CVS Midwest Tape Weekly 02, October 2023

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October 2, 2023

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The Nun II

Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Bonnie Aarons, Anna Popplewell

In 1956 France, a priest is murdered, and it seems an evil is spreading. Sister Irene once again comes face to face with a demonic force.

UNK (2023) (United Kingdom) Horror

DVD 16162973

Blu-ray 16162974

COMING SOON

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Starring: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Elena Kampouris

Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists, and turns. Opa!

PG 91 min. (2023) Comedy

DVD 16162959

Blu-ray+DVD 16162960 2 Discs

COMING SOON

“A fitting finale to a beloved series.” - Collider

“Horror sequel conjures up a winning tale of terror.”

- Forbes

Naruto Shippuden Set 1 (Japanese)

Naruto returns to the Village Hidden in the Leaves a little bit older and a whole lot stronger! And just in the nick of time too, as the diabolical Akatsuki is on the move!

UNK 650 min. (2007) Anime

Blu-ray 16102569 $41.24

4 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17

Eminence in Shadow

Season 1 (Japanese)

Voices of: Adam Gibbs, Annie Wild When Cid is isekai’d to another world, he creates an underground organization to live out a fight against a made-up cult. Little does he know the cult is real, and they’re not happy his power fantasy just impeded their plans!

14A 500 min. (2022) Anime

Blu-ray 16162953 $87.74

3 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Complete Collection

(Japanese)

Voices of: Leraldo Anzaldua, Margaret McDonald

Yuuta suffered from ‘chuunibyou’ while he was in middle school. When he graduated, he tried to forgot about it, but he accidentally gets into a contract with Rikka and disrupts his desperately ordinary life.

UNK 840 min. (2012) Anime

Blu-ray 16162952 $97.49

6 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10

Evangelion

3.0+1.11 Thrice

Upon a Time (Japanese)

This is the fourth and final installment of the Rebuild of Evangelion films, bringing an epic conclusion to the story of Shinji and his fellow Eva pilots.

UNK 155 min. (2021) (Japan) Animated

Blu-ray 16121588 $24.74 2 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17

Immoral Guild

Complete Collection (Japanese)

Voices of: Carin Isobe, Katsumi Fukuhara Kikuru must guide Hitamuki, Maidena, Toxico, and Hanabata through one sticky situation after another as he tries to leave the Immoral Guild!

NR 300 min. (2022)

Anime

Blu-ray 16162951 $58.49 2 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

RWBY

Volume 9

Voices of: Barbara Dunkelman, Kara Eberle, Lindsay Jones

Our heroines are thrust into an unknown

world, the Ever After! However, once Team RWBY explores this strange and mysterious realm, they quickly discover it might not be quite as unknown as they first assumed.

14A 188 min. Anime

Blu-ray 16051278 $22.49

2 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

Chihayafuru

Season 3

Premium Box Set (Japanese)

Voices of: Adam Gibbs, Blake Shepard

Chihaya

Ayase’s obsession with the card game Karuta has already begun and now she has set her sights on an impossible task: taking on grandmaster Wakamiya Shinobu and taking the title of Queen for herself.

UNK 600 min. (2019) Anime

Blu-ray 16162954 $175.49

3 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17

Jujutsu Kaisen

Season 1 Part 2 (Japanese)

Voices of: Junya Enoki, Adam McArthur, Yuichi Nakamura

Jujutsu High is about to host its Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event, an annual competition of Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu High campuses.

14A 290 min. (2020) (Japan) Anime

Blu-ray 16138996 $37.49 2 Discs

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17

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Available October 3

Sister Boniface Mysteries

Season 2

Starring: Lorna Watson, Max Brown, Jerry Iwu

Nun and part-time forensic scientist

Sister Boniface is forced to defend her reputation as the conviction of her greatest adversary, ‘The Good Samaritan,’ comes into question.

UNK 600 min. (2023) Suspense/Thriller

DVD 16051277 $33.74 3 Discs

Epic Train

Journeys from Above

Starring: Raj

Ghatak

Follow some of the world’s most extraordinary railway journeys from above and on the ground, including Canada’s Wilderness Railroad and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

UNK 270 min. Documentary

DVD 16008501 $38.99 2 Discs

Jules Au Pays

D’asha (French)

Starring: Alex Dupras, Gaby Jourdain, Marilyse Bourke

In northern Quebec, Jules meets a mysterious Indigenous girl named Asha. Together, they venture to the other side of the forest, where nature reveals itself full of life and secrets.

UNK (2023) (Canada) Action/Adventure

DVD 16223842 $20.24

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

Van der Valk Season 3

Starring: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale Commisaris Piet van der Valk welcomes two new sergeants to the team: the hotshot but impulsive Eddie Suleman and the technical whiz Citra Li.

UNK 270 min. (2023) Drama

DVD 15988700 $38.99 2 Discs

NCIS: Hawai’i Season 2

Starring: Vanessa Lachey, Alex Tarrant, Yasmine Al-Bustami

The team learns about a planned attack on RIMPAC (the Rim of the Pacific Exercises) in Oahu, the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise.

NR 928 min. (2022) Action/Adventure

DVD 16121574 $38.99 6 Discs

Prey

Starring: Amber Midthunder, Michelle Thrush, Stefany Mathias

When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator, leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown.

UNK 100 min. (2022)

Action/Adventure

DVD 16167005 $26.24

Blu-ray 16167004 $32.24

4K+Blu-ray 16167003 $38.24

Ultimate Collector’s Edition, 2 Discs

And Then Come the Nightjars

Starring: David Fielder, Nigel Hastings

Adapted from Bea Roberts’s awardwinning stage play, this film tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a Devon farmer and the vet who is assigned to cull his precious herd.

PG 81 min. (2023) Drama

DVD 16135784 $23.99

“Effortlessly the best Predator movie since the original, Prey proves that, against all expectation, there’s life in the franchise yet…”

- Empire Magazine

Diversity Audiobook

SmartBrowse ‘Diversity’ on cvsmidwesttape.ca for more multicultural titles and authors!

The Blackwoods Brandy Colbert

Young Adult

Weaving together the narratives of Hollis, Ardith, and Blossom Blackwood, this tells an unforgettable story set in an America where everything is personal, and nothing is private

AB CD 9 Discs 15808813 $54.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

Kween

Vichet Chum

Young Adult

AB CD 9 Discs 15808428

$54.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

Mari and the Curse of El Cocodrilo

Adrianna Cuevas

Children’s

AB CD 7 Discs 15807619

$47.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

The Space Between Here & Now

Sarah Suk

Young Adult

AB CD 8 Discs 15808170

$54.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31

Tethered to Other Stars

Elisa Stone Leahy

Children’s

AB CD 7 Discs 15807954

$47.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

If I Have to be Haunted

Miranda Sun

Young Adult

AB CD 4 Discs 15808725

$35.99

Everything Is Not Enough

Lola Akinmade Akerstrom

Women’s Fiction

AB CD 10 Discs 15808945

$54.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24

The Reformatory Tananarive Due

Historical Fiction

AB CD 16 Discs 15524194

$110.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31

The Other Princess

Denny S. Bryce

Historical Fiction

AB CD 10 Discs 15808747

$54.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

“Starred Review: A striking testament to the bonds of family and a perceptive study in how events can echo throughout generations.” - Kirkus Reviews

Absolution

Alice McDermott

Historical Fiction

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. A virtuosic new novel about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world.

AB CD 10 Discs 15730941 $52.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31

Bestselling Authors

Sisters Under the Rising Sun

Heather Morris

Historical Fiction

A story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery, and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

AB CD 9 Discs 15730931 $52.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24

My Darling Girl

Jennifer McMahon

Horror

A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.

AB CD 8 Discs 15799362 $83.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

One Last Kill

Robert Dugoni

Mystery

Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle’s Route 99 serial killer. After 13 victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold. The lead detective of the original task force, Johnny Nolasco, dares Tracy to do what he failed to: close the case.

AB CD 8 Discs 15623696 $35.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

A Song of War

Kate Quinn

Romance

Seven authors bring to life the epic tale of the Trojan War: its heroes, its villains, its survivors, its dead. Who will lie forgotten in the embers, and who will rise to shape the bloody dawn of a new age?

AB CD 13 Discs 15994018 $76.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10

Dirty Thirty

Janet Evanovich

Mystery

As the body count rises and witnesses start to disappear, it won’t be easy for Stephanie Plum to keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty. It’s a good thing Stephanie isn’t afraid of getting a little dirty, too.

AB CD 7 Discs 15730869 $46.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31

The Running Grave

Robert Galbraith

Mystery

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult.

AB CD 29 Discs 15926737 $77.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31

The Honeymoon Heist

Brad Taylor

Suspense

Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are on Italy’s beautiful Amalfi Coast for their long-delayed honeymoon with their daughter, Amena— where they encounter art thieves with ties to the underworld.

AB CD 2 Discs 15941498 $27.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

Music

NOW That’s What I Call Music 25th Anniversary Volume 1

NOW

Pop/Rock

Artists: Justin Timberlake, Dua Lipa

NOW That’s What I Call Music! celebrates its 25th anniversary in the US in 2023, debuting in 1998 following 15 years of multi-platinum international triumph. The series has sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, topping 105 million in the US alone.

CD 16219322 $24.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27

NOW That’s What I Call Music 88

Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc./Church Plain And Simple, LLC

Pop/Rock

NOW 88 features top current hits from the world’s biggest artists. Each numerical NOW release also features ‘NOW Presents What’s Next’ tracks, previewing tomorrow’s biggest hits.

CD 16241956 $24.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27

NOW That’s What I Call Hip-Hop at 50

NOW

Rap/Hip-Hop

Artists: Lil Nas X, Future

A compilation that has been curated to define the history of hip-hop over its evolution throughout the past 50 years.

CD 16154324 $24.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 6

NOW That’s What I Call Country: The Very Best Of

NOW Country

Artists: Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts

The latest installment in the popular NOW Country series features tracks from each of the past 15 releases.

CD 16134945 $24.99

Top upcoming releases patrons are looking for

James Blunt

Who We Used to Be

Atlantic Group

Pop/Rock

CD 16160984

$19.99

AVAILABLE

OCTOBER 27

New music from the artist behind You’re Beautiful

Gucci Mane

Breath of Fresh Air

Atlantic Mod

Rap/Hip-Hop

Gucci Mane adds another chapter to his prolific catalog with a new album that includes collaborations with Lil Baby, DaBaby, 21 Savage, Roddy Ricch, Kodak Black, and more.

CD 16006590 $21.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 13

Includes the single Bluffin

Chris Botti

Volume 1

Blue Note

Jazz

Guest Artists: Joshua Bell, John Splithoff

CD 16167816

$19.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 20

Featuring a mix of new tracks and standards

Post Malone

The Diamond Collection

Mercury Records

Rap/Hip-Hop

Guest Artists: Quavo, Swae Lee

Global superstar Post Malone holds the record for most RIAA Diamond-certified singles in history. The Diamond Collection is a compilation of his top hits to date, including Congratulations; Sunflower with Swae Lee; White Iverson; and more.

CD 16241955 $23.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 17

New greatest hits collection from the music superstar

Mayer Hawthorne

For All Time

P&L Records

R&B

CD 16231927

$20.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27

A captivating blend of dark, sexy, and moody vibes

Brian McKnight

McKnighttime

Lullabies

Sono Recording Group

R&B

CD 16200485

$16.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 20

An album inspired by fatherhood

Barbra Streisand

Evergreen: Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records

Legacy Pop/Rock

CD 16207422 $25.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27

Commemorates the unparalleled career of a once-in-a-lifetime artist

CANADIAN Perspective

Julianna Riolino

All Blue

You’ve Changed Records

Pop/Rock

The debut solo album by Julianna Riolino, the ‘whitehot-lunged vocalist’ best known for her increasingly prominent role as a member of Daniel Romano’s Outfit, including a star turn on lead vocals on the 2021 hit The Motions

CD 16228802 $19.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27

Ariel Posen

Reasons Why

Soundly Music, LLC

Pop/Rock

Ariel Posen’s music occupies the space between genres.

It’s a rootsy sound that nods to his influences

(heartland rock n’ roll, electrified Americana, blue-eyed soul, R&B, Beatles-inspired pop) while still moving forward, pushing Posen into territory that’s uniquely his own.

CD 16144108 $24.99

Four80East Gonna Be Alright

Boomtang

Jazz

The 10th album from this Torontobased groove duo, Four80East. With an eclectic mix of neo-jazz, Gonna Be Alright serves up an infectious mix of soul, funk, and jazz groovers to follow up their 2022 release

Straight Round

CD 16239944 $19.99

The Rural Alberta Advantage

The Rise & the Fall Saddle Creek Records

Pop/Rock

The fifth studio album from the folk-rock trio. It is the first album featuring the return of original band member, multiinstrumentalist, and vocalist Amy Cole alongside Paul Banwatt (drums) and Nils Edenlo (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard).

CD 16231934 $20.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27

Sky Wolf’s Call

Eldon

Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger

Children’s

Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices.

AB CD 3 Discs 15380078 $57.99

Brit Happens

James Mullinger

Biography

Gut-busting stories of success and failure and the unpredictable grind of stand-up comedy. It also offers a laugh-out-loud look at life in Atlantic Canada from the region’s funniest outsider turned local.

AB CD 7 Discs 16051391 $38.99

Arkells

Laundry Pile

Virgin Music International

Pop/Rock

A decidedly intimate release: a chapter that documents some of the messy parts of life that end up teaching you what’s most important. Arkells have multiple platinum and gold singles/albums and nine Juno Award wins, having won Group of the Year more than any other act.

CD 16260068 $20.99

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 6

Bearings

The Best Part About Being Human Pure Noise Records

Pop/Rock

The Ottawa-based pop-punk quintet’s third release. It’s rock music, not rocket science, as the band rips through 10 tracks of dyed-in-the-wool charisma and ebullient melodicism.

CD 16072519 $19.99

The Secret of the Jade Bangle

Linda Trinh

Children’s

A charming early chapter book series that explores Vietnamese culture and identity through the eyes of the Nguyen siblings, with elements of the supernatural, spirituality, and social justice woven in.

AB CD 1 Disc 15911660 $38.99

The Mystery of the Painted Fan

Linda Trinh

Children’s

The Nguyen Kids feature the youngest sibling, Jacob, and continue the series’ exploration of social justice themes, specifically gender expression and identity, with a supernatural twist.

AB CD 1 Disc 15911658 $38.99

Audiobook

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1

Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.

PG13 163 min. (2023) $171M

Action/Adventure

DVD 15994588

$23.99

Blu-ray 15994589

$29.99

4K+Blu-ray 16148333

$36.74

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31

Jimmy Buffett Equal Strain on All Parts

Sun Records Country

Guest Artists: Paul McCartney, Emmylou Harris

Jimmy Buffett’s upcoming album is a playful and heartfelt gift to his dedicated fans. Inspired by his grandfather’s description of a good nap, the album features some wellknown friends, including Paul McCartney, Emmylou Harris, Angelique Kidjo, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

CD 16241957 $20.99

AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 3

New album from the late musical icon

“If you do give in, you’re in for a treat—a heart-pounding, never dragging, mission accomplished.”

- Associated Press