THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week

DVDS

"The Game Plan" (PG): Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a playboy football player who suddenly has a young girl turn up on his doorstep claiming to be the daughter he didn't know he had. It's a fluffy family comedy that's formulaic and sugary sweet, but Johnson and young Madison Pettis have a charm that makes it watchable. Extras include deleted scenes and featurettes.

Also out today: "Blonde Ambition" (PG-13); "The Hunting Party" (R); "The Kingdom: Series 2" (Unrated); "Saw IV" (R and Unrated versions available); "Sydney White" (PG-13); "Barney Miller: The Complete Second Season" (Unrated); and "The Jeff Corwin Experience: Season One" (Unrated).

CDS

Cat Power, "Jukebox": On her second covers album, Chan Marshall doesn't just re-interpret other artists' songs, she haunts them.

With her equally reedy and resonant voice, the Cat Power frontwoman tackles everyone from James Brown to Creedence Clearwater Revival, shrouding the tunes in mystery and seduction.

We're still holding out for a nice Megadeth cover, though. Maybe next time.

Also in stores: The Audition, "Champion"; Natasha Bedingfield, "Pocketful of Sunshine"; Black Mountain, "In the Future"; Ray Bonneville, "Goin' By Feel"; Matt Costa, "Unfamiliar Faces"; Drive-By Truckers, "Brighter Than Creation's Dark"; Hello Blue Roses, "The Portrait Is Finished & I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty"; Patty Larkin, "Watch the Sky"; The Matinee Club, "The Modern LP"; MGMT, "Oracular Spectacular"; moe., "Sticks and Stones"; and Leon Russell, "Bad Country."

BOOKS

"Duma Key" by Stephen King: After losing his arm and sanity in a construction site accident, self-made multimillionaire Edgar Freemantle stabs his wife after she asks for a divorce. On the advice of his therapist, Freemantle retreats to Duma Key on the Florida coast and takes up drawing and painting, creating pictures that seem to have a power of their own.

Also hitting shelves: "Sword Song" by Bernard Cornwell; "The Secret Between Us" by Barbara Delinsky; "Mars and Venus Collide" by John Gray; "My Revolutions" by Hari Kunzru; "The Commoner" by John Burnham Schwartz; "Riding Toward Everywhere" by William T. Vollmann; "The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America" by Jim Wallis; and "Standard of Honor" by Jack Whyte.