THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Aug. 18

DVDS
  “Tyson” (R): Boxer Mike Tyson reflects on his rise and fall — from troubled street kid to heavyweight champion, convicted rapist and drug addict — in a documentary that combines archival footage with original interviews revealing Tyson’s contradictory but undeniably compelling nature. Filmed by Tyson’s longtime friend, writer-director James Toback (who featured Tyson in his controversial 1999 drama “Black and White”), this is a hugely engrossing, if hardly objective, portrait.
  And in “Hannah Montana: The Movie” (G), the title pop princess (Miley Cyrus) is gettin’ too big for her britches, so Dad (Billy Ray Cyrus) takes her alter ego, Miley, back to down-home Tennessee. Special editions of some film-buff favorites also arrive on DVD today, including a Criterion Collection version of Japanese master Akira Kurosawa’s 1980 samurai epic “Kagemusha” (PG); an extended cut of John Cassavetes’ 1970 “Husbands” (PG-13), starring Cassavetes and real-life pals Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara; and the silent-classics salute “Days of Thrills and Laughter” (not rated).
  Also due today: an update of the 1972 horror hit “The Last House on the Left” (not rated); Joe Mantegna in “West of Brooklyn” (not rated); the late David Carradine, Bruce Dern and Rip Torn in “The Golden Boys” (PG); Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins as “These Old Broads” (not rated); Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton in “Julia” (R); Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman in “Surveillance” (R); the documentary “The Garden” (not rated); plus the TV transfers “Eli Stone: The Complete Second Season” and “Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete and Final Second Season” (both rated PG) and the unrated titles “Everybody Hates Chris: The Final Season,” “The Beast: Season One,” “Sons of Anarchy: Season One,” “Gossip Girl: The Complete Second Season,” “Dexter: The Complete Third Season,” “Greek: Chapter Three,” “Simon & Simon: Season Three,” “Man vs. Wild: Season Three” and “The Simpsons: The Complete 12th Season.”

CDS
  Soulsavers, “Broken”: Talk about a who’s who of ’90s alt-rock luminaries.
  Brit production duo the Soulsavers have enlisted Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/Tomahawk singer Mike Patton, Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce, the Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes, ex-Screaming Trees and esteemed solo act Mark Lanegan and more to sing on their third disc.
  Alternately haunting, beautiful and bracing, “Broken” is a multitextured headphones record with a lot of sonic nooks and crannies. Reminiscent of a cross between the Twilight Singers’ dusky torch songs and Death in Vegas’ dark and dirty beats, the Soulsavers’ downcast gospel deserves a few hallelujahs.   
  Also in stores: Herb Alpert & Lani Hall, “Anything Goes: Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Live”; Brendan Benson, “My Old, Familiar Friend”; Terence Blanchard, “Choices”; GWAR, “Lust in Space”; Joe Henry, “Blood From Stars”; The Hot Club of Cowtown, “Wishful Thinking”; MUTEMATH, “Armistice”; OTEP, “Smash the Control Machine”; Sean Paul, “Imperial Blaze”; Jay Reatard, “Watch Me Fall”; Simian Mobile Disco, “Temporary Pleasure”; Third Eye Blind, “Ursa Major”; Various Artists, “Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds”; and Loudon Wainwright III, “High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project.”

BOOKS
 “The Law of Nines” by Terry Goodkind: The Southern Nevada author changes genres with this new thriller, featuring Alex Rahl, who saves the life of a beautiful woman whose existence he begins to doubt. Though the best-selling fantasy author is moving in a different direction, his new endeavor does include a touch of magic.
  Also, Philippa Gregory turns her eye to the England feuds known as the Wars of the Roses in her latest, “The White Queen.” 
  Also hitting shelves this week: “Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel” by Gaile Parkin; “Becoming George Sand” by by Rosalind Brackenbury; “Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater” by Frank Bruni; “Bryan Peterson’s Understanding Photography Field Guide: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera” by Bryan Peterson; “The Dame (Saga of the First King, Book 3)” by R.A. Salvatore; “Elfland” by Freda Warrington; “Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook” by Liz Vaccariello; “Hell’s Gate” by Stephen Frey; “John the Revelator” by Peter Murphy; “The Long Snapper: A Second Chance, a Super Bowl, a Lesson for Life” by Jeffrey Marx; “The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed” by Judy Shepard; “Princess of Landover” by Terry Brooks; “Soul Murder” by Andrew Nugent; “Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm” by Jon Katz; “Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss” by Troy Denning; “Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writers Teachers” by The Freedom Writers; and “Vanished” by Joseph Finder.