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Some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week

A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:

DVDs

“Rio 2” (G): Macaws Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), Jewel (Anne Hathaway) and their kids find themselves stuck in the wilds of the Amazon in this animated sequel.

Elsewhere, a human-looking alien (Scarlett Johansson) is on the prowl for single men in Scotland in the art-house sci-fi tale “Under the Skin” (R).

Topping today’s TV transfers: “Orphan Black: Season Two,” “Hell on Wheels: Season Three,” “Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove: Season One,” “Black Dynamite: Season One” and “Bering Sea Gold: Season Two.”

CDs

Rise Against, “The Black Market”: You won’t need to hit the black market to score a copy of the latest record from these socially aware, radio-ready punks: The band remains one of the biggest acts of its ilk.

Also in stores: Marsha Ambrosius, “Friends &Lovers”; Big Wreck, “Ghosts”; Bleachers, “Strange Desire”; Cowboy Jack Clement, “For Once and For All”; John Hiatt, “Terms of My Surrender”; Loverboy, “Unfinished Business”; Morrissey, “World Peace Is None of Your Business”; Jason Mraz, “YES!”; Pennywise, “Yesterdays”; Plastikman, “EX”; and Weird Al Yankovic, “Mandatory Fun.”

BOOKS

“The Heist” by Daniel Silva: In this series continuation, art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon must recover a missing masterpiece and solve a murder to clear a friend who has been held as a suspect.

Also hitting shelves: “The Book of Life” by Deborah Harkness; “Cut and Thrust” by Stuart Woods; “Days of Rage” by Brad Taylor; “Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class” by Abby Lee Miller; “Factory Man” by Beth Macy; “Half a King” by Joe Abercrombie; “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee” by Marja Mills; “Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country” by C. J. Box; “Sight Unseen” by Iris Johansen; “Slaves of Socorro” by John Flanagan; and “Wayfaring Stranger” by James Lee Burke.

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