Captured! Inside the World of Celebrity Trials Mona Shafer Edwards  Santa Monica Press, $33.95  Thousands of trials take place every day throughout North America, but nothing grabs the public’s attention like one featuring a celebrity. Captured! features the artwork of Mona Shafer Edwards, a courtroom artist who has covered the trials of Michael Jackson, Heidi Fleiss, Winona Ryder, Robert Blake, O.J. Simpson and more. The book includes Edwards’ color sketches, her insider observations, a recap of the highlights (the parade of beautiful call girls during the Fleiss trial) and lowlights (Simpson’s clenched fists while talking about wife Nicole) and a summary of the verdict.  Cars: The Essential Guide  DK Books, $16.99  Get up to speed on Pixar’s new film, Cars. This colorful book is filled with character poses, exciting scenes and facts about all the characters from hotshot racecar Lightning McQueen to Mater, the fastest tow truck in the sleepy town of Radiator Springs.

The Da Vinci Game  www.thedavincigame.com $40 + delivery  Test your mental agility with this game inspired by the codes and symbolism  of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Priory de Sion secret society and Dan Brown’s  novel, The Da Vinci Code. Players must race against each other and the  clock to solve 800 challenges including puzzles, riddles, logic problems  and codes. Designed for three or more players aged 12 and up.

The Da Vinci Code Decca Records Composed by movie score heavyweight, Hans Zimmer (Gladiator), this soundtrack is a fittingly serious-minded companion to the thriller. Strings are given heavy play on this score, though French horns rouse the peaceful “CheValiers de Sangreal”. Other standouts are soprano Hila Plitmann’s lonely solo in “Poisoned Chalice” and the final track, the beautiful choral piece “Kyrie for the Magdelene.” A Prairie Home Companion New Line Records The music from Robert Altman’s latest film showcases the spectacular onstage performances by the cast including the toe-tapping fiddle and banjo number “Gold Watch & Chain” performed by Meryl Streep and writer Garrison Keillor, “Whoop-I-Ti-Yi-Yo” featuring the comic singing cowboys played by Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly, as well as the sweet and stripped down “Frankie and Johnny” by Lindsay Lohan. Poseidon Warner Music The soundtrack to this remake opens with the ballad “Won’t Let You Fall” and the up-tempo “Bailamos”, performed by the Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie during the film’s New Year’s Eve bash. The remaining music (with the exception of the mellow eletronica track “Postales” by DJ Frederico Aubele) is what you’d expect from a big budget disaster score—the song “The Wave” features pounding drums and menacing strings while hopeful sounding horns punctuate the final song, “Escape.”