Weekly CONNECTION
October 9, 2023
The White Lotus Season 2
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam Dimarco
At its Sicily location, the White Lotus welcomes two couples trying to decide if they’re friends or enemies, a threegeneration Italian American family exploring its Sicilian roots, and a White Lotus VIP traveling with her husband (and assistant) in tow. 14A 438 min. (2022) Comedy
Dirty Thirty Janet Evanovich
As the body count rises and witnesses start to disappear, it won’t be easy for Stephanie 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
New Audiobooks p4 New Music p6
DVD 16162894 $24.74 2 Discs AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 21
Video All Things Barbie
Barbie Star Light
Adventure
Voices of: Erica Lindbeck, Robbie Daymond, Kimberly Woods
Barbie travels to a new planet to join a special team of talented new friends on a mission to save the stars through hoverboard adventures.
G 80 min. (2016) Children’s
DVD 14733724 $8.99
Barbie: A Touch of Magic
Season 1
Voices of: America
Young, Tatiana Varria
Barbie and Barbie discover a mysterious baby Pegasus on the beach and work to find out where it came from while protecting it from the danger that has followed it to Malibu.
UNK 286 min. (2023) Children’s
DVD 16162935 $15.99
2 Discs
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17
Barbie: It Takes Two The Music of Friendship
Voices of: America
Barbie
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.
PG 114 min. (2023) $630M Comedy
DVD 15994586 $23.24
Blu-ray 15994587 $29.99
4K+Blu-ray 16146806 $33.74
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17
Barbie The Album Atlantic
Soundtracks
Artists: Lizzo, Nicki Minaj
Featuring Dance the Night, the top ten single from Dua Lipa, who stars among the film’s supporting cast.
CD 15973191 $19.99
Barbie: It Takes Two Pop Star Plans
Voices of: America
Young, Tatiana Varria, Daysha Ligeon
Barbie and Barbie attend a year of performing arts high school in NYC. Along the way, they record a music demo and take odd jobs to fund their dreams, all while exploring the Big Apple.
UNK 154 min. (2022) Children’s DVD 15774129 $8.99
Barbie Double Feature
Voices of: America Young, Tatiana Varria, Nicolas Roye
Includes the films Barbie: Mermaid Power and Barbie: Skipper and the Big Babysitting Adventure.
UNK 125 min. (2023) Children’s
DVD 15988547 $17.99
Young, Tatiana Varria, Nicolas Roye
Filled with stories of friendship, family, passion, and perseverance, the series follows Barbie and Barbie as they work hard and have fun chasing their musical dreams.
UNK 132 min. (2023) Children’s
DVD 15826053 $8.99
Barbie Dreamtopia
Voices of: Erica Lindbeck, Meira Blinkoff
Join Barbie, Chelsea, and her puppy
Honey as they swim through rainbow rivers with beautiful mermaids and fly through cotton candy clouds with fairies. All you have to do is dream!
UNK 44 min. (2016) Children’s DVD 14717631 $10.99
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“...director Greta Gerwig has struck a balance between unhinged whimsy, deep humanity and comedic bliss.” - Observer
Brand new titles your patrons are sure to love, curated by our video experts here at CVS Midwest Tape!
Available October 10
Staff Picks Video
Jules
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, Zoe Winters
Milton lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extraterrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard.
UNK 90 min. (2023) $1M Science Fiction
DVD 16104082 $23.24
Blu-ray 16104083 $29.99
Flying Boat
Meet pilots and mechanics who have restored, flown, and maintained the last few airworthy examples of the flying boat, a magnificent aircraft from a long-lost era.
NR 77 min. (2023)
Documentary
DVD 16203998
$28.99
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Complete Series
Voices of: Yuri Lowenthal, Antony Del Rio, Ben Diskin Adam and his heroic squad of misfits discover the legendary power of Grayskull and their destiny to defend Eternia from sinister Skeletor.
UNK 679 min. (2023) Children’s
DVD 16162932 $25.99 4 Discs
Transformers Rise of the Beasts
Starring: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Ron Perlman
Set in the ‘90s, a new faction of Transformers— the Maximals—join the Predacons and Terrorcons in the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth.
PG 127 min. (2023) $157M
Action/Adventure
DVD 15961305 $23.99
The Boogeyman
Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house.
UNK 98 min.
(2023) $43M Horror
DVD 15979391 $25.49
Blu-ray 15979392 $31.49
Quicksand
Starring: Allan
Hawco, Carolina Gaitán, Sebastian Eslava
An American couple, on the brink of divorce, become trapped in quicksand while on a hike through the Colombian rainforest.
NR 86 min. (2023)
Horror
DVD 16162947 $27.74
Sniper: G.R.I.T.
Global Response & Intellegence Team
Starring: Chad Michael Collins, Ryan Robbins, Luna Fujimoto
Ace sniper Brandon Beckett and the newly formed Global Response and Intellegence Team (G.R.I.T.) deploy to Malta to eliminate an international terrorist plot.
14A 92 min. (2023) Action/Adventure
DVD 16088728 $19.49
Blu-ray 15961306 $29.99
4K-Blu-ray 16051302 $36.74
“A genuinely entertaining summer blockbuster, with its high point being Pete Davidson as Mirage.”
- Paste Magazine
Yellowjackets Season 2
Starring: Tawny Cypress, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey
The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we’ll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis.
14A 520 min. (2022) Drama
DVD 16121578 $23.99 3 Discs
- Chicago Sun-Times
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“...eerie, darkly funny hit solidifies its standing as one of the most memorable series of the decade.”
New Romance Audiobook
LGBTQ+
Dragged to the Wedding
Andrew Grey
Faking this relationship—and ignoring the very real feelings developing between them— might just be the performance of James and Daniel’s lives.
AB CD 7 Discs 15936355
$47.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17
10 Things That Never Happened
Alexis Hall
Faking amnesia seemed like a good idea when Sam was afraid he was getting sacked, but now he has to deal with the reality of Jonathan’s guilt, as well as the unsettling fact that his surly boss might have a softer side to him.
AB CD 9 Discs 16008748
$77.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17
What We Could Have Been
Jess Sinclair
Contemporary
AB CD 8 Discs 16047097 $77.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10
Smartbrowse ‘New Romance’ on cvsmidwesttape.ca for a whirlwind of romance titles.
The Burnout
Sophie Kinsella
Humor
AB CD 10 Discs 15937971 $59.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24
All the Little Raindrops
Mia Sheridan
Suspense
AB CD 11 Discs 15964711 $35.99
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 1
A Fire in the Flesh
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Fantasy
AB CD 20 Discs 15964790 $54.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31
The Last Close Call
Laura Griffin
Mystery
AB CD 8 Discs 16008703 $77.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24
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Bestselling Authors
Someone to Love Marie Force
Romance
She’s his nanny and his close friend. He shouldn’t be thinking about her that way.
AB CD 1 Disc 16148373 $45.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27
Book 3 of Wild Widows
Audiobook
Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward
Multicultural Interest
A reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching.
AB CD 7 Discs
15730861
$46.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24
Becoming the Boogeyman
Richard Chizmar Horror
Will those involved walk away from the story of a lifetime in order to keep their loved ones safe? Or will they once again be drawn into a killer’s web?
AB CD 10 Discs 15799305 $68.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10
Obsession
Stuart Woods, Brett Battles
Action
Teddy Fay looks into the disappearance of a magnate’s wife and quickly comes to find that darker forces are at play and an old vendetta has been revived.
AB CD 5 Discs 15483401 $47.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31
The Secret Lee Child, Andrew Child Action
1992. A fatal fall attracts unexpected attention from the secretary of defense, connecting a string of upstanding citizens showing up dead. Jack Reacher is brought onboard to lead an interagency task force investigation.
AB CD 8 Discs 15684050 $59.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24
Judgment
Prey
John Sandford
Mystery
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to find answers as to who killed the family of a now grieving widow, leaving her with a major donation to a local charity in limbo.
AB CD 9 Discs 15761612 $53.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17
12 Months to Live
James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Suspense
Jane Smith has just 12 months to live. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.
AB CD 8 Discs 15700262 $56.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31
Blood Lines
Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille
Mystery Special Agents
Brodie and Taylor are on the hunt for the cold-blooded murder of one of their fellow agents.
AB CD 16 Discs 15730905 $69.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10
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Picks
Music Critically Acclaimed
Mitski
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Dead Oceans, Inc.
Pop/Rock
CD 16134957
$22.99
“These are among some of the most surreal, existential, and fascinating songs of Mitski’s career.”
-Pitchfork
Corrine Bailey
Rae
Black Rainbows
Black Rainbows
Music
R&B
CD 16011172
$20.99
“A hugely impressive, frequently stunning return…” -Clash Music
Róisín Murphy
Hit Parade
Ninja Tune
Pop/Rock
CD 15962792
$22.99
“A really masterful album.”
-The Guardian
The Chemical Brothers For That Beautiful Feeling
Casablanca
Pop/Rock
CD 16167811
$19.99
“4 out of 5 stars. On their 10th album, The Chemical Brothers remain the best in the business.”
-NME
Margo Cilker
Valley of Heart’s Delight
Fluff and Gravy Records
Country
CD 16164718
$20.99
“On Valley of Heart’s Delight Cilker proves herself to be one of our finest and most literate songwriters…”
-American Songwriter
Loraine James
Gentle Confrontation
Hyperdub Records
Pop/Rock
CD 15991427
$25.99
“...a varied, disjointed, entirely unpredictable yet utterly singular record.”
-Uncut
Vagabon
Sorry I Haven’t Called Nonesuch
Pop/Rock
CD 16113487
$19.99
“4 out of 5 stars...she sounds more assured than before on her illuminating third album.”
-AllMusic
Romy Mid Air Young
Pop/Rock
CD 15991433
$23.99
“8 out of 10. Mid Air champions feeling and shared connection. You’ll remember it for a long while.”
-Exclaim.ca
Baroness Stone
Abraxan Hymns
Pop/Rock
CD 16011157
$22.99
“5 out of 5. They are immovable and seemingly permanent in their excellence.”
-Kerrang!
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Top upcoming releases patrons are looking for
Staff
Picks Music
Willie Nelson
Greatest Hits: Willie Hits
Sony Music
Country
Guest Artists:
Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings
CD 16279430
$14.99
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 3
A new collection of Willie’s biggest hits
Blink-182
One More Time...
Columbia Records
Pop/Rock
The highly anticipated new album from blink-182, featuring the group’s iconic lineup together again; Mark Hoppus (bass, vocals), Tom DeLonge (guitar, vocals), and Travis Barker (drums).
CD 16288885 $18.99
Parental Advisory
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 20
Seventeen new songs from the band
Van Morrison
Accentuate the Positive
Virgin Music International Pop/Rock
CD 16260065
$20.99
AVAILABLE
NOVEMBER 3
A reimagining of classic songs
Nas Magic 2
Mass Appeal
Rap/Hip-Hop
Guest Artist:
50 Cent
CD 16145352
$23.99
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 24
Digital release comes to CD
Bruce Sussman & Barry Manilow
Harmony
Original
Broadway Cast
Recording
Ghostlight Records
Soundtracks
CD 16182246 $27.99
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 17
Musical based on true events with music from Barry Manilow
Offset
Set It Off
Motown Records
Rap/Hip-Hop
Offset returns with his sophomore solo album, which includes the single Fan and Jealousy, his hit collaboration with his wife Cardi B. There are also appearances from Travis Scott, Future, and more.
CD 16290976 $20.99
Parental Advisory
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 13
Second solo album from the Migos member
Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram
Live in London
Alligator Records Blues
CD 16200496
$35.99
AVAILABLE
OCTOBER 13
Live album from the Grammy Award-winning blues artist
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CANADIAN Perspective
Debby Friday
Basia Bulat
Basia Bulat’s debut and sophomore albums are available again on CD.
Good Luck
Sub Pop Records
Pop/Rock
Debby Friday’s fulllength debut album is built on welcoming the journey’s complicated drops and mountain highs with something more like grace.
CD 15701095 $20.99
Abigail Lapell
Getaway
Oh, My Darling
Secret City Records
Pop/Rock
CD 15749037 $22.99
Self Produced Folk
Call it prairie noir, or Canadian desert rock: Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs, mapping epic natural landscapes and deeply intimate personal territory.
CD 15879388 $20.99
BIG|BRAVE
Nature Morte
Thrill Jockey Records
Reissues
Michael Bublé
Christmas
Reprise
Holiday
Guest Artists: Puppini Sisters, Thalia
Reissue of the Canadian crooner’s deluxe edition of his classic holiday album. This includes a second disc with seven additional tracks, including two brand new songs.
CD 16151832 $24.99
10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Shania Twain
Come on Over
Diamond Edition
Mercury Nashville
Country
Heart of My Own Secret City Records
Pop/Rock
CD 15749038 $22.99
Video
Borealis
Borealis offers an immersive portrait of the forest from the perspective of the plants and animals that live there.
UNK 93 min. (2020) (Canada) Documentary
DVD 16277757
$123.99
Pop/Rock
BIG|BRAVE COLORS
the songs of Nature Morte with unease, creating an air of beauty in decay, chords suspended in contemplative stillness.
CD 15661191 $23.99
Living with Giants
(Inuktitut)
Living with Giants delves into the imaginative world of Paulusie Kasudluak, a young Inuk facing responsibilities as he transitions into adulthood.
UNK 78 min. (2016) (Canada) Documentary
DVD 16277782
$123.99
Guest Artists: Bryan White, Chris Martin In celebration of the album’s 25th anniversary, it has been remastered from the original tapes for the first time ever and now includes an additional bonus disc of duets with Chris Martin and Elton John, live tracks, remixes, and more.
CD 16028625 $90.99
The River You Step In
Starring: Astrid Van Wieren, Sharmila Dey, Daniel Briere
Set in an East Toronto neighborhood, The River You Step In is about a maverick social worker and the troubled people she tries to help, and engages with issues of domestic abuse, addiction, and racial prejudice.
UNK 97 min. (2019) (Canada) Drama
DVD 16288031 $28.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 10
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Music
Taylor Swift returns with another highly anticipated release!
Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
Republic Records
Pop/Rock
Taylor Swift revisits her hit 2014 album and creates new interpretations of all the tracks. There are also five ‘From the Vault’ tracks that were originally written for the album but left off. CD 16300966 $19.99
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27
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