Latest DVDs, CDs, books: Oct. 9

A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:

DVDs

"Prometheus" (R): Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba and Michael Fassbender search for the origins of life in director Ridley Scott's "Alien" prequel that isn't an "Alien" prequel except that it really is.

Elsewhere, Julianne Hough's just a small-town girl, living in a lonely world - populated by Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin and Tom Cruise - in "Rock of Ages" (PG-13), the film version of the musical love letter to the 1980s-era Sunset Strip that stopped at the Flamingo Las Vegas on its way to Broadway. And Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) tries to stop a killer whose methods mirror his stories in "The Raven" (R).

Topping today's TV transfers: "Bones: The Complete Seventh Season," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season Seven," "The League: Season Three" and "Whitney: Season One."

CDs

Kiss, "Monster": Kiss have a new record out.

What does it sound like?

Sweet understated nothings whispered into a lover's ear?

Either that or Godzilla farting guitar riffs.

Guess you'll just have to buy the record and see.

Also in stores: The Acacia Strain, "Death Is the Only Mortal"; All Time Low, "Don't Panic"; Between the Buried and Me, "The Parallax II: Future Sequence"; John Cale, "Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood"; Celtic Woman, "Home for Christmas"; Converge, "All We Love We Leave Behind"; Danko Jones, "Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue"; Don Felder, "Road to Forever"; Ellie Goulding, "Halcyon"; Wanda Jackson, "Unfinished Business"; MGK, "Lace Up"; Meshell Ndegeocello, "Pour une ame souveraine: A dedication to Nina Simone"; AC Newman, "Shut Down the Streets"; Nonpoint, "Nonpoint"; The Script, "#3"; Ty Segall, "Twins"; The 69 Eyes, "X"; Rick Springfield, "Songs for the End of the World"; Trash Talk, "119"; Suzanne Vega, "Close-Up Vol. 4, Songs of Family"; The Wallflowers, "Glad All Over"; Xzibit, "Napalm"; and Zedd, "Clarity."

BOOKS

"NYPD Red" by James Patterson and Marshall Karp: The death of a world-famous producer proves to be only the beginning as task force Detective Zach Jordan and his partner chase a brutal killer terrifying New York.

"Goosebumps" author R.L. Stine goes from scaring children to frightening adults with "Red Rain," in which Lea Sutter adopts twin boys who turn out to be anything but angels.

Also hitting shelves: "The Big Exit" by David Carnoy; "Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay" by Paul Vitagliano; "The Duck Commander Family" by Willie Robertson; "The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis" by David G. Coleman; "Island of Bone" by Imogen Robertson; "Silent House" by Orhan Pamuk; "A Thousand Mornings" by Mary Oliver; "Who I Am" by Peter Townshend; and "Yellowfang's Secret" by Erin Hunter.

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