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In theaters this Friday:

• Cassandra's Dream—PG-13—A Woody Allen film starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, who play brothers desperately trying to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler drowning in debt. The other is in love with a beautiful actress he just met. Their lives gradually become entangled in a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results.

• One Missed Call—PG-13—A remake of a Japanese horror film. People start receiving voice mails from themselves in the future and the messages include the date, time and details of their deaths.

  

New DVD releases:

• Shoot ‘Em Up—Clive Owen stars as Mr. Smith, a mysterious loner and well-trained gunman, who teams up with a woman to protect her newborn baby from a criminal (Paul Giamatti) who is determined to hunt them down.

• War—Jet Li stars as the infamous assassin Rogue. Jason Statham plays FBI agent Jack Crawford who vows to hunt down Rogue after he brutally kills his partner. Three years after the murder Rogue resurfaces in the midst of an Asian mob turf war and Jack dives headlong into the conflict to finally come face to face with his enemy.

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

         Season 1: The Tudors

         Season 2: Seaquest DSV

 

New CD releases:

• Elvis: Viva Las Vegas – Elvis

• In Rainbows ­– Radio Head

• Life by Stereo – J.R.

New Book releases:

• Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky—three families living in small town Kansas, with roots going back to before the Civil War, still live with contempt for each other. When a lesbian Wiccan moves to town and begins practicing pagan rituals, the Christian families – though some more fundamentalist than others – begin an active harassment campaign against her. Then one family's dairy cow gives birth to “a perfect red heifer” and a local Orthodox Jewish community expresses interest in sacrificing it, setting off a media frenzy and stirring up religious fervor.

• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks—rare-book expert Hanna Heath gets the job offer of a lifetime, to analyze and conserve the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the earliest Jewish volumes to be illustrated. The loner book expert dives into the priceless tome rescued from the Bosnian war. In its bindings she finds an insect wing, wine stains, salt crystals and a white hair. She begins tracing the books journey through time all the way back to its origins in 1480. Inspired by a true story.

• The Shooters by W.E.B. Griffin—Delta Force officer Charley Castillo is in Argentina tying up lose ends from his last investigation into a UN oil-for-food scandal. He's shocked when a security guard marches a young man caught trying to sneak through the fence into his office at gunpoint. It turns out he is an American officer stationed at the US embassy in Paraguay. He tells Castillo a key DEA agent has disappeared and he wants Castillo's help finding him, and he's got a plan for dealing with the drug lords. Castillo is interested, and gets permission from the President to go ahead with the mission with one order: don't get caught. But that may turn out to be easier said than done.

 

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:

• The Circle by Laura Day

• Billion Dollar Brows

• Knock Knock Holiday Survival Kit

• Hollywood Diet Secrets by Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman

• La Mer Hand Treatment

• TheEncyclopediaof ImmaturityYou by Klutz

• Living Life Game

 

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

 

This month's Girlawhirl Giveaway includes:

• Callison's Fruit Stickles

• The Sleeping Beauty Proposal by Sarah Strohmeyer

• A Conscience Tee

• Living Life Game

• additional goodies courtesy of Girlawhirl