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In theaters this Friday:

• Meet the Browns--PG-13--Angela Bassett plays Brenda, a single mother with three kids struggling to make ends meet in Chicago. When she's laid off with no notice, she starts losing hope until a letter arrives informing her of the death of the father she never met. So she takes her family to Georgia for the funeral where she meets her father's fun-loving Southern relatives. Brenda ends up sticking around in the small town trying to get to know the family she never knew she had and finding a new romance that could just change her life.

• Drillbit Taylor--PG-13--Owen Wilson is Drillbit Taylor: Budget Bodyguard. Ryan, Wade and Emmit are high school freshman who have a run in with the school bully, Filkins, on the very first day of class. To avoid living their entire freshman year under Filkins' reign of terror, they decide to hire some protection. So they place an ad in a soldier of fortune magazine. But the best, and cheapest, response they get is from Drillbit Taylor, a down-on-his-luck soldier of fortune who lives what he calls a "home-free" existence on the beach.

• Shutter--PG-13--Newlyweds Ben (Joshua Jackson) and Jane (Rachael Taylor) discover disturbing ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the images and the accident may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

 

 

New DVD releases:

• Enchanted--An evil queen, played by Susan Sarandon, banishes a fairy princess from the past to modern day New York City. Once she's there Princess Giselle meets a handsome lawyer, played by Patrick Dempsey. But can her storybook ideas about romance survive in the real world?

• I Am Legend--Will Smith plays Robert Neville a brilliant scientist - but not brilliant enough to stop an incurable, man-made virus. For some reason he is immune and now he is the last human survivor in New York City, possibly the world. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the virus are watching him and Neville is trying to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood before the mutants turn on him.

• Love in the Time of Cholera--Javier Bardem stars as Florentino, a poet and telegraph clerk in Cartagena, Columbia who wins the heart of a young beauty named Fermina by writing her a series of passionate letters. But her father is furious when he finds out about their affair and vows to keep them apart forever. As the years go by, Fermina marries a doctor who has come to their city to fight the cholera epidemic. He takes her away to Paris for years but eventually they return to Cartagena. By then she has all but forgotten her first love, but Florentino has not forgotten her. He still pines for her and will wait a lifetime to be with her again.

• And don't miss all of your favorite TV shows released on DVD this week:

     Season 3 : Battlestar Galactica; McHale's Navy

     Season 4: Wild, Wild West

 

 

New CD releases:

• Frontiers -- Jesse Cook

• Hits -- New Found Glory

• Mail on Sundays -- Flo Rida

• Yael Naim -- Yael Naim

• Get The Party Started -- Shirley Bassey

• Welcome to the Dollhouse -- Danity Kane

 

 

New Book releases:

• Black Widow by Randy Wayne White--Bestselling author White returns with the 15^th Doc Ford novel. Doc Ford is living on Sanibel Island, Florida conducting tests for the shady government agency he works for to see if terrorists could use venomous sea creatures, like jellyfish, as weapons when he receives a desperate plea for help from his old friend Shay Money. Shay's a successful 26-year old businesswoman who is about to get married. But she's concerned her happiness is on the line. An extortionist has videotaped her in compromising sexual situations with three other women. Ford negotiates a deal to get the tape in exchange for a sizable payment, but his suspicions are soon confirmed that the criminal has bigger plans for Shay. Now he must protect his friend and take down a sophisticated blackmail ring.

• Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg--Tensions are running high around the world and situations on several fronts seem to be on the verge of eruption. A new dictator is rising to power in Iraq. North Korean forces look ready to strike the south. China is threatening Taiwan. Oil prices are surging and U.S. President James MacPherson's second term is about up. The country is incredibly divided and the two presidential candidates are in a dead heat in one of the most fiercely contested elections in American history. The new leader of the U.S. has a daunting task ahead of them, and the Secret Service has just learned of an assassination plot against one of the candidates. But which one? And can the plot be squashed in time?

• The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross--Days have passed since an explosion ripped through Grand Central Station, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband of 18 years was on, and she still hasn't heard from him. The same day she resigns herself to the fact that her successful hedge fund manager husband is dead a young man is killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident in her hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut. Detective Ty Hauck becomes emotionally attached to the case, and finds a shocking link to the Grand Central Station bombing. The next thing Karen knows, men are at her door asking about her husband's business dealings. Hundreds of millions of dollars are missing and all the evidence points straight to him. Everything Karen has ever known is turned on its head. Now she and Ty are pulled together amidst a web of lies, conspiracy, and murder.

• The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder--Set in 1903, this is the second novel from the famed actor and screenwriter. Jeremy Webb is an accomplished young concert violinist with the Cleveland Orchestra who suffers a complete breakdown on stage one day and ends up pouring a glass of water down the throat of a tuba. Jeremy is sent away to a health resort in Germany. There he meets Clara Mulpas, a woman he becomes fixated on seducing. Having already been married to a dumb brute, Clara has no interest in men, and Jeremy's standard flirting that seemed to work so well at home is having no affect on this reserved beauty. Jeremy doesn't know how to gain her affections, but he's resolved not to give up until he does.

 

Girlawhirl found all of the new CD, DVD and book releases in her online shopping mall at barnesandnoble.com

 

And as always Girlawhirl has great things to share in this week's Girlawhirl Giveaway.

 

This week's Girlawhirl Giveaway includes:

- Aveda Nourish-Mint Smoothing Lip Color

- Philosophy's Inner Grace

- Something New: Wedding Etiquette for Rule Breakers, Traditionalists, and Everyone In Between by Elise Mac Adams

- Living Life Game

- additional goodies courtesy of Girlawhirl

 

Girlawhirl has even more great stuff to share in her Special Monthly Giveaway Drawing!

 

This month's Girlawhirl Giveaway includes:

- Child Perfume

- Hollywood Fashion Tape - Hollywood Extras

- additional goodies courtesy of Girlawhirl