Apollo 13 and Chariots of Fire Available Through the Library

Each week, Shrewsbury Patch features new books, movies and music available through the .

Here are a few of this week’s new items:

• Dexter - The First Season, The Complete Second Season, The Complete Third Season, The Fourth Season, and the Fifth Season, from Showtime Entertainment. A crime drama about Dexter Morgan, a man who leads a double life as an incredibly likeable forensics expert for the Miami Police Department and as an emotionless vigilante serial killer.

• Apollo 13 (Widescreen Collector's Edition), from Imagine Entertainment. Their mission was to stroll the moons surface and collect data. That is until a sober message came from space: Houston we have a problem. Stars Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon.

• Body of Proof, from ABC Studios. Starring Dana Delany. An arrogant former neurosurgeon named Megan Hunt must adapt to a new life as a medical examiner in Philadelphia.

• Cabaret, from Warner Home Video. The winner of eight Academy Awards, it boasts a score by the legendary songwriting partnership behind another film that would energize the movie musical genre with equal razzle-dazzle 30 years later: Chicago's John Kander and Fred Ebb. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Joel Grey) sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

• Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition), from Warner Home Video. The winner of the 1981 Oscar for best picture. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-semitism.

• City Slickers, from MGM Home Entertainment. Starring Billy Crystal. A hilarious film about cowboys, careers and mid-life crises.

• Commando (Director's Cut), from 20th Century Fox. An action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a retired military special-ops officer whose daughter (played with an expert balance of cute/feisty by Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by the baddest of bad guys, who'll only hand her back as and when he's assassinated a tiresome banana-republic president on their behalf.

• Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, by Simon Garfield. A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you?

• David Bellamy's Complete Guide to Watercolour Painting, by David Bellamy. Containing more than 300 step-by-step photographs, tips, instructions, and finished paintings, this complete guide provides a comprehensive introduction to watercolor and serves as an essential edition to the reference library of any artist.

• Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, by Mr. David Margolick. The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation—in Little Rock and throughout the South—and an epic moment in the civil rights movement.

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