Monday, January 14, 2008

New this week!

New on DVD:

WAR starring Jet Li (2007) An FBI Agent seeks vengeance on a mysterious assassin known as "Rogue" who murdered his partner

SUNSHINE directed by Danny Boyle (2007) 50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team are sent to finish the mission as they are Earth's last hope.

THE KINGDOM starring Jamie Foxx (2007) A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Also starring Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman.


New Adult Fiction:

The Kept Man by first time novelist Jami Attenberg, is about a woman, Jarvis Miller, married to a highly successful artist, who, one day, falls off a ladder in his studio, bumps his head and ends up in a coma. Jarvis spends the next six years in limbo, married to a man who is no longer the man she married but is still faithfully devoted to him. One day, when her washing machine breaks down, she is forced to use the local laundromat. For the first time since her husband's accident, Jarvis gets a taste for the real world, where the possibility for new relationships and new experiences makes her feel alive again. It is only when she discovers some of her husband's secrets -- in the form of three mysterious collections of photographs -- that Jarvis feels it is time for her to let go of the past and embrace the future...

The Shooters by W.E.B. Griffin; The novels of W. E. B. Griffin featuring Delta Force officer Charley Castillo and his band of troubleshooters have won wide praise for their realism, action, and "punchy prose that connects like a right hook" (Chicago Tribune).

6 Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly; Unlocking the secret of the Seven Ancient Wonders was only the beginning... After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's rampaging New York Times bestseller, 7 Deadly Wonders, supersoldier Jack West Jr. and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but-impossible challenge. A mysterious ceremony in an unknown location has unraveled their work and triggered a catastrophic countdown that will climax in no less than the end of all life on Earth. But there is one last hope.