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05.26.12 by Widge @ 12:21 am Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's The Expats by Chris Pavone, read by Mozhan Marno, out unabridged from Random House Audio. Here's what they have to say for themselves: Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew. She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn't speak, doing the housewifely things she's never before done--playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she's not allowed to know. He's becoming distant and evasive; she's getting lonely and bored.
Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she's terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life. Categorized as: Contests
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05.22.12 by Widge @ 12:46 am Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's the second season of BBC's Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman and brought to you by the mad minds of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. It's out on Blu-Ray today from BBC Home Video. Here's what they have to say for themselves: In "A Scandal in Belgravia," the first new episode of the second season, Sherlock gets embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler (Lara Pulver, True Blood), and finds himself employing every one of his remarkable skills to survive as the unlikely duo square off in a battle of wits…and perhaps emotions? In "The Hounds of Baskerville," the increasingly popular detective and his companion Watson travel to the wilds of Dartmoor to investigate the claims of Henry Knight (Russell Tovey, Being Human) and discover the beast lurking in the eerie landscape. Meanwhile, Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott, The Hour) is still out there in the shadows, and is determined to bring Sherlock down--at whatever the cost--in "The Reichenbach Fall." Nothing is what it seems, and nothing will be the same again, when this thrilling season reaches its conclusion.
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05.21.12 by Widge @ 4:54 pm Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's Beyond, hitting DVD from Anchor Bay this week. Here's what they have to say for themselves: Categorized as: Contests
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05.21.12 by Widge @ 1:28 am Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's the end of the Fate of the Jedi series, hitting audiobook CD from Random House Audio. Here's what they have to say for themselves: In the stunning finale of the epic Fate of the Jedi series, Jedi and Sith face off--with Coruscant as their battlefield. For the Sith, it’s the chance to restore their dominance over the galaxy that forgot them for so long. For Abeloth, it's a giant step in her quest to conquer all life everywhere. For Luke Skywalker, it's a call to arms to eradicate the Sith and their monstrous new master once and for all.
In a planetwide strike, teams of Jedi Knights take the Sith infiltrators by swift and lethal surprise. But victory against the cunning and savage Abeloth, and the terrifying endgame she has planned, is anything but certain. And as Luke, Ben, Han, Leia, Jaina, Jag, and their allies close in, the devastating truth about the dark side incarnate will be exposed--and send shock waves through the Jedi Order, the galaxy, and the Force itself. Categorized as: Contests
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05.20.12 by Widge @ 12:55 am Comments on this: one. Add your own.  It's The War, the mega-documentary series from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, hitting Blu-Ray from PBS and Paramount. Here's what they have to say for themselves: Called "A new masterpiece…" (TV Guide) Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's powerful and acclaimed documentary THE WAR arrives for the first time ever on Blu-ray May 15, 2012 from PBS Distribution and Paramount Home Media Distribution. Six years in the making, the epic, seven-part film directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective through the personal accounts of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. Revealing the most intimate human dimensions of a worldwide catastrophe, the 15-hour documentary paints a vivid portrait of how the war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
THE WAR is narrated by Emmy Award®-winner Keith David and includes voiceovers from acclaimed performers such as Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Lucas, Adam Arkin and Eli Wallach and features recordings by Norah Jones and Wynton Marsalis, as well as war-era favorites from Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole and more. Presented in pristine high-definition, the Blu-ray also boasts nearly two hours of special features including filmmaker commentary, deleted scenes, additional interviews and a making of featurette. Categorized as: Contests
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05.19.12 by Widge @ 11:46 pm Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  Bryan McCarthy of South Carolina and Rachel Burns of Alabama will be spending time with the second season of Archer. Philip Thurman of Tennessee and Helen Dupree of South Dakota will be sporting Division III. Cheryl Martin of Michigan, David Morris of Utah and Jesse Stacy of Florida are concerned with Saving Private Perez. Jason Nowicki of Maryland will be chilling with Frozen World. Beth Sellers of Hawaii, Reg Murphy of Ohio and Steve Moore of Montana now have to answer to Answer This. Marjorie Hartman of Florida will be exploring King Arthur and Medieval Britain. Leo Gorum of Georgia, Brenda Skylstad of Washington and Jose Church of North Carolina will be trading Tales of an Ancient Empire. Simon Ferrer of Indiana is young at heart with Ancient Aliens. Benjamin Bell of South Dakota and Lou Waller of Ohio will be doing a double take with The Double. Alfred Lewis of Tennessee has WWII in 3D coming right at him. Scott Cross of Oklahoma, Rebecca Borden of Texas and Phil Meyer of Ontario must have a lucky number because they're snagging What's My Number? And Dirty Girl has nothing very appropriate we can pun about its name. But Vic Howard of Illinois won it; we can tell you that. Congrats to all the winners. Don't see your name up there? Don't panic. There are plenty of chances to win. Just a reminder--you can enter up to once a day (but no more than once a day, please) per household. Find our contests here. Our become a fan of our contests on Facebook. And hey: subscribe to our contest feed so you don't miss a single chance to enter -- the day you miss entering might have been Your Day! Categorized as: Contests
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05.19.12 by Widge @ 4:48 pm Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson, hitting CD from Random House Audio. It's unabridged and read by Arthur Morey. Here's what they have to say for themselves: In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses--led by John von Neumann--gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. But because they relied exclusively on government funding, the government wanted its share of the results: the computer that they built also led directly to the hydrogen bomb. George Dyson has uncovered a wealth of new material about this project, and in bringing the story of these men and women and their ideas to life, he shows how the crucial advancements that dominated twentieth-century technology emerged from one computer in one laboratory, where the digital universe as we know it was born.
We've got a got a copy of the audiobook on CD give away. Want to win it? Excellent. Here's how that happens: you enter using the form below. Remember you can enter once a day. If we draw your name when the contest ends, you snag it! Good luck! Categorized as: Contests
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05.19.12 by Widge @ 2:20 pm Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's Chronicle, hitting DVD from Fox. Here's what they have to say for themselves: Take an extraordinary journey with three teens who uncover a power greater than anything they've ever imagined. Up-and-coming actors Dane DeHaan ("True Blood"), Alex Russell (Almost Kings) and Michael B. Jordan ("Friday Night Lights") star alongside Michael Kelly (The Adjustment Bureau) in the innovative action film CHRONICLE.
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny telekinetic powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control as their darker sides begin to take over. What starts out as fun and games quickly becomes dangerous and they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with their remarkable powers. Categorized as: Contests
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05.18.12 by Widge @ 3:58 am Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York, out from Random House Audio. The book is by Richard Zacks and read by Joe Ochman. Here's what they have to say for themselves: Categorized as: Contests
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05.16.12 by Widge @ 10:14 pm Comments on this: nada. Add your own.  It's Teen Wolf, the first season of which is hitting DVD from Fox and MGM. Here's what they have to say for themselves: Categorized as: Contests
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