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Hartz - Hartz Running Rodent Cat Toy

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Flexi Classic 3 Large 16-Foot Retractable Leash

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Trudeau Cool Down Polycarbonate Hydration 24-Ounce Bottle, Breast Cancer Awareness, Pink

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Runners, hikers, or students on the go can put this 24-ounce water bottle with its built-in straw to good use. Made of unbreakable polycarbonate that won't absorb odors or taste, the double-wall construction eliminates condensation so that lunch bags and notebooks next to it in a backpack will stay dry. When the weather turns cold, the bottle may be used for hot drinks. A karabiner at the neck clips the bottle onto a backpack for easy access.

This particular hydration bottle comes in pink to let you show your concern for breast cancer awareness as well as contribute to the cause. Trudeau donates 5% of the net sale of each bottle to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. A highly rated charity, BCRF makes sure at least 85 cents of every donated dollar goes directly to breast cancer awareness and prevention programs. --Ann Bieri

Children Running Through

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On her fifth studio CD, folk-rocker Patty Griffin employs three timeless themes--childhood, flight, and death--to craft her most musically diverse and accessible album yet. But while moving through jazz, beatnik, classic and modern folk, gospel R&B, Americana, and moody piano ballad, Griffin keeps her backing quiet and spare, all the more to showcase the power of her deft storytelling and the bell clarity of her unadorned soprano. On song after song, the characters who waft through her experience are on the move, chasing one thing and fleeing another--on trains, ships, buses, in cars, even on the aerialist's bar--ultimately trading an ending of one kind for a new beginning and transference. Sometimes--as on the Rickie Lee Jones-ish "Stay on the Ride," where an old man with no name answers an existential urge for going--they don't even know what it is. "Trapeze," the most resonant offering, follows an aging circus performer who'd rather work without a net than take her chances in love. Here, Emmylou Harris adds one of her most aching harmony lines to Griffin's exquisite, ethereal lead, while in the next track, "Getting Ready," the singer turns a 180, laying a sneering Dylanesque vocal over a fiercely scrubbed acoustic guitar and an occasional dissonant kiss-off. "Baby, baby, you were my drug/And I was just your cigarette," she drones knowingly. One suspects that particular object of her affections will soon regret it. --Alanna Nash

More from Patty Griffin

1000 Kisses	Living With Ghosts	Impossible Dream
Flaming Red	A Kiss in Time

Running on Empty

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Recorded onstage, backstage, in three different hotel rooms, and on a Continental Silver Eagle tour bus during a cross-country 1977 tour, Running on Empty is a paean to life on the road. Jackson Browne's sense of camaraderie extended to the road crew, if "The Load Out," a love song to his roadies, is to be believed. Browne is much more blithe here than in his earlier outings. But Empty also represents a fleeting lighthearted moment for the singer-cum-poet whose concerns became more political than personal after its appearance. Beneath its flippant surface, this disc is a look at the lengths Browne and his friends went to avoid facing the demands of the touring life. What with the frequent drug references, misogynistic references to on-the-fly pairings with women, and the sobering line in the title track--"I look around for the friends I used to pull me through / Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too"--one realizes that Browne was much more comfortable on the road than off. --Jaan Uhelszki