CVS Midwest Tape Weekly 2, September 2024

WEEKLY BUYER’S GUIDE

September 2, 2024

It Ends with Us

Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection, but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents’ relationship.

UNK 130 min. (2024) Drama DVD 17177054 Blu-ray+DVD 17177055 2 Discs COMING SOON

“A story of abuse that’s far less obvious than we’ve grown accustomed to.” - The Guardian

Based on the bestselling video game Borderlands

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black This all-star actionadventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.

UNK 102 min. (2024) Action/Adventure DVD 17177062 Blu-ray+DVD 17177063 2 Discs COMING SOON AB

New Audiobooks p4 | New Music p6

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$77.99

Inspired by Video Games

VIDEO Pokémon Detective Pikachu

The Last of Us Season 1

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope.

14A 521 min. (2023) Action/Adventure DVD 15953274 $35.24 4 Discs Blu-ray 15953275 $38.99 4 Discs 4K Blu-ray 15953276 $42.74 4 Discs

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Suki Waterhouse, Kathryn Newton In a world where people collect Pokemon to do battle, a boy comes across an intellegent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective.

PG 104 min. (2019) $144M Children’s DVD 12365528 $8.49 2 Discs Blu-ray 12365529 $12.74

“...balances cold terror with warm humanity.”

- Financial Times

From the console to the big screen The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Gran Turismo

Voices of: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.

PG 93 min. (2023) $568M Children’s DVD 15801352 $21.24 Power Up Edition Blu-ray+DVD 15801353 $28.04 Power Up Edition, 2 Discs 4K Blu-ray 15867308 $34.84 Power Up Edition, 2 Discs

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Starring: Ben Schwartz, Idris Elba, Colleen O’Shaughnessey When the manic Dr. Robotnik returns to Earth with a new ally, Knuckles the Echidna, Sonic and his new friend Tails are all that stand in their way.

PG 122 min. (2022) $191M Children’s DVD 14983663 $14.99 Blu-ray 14983664 $18.74 4K Blu-ray 15037113 $26.99

Starring: David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe A team of unlikely underdogs—a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive— risk it all to take on the world’s most elite sport.

PG 134 min. (2023) $44M Action/ Adventure DVD 16104092 $28.49 Blu-ray 16104093 $35.99 4K Blu-ray 16158311 $41.99 2 Discs

Uncharted

Starring: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago.

PG 116 min. (2022) $147M Action/Adventure DVD 14854218 $28.49 Blu-ray+DVD 14854219 $35.24 2 Discs 4K Blu-ray 15011218 $41.99 2 Discs

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Werewolves Within

Starring: Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil A snowstorm traps town residents together inside the local inn, where they must try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.

UNK 96 min. (2021) Comedy DVD 14312900 $25.49 Blu-ray 14324001 $26.99

Here’s What to Watch VIDEO

The Fall Guy

Starring: Aaron TaylorJohnson, Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt A stuntman, fresh off an almost careerending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy, and try to win back the love of his life.

PG 127 min. (2024) $93M Action/Adventure DVD 16812654 $24.74 Blu-ray+DVD 16812655 $30.74 2 Discs 4K Blu-ray 16812656 $37.49 3 Discs

Starring: Nick Offerman, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of militaryembedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions.

14A 109 min. (2024) $68M Action/Adventure DVD 16733230 $24.74 Blu-ray 16733231 $30.74 4K Blu-ray 16812653 $37.49 2 Discs

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

- ABC News

Civil War

“...the most original and propulsively exciting movie of the year so far.”

Starring: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he’s been taught about the past and humans.

PG 145 min. (2024) $171M Science Fiction DVD 16829626 $29.99 Blu-ray 16829627 $37.49 4K Blu-ray 17057936 $44.24 2 Discs

Make sure your shelves are stocked with these top titles!

Ghostbusters Frozen Empire

Baby Einstein Ocean Explorers

Starring: Paul Rudd, McKenna Grace, Carrie Coon When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.

PG 115 min. (2024) $113M Action/Adventure DVD 16621031 $28.49 Blu-ray+DVD 16621032 $35.99 2 Discs 4K Blu-ray 16952246 $41.99 2 Discs

Voices of: Tara Sands, Ogie Banks, Brock F. Powell The Explorers teach a variety of topics from early childhood development concepts, like cooperative play and manners, to animals in their native habitats.

UNK 242 min. (2023) Children’s DVD 16835976 $24.74 2 Discs

Perfect Days

(Japanese) Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, living his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.

UNK 124 min. (2023) (Japan) $4M Drama Criterion Collection DVD 16817178 $29.24 Blu-ray 16817177 $38.99 2 Discs 4K Blu-ray 16817176 $48.74

Interview with the Vampire Season 2

Starring: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Assad Zaman Daniel Molloy continues interviewing the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac. Louis and Claudia head to post-WWII Paris, meeting Armand and his Theatre des Vampires coven.

UNK 360 min. (2024) Drama DVD 17151577 $34.49 2 Discs Blu-ray 17151576 $38.99 2 Discs AVAILABLE OCTOBER 8

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Nonfiction AUDIOBOOK

War Bob Woodward

Political Science Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East, and the struggle for the American presidency.

War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.

AB CD 11 Discs 17233970 $59.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15

Woodward’s reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.

Book and Dagger Elyse Graham

History Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, diaries, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned unlikely spies who helped beat the Nazis.

AB CD 9 Discs 16669969 $54.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 24

Confronting the Presidents Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard

History O’Reilly and Dugard present 45 wonderfully entertaining and insightful portraits of each president, with no-spin commentary on their achievements—or lack thereof.

AB CD 14 Discs 16605926 $59.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 10

Genuine stories, expert advice, and well-researched topics for patrons to explore.

Code Name: Pale Horse Scott Payne, Michelle Shephard

History An eye-opening and crucial true story of one man risking his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neoNazi group in the United States.

AB CD 6 Discs 16489868 $68.99 AVAILABLE MARCH 25

Framed John Grisham, Jim McCloskey

Social Science These 10 true stories shed light on corruption in the court system. Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free.

AB CD 10 Discs 16792576 $59.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15

Strive Venus Williams

Self-Help/Inspirational Learn from Venus Williams how eight tiny but essential tenets can help turn smart choices into habits. Once that happens, you’ll forge a lifestyle you return to because you want to, not because you have to—and that’s when you start winning.

AB CD 7 Discs 16831545 $54.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 10 4 | CVS Midwest Tape | Weekly Buyer’s Guide | 866.698.2231 | September 2, 2024

Something Lost, Something Gained Hillary Rodham Clinton

Political Science Hillary describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly 50 years she’s been married to President Bill Clinton—all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes.

AB CD 9 Discs 16861249 $59.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 17

Nexus Yuval Noah Harari

Social Science Taking us from the Stone Age through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, we are asked to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.

AB CD 15 Discs 16608240 $64.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 24

The groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world

Staff Picks AUDIOBOOK

In Too Deep Lee & Andrew Child

Suspense Reacher wakes up alone and handcuffed in a dark, makeshift hospital room with no memory of how he got there. He realizes he was framed for a deadly car crash and must now navigate a dangerous situation where his captors intend to force a confession.

AB CD 8 Discs 16551275 $59.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 22

A gripping new Jack Reacher thriller!

Bestselling authors My Three Dogs W. Bruce Cameron

Intermezzo Sally Rooney

Animals/Pets After a tragic accident separates three dogs, Riggs, a loyal Australian shepherd, embarks on a journey to reunite with the adopted Archie, a fun-loving doodle, and Luna, a quick-witted Jack Russell.

AB CD 9 Discs 16812776 $69.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29

Literary Fiction For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

AB CD 14 Discs 16742459 $58.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 24

A Reason to See You Again Jami Attenberg

Night and Day John Connolly

Women’s Fiction After Rudy Cohen’s death, Shelly moves to the West Coast for a tech career, Nancy marries a dubious salesman, and their mother Frieda spirals into a troubled life in Miami. Each must confront their past and decide how to redefine their family.

AB CD 6 Discs 16669000 $40.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 24

Horror Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, this is a collection that will move, entertain, and keep you reading late into the night, from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort from a most unlikely source.

AB CD 9 Discs 16860726 $83.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 22

Memorials Richard Chizmar

Polostan Neal Stephenson

Horror In 1983, three college students filming a documentary on roadside memorials encounter unsettling symbols and suspicious behavior in the Appalachian backwoods. As paranoia grows, they begin to fear that the deaths they’re investigating may not be accidents.

AB CD 12 Discs 17185092 $96.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 22

Historical Fiction Dawn, raised as Aurora in post-revolution Leningrad and later a gunrunner in Washington, DC, returns to Russia after a past revelation puts her at risk. There, she is trained as a spy by the future KGB. AB CD 8 Discs 16669647 $54.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15 CVS Midwest Tape | Weekly Buyer’s Guide | 866.698.2231 | September 2, 2024 | 5

New Country and Folk

MUSIC

 uke Bryan L Mind of a Country Boy

Country Leading into another season of American Idol, judge and country music superstar Luke Bryan releases a brand-new album. It features the single Love You, Miss You, Mean It. CD 17222077 $15.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 27

Billy Strings Highway Prayers

Country Billy Stings follows up his live album with a double album featuring 20 original songs. It features the new single Leadfoot.

CD 17221166 $22.09 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 27

Jett Holden The Phoenix



Country Guest Artist: Cassadee Pope After almost giving up on his musical dream, Jett Holden is set to share his art with the world in a genre where Black musicianship is rarely championed. His debut album features the track Taxidermy.

CD 17052583 $17.84  AVAILABLE OCTOBER 4

The Wild Feathers Sirens

Country The longtime Nashville band returns with a new LP of road-worn, sharply woven tales chronicling a life worth living, love worth holding, and the hard-earned lessons found along the ride.

CD 16988416 $17.84  AVAILABLE OCTOBER 4

Find exciting upcoming new releases for your patrons!

Benjamin Tod Shooting Star

Country The fourth solo record from Lost Dog Street Band frontman Benjamin Tod. Shooting Star pays homage to multiple decades of country music through Tod’s highly revered and honest songwriting.

CD 17192363 $11.04  AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18

Cory Marks Sorry for Nothing

Willie Watson Willie Watson

Country Cory Marks takes up his territory, offering up an unapologetic double-barreled blast of 13 songs, equally divided between arena-rock and roots country.

CD 17221091 $21.24 Parental Advisory AVAILABLE OCTOBER 11

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Folk After 30 years of playing music professionally, Willie Watson is releasing his debut album. A founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show and a staple on the folk and Americana circuit, Willie is no stranger to the stage and to audiences.

CD 17159859 $17.84  AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 13

Staff Picks MUSIC

Joe Jonas Music for People Who Believe in Love

Pop/Rock CD 17159821 $19.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18

Solo album includes the single Work It Out

Leon Bridges Leon

R&B With 13 tracks featuring Leon’s signature storytelling and a unique blend of organic genre alchemy, this is his most poignant, powerful, and personal work to date.

CD 17233245 $17.84  AVAILABLE OCTOBER 4

New music from the Grammy Awardwinning star

Daughtry Shock to the System Part 1 EP

Ezra Collective Dance, No One’s Watching

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Dirt on My Diamonds Volume 2

Pop/Rock CD 17202367 $15.99 Parental Advisory AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 27

Jazz CD 16996624 $20.99 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 27

The first half of a two-EP project

An ode to the sacred yet joyous act of dancing

Blues CD 17186998 $22.09 AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 20

Follow-up to the musician’s acclaimed 2023 album

Coldplay Moon Music

Pop/Rock Three years after the release of Music of the Spheres, Coldplay returns with their 10th studio album. It includes the new single feelslikeimfallinginlove.

CD 17033033 $14.99  AVAILABLE OCTOBER 4

Highly anticipated new album from Coldplay

Japandroids Fate & Alcohol

Pop/Rock CD 17147120 $38.99 Parental Advisory AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18

Final album from the Canadian rock duo

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Canadian Perspective

MUSIC | VIDEO MUSIC

Leif Vollebekk North Americana

Michael Bublé The Best of Bublé

Pop/Rock An essential collection of the unmistakable voice of Michael Bublé, featuring his careerdefining songs on CD. Includes Haven’t Met You Yet; Feeling Good; Sway; and more, as well as two new never-released songs, Don’t Blame It on Me and Quizas, Quizas, Quizas.

CD 17233246 $16.99  AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 27

Pop/Rock Leif Vollebekk’s second album was a ‘long search for perfect takes’ recorded in Montreal, New York, and France.

CD 15749036 $16.99  AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 20

VIDEO Boys vs. Girls

Starring: Colin Mochrie, Kevin McDonald, Shaun Benson In the summer of 1990, Camp Kindlewood is forced to go coed for the first time in its 70-year existence.

Roger, the camp director, tries to convince both sides that this is a great idea to keep the camp off the corporate chopping block. But then head counselors Dale and Amber rally their sides to win back their camp.

UNK 81 min. (2020) (Canada) Comedy DVD 17216238 $24.64

Foul Play Canadian True Crime Stories

Foul Play: Canadian True Crime Stories chronicles instances of major crime from across the Great White North. Based on real court records and police interview footage. Hosted by Kevin Jollimore.

UNK 63 min. (2021) Documentary DVD 16777690 $22.09

Christmas on Holly Lane

La Bête (French)

Kitty Mammas

Death Trip

Starring: Sarah Lancaster, Karen Holness, Gina Holden Three childhood friends come together as adults to save Sarah’s home in the hopes of having more Christmases together.

UNK 90 min. (2018) (Canada) Drama DVD 17216241 $24.64

Starring: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Janet Porter, Kathryn Kohut A disgraced but kindhearted fertility doctor embarks on a breakthrough clinical trial in which four women give birth to kittens!

UNK 63 min. (2021) (Canada) Comedy DVD 17216203 $24.64

Only People

Starring: Carly Fawcett, Joel Ballanger, Al Braatz Two 20-something friends with long-held feelings for each other decide to set aside their relationships for a weekend to explore what might have been.

UNK 88 min. (2021) (Canada) Drama DVD 17216186 $24.64

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Ride Till I Die

Starring: Lea Seydoux, George Mackay, Guslagie Malanda In a near future where artificial intelligence reigns, human emotions have become a threat.

To get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by diving back into her past lives.

There she finds Louis, her great love. But a fear invades her, the premonition that a catastrophe is brewing.

UNK 146 min. (2024) (France) Science Fiction DVD 17185008 $22.94

Starring: Garrett Johnson, Kelly Kay Hurcomb, Tatyana Olal Four friends take a cottage trip in the dead of winter. When one friend is found mutilated, the group worries they’re being targeted by angry locals.

UNK 101 min. (2021) (Canada) Horror DVD 17216245 $24.64

Starring: Ricky Ringer, Ricky Ringer Jr., Ernie Courson Ricky continues his 25-year quest to win a bullriding championship despite warnings from his wife, his mother, and his ailing body.

UNK 98 min. (2022) (Canada) Documentary DVD 17216193 $24.64

“...it’s a matured Inside Out that still understands the wonders and wrinkles of being a kid.” - USA Today

Inside Out 2

Voices of: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Phyllis Smith The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but everything changes with the introduction of a new emotion: Anxiety.

G 96 min. (2024) $631M Children’s DVD 16959384 $29.99 Blu-ray+DVD 16959385 $37.49 2 Discs AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 10

Biggest box office title of 2024

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