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 Clearance Sale. Save up to 50% on over 600 items through Feb. 12.

• Macy's: Big Winter Clearance. Save 25-75% + FREE SHIPPING with
a $125 home purchase.Sale starts Feb. 8 and ends Feb. 12.

• Barnes & Noble: Save 50 - 90% at the after holiday warehouse clearance. Sale ends today!

• Drugstore.com: Save up to 40% with our Resolutions Sale! Through Feb. 8.

• Magellan's:Save up to 70% at our winter sale!

• YOOX.COM: Save up to to an extra 60% off through Feb. 5.

 

Don't Miss:

• 'Ready to Watch' week and the premiere of Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton on The Sundance Channel, tonight at 8 p.m.

 

In theaters this Friday:

• Fool's Gold—PG-13—Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey star in this romantic comedy about an estranged couple who rekindle their marriage as they search for sunken treasure. Ben (McConaughey) is obsessed with finding the legendary “Queen's Dowry” treasure that was lost at sea in 1715 and it's that obsession that sinks his marriage with Tess (Hudson). Tess starts to rebuild her life with a job aboard a billionaire's yacht. But when Ben discovers a vital clue about the treasure's whereabouts he charms his way aboard the yacht and convinces the billionaire to join in his hunt.

• Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins—PG-13—Martin Lawrence stars as talk show sensation RJ Stevens. He's left his modest Southern upbringing behind and turned himself into a self-help guru with millions of fans, a reality star fiancée and a Hollywood lifestyle. When his parents ask him to come home for their 50^th anniversary he packs up his 10-year old son and his fiancée and heads back to Georgia. Once he's back, his crazy but lovable family calls him out on his big-city attitude and RJ reevaluates his life.

• In Bruges—R—Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play two hit men whose London mob boss orders them to go cool their heels after a difficult “job.” So they go to the storybook Flemish city of Bruges. Out of place in the medieval city, the two hit men spend their days playing tourist. One of them loves the place and one of them hates it and the longer they are there the more bizarre their encounters with the other people there become.

 

 

New DVD releases:

• Across the Universe— Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels from Liverpool, England to the US and falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as both become swept up in the counterculture amidst the war protests of the 1960s in this psychedelic musical set to the tunes of The Beatles.

• Elizabeth: The Golden Age—Cate Blanchett once again stars as Queen Elizabeth I. Aware of the changing religious and political tides in late 16^th century Europe, Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the King of Spain, Phillip II. As she prepares to go to war, she struggles to balance her royal duties with her love for Sir Walter Raleigh and becomes the target of an assassination plot that may involve members of her own family.

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford—Brad Pitt plays the notorious outlaw Jess James. Casey Affleck plays Robert Ford, the young man who idolized James, became a member of his inner circle and then ended up killing him. How did they become friends and what happened in the hours leading up to the gunshot that killed James and defined Ford for the rest of his life?

• The Brave One—Jodie Foster stars as Erica Bain, a radio show host in New York City whose life is changed forever one night when she and the man she loves are attacked in the street. He is killed and she is badly injured. She recovers physically but mentally and emotionally the wounds are deep. To overcome her fear, she arms herself, literally, and starts to seek out justice on the streets. As tales of an unknown vigilante grip the city, a NYPD detective, played by Terrence Howard, is determined to track him down – but as he pieces together the clues he realizes the killer may not be a ‘him' but a ‘her'.

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

     Season 1: Perfect Strangers; Route 66, Vol. 2

     Season 2: Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations; Perfect Strangers

     Season 3: Third Watch; Soul Food; Beauty and the Beast

     Season 5: Mcleod's Daughters

 

New CD releases:

• Detours – Sheryl Crow

• Here Come the 123's – They Might Be Giants

• It Is Time For a Love Revolution – Lenny Kravitz

• Live in Paris: Words, Sights and Sounds, Vol. 1 – Jill Scott

• Randy Jackson's Music Club – Randy Jackson

• Sleep Through the Static – Jack Johnson

• Watershed – k.d. lang

 

New Book releases:

• 7th Heaven by James Patterson—In this next edition in “The Women's Murder Club” series, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin are on the trail of an arsonist targeting wealthy couples. As one wealthy couple after another is consumed in these fires, Lindsay discovers a lead that may help her finally locate Michael Campion – a prominent California resident missing for a month. Now she's in a race to stop the arsonist and find Campion, but the fires are getting a little too close to home.

• His Illegal Self by Peter Carey—Che is being raised in a sheltered, privileged life by his grandmother in an Upper East Side apartment. Separated from his radical Harvard student activist parents, the eight-year-old has always yearned for his outlaw parents. He takes solace in his long-haired teenage neighbor's assurances that his parents will break him free. And soon Che is an outlaw himself, on the run and on a journey with a woman that shows up at his door and leads him to a hippie commune in the Queensland jungle. Could this be his radical mother who's returned for him?

• L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker—Allison Murietta's real identity is unknown. But everyone in LA knows her as a Jesse James style thief who loves beautiful things, invites the media along for the ride, and donates part of her haul to charity. No one ever gets hurt, until one job leaves ten gangsters dead and a half-million in diamonds missing. When rookie Deputy Charlie Hood discovers the scene, he prevents an eyewitness – a Corvette driving school teacher named Suzanne Jones – from fleeing. Charlie and Suzanne soon strike up an intensely passionate affair. But as the facts begin to unfold, Charlie can't help but begin to realize something may be off about Suzanne. Now he must deal with his better judgment and sworn duty over his new relationship as the secrets surrounding their meeting begin to unfold.

• Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker—The last time Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone had a run in with Wilson “Crow” Cromartie was ten years ago. Back then, Crow was part of a gang of ex-cons that plotted to capture the residents of wealthy Stiles Island by blowing up the access bridge. Residents were kidnapped and some were killed, and Crow escaped with a lot of cash. But when he shows up in Stone's office, it's not to turn himself in. He's on a mission to bring a young girl named Amber Francisco to her father in Florida. Only problem is, Amber is living in squalor with her mother who has fallen in with a Latin gang. Crow is supposed to kill her mother first, but he tells Stone he doesn't kill women – that's where the criminal needs the police chief's help.

 

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:

• Isabela Capeto Perfume

• Ethel's Chocolate

• Child Perfume Extremely Rich Body Creme

• Yakety Sak – “The Bag with Something to Say”

• Ceci Cela lip balm

• 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