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The List: Latest DVDs, CDs, books, April 16

A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:

DVDs

“Django Unchained” (R): A German-born bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) and a former slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) track down criminals — and Django’s wife (Kerry Washington) — in the pre-Civil War South in writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western/blaxploitation mash-up.

Topping today’s TV transfers: The BBC movies “Spies of Warsaw” and “Women in Love” as well as “Counting Cars: Season One,” “Fraggle Rock: Season Two,” “In The Heat of the Night Complete Season Eight” and “Stoney Burke — The Complete Series.”

CDs

Fall Out Boy, “Save Rock and Roll”: Fall Out Boy save rock ’n’ roll?

From what exactly?

Don’t these dudes know that Nickelback is still putting out records?

Rock ’n’ roll has it made.

Also in stores: Beatallica, “Abbey Load”; Sarah Brightman, “Dreamchaser”; Dale Earnhardt Jr., “Patterns”; Dead Can Dance, “In Concert”; Dead Confederate, “In the Marrow”; Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses), “The Low Highway”; The Flaming Lips, “The Terror”; Iron and Wine, “Ghost on Ghost”; Major Lazer, “Free the Universe”; Meat Puppets, “Rat Farm”; Willie Nelson and Family, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”; Skid Row, “United World Rebellion: Chapter One”; Thee Oh Sees, “Floating Coffin”; Ugly Kid Joe, “Stairway to Hell”; and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Mosquito.”

BOOKS

“Whiskey Beach” by Nora Roberts: Lawyer Eli Landon, accused of killing his wife, retreats to his family’s Bluff House, where he becomes romantically entangled with the home’s caretaker while he tries to clear his name.

Also this week, T. Jefferson Parker concludes his series featuring sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood with “The Famous and the Dead.”

Also hitting shelves: “Amity & Sorrow” by Peggy Riley; “Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince” by Nancy Atherton; “The Dispensable Nation” by Vali Nasr; “Fyre” by Angie Sage; “Go Big or Go Home” by Kat Von D; “Hillbilly Heart” by Billy Ray Cyrus; “LeaderShift” by Orrin Woodward; “A Man Without Breath” by Philip Kerr; “The Prince of Paradise” by John Glatt; and “Taking Eve” by Iris Johansen.

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