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Volume two begins four months after the Emmy Award-nominated first season's explosive finale, just as the heroes are struggling, once again, to adapt to normal existence. The 4-disc set contains all the TV episodes, plus some bonus features with untold stories and an alternate ending to the season finale. Compare prices on the first season of Heroes.

Several months ago we were regularly volunteering to babysit for our friends with fancy on-demand cable, just so we could watch episodes from the final season of The Wire. We never did get to see all of them, but as of today, Season 5 of The Wire is out on DVD, so you'll know where to find us when we're not at work - glued to the sofa, in front of the TV. The... more

Spotted: Breaking Dawn, the much-hyped final book in Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight saga, in the hands of thousands of women and girls dying to know if Bella will marry Edward and finally and permanently join the Cullen family. If you like stories about vampires, werewolves, and high school love, check out this series. Or be lazy like us and wait for the movie versions. Twilight hits theaters December 12th.

Celebrate George Carlin's life with All My Stuff, the 14-disc career retrospective that came out last year. The DVD set includes 12 of his HBO concert specials, spans nearly 30 years, and includes some of his memorable routines: "Baseball and Football," "A Place for My Stuff," "Losing Things," "Al Sleet the Hippie-Dippie Weather Man," "Hitler," "We Like War," "It's Not A Sport," "Why We Don't Need Ten Commandments," and - of course - the... more

We're a little surprised to learn about a new book called Embracing Your Big Fat Ass: An Owner's Manual. Isn't that Kim Kardashian's entire raison d'etre? Has the world forgotten Sir Mix-a-Lot? But we guess there's still a market for a "gleefully frank" self-help book that "encourages readers to accept and love every inch of themselves - including the lumpier parts." We can't wait for the movie version.

David Sedaris, the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, has a new book out called When You Are Engulfed in Flames. The book is a collection of personal essays, many of which have already been published in The New Yorker, about everything from youth to travel to quitting smoking. The New York Observer says "The essays are careful accretions of detail and... more

The third season of the hit Showtime series Weeds comes out on DVD this week. Matthew Modine joins the cast as a real estate mogul who hooks up with both pot-dealing soccer mom Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) and her friendly nemesis Celia (Elizabeth Perkins). Meanwhile, Nancy's son Silas (Hunter Parrish) finds romance with a religious girl (Mary-Kate Olsen), Nancy gets a legit job, and Carrie Fisher guest stars as Celia's divorce lawyer.

Long before Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker starred in Square Pegs, an early '80s sitcom about two teenage girls who are desperate to overcome their geeky nature and fit in with the cool kids. The show was a Family Event for some of us, and we're thrilled it's finally out on DVD. "Totally." Check out our Sex and the City shopping guide.

You can get dirt on celebrities and laugh at their misfortunes on TMZ. But for a little more insight pick up Barbara Walters' memoir, Audition, in which the award-winning TV journalist talks about her career, her family, her marriages (and affairs), and the rich/famous/powerful people who have played significant roles in her life. From Angelina Jolie to Monika Lewinsky, Fidel Castro to the Dalai Lama, there's something for everyone in this book.

Juno came out on DVD this week and it's already a bestseller on Amazon. If you haven't seen it, it's about a high school girl who gets pregnant and decides to give her baby up for adoption. Diablo Cody won an Oscar for the witty screenplay. USA Today calls Juno "a likably cynical comedy" that is "actually about hope" and "charming, honest, and terrifically acted." And the movie is #10 on Rolling Stone's list... more

Randy Pausch, a professor a Carnegie Mellon University, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. So when, like many healthy professors, he was asked to give a "last lecture" focusing on the things that meant the most to him, his talk was "so moving, so positive in the face of things beyond his control, that the video became an Internet sensation." Read it for yourself. The Last Lecture is about the importance of overcoming obstacles,... more

The Wire is over. Now what? Here's what: Generation Kill. In 2003 a Rolling Stone reporter named Evan Wright embedded himself with US Marines in Iraq and wrote a book about it called Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War. Publisher's Weekly called it "a personality-driven, readable and insightful look at the Iraq War's first month from the Marine grunt's point of view." In July, a... more

No Country For Old Men, the movie that won Oscars for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, and best supporting actor (Javier Bardem), comes out on DVD this week. Directed by the Coen brothers and based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, the movie is a modern morality tale about the violent pursuits of money and justice. It also features "one of the most horrible haircuts in history" on Javier... more

"Girls Don't Make Passes at Boys with Fat A**es." That's just one of the chapters in Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me, a collection of hilarious life lessons from some of our favorite writers and comedians, including Dan Savage, Stephen Colbert, Patton Oswalt, and Nick Hornby. Edited by Ben Karlin, a former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and former senior editor of The Onion, Things I've Learned... more

One of our favorite guilty-pleasure blogs is Go Fug Yourself (because "fugly is the new pretty"), where Heather and Jessica call out celebrities for looking ridiculous or worse. From Britney's "letters" to Paris' "diary entries," from Celebrity Terror Watches to Tom Cruise's Flowbie, it's celebrity schadenfreude at its hilarious best. And next week - on Super Tuesday! - the Fug Girls have a book coming out. It's called Go Fug Yourself: The... more