This is the archive for February 2007
Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books and other materials newly arrived, or soon-to-arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (May 22, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618683070
ISBN-13: 978-0618683079
From www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com:
When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can’t help admitting, maybe he’s right.
When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
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Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor
The Ethical Assassin by David Liss
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (January 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812974549
ISBN-13: 978-0812974546
“Look, there are two aspects to the answer—one ethical and the other practical. The ethical issue is that it may be expedient to torment and kill animals for our needs, but is it the right thing to do? It we could get better results by using prisoners or unwanted children or unlucky [cads] picked by the lottery, would that be okay? In other words, do the ends justify the means? Either the lives of animals are to be valued or they’re not, and if they are, then making exceptions because something is really, really important doesn’t make sense.”
The ethical assassin is the most amazing novel I have read for quite a long time. I decided to read it because the title sounded like an oxymoron to me, and it intrigued me to find out more about it. I figured there would be some blood, gore, and a bunch of killings, and that usually isn’t my kind of book, but the mention of the possibility of the ethics behind the killings really sealed the deal for me. I mean, who doesn’t wonder why someone goes around killing people for a living? The summary on the back of the book didn’t really interest me too much, and I was tempted to just not bother, but for some reason, I just couldn’t not read it. Which turned out to be a good thing.
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Reviewed by Jenna Garard, Courier Staff Writer
Would I Lie to You (Gossip Girl, No. 10) By Cecily von Ziegesar
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers (October 4, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316011835
ISBN-13: 978-0316011839
Serena and Blair are sisters who are part of the richer class in their society. During their summer before they head off to Yale, they become muses for a popular fashion designer in the Hamptons. Nate, Blair's ex-boyfriend, is working next door in order to get his diploma, so he does yard work for his lacrosse coach. All the while, they don't know that they're next door until they wind up running into each other.
Meanwhile, back at home, Dan and Vanessa are recently broken up, but are now best friends who live with each other in an apartment. To make some extra money, Vanessa babysits for two young boys, whose family goes down to the Hamptons every summer, so she tags along. While Dan is alone in the apartment, he begins a book club with his co-workers and begins to explore his sexuality and thinks that he's turning gay.
Throughout the book at the end of every few chapters, a brief summary is given by the Gossip Girl narrator in her daily blogs/ email fan club.
I really enjoyed this book because it was really fast paced, but I disliked the fact that I kept getting all the characters names mixed up because there were so many just thrown in.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service(MCT)
SONIC AND THE SECRET RINGS
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Sonic Team/Sega
ESRB Rating: Everyone (Cartoon Violence)
Few video game mascots have had a rougher 21st century than Sonic, who has been party to one three-dimensional letdown after another since showing promise seven years ago on the Dreamcast.
With "Sonic and the Secret Rings," Sega's iconic blue hedgehog finally gets his intervention. The Wii's unique controller all but forces Sonic to go back to the gameplay style that made him famous — blazing forward, jumping with precision, grabbing rings and busting some heads in mid-air for good measure. Boring exploration, pointless mech levels, contrived teamwork garbage, a bewildered camera that doesn't know where to point ... all gone, replaced by a fast, single-minded, streamlined adventure that employs the Wiimote's motion controls with sterling results.
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By Michelle Raskin, Courier Staff Writer
Ghost Rider
PG-13 1 Hour 50 Minutes
Ghost Rider is a new addition to the Marvel Productions family of films which started out as comic books. Starring Nicolas Cage (Johnny Blaze) and his childhood sweetheart, Eva Mendes (Roxanne), the movie is full of twists that make it confusing.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor
Jin, a breakthrough Chinese-American rapper, released his first Cantonese album,
ABC, on Tuesday. The release date was chosen for a specific reason: to coincide with Chinese New Year over the weekend. Although it is a Cantonese hip hop album, there are still a few English verses on
ABC. The album is mostly about Jin's life, with a few exceptions that are about eating brunch and love.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books and other material newly arrived, or soon-to-arrive at the James Logan Media Center.
The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them byE. Lockhart
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (September 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385732082
ISBN-13: 978-0385732086
From RandomHouse.com:
Here is how things stand at the beginning of newly-licensed driver Ruby Oliver's junior year at Tate Prep:
• Kim: Not speaking. But far away in Tokyo.
• Cricket: Not speaking.
• Nora: Speaking--sort of. Chatted a couple times this summer when they bumped into each other outside of school--once shopping in the U District, and once in the Elliot Bay Bookstore. But she hadn't called Ruby, or anything.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
TRADE
1. The Measure of a Man. Sidney Poitier. Harper San Francisco, $14.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Kim Edwards. Penguin, $14
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 33
3. The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls. Scribner, $14
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 32
4. The Freedom Writers Diary. The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell. Broadway, $13.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 6
5. Dreams from My Father. Barack Obama. Three Rivers Press, $13.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 18
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By Hassina Obaidy, Courier Staff Writer
Nothing But The Truth by Avi
Hardcover: 192 pages
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Scholastic (September 1, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0531059596
ISBN-13: 978-0531059593
The genres that I usually read are either romance or mystery, but this documentary novel is quite political and controversial. The author sends a message that everyone has the freedom of speech including students of any age.
Ninth grader Philip Malloy has never been in trouble even though his new homeroom teacher Miss Margaret Narwin dislikes him. During the "respectful, silent attention," Philip hums along with the daily playing national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, which was always igonred by his old homeroom teacher.
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By Dana Llarena, Courier Staff Writer
Count to Ten by Karen Rose
Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Warner Vision (February 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446616907
ISBN-13: 978-0446616904
“Count to ten, and go to hell!”
Detective Mia Mitchell of the Chicago PD has seriously been having a lousy month. From burying her father, who was also a cop, and revealing hidden secrets from his past, to being ambushed by druggies and even watching her partner get shot while they control the situation. Now, after returning back to work early from her disability leave, she has been assigned to a temporary partner to solve a case that is bringing fear into peoples homes.
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By Jim Rossman
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)
As a platform, the Macintosh computer has almost surpassed Windows as the best system to use as a media center to watch video content either on the computer's monitor or on your TV.
This hasn't happened because of Apple. We can thank Elgato Systems for single-handedly supporting TV on the Mac.
While the rest of the world was waiting for Apple to create the Apple TV, Elgato was producing outstanding TV tuners and DVR software for the Macintosh.
Its newest entry is one of the smallest — the $149 EyeTV Hybrid.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
SID MEIER'S PIRATES!
For: PSP
From: Full Fat/Firaxis/2K games
Rating: Everyone 10+ (Mild Violence)
If the PSP must be a haven for downgraded ports of console games, they should at least be games that don't choke on the system's limitations and portable nature. That's the case with "Sid Meier's Pirates!" which not only fits on the PSP but arguably belonged here all along.
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By Susan Muramoto,Courier Staff Writer
Note: The Courier received free tickets to the film from Wild 94.9 in exchange for a promotional consideration.
Bridge to Terabithia follows the adventures of a young boy named Jess and his new-found friend Leslie. Jess is a scrawny boy from a farm who is constantly forgotten in his family and picked on a school. When the new girl in town, Leslie, enrolls at his school, they quickly become good friends and realize that they are next-door neighbors. Leslie introduces Jess to what imagination has to offer as each day after school they explore unknown territory in the woods behind their homes.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor
A blast from the past:
2003 — " Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman." (
Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy)
2005 — "And sugar, we're going down swinging. I'll be your number one with a bullet." (
Sugar, We re Going Down )
2005 — "Dance, dance, we re falling apart to half time, dance, dance." (
Dance, Dance )
To the present:
2007 — "And the lies I weave are oh so intricate, oh so intricate." (
This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race )
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor
Originating from San Diego, California, alternative rock band Switchfoot released their latest album,
Oh! Gravity. around Christmas. It has been over a decade since the quintet has been together and their latest release only has a few good songs. Are they too pulled down by
Gravity?
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights new books and other materials newly arrived, or soon-to-arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse; Reprint edition (May 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0689857705
ISBN-13: 978-0689857706
From wikipedia:
Rainbow Boys is the first novel in a trilogy by Alex Sanchez, focusing on the issues gay and questioning youth face as they come of age. This book is followed by
Rainbow High and
Rainbow Road.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 3, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Best Life Diet. Bob Greene. Simon & Schuster, $26
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 6
2. You: On a Diet. Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Free Press, $25
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 13
3. The Secret. Rhonda Byrne. Atria/Beyond Words, $23.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 5
4. The Audacity of Hope. Barack Obama. Crown, $25
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 15
5. The Innocent Man. John Grisham. Doubleday, $28.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 16
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By Cary Darling
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Some of the virtual residents of
Second Life out on the town.So I show up, first time in the place, and this fox is speaking to me.
Not talking here about the way-old-school slang for a beautiful woman but something closer to Animal Planet than the Playboy Channel. Bushy tail. Canine features. The works.
Can't remember exactly what the conversation was — a mere exchange of passing pleasantries before it walked off — but the whole thing left an unsettling feeling, like this could really get weird. Like I'd fallen through the looking glass and Alice definitely wasn't living here anymore.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
RATCHET AND CLANK: SIZE MATTERS
For: PSP
From: High Impact Games/Sony
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ (Animated Blood, Cartoon Violence)
There's a certain danger involved when a top-shelf developer (in this case, Insomniac) hands the portable reigns to its most prominent game franchise (Playstation 2 mega-staple "Ratchet and Clank") to a brand-new development house (High Impact Games). Usually, it results in a scary mess that sort of resembles the console games but plays like some fan-made project developed in somebody's spare time.
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By Michelle Morimoto and Bobbi Maas, Courier Staff Writers
Note: Free tickets to a preview of The Messengers were provided to The Courier by radio station Wild 94.9 in exchange for promotional considerations.
The Messengers is a clichéd horror flick that steals concepts from other films and rearranges them to make a “new” film. The affects were impressive at times but cheesy in others and the film lacked continuity.
The Messengers was good for a few laughs but it was devoid of substance.
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By Greg Kot
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
More than 16,000 members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences vote on the Grammy Awards each year. The academy says it's out to reward "artistic excellence" regardless of sales or chart position, but rarely does it go out of its way to recognize up-and-coming talent that doesn't move big numbers.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor
You may have seen Ashley Tisdale on Disney Channel's
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and
High School Musical. Now you can hear her sing. Just this past Tuesday, this 21-year-old (yes, she is 21 years old, not 16), just released her debut album,
Headstrong. Can she sing? Somewhat. A better actress than singer? Probably. Struggling because she is a Disney star? You bet.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
(MCT)
Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Plum Lovin'. Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's, $16.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
2. For One More Day. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $21.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 17
3. White Lies. Jayne Ann Krentz. Putnam, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
4. Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 10
5. Hannibal Rising. Thomas Harris. Delacorte, $27.95
Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 7
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Editor's Note: Each week, the Courier spotlights books recently arrived, or soon to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Rodale Books (May 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594865671
ISBN-13: 978-1594865671
From Al Gore: Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly-and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is it that our leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are responded to, their significance doesnt diminish; it grows.
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Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor
Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (May 19, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594200513
ISBN-13: 978-1594200519
“’Oh the glory of it all’ was something I said when I was alone and things were glorious.”
It also becomes the theme of Sean Wilsey’s memoir, in which it goes from a phrase to express his happiness, to a phrase that expresses the total irony of life. Wilsey comes from a wealthy family in San Francisco that, although seamless on the outside, is full of the shattered pieces of their lives: lies, deceptions, drugs, the desire to be famous, shame, greed, and failure. Although the lives of the Wilseys and Montandons are to this day chronicled in the social column of the local newspaper, their story was never really told, until Sean Wilsey wrote his memoir. It’s the story of the completely dysfunctional family behind the masks. It is a very interesting read, although a little lengthy.
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Reviewed by Jenna Garard, Courier Staff Writer
Backstage Pass by Gaby Triana
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins (June 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060560177
ISBN-13: 978-0060560171
Desert McGraw is a typical teenager, except for the fact that her dad is in one of the biggest rock bands out, Crossfire. She practically lives on the road, and just wants a place she can call "home" and go to a school for a whole year.
The band is losing their popularity, so Desert's mom and dad decide to settle down in Miami to take time off and start on a new record.
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Reviewed by Iona Childers, Courier Staff Writer
You Just Don't Understand - Women and Men in Conversation, by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (May 7, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345372050
ISBN-13: 978-0345372055
Dr. Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, offers up a plethora of ways to improve communication between men and women in her book, You Just Don't Understand - Women and Men in Conversation. Some readers might expect her advice to be in the form of a guidebook, complete with rules and step-by-step illustrations. Instead, she decides to offer a lot of different every day scenarios where communication can go awry, and then launches into a discussion on what she believes is the root cause. Here are some highlights and key points of the book:
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Reviewed by Dana Llarena, Courier Staff Writer
Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: HarperTorch; Reprint edition (September 27, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060584025
ISBN-13: 978-0060584023
"There comes a time in a girl's life when she needs to trade in her mechanic's overalls for a pair of Manolo Blahnik stilettos. Not that I can afford a ot of Manolos, but it's a goal."
Raised under the hood of her father's car, Alexandria "Barney" Barnaby grew up to work in an insurance company instead of working at her father's garage.
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
DIDDY KONG RACING DS
For: Nintendo DS
From: Rare/Nintendo
ESRB Rating: Everyone (Mild Cartoon Violence)
Roughly a billion kart racers have come, gone and been forgotten since "Super Mario Kart" invented the genre more than 14 years ago, with only one — "Diddy Kong Racing" — being good enough and loved enough to endure the tests of both Mario and time.
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By Heather Newman
Detroit Free Press (MCT)
"A screenshot from World of Warcraft:
The Burning Crusade'
The "World of Warcraft" PC game is so good it should come with a warning label: Danger! Product inside is habit-forming. Do not take without strictly monitoring the progress of your life in the real, non-virtual world!
The recently released "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" is the extra stream of honey that makes that addictive shot go down smoo-oo-th.
But what is an online world game?
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By Heather Newman
Detroit Free Press (MCT)
Online games such as the World of
Warcraft have their own vernacular.Online world video games carry their own abbreviations, slang and shorthand for communicating what's going on.
You don't need to know them to get through the game, but using them lets other players know you're familiar with the genre. Here are some specific terms to get you started:
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By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
"Catch a Fire" (PG-13, 2006, Universal)
It's 1980, and the first cracks in the Apartheid rule against black South Africans have begun to form. But while soccer coach, power plant foreman and family man Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke) has nothing to do with the explosion that shook his plant, he does have a skeleton in his closet. That secret is enough to raise the eyebrows of cop Nic Vos (Tim Robbins), who makes it brutally clear that Chamusso's claims of innocence are falling on deaf ears until further notice. In a year full of structurally similar films about events taking place today, "Catch a Fire" didn't receive the attention it deserved for exploring what, as far as most people assume, is yesterday's issue. That's too bad: Not only is "Fire" a thrilling and refreshingly human-powered film, but it's also based on a true story — and one with surprisingly strong parallels to today's headlines. Bonnie Mbuli and Sithembiso Khumalo also star.
Extras: Director/cast commentary, deleted scenes.
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By Jim Farber
New York Daily News (MCT)
Most of them haven't even released their first albums yet &8212#; not in this country, anyway. But that hasn't stopped the world's early adapters from murmuring their names with awe. Below we bring you those singers and musicians, poised to splash down on our shores, each graced and cursed with the charge of advance buzz. Consider them music's new faces of `07.
THE VIEW
Album: "Hats Off to Buskers"
Release date: March 13
Sound: Brisk and catchy snot-nosed punk-pop, fired by the singer's blatant Scottish brogue. Even their ballads have kick as well as melodic flair.
Background: The four high-spirited lads (average age: 18) grew up in Dundee, Scotland, where they played Sex Pistols and Squeeze covers. Their own songs land in the garage-punk zone of the Undertones or Libertines (they were signed by the same guy who discovered that scrappy band).
Prognosis: If the world comes to its senses, the View will become the Arctic Monkeys of `07.
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Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)
The Courier will host a
Fall Out Boy "listening party,"
and give away free swag from
Fall Out Boy. Stay tuned for details.
1. "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race," Fall Out Boy
2. "It's Not Over," Daughtry
3. "Say It Right," Nelly Furtado
4. "The Sweet Escape," Gwen Stefani
5. "Her (In Your Arms)," Hellogoodbye
6. "Irreplaceable," Beyonce
7. "Fergalicious," Fergie
8. "Suddenly I See," KT Tunstall
9. "How to Save a Life," The Fray
10. "Push It to the Limit," Corbin Bleu
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For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
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By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor
Chris Daughtry was a fan-favorite in American Idol last season, as many even speculated that he could be the next winner until his rocker style, for whatever reason, did not work for him on the May, and he was voted off. Shocked to leave, Daughtry had to say goodbye to Elliott Yamin, Katharine McPhee, and winner Taylor Hicks.
Fast-forward to about seven months later, when he released his debut album,
Daughtry, with his band on November 21, 2006. That album was #1 last week and shattered records.
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