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Monday, June 30, 2014

New DVDs out Tuesday. Click on the title to place your reserve!



"Girl Rising" (documentary) - want proof that education will change the world? Meet nine remarkable girls from nine different lands who are a living testimony - their stories are narrated by an all-star cast including Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys and Kerry Washington (TV's "Scandal")

"Jillian Michaels' One Week Shred" (excercise) -  the standout trainer from TV's "Biggest Loser" shows how thirty minutes of Strength training in the morning and thirty minutes of Cardio training at night can reap quick results.


Lone Survivor - Based on The New York Times bestselling true story: a tale of four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative who are ambushed by the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan.  As they confront unthinkable odds together, the four men stay in the fight to the finish. Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Eric Bana.


 "The Returned: The Complete First Season" - from the Sundance Channel - somewhere in the mountains of France there is a community where people thought to be dead suddenly reappear - and at a time when a serial killer is on the loose!

"Spinning Plates" (documentary) - there is a story behind every restaurant in America - witness three of them - filmed in Chicago, Tuscon and Balltown, Iowa

 "The Unknown Known" (documentary) - look back at the career of Donald Rumsfeld: congressman, ambassador to NATO and both the youngest and oldest Defense Secretary in U.S. history - interviewed by producer/director Errol Morris ("The Fog of War")