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The Warsaw Orphan
CONNECTION
Kelly Rimmer
May 3, 2021
Harper Collins Publishers
Historical Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan follows Elzbieta and Roman’s perilous attempt to reclaim the love and life they once knew. From Nazi occupation to the threat of a communist regime, Kelly Rimmer has penned her most meticulously researched and emotionally ...heart-stopping... compelling novel to date. will captivate
Available June 1
readers page by page.
AUDIOBOOK 10 Discs 13698797 $44.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
- Lisa Wingate
Body Language Blake Shelton
Warner Music Nashville • Country
Guest Artists: The Swon Brothers, Gwen Stefani Country superstar Blake Shelton is back with his first new full-length album in four years. The latest from The Voice judge includes the single Happy Anywhere, which is a collaboration with Gwen Stefani.
Available May 21 CD
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$14.99
Superstar judge from The Voice releases first new album in four years!
MONDAY
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Denise Gough, Dominique Tipper When Mickey is introduced to Chloe one hot summer night in Athens, the attraction between the pair is immediately palpable, so palpable that before they know it they’re waking up naked on the beach on Saturday morning. R 116 min. (2021) Drama
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Anyone else who’s ever been in a relationship like this...will painfully relate to Monday’s sensual, funny and above all honest look at amour fou. - Hollywood Reporter
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Nomadland is the kind of big and big-hearted movie...that reminds you of how much life one film can hold... - Washington Post
The Father
2 Awards including Best Actor – Anthony Hopkins Starring: Olivia Colman, Anthony Hopkins, Mark Gatiss
PG13 97 min. (2020) Drama
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Judas and the Black Messiah
2 Awards including Best Supporting Actor – Daniel Kaluuya Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons R 126 min. (2021) $60M* Drama
Available May 4 DVD BLU-RAY
Nomadland
3 Awards including Best Picture
Starring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn
R 108 min. (2020) $60M* Drama
Limited Quantities Available BLU-RAY
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$22.49
Another Round (Danish)
Best International Feature Film Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang
NR 116 min. (2020) Drama DVD 13894247 $19.99 BLU-RAY 13928827 $21.99
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Soul
Minari
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton
Starring: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim
2 Awards including Best Animated Feature
PG 100 min. (2020) $200M* Children’s DVD 13794468 $22.49 BLU-RAY+DVD 13794469 $26.24 3 Discs 4K+BLU-RAY 13942392 $29.99 Ultimate Collector’s Edition, 3 Discs
Tenet
Best Visual Effects
Starring: John David Washington, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Debicki PG13 151 min. (2020) $200M* Sci-Fi DVD 13411394 $21.74 2 Discs BLU-RAY+DVD 13411395 $26.99 3 Discs 4K+BLU-RAY 13765368 $36.74 3 Discs
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Best Supporting Actress Yuh-Jung Youn
PG13 115 min. (2021) $55M* Drama
Available May 18 DVD 13933239 BLU-RAY 13933240
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Promising Young Woman
Best Original Screenplay Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox
R 114 min. (2020) $50M* Drama DVD 13235759 $22.49 BLU-RAY 13235760 $26.24
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Brand new titles your patrons are sure to love curated by the movie experts here at Midwest Tape!
AVAILABLE MAY 4 M.C. Escher
Journey to Infinity
It tells the story of world-famous Dutch graphic artist M.C Escher. Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait shows the man through his own words and images. UNK 83 min. (2021) Documentary DVD 13942400 BLU-RAY 13942401
$19.99 $25.99
Party with Me
Starring: Allison Flanagan, Jaclyn Aimee, JT Vancollie After the sudden death of her distant father, a young woman copes by distracting herself with alcohol, drugs, and the antics of her misguided friends. NR 93 min. Comedy DVD 13978342 $16.99 BLU-RAY 13976986 $16.99
Looking for Life on Mars
Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt ever for signs of life on Mars. For the first time, in February 2021, a rover will attempt a risky landing in Jezero Crater. TVPG 60 min. (2021) Science DVD 13906783 $18.74
Starring: Carly Fawcett, Joel Ballanger, Al Braatz
Only People
Two 20-something friends with long-held feelings for each other decide to set aside their relationships for a weekend to explore what might have been. NR 88 min. (2018) Drama DVD 13978341 $16.99 BLU-RAY 13976985 $16.99
Sometime Other Than Now
Starring: Kate Walsh, Donal Logue, Trieste Kelly Dunn
After a motorcycle crash, a man stranded in a New England town finds refuge at a run-down motel and discovers his estranged daughter lives there. NR 90 min. (2021) Romance DVD 13977824 $19.99 BLU-RAY 13976978 $21.99
Hemingway
A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Examine the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers: Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together Hemingway’s biography with excerpts from his work. UNK 360 min. (2021) Documentary DVD 13823477 $29.99 3 Discs BLU-RAY 13765382 $37.49 3 Discs
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Staff Picks
Feature new interviews as well as a performance from Dolly on this famous stage. Dolly Parton 50 Years at the Opry
Starring: Dolly Parton, Dierks Bentley, Candi Carpenter
Country music legend Dolly Parton returns to NBC and performs at one of the most iconic stages in the world. The special is a celebration of Parton’s 50 years as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. UNK 75 min. (2019) Music
Available May 11 DVD 13765383
$18.74
“...two lovebirds with a song worth singing.” – Detroit News The Lovebirds
Starring: Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, Anna Camp When a couple in the fast lane to splitsville accidentally careens into a murder, they take off on a wild race to find the killer and clear their names. Includes both theatrical and extended cuts. R 86 min. (2020) Comedy
Available June 8 DVD 13363338 $13.49 Extended Cut
Starring Daniel Bruhl from the Disney+ hit The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. The Alienist
Season 2: Angel of Darkness
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans Having opened her private detective agency, Sara reunites with Dr. Kreizler. Their investigation leads them down a sinister path of murder and deceit, heading toward a dangerous and elusive killer. TVMA 391 min. (2020) Drama
Available May 18 DVD BLU-RAY
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Star Trek
Lower Decks Season 1
Secrets of the Zoo Season 1: North Carolina
The North Carolina Zoo is one of the largest zoos in the world with more than 1,000 animals. With lions, elephants, and gorillas to care for at the zoo, there’s no such thing as a normal day in this animal kingdom. UNK 352 min. (2021) Documentary DVD 14008085 $37.99 2 Discs
Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller explores the inner workings of the global underworld’s most dangerous black markets. TV14 389 min. (2020) Documentary DVD 14027379 $37.99 2 Discs
Narco Wars
Season 1
An exploration of how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with the power to destabilize and tear apart whole countries. TV14 440 min. (2020) Documentary DVD 14027372 $37.99 2 Discs
Supernatural
Complete Series
Starring: Jerry O’Connell, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid
Join rule-breaker Beckett Mariner, aspiring captain Brad Boimler, rookie D’Vana Tendi, and part-cyborg Sam Rutherford as they attempt to navigate the mysterious corners of our universe with little experience, and even less authority. NR 251 min. (2020) Animated
Available May 18 DVD BLU-RAY
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Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins Sam and Dean spend their lives on the road, battling every kind of threat. They face everything from the demon that killed their mother to vampires, ghosts, shape-shifters, angels, fallen gods, and even Lucifer and God themselves. UNK 13700 min. Drama
Available May 25 DVD BLU-RAY
Atlantic Crossing
Complete Collection
Starring: Lenny Henry, Roger Griffiths, Claire Skinner
A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship of Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. UNK 435 min. (2021) Drama
Available May 4
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Meet Britain’s finest and most ill-tempered chef, Gareth Blackstock, of the prestigious Le Chateau Anglais restaurant. Each meal is a masterpiece. Just don’t ask for salt. UNK 582 min. Comedy DVD 14027356
$31.99 3 Discs
$33.74 3 Discs
Ancient Aliens
CSI:NY
Join Giorgio Tsoukalos and other ancient astronaut theorists as they continue their search for evidence of extraterrestrial contact in the distant past as well as the present. UNK 686 min. Documentary DVD 13988565 3 Discs $14.99
Starring: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, A.J. Buckley
Season 13
Complete Series
Shadow Lead Detective Mac Taylor as he guides his renowned team of criminalists on the brutal, relentless hunt for the truth of all nine years of every mind-boggling, genre-twisting case tackled by Taylor’s dedicated squad. TV14 8478 min. Drama
Available May 18 DVD
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Chef!
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Sofia Helin, Tobias Santelmann
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New York Times Bestselling Authors your patrons will be looking for! Six bestselling authors collaborate to shine light through the dark. Blackout Various Authors
NY Times Bestselling Author Harper Collins Publishers Young Adult
Available June 22
AUDIOBOOK 8 Discs 13950459 $44.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
A film producer has more than a few tricks up his sleeve. Jackpot Stuart Woods, Bryon Quertermous NY Times Bestselling Author
Penguin Random House Audio Action
Available June 1
AUDIOBOOK 7 Discs 13619263 $34.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
“…explosive…”
- Publishers Weekly
Tom Clancy’s Op-Center
The Black Order
Tom Clancy, Jeff Rovin NY Times Bestselling Author
Macmillan Audio Suspense
Available June 1
AUDIOBOOK 8 Discs 13571890 $39.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
AUDIOBOOK
Staff Picks
Relive the drama of Fifty Shades through the mind of Christian Grey.
Freed E. L. James
NY Times Bestselling Author Penguin Random House Audio Suspense
Available June 1
AUDIOBOOK 20 Discs 14025079 $49.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
“...sassy humor and sparkling dialogue..” - Booklist
When Stars Collide Susan Elizabeth Phillips
A crime writer and detective find a cold case leading to a new nightmare. The Third Grave Lisa Jackson NY Times Bestselling Author
NY Times Bestselling Author
Brilliance Audio, Inc. Mystery
Available June 29
Harper Collins Publishers Romance
Available June 29
AUDIOBOOK 10 Discs 13910451 $39.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
AUDIOBOOK 11 Discs 13652002 $36.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
“...wrenchingly brilliant...”
“…enthralling.”
- John Green
Somebody’s Daughter Ashley C. Ford Macmillan Audio Biography
Available June 1
AUDIOBOOK 8 Discs 13571917 $44.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
- Megan Abbott
Dream Girl Laura Lippman NY Times Bestselling Author Harper Collins Publishers
Women’s Interest
Available June 22
AUDIOBOOK 8 Discs 13803219 $39.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
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With Pride Month just around the corner, help your patrons celebrate the diversity in our communities and recognize that love is love with these titles!
Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby are beautiful together in the 19th century, rough-country love story. - Chicago Sun-Times
The World to Come Starring: Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott
Markie in Milwaukee
Deep in Vogue
Supernova
T11 Incomplete
The film follows fundamentalist Baptist minister Mark Wenzel, who decides at age 46 to come out as a transgender woman named Markie, and the aftermath of that decision UNK 88 min. (2019) Documentary DVD 13942418 $29.99
Starring: Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood
Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically. R 105 min. (2021) $40M* Drama
Available June 1 DVD BLU-RAY
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Same-Sex Attracted
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them. R 93 min. (2021) Drama
Available May 18 DVD $20.24 BLU-RAY $22.49
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Born to Be
Follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City, where all transgender and gender nonconforming people have access to transition-related health and surgical care. UNK 92 min. (2019) Documentary DVD 13723082 $19.99
A powerful documentary that presents the real, never-before-seen experience of being queer at ‘the Lord’s University’: BYU. NR 88 min. (2020) Documentary DVD 13897144 $16.99 BLU-RAY 13897550 $16.99
A documentary celebrating the colorful, queer, emotional, and political stories of Northern Vogue and its people. UNK 62 min. (2019) Documentary DVD 13894252 $19.99 Special Edition BLU-RAY 13894253 $21.99 Special Edition
Starring: Kristen Renton, Karen Sillas, Zachary Booth A visiting home health aide, and recovering alcoholic, falls in love with her young paraplegic patient, then betrays her trust. UNK 105 min. (2020) Drama DVD 13923309 $16.99
Breaking Fast Starring: Haaz Sleiman, Michael Cassidy, Amin El Gamal
Romance blooms between Mo, a practicing Muslim, and Kal, an all-American guy, during Ramadan. NR 92 min. (2020) Comedy DVD 13802157 $26.99
FOREIGN LGBTQ
Everything I Like
Madame (French)
The film takes viewers on a journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother, and her filmmaker grandson Stephane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. UNK 94 min. (2019) Documentary DVD 13775974 $24.99 BLU-RAY 13775973
(Spanish)
Starring: Milton Roses
$23.99
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Daniel is an editor at a production company. When Javier, a news cameraman, joins the crew, it upends Daniel’s life in ways he never expected, and he begins to develop feelings for the alluring Javier. UNK 146 min. (2020) Drama DVD 13967495 $24.99
Queer Japan (Japanese)
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. UNK 99 min. (2020) Documentary DVD 13915782 $24.99 BLU-RAY 13915783
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As a Woman Paula Stone Williams Simon & Schuster Audio
A moving and unforgettable memoir of a transgender pastor’s journey from despair to joy as she transitioned from male to female.
Available June 1
AUDIOBOOK 6 Discs 13895965 $34.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
NONFICTION
Everybody (Else) Is Perfect Gabrielle Korn Simon & Schuster Audio
Gabrielle Korn reveals exactly what it’s truly like in the fashion world, trying to find love as a young lesbian in New York City. AUDIOBOOK 5 Discs 12623154 $34.99 Replacements Available
I Have Something to Tell You Chasten Buttigieg
I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? Mortada Gzar
Simon & Schuster Audio
An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love.
NY Times Bestseller
A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. AUDIOBOOK 6 Discs 13347882 $39.99 Replacements Available
Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall
Dreamscape Media, LLC To clean up his image, Luc O’Donnell needs the perfect boyfriend, but soon enough, his fake relationship with Oliver Blackwood starts feeling like something more. AUDIOBOOK 11 Discs 13376069 $47.99 Replacements Available
It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake Claire Christian Harper Collins Publishers
A fresh, uplifting story about starting over as a thirtysomething woman who’s been living life for everyone else. AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 13418999 $39.99 Replacements Available
Brilliance Audio, Inc.
AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 13377399 $34.99 Replacements Available
FICTION
Call Me by Your Name André Aciman Macmillan Audio
A sudden and powerful romance blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. AUDIOBOOK 7 Discs 11819128 $39.99 Replacements Available
Written in the Stars Alexandria Bellefleur Harper Collins Publishers
A queer rom-com about a free-spirited astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an uptight actuary. AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 13395344 $39.99 Replacements Available
AUDIOBOOK LGBTQ+ YOUNG ADULT All Boys Aren’t Blue George M. Johnson Macmillan Audio
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. AUDIOBOOK 5 Discs 12379339 Replacements Available
$32.99
All Kinds of Other James Sie Harper Collins Publishers
Two boys—one cis and one trans—have been guarding their hearts, until their feelings give them a reason to stand up to fear.
Available May 4
AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 13897063 $39.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
Be Dazzled Ryan La Sala
Dreamscape Media, LLC Project Runway goes to Comic-Con in this epic queer love story about creativity, passion, and finding the courage to be one’s most authentic self. AUDIOBOOK 7 Discs 13609733 $31.99 Replacements Available
The Boi of Feather and Steel Adan Jerreat-Poole Dreamscape Media, LLC
Tav struggles to come to grips with who they are, and who they are becoming, in this thrilling sequel to the moving, lyrical fantasy The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass.
Available May 25
AUDIOBOOK 6 Discs 13737533 $31.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
Kate in Waiting Becky Albertalli Harper Collins Publishers
When Kate and Andy’s latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off-script. AUDIOBOOK 8 Discs 13495775 $39.99 Replacements Available
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AUDIOBOOK Efrén Divided Ernesto Cisneros
Diverse Voices
LATINX
Pura Belpré Award
Harper Collins Publishers Children’s Efrén worries. Although he’s American-born, his parents are undocumented. His worst nightmare comes true when Amá is deported to Tijuana. AUDIOBOOK 4 Discs 12471249 $25.99 Replacements Available
The New American Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Simon & Schuster Audio
Fiction Emilio believes he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to ensure it. AUDIOBOOK 6 Discs 12597474 $34.99 Replacements Available
Indivisible Daniel Aleman
Zonia’s Rain Forest Juana Martinez-Neal
Dreamscape Media, LLC
AUDIOBOOK 14002828
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Harper Collins Publishers
Non-Fiction The remarkable story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II. AUDIOBOOK 12 Discs 12692994 $44.99 Replacements Available
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One Drum Richard Wagamese
Blackstone Audio, Inc. Non-Fiction Drawn from the foundational teachings of Ojibway tradition, the Grandfather Teachings. Focusing specifically on the lessons of humility, respect, and courage. AUDIOBOOK 4 Discs 13268549 $24.99
Jo Jo Makoons Dawn Quigley
Harper Collins Publishers
Children’s Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited sevenyear-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation.
Available May 11 AUDIOBOOK 1 Disc 13896077 $14.99 Simultaneous Release
There There Tommy Orange
NY Times Bestseller
Penguin Random House Audio
Fiction A novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities, all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. AUDIOBOOK 7 Discs 11988455 $34.99 Replacements Available
JEWISH
May is Jewish American Heritage Month.
NY Times Bestseller
Soon
Macmillan Audio Young Adult Eighteen-yearold Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. AUDIOBOOK 12 Discs 13350140 $57.99 Replacements Available
AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 14105753 $39.99 Simultaneous Release
The Light of Days Judy Batalion
to be a major motion picture!
NY Times Bestseller
Available May 4
Available June 15
Children’s AUDIOBOOK 6 Discs 12759151 $29.99 Replacements Available
Firekeeper’s Daughter Angeline Boulley
Blackstone Audio, Inc. Young Adult Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation.
Children’s A Caldecott Honor and Robert F. Sibert Medalwinning authorillustrator explores the wonders of the Peruvian rain forest with Zonia, an Asháninka girl.
(Young Reader Edition)
NATIVE & INDIGENOUS
Gerta Katerina Tuckova
Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Fiction It is 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it’s not deliverance; it’s a sentence. AUDIOBOOK 13 Discs 12984599 $34.99
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Sons and Soldiers Bruce Henderson
Harper Collins Publishers
Non-Fiction The story of Jews who fled Nazi Germany as boys and as teenagers enlisted in the US Army and returned to Europe to play a key role in the Allied victory. AUDIOBOOK 11 Discs 11795857 $44.99 Replacements Available
The Librarian of Auschwitz Antonio Iturbe
Macmillan Audio
Young Adult Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror of Auschwitz AUDIOBOOK 12 Discs 11750037 $39.99 Replacements Available
Stories and experiences from a wide range of voices and genres.
INDIAN
AUDIOBOOK
ASIAN
The Henna Artist Alka Joshi
MUSLIM
Blackbird Fly Erin Entrada Kelly
American Heart Laura Moriarty
Harper Collins Publishers
NY Times Bestseller
Children’s Apple and her mother moved from the Philippines when she was little, but her mother says Apple is becoming ‘too American’. AUDIOBOOK 5 Discs 13385645 $29.99 Replacements Available
Harper Collins Publishers
Fiction Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 12436289 $39.99 Replacements Available
The Marvelous Mirza Girls Sheba Karim
The Mountains Sing Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Young Adult Noreen decides to follow her mom on a gap-year trip to New Delhi, hoping India can lessen her grief and bring her voice back.
Fiction This novel follows a family during the Vietnam War and brings to life the human costs of this conflict. AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 12710402 $47.99 Replacements Available
Harper Collins Publishers
Harper Collins Publishers
Young Adult A young girl encounters a fugitive who challenges her assumptions about Muslim people and patriotism. AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 11950915 Replacements Available
AUDIOBOOK 10 Discs 13897388 $44.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
The Patient Assassin Anita Anand
Tokyo Ever After Emiko Jean
Non-Fiction The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India. AUDIOBOOK 9 Discs 12240180 $49.99 Replacements Available
Young Adult For Izumi Tanaka, it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town.
Simon and Schuster
$39.99
The Arabic Quilt An
Immigrant Story
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Available May 18
Diverse Voices
Aya Khalil
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Children’s A young girl named Kanzi’s most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one. AUDIOBOOK 1 Disc 12674335
$11.99
Mommy’s Khimar Jamilah ThompkinsBigelow
Macmillan Audio
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Available May 25
AUDIOBOOK 8 Discs 13571935 $44.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
BLACK
Children’s A young Muslim girl plays dress-up with her mother’s headscarves, feeling her mother’s love with every one she tries on. AUDIOBOOK 1 Disc 13041247 $11.99
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini NY Times Bestseller
Simon and Schuster
Beauregard in a Box Jessica Lee Hutchings
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Children’s Beauregard and some friends discover that he’s brave enough to travel the entire world.
Available May 18
AUDIOBOOK 1 Disc 13737344 $11.99 Simultaneous Release
Island Queen Vanessa Riley
Harper Collins Publishers
Fiction The true story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery.
Available July 6
AUDIOBOOK 17 Discs 13963290 $65.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
A Sitting in St. James Rita Williams-Garcia Harper Collins Publishers
Young Adult The story of an antebellum plantation, and the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives there.
Available May 25 AUDIOBOOK 12 Discs 13897514 $55.99 Simultaneous Release Replacements Available
Through the Leopard’s Gaze Njambi McGrath Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Biography This amazing memoir chronicles the award-winning comedian’s difficult but inspiring life growing up in Kenya. AUDIOBOOK 8 Discs 14050547 $29.99
Fiction Set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last 30 years, two generations of characters collide in the tragic sweep of war. AUDIOBOOK 11 Discs 10030469 $19.99
Voice of Rebellion Roberta Staley Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Biography Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan. AUDIOBOOK 7 Discs 12783650
$34.99
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HEADLINE-MAKING NEW RELEASES Prince Welcome 2 America Sony Music • R&B
Recorded in the spring of 2010 and then mysteriously abandoned by Prince before its release, the statement album documents Prince’s concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society, presciently foreshadowing an era of political division, disinformation, and a renewed fight for racial justice.
NEW
Available July 30
unreleased music emerges from Prince's vault.
CD 14110651
$12.99
Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy Fueled by Ramen • Pop/Rock
Twenty One Pilots are back with the follow-up to their 2018 album Trench. It is the product of long-distance virtual sessions and finds the duo processing their upended routines along with the prevailing emotions of 2020–anxiety, loneliness, boredom, and doubt. Includes the single Shy Away.
Available May 21 CD
Features the recordbreaking hit Drivers License.
14107288 $11.99
Olivia Rodrigo Sour Geffen • Pop/Rock
Singer and actress Olivia Rodrigo made headlines with the success of her chart-topping single Drivers License. That song, along with the new single Deja Vu, is included on her debut album.
Available May 21 Parental Advisory CD 14097498 $13.99 Edited Version CD 14097499 $13.99
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Grammywinning rock duo returns with a brand new album.
MUSIC
MUST-HAVE UPCOMING RELEASES The Black Keys pay homage to classic blues songs.
Blackberry Smoke celebrates twenty years of making music.
The Black Keys Delta Kream
Blackberry Smoke You Hear Georgia
Nonesuch • Pop/Rock
The Black Keys celebrate their roots on a new album featuring eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards that they have loved since they were teenagers, including songs by R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, among others.
3 Legged records Country Guest Artists: Jamey Johnson, Warren Haynes
Available May 14 CD 14115671
Staff Picks
$11.99
Available May 28 CD 14092969 $11.99
Sugarland lead singer releases a fresh take on the American Songbook. Jennifer Nettles Always Like New
Acclaimed singer-songwriter records at the historic RCA Studio B.
MercyMe Inhale (Exhale)
John Hiatt & the Jerry Douglas Band Leftover Feelings
Fair Trade/Columbia Religious
Concord Records Pop/Rock
Guest Artists: Gary LeVox, Gloria Gaynor CD 14090790 $12.99
Available June 25 CD 14110309
Includes the hits Almost Home, Hurry Up and Wait, and Say I Won’t.
$14.99
New West Records Pop/Rock
Available May 21 CD 14093273 $13.99
Third solo album from the iconic ZZ Top singer. Billy F. Gibbons Hardware
Concord Records Pop/Rock
Guest Artists: Matt Sorum, Austin Hanks
Available June 4
The Wallflowers’ first new album in nine years.
Alt-rock group releases their first new album in five years.
The Wallflowers Exit Wounds
Garbage No Gods No Masters
Available July 9
Available June 11
New West Records Pop/Rock CD 14110306
INFECTIOUS MUSIC Pop/Rock
$13.99
Parental Advisory CD 14097473 $17.99
CD 14090149 $14.99
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Weezer Van Weezer
Atlantic • Pop/Rock CD 14059106 $11.99
Van Morrison Latest Record Project Volume I
BMG Rights Management (UK) Blues CD 14006007 $17.99 2 Discs
Travis Tritt Set in Stone
Big Noise Music Group Country CD 14034161 $12.99
Nancy Wilson You and Me
Carry On Music • Pop/Rock CD 14042174 $16.99
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones When God Was Great Hellcat Records • Pop/Rock CD 14042172 $11.99
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Both gently funny and moving, the movie is the story of bitterness coming along with growth and nourishment. - Vox
MINARI
Starring: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. PG13 115 min. (2021) $55M* Drama
Available May 18 DVD BLU-RAY
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$14.99 $16.49
CHAOS WALKING
Starring: Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Daisy Ridley Todd discovers Viola, who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and men are afflicted by a force that puts all their thoughts on display. When Viola’s life is threatened, Todd vows to protect her. PG13 109 min. (2021) $35M* Sci-Fi
Available May 25
DVD 13967483 BLU-RAY+DVD 13967484 4K+BLU-RAY
14107436
$22.49 $29.99 2 Discs $32.24 2 Discs
…It’s an intriguing confection of Hollywood genres– an unlikely union of dystopian thriller, old-fashioned Western and moral tale. - Sydney Morning Herald
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