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

DVDS
  “Nim’s Island” (PG): When her scientist father (“300’s” Gerard Butler) disappears from their remote island home, the title character (“Little Miss Sunshine” herself, Abigail Breslin) appeals for help to swashbuckling Alex Rover, author (and hero) of her favorite adventure tales — little dreaming that Alex (Jodie Foster) is really an agoraphobic klutz ill-equipped for life on Nim’s Island. This kid-friendly adventure scores points for its focus on a spirited young girl who discovers how reading can inspire her to become her own heroine.
  Two top foreign-language titles also turn up Tuesday: Austria’s Oscar-winning “The Counterfeiters” (R), set in a World War II concentration camp, about a Nazi officer who enlists a Jewish forger in a scheme to counterfeit Allied currency, thereby saving the criminal from torture, starvation and death; and Italy’s “My Brother Is An Only Child” (R), a buoyant ’60s homage about two very different small-town siblings (one a Communist firebrand, the other a rebellious reactionary) in love with the same woman.
  Other indie titles turning up on DVD Tuesday: the docudrama “The Killing of John Lennon” (Unrated), the family-friendly “When I Find the Ocean” (PG) and the filmmaking comedy “Slippery Slope” (Unrated).  
  For TV fans, two seminal ’60s series arrive: “Get Smart, Season 1” (Unrated), with Don Adams as the original bumbling agent Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon as his partner in slyly satirical spying, Agent 99; and “Route 66: The Complete First Season” (Unrated), with Martin Milner and George Maharis cruising the U.S.A. in their Chevrolet Corvette.
  Other TV-to-DVD transfers due Tuesday include “Family Ties — The Fourth Season,” the quirky Canadian series “Terminal City: The Complete Series” and the British mystery “Foyle’s War: Set 5” (all Unrated).

CDS
  Conor Oberst, “Conor Oberst”: The last time Conor Oberst released a solo album he was 13 and it was on cassette — remember those?
  Fifteen years later, the mercurial Bright Eyes frontman is taking a break from his main gig, enlisting some friends to form the Mystic Valley Band for the rootsy, rollicking “Conor Oberst.”
  A little less sprawling and lush than his recent albums with Bright Eyes, Oberst’s latest solo disc is a more streamlined, linear effort that’s a more direct expression of his love of ’70s folk.
  And hey, at least you can get it on CD this time.               
  Also in stores: Keith Anderson, “C’mon!”; Black Light Burns, “Cover Your Heart & The Anvil Pants Odyssey (CD/DVD)”; Brazilian Girls, “New York City”; The Faint, “Fasciinatiion”; Hawthorne Heights, “Fragile Future”; Lloyd, “Lessons in Love”; Randy Newman, “Harps and Angels”; and Trapt, “Only Through the Pain.”

BOOKS
  “The Last Theorem” by Arthur C. Clarke: Before his death, science fiction titan Arthur C. Clarke teamed with Frederik Pohl to create “The Last Theorem,” the story of Ranjit Subramanian’s obsession with mathematics.
  Ranjit’s genius puts him in the cross hairs of government agencies, and he and his family find themselves swept up in extraordinary events as the human race faces extermination from aliens.
  Also hitting bookshelves: “Alfred and Emily” by Doris Lessing; “The Assassin” by Stephen Coonts; “Forced Out” by Stephen Frey; “Foreign Body” by Robin Cook; “The Gargoyle” by Andrew Davidson; “The Way of the World” by Ron Suskind; “Acheron” by Sherrilyn Kenyon; “Leather Maiden” by Joe R. Lansdale; and “Marsbound” by Joe Haldeman.