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Shelf Life: Media from Then and Now for Readers in the Sacramento Region

Jun 05, 2017 10:26AM ● By Sharon Penny

ALBUMS

THEN 

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th Anniversary—The Beatles  

Your dad doesn’t have to be 64 to enjoy this great Father’s Day gift. Choose from the stereo mix CD; a two-disc deluxe edition; or the Super Deluxe six-disc set that includes 33 tracks from the original Sgt. Pepper recording sessions, many of them never released until now. 


NOW

 

Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie—Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie

Fleetwood Mac’s Buckingham and McVie form a duo on this exciting new album, with studio backing from bandmates Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. It’s Buckingham and McVie’s first outing as a duo, and the creativity shared between them promises to delight Mac diehards. 


BOOKS

 THEN

The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais

“This book reads like a TV show,” you say. Small wonder, since Robert Crais was a successful TV writer before becoming a successful crime writer, writing for classic shows like Cagney & Lacy, Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues. Nineteen-eight-seven’s Monkey’s Raincoat begins the exploits of wisecracking ex-Ranger PI Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike, and trust me…it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.  



NOW

No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories by Lee Child

As Reacher fans anxiously await the 22nd Jack Reacher novel, you might want to greedily snack on this collection of 11 previously published novellas and short stories (five previously available only in eBook form) and a brand-new novella. Flesh out the backstory of your favorite lone-wolf ex-cop. 


DVDs

THEN

 Enter the Dragon

It’s not just Bruce Lee. It’s John Saxon, it’s Jim Kelly, and it’s the bright technicolorness of it all that transports me to childhood, sitting crosslegged in front of the TV on a Saturday night while my parents played cards in the kitchen. To this day Enter the Dragon still stands as the coolest thing that my young eyes ever beheld. 





NOW

John Wick 2

In the first movie, we saw John Wick dragged by tragedy into the mysterious hitman life he tried to leave behind. In John Wick 2 we join him on a Dante-esque descent into the dark circles of hitman hell as new foes arrive, new markers are called in and new armor-plated custom suits are tailored…and we explore the many new and exciting ways 52-year-old Keanu can kick butt eight ways to Sunday.



By Sharon Penny