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WHAT’S HOT THIS WEEK...

Audiobooks: 1. China Dolls by Lisa See; 5. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King; 9. The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank; 11. Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews; Music CDs: 2. Miranda Lambert Platinum; 4. 50 Cent - Animal Ambition - An Untamed Desire to Win; 8. Various Artists - That’s What I Call Country Volume 7; 12. Lucy Hale - Road Between; DVDs: 3. A Birder’s Guide to Everything; 6. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Series 2; 7. Gambit; 10. Suits Season 3

picks of the week A

$83 Million box office Heaven Is for Real

$11 Million box office Sabotage

Starring: Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church

The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, lifechanging experience with the world: Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near-death experience.

PG 100 min. (2014) Drama “...wholesome but also surprisingly tough-minded…” - Washington Post “...well-acted and shot, often thoughtful and (intentionally) funny.”

- Village Voice

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world’s deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done, until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. R 109 min. (2014) Action “A modern-day, Georgia-set version of a spaghetti Western.” - Richard Roeper “...the disreputable, even disgusting diversion the ‘Expendables’ pictures should’ve been.” - Village Voice

Available August 19

Available July 22 DVD

A

DVD & Blu-ray

DVD

(WS) 11074892...........................$23.99

Blu-ray/dvd combo pack (WS) 11074899......................................$30.99 (2 Discs)

(WS) 11075341...........................$22.99

Blu-ray/dvd combo pack (WS) 11075322......................................$26.99 (2 Discs)

$6 Million box office Cesar Chavez Starring: Michael Pena, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson The story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Chavez embraced nonviolence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to people.

PG13 102 min. (2014) Biographical “Not only powerful but timely…”

- USA Today

“...couldn’t be more timely.”

- Entertainment Weekly

Available July 22

Complete fourth Season

Starring: Steve Buscemi, Stephen Graham, Vincent Piazza Following his battle with Gyp Rosetti, Nucky makes a peace offering to Joe Masseria while working the odds with Arnold Rothstein. Nucky heads to Philadelphia to deal with the fallout from Willie’s liquor fiasco, while Capone and Torrio reach an agreement in Cicero. TVMA 673 min.

(2013) Drama

Available August 19

DVD

11068914...........................$14.99 Blu-ray (WS) 11068917...........................$14.99

DVD (WS) 11068916...........................$50.99 (5 Discs) Blu-ray (WS) 11068919...........................$67.99 (7 Discs)

to kill a mockingbird

Listen to the book…get the full story.

Harper Lee’s only novel is an essential classic.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Read by Sissy Spacek • Caedmon

Fiction Young Scout Finch narrates the events that befall her and her family when her father Atticus chooses to defend an innocent black man accused of raping a white woman.

Pulitzer Prize • Audie Award Time Magazine’s All-Time Top 100 Novels Quill Award • PW’s Listen Up “This is an unforgettable story well told.” - AudioFile “...this audiobook is not to be missed.” - School Library Journal Unabridged • 11 Discs AUDIOBOOK 10253141............. $34.99 ISBN 9780061808128

Hey, Boo

Harper Lee & to Kill a Mockingbird Starring: Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beloved bestseller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th century. Mary McDonagh Murphy’s Hey, Boo explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, including why she never published again.

UNK 82 min. (2010) Biographical “...this meditation on her only novel puts you inside her skin.” - Entertainment Weekly “...a fine film, well worth seeing.” - Rex Reed DVD

10484869...........................$24.99

“...belongs in every library.”

- Library Journal

The AFI Life Achievement Award honors an individual whose career in motion pictures or television has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.

A SELECTION OF JANE FONDA’S GREATEST WORKS Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Bree Daniels

82%

9 to 5

DVD (WS) 10121121 • $12.99

86%

Barbarella Queen of the Galaxy Blu-ray (WS) 10720192 • $12.99

100%

Cat Ballou

DVD (W/F) 10052813 • $12.99

Barefoot In The Park DVD (WS) 10038368 • $12.99

96%

Klute

DVD (WS) 10045922 • $16.99

83%

The China Syndrome DVD (WS) 10983761 • $8.99

Electric Horseman

DVD (WS) 10076822 • $12.99

Julia

DVD (WS) 10099579 • $8.99

92%

100%

California Suite

DVD (WS) 10453203 • $8.99

The Newsroom The Complete First Season TVMA 610 min. Drama DVD

(WS) 10748403....... $50.99 (4 Discs)

ISBN 9781622242337

Blu-ray/dvd combo pack (WS) 10748349................... $67.99 (6 Discs) ISBN 9781622242344

On Golden Pond

DVD (WS) 10082689 • $12.99

Tout Va Bien (Criterion Collection) DVD (WS) 10100627 • $29.99

Sunday in New York

DVD (WS) 10482308 • $19.99

SmartBrowse these previous AFI Life Achievement Award winners for more great titles!

Mel Brooks ..................... 2013

Warren Beatty ................. 2008

Shirley MacLaine............ 2012

Al Pacino ........................ 2007

Morgan Freeman ............ 2011

Sean Connery .................. 2006

Mike Nichols ................... 2010

George Lucas .................. 2005

Michael Douglas ............. 2009

Meryl Streep ................... 2004

children’s releases

children’s The Lego Movie

Spotlight

Super spy and master inventor Agent F.O.X. arrives in Carrot Town with one objective: infiltrate the community of friendly rabbits, locate a mysterious artifact, and return to base immediately.

But the mission is turned on its head when the secret agent is discovered, and mistaken for a distant cousin. G 83 min. (2013)

(Rental)

Voices of: Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Berry Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure, is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. PG 100 min. (2014) $253M

“It’s the smartest, funniest and most dazzlingly inventive children’s movie to come along in years.” - Newsday “It’s fast and original, it’s conceptually audacious, it’s visually astonishing, and it’s 10 times more clever and smart and funny than it needed to be. Here, at last, is an animated comedy that never stops surprising you.”

- Entertainment Weekly

“The brightly-imagined ‘Lego Movie’ is a wickedly smart and funny free-for-all, and sassy enough to shoot well-aimed darts at corporate branding.” - Rolling Stone

Available June 17 DVD

ISBN N/A

(WS) 11058824........... $17.99

Blu-ray (WS) 11058827........... $18.99 ISBN N/A

Agent F.O.X.

96%

Available June 10 DVD

(WS) 11074993...............$24.99

ISBN N/A

Ernest & Celestine

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer, and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. PG 80 min. (2012)

“A sweet-natured tale...” - USA Today Available June 17

Sesame Street

Monster Manners

Help little monsters learn to mind their manners! Can Rosita control her emotions and keep her hands to herself? Will Prairie help Cookie Monster master polite table manners? And can Cookie stop himself and not gobble all the cookies when a cookie connoisseur visits Sesame Street? NR 127 min.

Available June 10 DVD

(WS) 11069229...............$12.99

ISBN N/A

Franklin and Friends Pirate Island

Franklin and Bear find a treasure map and ask their fathers to help them search for the treasure.

Though everyone thinks they should turn back, Franklin urges them forward, finally finding the treasure. NR 88 min. (2013)

Available June 3 DVD

(WS) 11075231...............$12.99

ISBN N/A

DVD (WS) 11064472...............$29.99 Blu-ray/DVD combo pack (WS) 11064504................................$29.99 (2 Discs)

2014 Academy Award nominee for best animated feature film

Berenstain Bears Ready, Set, Go!

From the moment the Bear Family arrives at their cabin, Papa’s promise of ‘the best vacation ever’ begins going downhill. It’s only when the cubs show Papa the snapshots they’ve been taking and the so-called calamities that he finally realizes that having fun is just a matter of attitude. NR 55 min. (2014)

Available June 17 DVD

ISBN N/A

11074994................. $9.99

Regular Show The

Complete Third Season

Everyone’s favorite slackers, Mordecai and Rigby, are back!

Features all 40 episodes from the third season of the Emmy Awardwinning show, plus totally rad special features, including commentaries from show creator J.G. Quintel. TVPG 440 min. (2011)

Available June 17

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures Pac Is Back!

When an army of ghosts are unleashed by the evil Lord Betrayus, Pac and his friends must enter the Netherworld and save PacWorld before it’s too late! UNK 88 min. (2013)

Available June 24 DVD

(WS) 11074997...............$12.99

ISBN N/A

Littlest Pet Shop Strike a Pose!

Blythe and her best friends are back for more exciting adventures! Sunil becomes an Internet phenomenon, Vinnie befriends some dancing lizards, and the Pet Shop welcomes a juvenile alligator into their midst!

All of these adventures and more unfold in these five wild episodes! TVY 110 min.

Available June 3 DVD ISBN N/A

(WS) 11069040...............$14.99

JLA Adventures Trapped in Time

The Justice League must stop Lex Luthor from going back in time to eliminate Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman by changing their origin stories.

With the help of teen superheroes Karate Kid and Dawnstar, the Justice League must face its biggest challenge ever: the threat of having never existed! NR 53 min.

DVD

(WS) 11057775...............$16.99

ISBN N/A

Dora the Explorer Dora’s Magical Sleepover

You’re invited to a magical sleepover at a museum with Dora, Diego, and Boots, where they’ll journey into a painting to break the spell that turned Prince Miguel into a lion! Plus, help Dora and her horse Sparky on a wild ride, and travel to Brazil to help Dora’s team win the Big Cup Soccer Tournament! UNK 71 min.

Available June 24 DVD ISBN N/A

11063012...............$12.99

97%

DVD

ISBN N/A

(WS) 11064611...............$22.99 (3 Discs)

Dinosaur Train Adventure Camp

Our Pteranodon kids and some friends (Petey, Annie, Tank, Lily, and Leroy Lambeosaurus) go to a day camp run by the Conductor!

They all go white water rafting and learn about water currents— and meet a new freshwater aquatic creature. TVY 50 min.

Available June 10 DVD

(WS) 11056418................. $7.99

ISBN 9781608830619

WordGirl

Monkey Business

Join super hero WordGirl as she fights crime using her superhero strength and her colossal vocabulary along with her monkey sidekick, Captain Huggy Face. Episodes include: Monkey Business; The Meaty Dimension; Whammer Anniversary; and Peanut Butter Battles.

TVY 50 min.

Available June 10 DVD

(WS) 11072507................. $9.99

ISBN 9781627890335

just announced cds Electronic Trey Songz

Willie Nelson

Trigga

Band of Brothers

Atlantic • R&B Since making his recording debut in 2005, Trey Songz has patiently and artfully crafted some of the most acclaimed and compelling R&B music of the decade. His sixth album has already produced the hits Na Na; Smartphones; and Foreign.

Legacy Country Willie Nelson, one of music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, releases his first new album featuring mostly original songs in nearly twenty years. Included is The Git Go, a collaboration with Jamey Johnson.

Available July 1 Parental Advisory CD 11092008......................$14.99 Edited Version CD 11092007......................$14.99

CD 11091926......................$14.99

Wired

Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

Recess Monkey Children’s The eleventh album from Recess Monkey features fifteen eclectic songs about creativity, inventions, machines, and more. Each track is inspired by those who take on a do-it-yourself approach.

The Perfect Quirk

Available June 17

Underground Playground Children’s The latest from Secret Agent 23 Skidoo is the ideal soundtrack for living room dance parties or a summer vacation on the road less traveled. The songs fuse classic hip-hop with Motown, reggae, club beats, blues, and more.

Available June 24

CD 11092010......................$14.99

Joe Henry

BMG Rights Management R&B Seven-time Grammynominated R&B superstar Joe releases a brand new studio album. Among the tracks is the hit single Love & Sex Pt. 2, which also features former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland.

Work Song Inc. • Pop/Rock Four-time Grammy-winning producer and critically acclaimed songwriter Joe Henry releases his thirteenth album, which stands as his most personal work to date.

Included is a guest appearance from the Milk Carton Kids.

Bridges

Invisible Hour

Available June 3 CD 11091480......................$15.99

jazz it up Ginger Baker

Ruben Blades

Motema Jazz Legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker takes the influences that helped shape him and puts them front and center with his powerhouse Jazz Confusion quartet on his first album in sixteen years.

Sunnyside Communications Latin The urban poetry of Ruben Blades travels from uptown Manhattan to the barrios of Buenos Aires, and narrates wonderfully without being lost in translation. Timeless messages are carried here through tangos and milongasto.

Why?

Available June 24 CD 11091634......................$14.99

Al Jarreau

My Old Friend

Celebrating George Duke Concord Records • Jazz Al Jarreau and George Duke were friends long before they became household names.

George’s tragic passing in 2013 inspired Al to record this loving tribute. With the exception of the title track, all the tunes here were written by George.

Available June 17

CD 11086465......................$18.99

Deadmau5 While (1<2)

Astralwerks • Pop/Rock Globally acclaimed electronic music producer and artist Deamau5 returns with his biggest and most ambitious album project yet, one he feels to truly be his first proper body of work.

Available June 24 Parental Advisory, 2 Discs CD 11091927......................$21.99

CD 11091521......................$13.99

Joe

CD 11091524......................$14.99

Some of the biggest names in dance music get ready for summer with new releases.

Available June 17

Recess Monkey

Available June 23

music spotlight

Tangos

Available June 24

Tiesto

A Town Called Paradise Republic Records • Pop/Rock Tiesto brings together his skills as a DJ, artist, and electronic music producer to create another exciting release, one that includes the tracks Wasted; Red Lights; Let’s Go; and Take Me.

Available June 17 CD 11086209......................$13.99

Bassnectar

Noise Vs. Beauty Amorphous Music • Pop/Rock After a busy 2013, Bassnectar begins the summer of 2014 with a new and highly anticipated new album. He takes his signature sound in new directions on tracks like You & Me, which made its premiere on Rolling Stone’s website.

Available June 24 CD 11091930......................$12.99

Paul Hardcastle

Fatboy Slim Presents Bem Brasil

Trippin ‘n Rhythm Records Jazz Well into his third decade of crafting signature songs and churning out chart-topping mega-hits with ease, Paul Hardcastle adds another branch to his musical tree, one that is again bearing delicious fruit.

Available June 10

CD 11091630......................$16.99

The Jazzmasters VII

Available June 10 CD 11084216......................$18.99

Astralwerks • Pop/Rock Combining his love for music and soccer, Fatboy Slim has delivered a lovingly curated collection of music encapsulating the soundtrack to the 2014 World Cup. It pays homage to Brazilian music and culture both on and off the dance floor.

2 Discs CD 11082975......................$13.99

Counterfeit Lies

audiobooks Hot New Fiction

Oliver North, Bob Hamer

Read by Peyton Tochterman Simon & Schuster Audio Fiction Undercover FBI agent

Jake Kruse’s investigation is cut short by a criminal defense attorney, who wants to hire Jake to kill the daughter of a local crime boss. This job captures the attention of the CIA, the Secret Service, and high-level Washington officials. Before he knows it, Kruse finds himself plunged into the life-threatening underworld of North Korean espionage, Hezbollah terrorists, and a plot to bring down a commercial airliner over the U.S.

Available June 10

Earth Awakens

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston

Read by Stefan Rudnicki Macmillan Audio Fiction When the alien

ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the human mining ships and supply stations and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth. If Earth doesn’t wake up the planet could be lost.

Available June 10

Mr. Mercedes

Stephen King

Read by Will Patton Simon & Schuster Audio Fiction Hundreds of unemployed

folks are lined up for a job fair.

Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, killing eight and wounding fifteen. The killer escapes. Brady Hartfield loved the feel of death under the wheels, and he wants that rush again. Only retired cop Bill Hodges can apprehend him before he strikes again.

It must be soon, because Brady’s next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

Available June 3

Unabridged • 12 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11044577............ $34.99

Unabridged • 12 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11062362............ $44.99

Unabridged • 12 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11044580............ $39.99

ISBN 9781427241016

ISBN 9781442369788

Murder in Pigalle

Robogenesis

Save the Date

Read by Meredith Mitchell Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Private investigator Aimee

Read by MacLeod Andrews, Emily Rankin, Mike Chamberlain Random House, Inc. Fiction Humankind had

Read by Kathleen McInerney Macmillan Audio Fiction A Savannah florist is

ISBN 9781442364769

Cara Black

Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, vowing not to get involved in any more shenanigans; she’s pregnant, after all. Then disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris’s Pigalle neighborhood, following girls home and attacking them in their own houses. It is sad and frightening but has nothing to do with Aimee, until Zazie, the daughter of the proprietor of Aimee’s favorite cafe, disappears.

Available June 4

Unabridged • 9 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11049130............ $32.99 ISBN 9781482968392

Shield of Winter

Nalini Singh

Read by Angela Dawe Tantor Audio Fiction Ivy should have run from

the black-clad Arrow with eyes of winter frost. But Ivy Jane has never done what she should. Now, she’ll fight for her people, and for this Arrow who stands as her living shield, yet believes he is beyond redemption. But as the world turns to screaming crimson, even Ivy’s fierce will may not be enough to save Vasic from the cold darkness.

Available June 3

Unabridged • 10 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11059403............ $42.99

Daniel H. Wilson

triumphed over the machines.

At the end of Robopocalypse, the modern world was largely devastated, humankind was pressed to the point of annihilation, and the Earth was left in tatters… but the master artificial intelligence presence known as Archos had been killed.

Available June 10

Unabridged • 10 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11025934............ $44.99 ISBN 9780385362832

A Shiver of Light

Laurell K. Hamilton Read by Elizabeth Sastre Penguin Audio Fiction Merry Gentry pretends

to be human. She moved to Los Angeles and works as a private investigator at Grey’s Detective Agency. But all of this is just a disguise. In fact, she is a princess of faerie. Her real name is Meredith Nic Essus, and she had to flee the Dark Court of Faerie because of attempts on her life.

Available June 3 Unabridged • 12 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11051344............ $39.99 ISBN 9781611762808

ISBN 9781452608396

Summer House with Swimming Pool

Herman Koch

Read by Peter Berkrot Brilliance Audio, Inc. Fiction When a medical mistake

goes horribly wrong and Ralph Meier, a famous actor, winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser is forced to conceal the error from his patients and family. After all, reputation is everything in this business. But the weight of carrying such a secret lies heavily on his mind, and he can’t keep hiding from the truth.

“Starred Review.” - Publishers Weekly Available June 3

Unabridged • 10 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11052139............ $29.99 ISBN 9781480543799

That Summer

Lauren Willig

Read by Nicola Barber Macmillan Audio Fiction When Julia Conley hears

that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it’s a joke. But when she arrives to sort through the house, with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas, bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house’s shrouded history begins to open.

Available June 3

Unabridged • 9 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11061100............ $44.99 ISBN 9781427244208

Mary Kay Andrews about to score the wedding of a lifetime, one that will solidify her career as the go-to girl for society nuptials. Ironically, Cara Kryzik doesn’t believe in love. When the bride goes missing and the wedding is in jeopardy, Cara must find the bride and figure out what she believes in. Maybe love really does exist outside of fairy tales after all.

Available June 3

Unabridged • 11 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11061096............ $39.99 ISBN 9781427239402

The Smoke at Dawn

Jeff Shaara

Read by Paul Michael Random House, Inc. Fiction Summer, 1863. The

Federal triumph at Vicksburg has secured complete control of the Mississippi River from the Confederacy, cementing the reputation of Ulysses S. Grant.

Farther east, the Federal army under the command of William Rosecrans captures the crucial rail hub at Chattanooga.

But Rosecrans is careless, and while pursuing the Confederates, the Federal forces are routed in north Georgia at Chickamauga Creek. A disgusted Abraham Lincoln has seen enough of General Rosecrans.

Available June 3

Unabridged • 16 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11023266............ $44.99 ISBN 9780449008690

Vertigo 42

Martha Grimes

Read by Steve West Simon & Schuster Audio Fiction Richard Jury is meeting

Tom Williamson at Vertigo 42, a bar in London’s financial district.

Tom is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered seventeen years ago. The inspector in charge was sure Tess’s death was accidental, but the official police inquiry is still open and Jury agrees to re-examine the case. Four deaths keep Jury and his sidekick Sergeant Wiggins running as they try to figure out if the deaths were accidental and connected.

Available June 3

Unabridged • 10 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11044571............ $39.99 ISBN 9781442369801

All audiobooks are repackaged by Midwest Tape, LLC and then shipped in Midwest Tape’s exclusive, shelf-ready SoundSafe™ case. Midwest Tape, LLC is a wholly separate and distinct company from the publisher. The publisher’s original packaging and insert materials (if any) also will be shipped with your order.

Insightful bold irreverent and raw The Fault in Our Stars is John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

Order the Audiobook and Soundtrack today!

Featuring author John Green

An intro by John Green, who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ to her.

NY Times Bestseller Odyssey Award Winner Audie Winner “Starred Review.”

- Kirkus Reviews

The Fault in Our Stars Audiobook Read by Kate Rudd • Brilliance Audio, Inc. Ages 12 & Up Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has

bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

Winner of the 2013 Children’s Choice Teen Book of the Year Award

The Fault in Our Stars Soundtrack Atlantic • Soundtracks The musical companion to the eagerly awaited drama gathers tracks from some of today’s most compelling artists, among them Ed Sheeran, Ray LaMontagne, Jake Bugg, Grouplove, Birdy, and M83.

CD 11073763.................... $16.99

Unabridged • 6 Discs AUDIOBOOK 10594703............ $9.99

An Abundance of Katherines Read by Jeff Woodman Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Ages 12 & Up

Colin Singleton seems to be attracted to girls with one particular trait: they have the name Katherine. However, these relationships never seem to last as Colin has split with a Katherine 19 times. Now he finds himself on a mission to prove a Katherine-based theory that holds the possible key to his happiness.

Unabridged • 6 Discs AUDIOBOOK 10793974............ $14.99 ISBN 9781455870103

Read by Cristina Panfilio, Nick Podehl, John Green

Brilliance Audio, Inc. Ages 12 & Up A collection of

the journals, fiction, and letters of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Essays by family and friends help to tell Esther’s story.

NY Times Bestseller

“Starred Review.” - School Library Journal Unabridged • 7 Discs • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11046236............ $24.99 ISBN 9781480585454

ISBN 9781491510704

NY Times Bestseller

This Star Won’t Go Out Esther, Lori, & Wayne Earl

NY Times Bestseller; Printz Award Winner

NY Times Bestseller

Looking for Alaska

Paper Towns

Read by Jeff Woodman Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Read by Dan John Miller Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Ages 12 & Up Miles Halter is fascinated

by famous last words, and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the ‘Great Perhaps.’ Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

“Funny, sad, inspiring, and always compelling.” - BookPage Unabridged • 6 Discs AUDIOBOOK 10793975............ $14.99 ISBN 9781455870028

Ages 12 & Up Quentin Jacobsen has

spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—he follows.

Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

“Printz medalist John Green returns with the brilliant wit and searing emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of listeners.” - Brilliance Audio Unabridged • 7 Discs AUDIOBOOK 10720292............ $14.99 ISBN 9781455870134

NY Times Bestseller; Odyssey Honor Recording; Stonewall Honor

Will Grayson, Will Grayson Read by Nick Podehl, MacLeod Andrews Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Ages 12 & Up One cold night in a most

unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens, both named Will Grayson, are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, they find their lives going in new and unexpected directions.

“Both narrators encapsulate the mood and personality of their respetive Wills...”

- AudioFile Unabridged • 7 Discs AUDIOBOOK 10879245............ $14.99 ISBN 9781455870165

Weekly Highlights

Featured Audiobook

June 2, 2014

DVD & Blu-ray: Picks of the Week

DVD: New Children’s Releases Audiobooks: Hot New Fiction Titles CD: Just Announced CDs P.O. Box 820 Holland, OH 43528 midwesttapes.com 1-800-875-2785

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Presorted First-Class Mail

U.S. Postage Paid Toledo, Ohio Permit No. 242

change service requested

Beatriz Williams

True Blood

Dreamscape Media, LLC

Complete Sixth Season

Fiction In 1964, Vivian Schuyler receives an overseas

parcel in the mail. The contents draw her back into her family’s past, and the hushed-over crime of an aunt she never knew. Berlin, 1914: Violet Schuyler Grant endures her marriage to scientist Dr. Walter Grant.

TVMA 600 min. (2013) Drama

Available June 3 DVD (WS) 11069017...............$50.99 (4 Discs)

Available May 27

ISBN N/A

Unabridged • 12 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11062166............ $59.99

Blu-ray (WS) 11069069...............$67.99 (4 Discs) ISBN N/A

ISBN 9781629236599

COMING SOON $147

Million Box Office “...as good as the book on which it’s based.”

Linkin Park

The Hunting Party Warner Bros. • Pop/Rock After releasing the remix album Recharged in 2013, Linkin Park returns with a new studio album. The band kicked off the excitement surrounding the CD with the single Until It’s Gone. Includes collaborations with Rakim and Tom Morello.

Available June 17 CD 11086950.................... $14.99

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Divergent Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd A thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.

PG13 139 min. (2014) $147M Action

Available August 5

DVD (WS) 11067674............. $22.99 Blu-ray (WS) 11067671............. $29.99 (2 Discs)

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Veronica Roth

Dreamscape Media, LLC • Ages 13 & Up NY Times Bestseller; AudioFile Earphones Unabridged • 9 Discs • Replacements Available

Midnight in Europe

Alan Furst

Read by Daniel Gerroll Simon & Schuster Audio Fiction A suspenseful story set in Paris and Spain, of a man caught in the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, and an operation that, with the help of FDR’s secret operatives, will determine Europe’s fate in the coming world war.

Available June 10 Unabridged • 7 Discs Simultaneous Release • Replacements Available AUDIOBOOK 11062324............ $29.99 ISBN 9781442368163

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