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In theaters this Friday:

• Sex and the City: The Movie—R—Carrie and the girls are back and on the big screen! The movie picks up four years after the HBO series ended with the four friends continuing to navigate careers, relationships, motherhood and Manhattan real estate. Also back are Mr. Big, Miranda's husband Steve, Charlotte's husband Harry and Samantha's lover Smith Jerrod. New to the scene is Carrie's young and inexperienced assistant, Louise, played by Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson.

• The Strangers—R—After attending a friend's wedding reception, a young couple, played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, goes to their family vacation home for what's supposed to be a romantic night. But it turns horrifying when there's a knock at the door at 4am and masked strangers invade the house.

• Savage Grace—R—A true story based on the award winning book, Julianne Moore stars as Barbara Daly, a woman who married above her class to Brookes Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance of their marriage. His father sees Tony as a failure and as he grows up, Tony becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother. The movie spans the globe from 1946 to 1972 as it depicts the family's heady rise and tragic fall.

 

New DVD releases:

• Grace is Gone—John Cusack stars as Stanley Phillips, a father of two daughters whose wife is fighting in Iraq. When he is awakened one day with the news that his wife has been killed in the war, he can't bear to break the news to his daughters. So to delay the inevitable, they embark on a road trip to the Enchanted Gardens theme park.

• Rambo—At age 61, Sylvester Stallone is back as John Rambo. Twenty years after the last film in the series, this one finds Rambo in northern Thailand where he's living a solitary, simple life running a longboat on the Salween River. Reluctantly, he agrees to take a group of human rights missionaries up river and into Burma. Two weeks later, a pastor tells Rambo the aid workers are being held captive by the Burmese army and he's hiring mercenaries to get them out.

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

     Season 1: The Invaders

     Season 2: Gunsmoke, Vol. 2

     Season 3: Rawhide, Vol. 1

     Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Everything

 

New CD releases:

• Sex & The City [Movie] – Soundtrack

• Lay it Down – Al Green

• Bring Ya to the Brink– Cindy Lauper

• Jenny Scheinman – Jenny Scheinman

• Here I Stand – Usher

• Blood Dreams – The Game

• Ms. G.O.A.T – Lil' Kim

•Same Old Man – John Hiatt

 

New Book releases:

• Blue Smoke and Murder by Elizabeth Lowell — Zach Balfour is a freelancer working for security firm St. Kilda Consulting when he falls in love with his latest client, Jill Breck. Zach is investigating a number of unsigned paintings Jill just inherited to determine if they are the work of legendary Western painter Thomas Dunstan, who had been Jill's grandmother's lover. But both Jill and her paintings are at risk because their existence threatens the value of some of the artist's other paintings going up for auction soon in Las Vegas.

• Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger — The latest book from the author of The Devil Wears Prada. Best friends Leigh, Emmy and Adriana make a pact to change their lives within one year. Recently dumped “serial-monogamist” Emmy wants to start sleeping around – and with a man from every continent. Wealthy party girl Adriana aims to settle on, and be faithful to, just one of her many rich beaus. But good-girl book editor Leigh doesn't know exactly what to change. She's spent her life in the shadow of her famous author dad and equally accomplished boyfriend. So much so that she doesn't really know what makes her happy. But her situation quickly changes when she's picked to edit bestselling, and married, bad-boy author Jesse Chapman's new book and their relationship becomes more than just professional.

• Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie — A mysterious European traveler shows up at the court of the Grand Mughal claiming to be the child of a lost Mughal princess – a great beauty who possessed powers of enchantment and sorcery. He begins to tell a tale that the entire imperial court becomes obsessed with. He shares the story of the princess's journey, from her capture by a warlord to her meeting and falling in love with a Florentine solider who brings her home. When she arrives in the new city, the locals are mesmerized by her presence and the trouble begins. But is his story true? And if it's not then must the liar die?

• The Reapers by John Connolly — The past returns to haunt ex-NYPD detective turned PI Charlie “Bird” Parker in his eighth adventure. “The Reapers” – a shadowy group of assassins – are targeting Parker's confidant Louis, an ex-hit man, and Louis's lover Angel. Louis is a former “Reaper” himself. Gabriel, Louis's father-figure and mentor, informs him that one of Louis's old targets is set on revenge and hunting him down. An ex-colleague named Bliss also wants Louis dead. So Louis and Angle head upstate to confront their pursuers with Parker following as backup.

 

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:

• Save Your World skincare products

• Zakkerz

• Items from the Bobbi Brown Quick Face collection

• Clean & Clear SOFT In-Shower Facial

• 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:

• Philosophy's Inner Grace

• Hollywood Fashion Tape - Hollywood Extras

• Living Life Game

• Clean & Clear SOFT In-Shower Facial

• additional goodies courtesy of Girlawhirl