STREAMING
HOCUS POCUS 2
Disney+
September 30
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy
Najimy are set to reprise their roles as the
sinister Sanderson sisters in this sequel to
the 1993 Halloween cult favorite. This time
around, three young women accidentally
bring the witches to modern-day Salem and
must figure out how to stop them.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS:
THE RINGS OF POWER
Amazon Prime
September 2
This epic drama set thousands of years
before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The
Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” follows
an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar
and new, as they confront the long-feared
re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.
LOVE IN THE VILLA
Netflix
September 1
A young woman takes a trip to romantic
Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that
the villa she reserved was double-booked,
and she’ll have to share her vacation with a
cynical British man.
BOOKS CL
S E P T E M B E R
RELEASES
STONE BLIND: MEDUSA’S STORY
By Natalie Haynes
September 15
Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Growing
up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the
only one who gets older, experiences change, feels
weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency
that her family will never know. When desire pushes a
God to commit the unforgivable, Medusa’s mortal life
is changed forever. Her punishment is to be turned
into a Gorgon: sharp teeth, snakes for hair and a gaze
that will turn any living creature to stone. Appalled by
her own reflection, Medusa can no longer look upon
anything she loves without destroying it. She condemns
herself to a life of solitude in the shadows to limit her
murderous range. That is, until Perseus embarks upon a
fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . .
AS LONG AS THE LEMON
TREES GROW
By Zoulfa Katouh
September 13
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the
cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her
parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She
had a normal teenager’s life. Now Salama volunteers
at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who
flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she
is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country
before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate,
that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her
fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf,
who haunts her every move in an eort to keep her
safe. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama
is torn between her loyalty to her country and her
conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets
and bombs, military assaults and her shifting sense
of morality before she might finally breathe free. And
when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed
to meet one fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve
in leaving home at all.
KILLERS OF A CERTAIN AGE
By Deanna Raybourn
September 6
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen and Natalie have worked
for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for
forty years. Now their talents are considered oldschool
and no one appreciates what they have to
oer in an age that relies more on technology than
people skills. When the foursome is sent on an
all-expense paid vacation to mark their retirement,
they are targeted by one of their own. Only the
Board, the top-level members of the Museum,
can order the termination of field agents, and the
women realize they’ve been marked for death.
Now to get out alive they have to turn against their
own organization, relying on experience and each
other to get the job done, knowing that working
together is the secret to their survival. They’re
about to teach the Board what it really means to
be a woman — and a killer — of a certain age.