Poppet” by Mo Hayder; “The Rithmatist” by Brandon Sanderson; and “Rumsfeld’s Rules” by Donald Rumsfeld.
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