The List: Latest DVDs, CDs, books, April 9
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDS
“Hyde Park on Hudson” (R): The affair between Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and Margaret “Daisy” Suckley (Laura Linney), his fifth or sixth cousin, “depending on how you count,” comes to a head during a historic visit by England’s King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman).
Topping today’s TV transfers: “Boss: Season Two,” “Merlin: The Complete Fifth Season” and “Family Ties: The Sixth Season.”
CDS
Brad Paisley, “Wheelhouse”: Despite the title of the first single from his latest record, Brad Paisley leaves his “Southern Comfort Zone” on “Wheelhouse.”
With rapper LL Cool J and Monty Python funnyman Eric idle both making guest appearances, Paisley is stretching out a bit here.
Orthodox country music fans fear not: Charlie Daniels drops by as well.
Also in stores: Eric Church, “Caught in the Act: Live”; Dawes, “Stories Don’t End”; Device, “Device”; Drowning Pool, “Resilience”; Boney James, “The Beat”; The Knife, “Shaking the Habitual”; Paramore, “Paramore”; Molly Ringwald, “Except Sometimes”; Todd Rundgren, “State”; Stone Sour, “House of Gold & Bones Pt. 2”; Tyga, “Hotel California”; Kurt Vile, “Wakin on a Pretty Daze”; and Volbeat, “Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies.”
BOOKS
“Inferno” by Sherrilyn Kenyon: The latest in the Chronicles of Nick series finds the now 16-year-old Nick not thinking about prom or college, but learning to control the elements as he faces his latest enemy.
In adult fiction, actor Gene Wilder’s novella “Something to Remember You By,” set during World War II, tells the story of injured Cpl. Tom Cole and his love for a woman he doesn’t trust.
Also hitting shelves: “And Then I Found You” by Patti Callahan Henry; “Blood of Dragons: Volume Four” by Robin Hobb; “Dangerous Refuge” by Elizabeth Lowell; “Don’t Go” by Lisa Scottoline; “Get the Guy” by Matthew Hussey; “The Interestings” by Meg Wolitzer; “Midnight at Marble Arch” by Anne Perry; “Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works … and Sometimes Doesn’t” by Mark Geragos; “My Way: An Autobiography” by Paul Anka; “Secrets from the Past” by Barbara Taylor Bradford; “Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory” by Tilly Bagshawe; “Tapestry of Fortunes” by Elizabeth Berg; “Unintended Consequences” by Stuart Woods; and “Zom-B City” by Darren Shan.
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