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what’s new this week: sales, new movies, new cds, new dvds, new books! Feb 11, 2008
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Girlawhirl always wants to know what’s next. So she searches out what’s coming to movie theaters, DVD and CD players and bookstores and shares it with all of her closest Pals. And what kind of friend would she be if she didn’t spread the word on her favorite sales too… Fantastic Sales: • Brookstone: Take $10 off orders $100 or more from Brookstone! Use code AF1FEB. • BareNecessities.com: Get an extra 20% off clearance styles. Offer ends Feb. 15. • Diamond.com: Save 20% + FREE SHIPPING. Use coupon code DIAMOND20 through Feb 14. • eLUXURY: Final Designer Clearance! For a limited time, take an additional 20% off sale items and receive FREE SHIPPING on orders of $150 or more! • Eastern Mountain Sports: Winter ClearanceSale. Save up to 50% on over 600 items through Feb. 12. • Macy's: Big Winter Clearance. Save 25-75% + FREE SHIPPING with • Barnes & Noble: Save 50 - 90% at the after holiday warehouse clearance. Sale ends today! • Magellan's:Save up to 70% at our winter sale!
In theaters this Thursday: • Definitely, Maybe—PG-13—Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) is a 30-something dad in Manhattan in the middle of a divorce. When his ten year old daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) starts to question him about his life before he was married, Will tells her the story of his life as a young man in the big city and recounts his romantic relationships with three very different women. But he changes the names in his story so Maya has to guess who he finally married. As Maya pieces things together from her father’s story, she begins to understand that love is not simple or easy. • Jumper—PG-13—A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers that this ability has existed for centuries and that he is not the only one who has it. Soon he finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between “Jumpers” and those who have sworn to kill them. • The Spiderwick Chronicles—PG—Based on the best-selling series of books. Peculiar things start to happen to the Grace family after they leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. The family blames the strange disappearances and accidents on young Jared but when he, his twin brother Simon and his sister Mallory start to investigate, they discover the fantastic truth about the Spiderwick estate and the creatures that inhabit it.
New DVD releases:
• Gone Baby Gone—Ben Affleck’s directorial debut; this movie is based on the best-selling novel by Dennis Lehane and follows the case of a little girl from Dorchester, Massachusetts who goes missing without a trace. When the police fail to turn up any leads, the girl’s aunt and uncle turn to local private investigators played by Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan. After they discover what happened to the girl, one of the investigators is haunted by the case and finds himself lured into a web of lies and violence. • Martian Child—A recently widowed science fiction writer, played by John Cusack, forms an unlikely family with a close friend, played by Amanda Peet, and a young boy he adopts. The boy claims to be from Mars and when strange things start to happen the couple starts to believe he might just be telling the truth. • We Own the Night—Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg play brothers who have taken very different paths in life. Bobby (Phoenix) has changed his name and become the manager of a legendary Russian-owned nightclub in Brooklyn. Joseph (Wahlberg) is continuing in the family business – the NYPD. Bobby tries to keep his distance from the Russian gangster operating out of the club – one that his brother is targeting. But when the brothers’ worlds collide, it’s family loyalty that means the most. •And don’t miss all of your favorite TV shows released on DVD this week: Season 1: Tell Me You Love Me; Blade: The Series Season 3: Family Ties, Girlfriends Season 8: Dallas
New CD releases:
• Thriller: 25th Anniversary Edition – Michael Jackson • Simple Plan – Simple Plan • Twist in the Wind – Tony Scherr • Roots and Grooves – Maceo Parker • The Rise & Fall of Ruby Woo – The Puppini Sisters
New Book releases: • Dakota by Martha Grimes —Grimes returns with a sequel to Biting the Moon. Amnesiac drifter Andi Oliver wakes up in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast room with a man’s belongings strewn about and zero clue about her past. Moving from one waitress job to the next – from Idaho to North Dakota – she finally lands at the Dakota pigfarming facility, Klavan’s. As she settles in and begins to discover what’s really under the surface of Klavan’s and the nearby Big Sun slaughterhouse, two men from her past emerge hot on her trail, and one of them has a mission to kill her. • Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser —A new collection of dark comedy short stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, all surrounding a central theme: obsession with obsession.
• The Killing Ground by Jack Higgins—A routine passport check turns into something much more when intelligence operative Sean Dillon stops Caspar Rashid at Heathrow Airport. Caspar was born and raised in England, but still has family ties to a Bedouin tribe. The tribe is so attached to tradition that his own father just kidnapped Caspar’s 13-year-old daughter and took her back to Iraq to marry one of the Middle East’s most feared terrorists, a man known as the “Hammer of God.” Having his own score to settle with the tribe, Dillon agrees to help Caspar get his daughter back, but he has no idea of the chain of events he’s about to put in motion. • The Palace of Illusions: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni—A unique feminist approach to the Indian epic “The Mahabharat.” Part history and part myth, this telling is from the perspective of Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers. This new novel traces Panchaali’s life from her magical birth in fire as a king’s daughter, to her life as wife to the five brothers cheated out of their father’s kingdom. She stands by their sides through exile and civil war, all the while conquering her own battles with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with Krishna and her secret attraction to her husbands’ most feared enemy.
And as always Girlawhirl has great things to share in this week's Girlawhirl Giveaway.
This week's Girlawhirl Giveaway includes: • Atopalm • Child Perfume Extremely Rich Body Creme • Ceci Cela lip balm • Heel Straps • 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: • Betsey Johnson Fragrance gift set • Ceci Cela lip balm • additional goodies courtesy of Girlawhirl
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