TV-Y; 168 minutes; $19.99; Amazon

Now available to purchase on DVD from Disney Home Entertainment is Goldie & Bear: Best Fairytale Friends, featuring 7 episodes from the hit Disney Junior series. There are no special features or bonus extras on the single disc; however, it does come with a free Playtime Fun Set.

Goldie & Bear debuted this past December on Disney Junior. The series picks up shortly after the classic fairytale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"ended, where Goldie (voiced by Natalie Lander) and her new friend Jack (Baby) Bear (voiced by Georgie Kidder) have fun, exciting adventures in a forest far far away.

There are 7 episodes on the DVD, with each episode containing two adventures.



The episodes are:

TV-MA; 281 minutes; $26.95; Amazon

The big anticipated premiere of the sixth season of Game of Thrones debuts tonight on HBO, but don't forget there are two other season premieres afterward -Silicon Valley and Veep.

HBO Home Entertainment released Veep: The Complete Fourth Season to DVD last week, featuring all 10 episodes from the award-winning season. The only bonus feature on the two-disc set is the "Hilarious Deleted Scenes."

Created by y Armando Iannucci, Veep debuted on HBO in 2012 and quickly became a critical hit. In the beginning, the series centered on Selina Meyer (played by Emmy-winner Julia Louis-Dreylus) a former Senator who is now the first female Vice-President of the United States. Towards the end of season 3, the President stepped down to take care of his ailing wife, leaving Selina to become the first female President.

The fourth season is set around the upcoming election, which is Selina's first campaign for President. Her campaign encounters several setbacks including the resignation of her campaign-manager Amy Brookheimer (played by Anna Chlumsky) and the firing of Deputy Director of Communications Dan Egan (played by Reid Scott). Then of course her staff has to deal with other issues, including a missing painting and the search for a new VP.

I believe I might have mentioned before that I like taking Ginseng supplements.

Typically, Ginseng is grown in Korea, Northern China or Eastern Siberia. However, it has can be found in some parts of the United States, in which the supplement version is called American Ginseng. It doesn't matter where the Ginseng is grown at as all the supplements generally have the same benefits.

Earlier this month, I was sent a bottle of Vita G Premium Korean Red Panax Ginseng to test out and review. Each bottle has 90 veggie capsules (45 servings) with 1000mg of Panax Ginseng (Root).

Ginseng has been known to improve athletic endurance, promotes sexual heath in both men and women, and supports overall mental health.

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  This week's question is submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews!

How many books do you normally read in a month?

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  8 to 12 books, maybe more!

TV-MA; 300 minutes; $26.95; Amazon

Available now on DVD from HBO Home Entertainment is Silicon Valley: The Complete Second Season, which ties in nicely with Sunday's (April 24th) season premiere. Special Features on the 2-disc set includes deleted scenes, Reality Bytes: The Art & Science Behind Silicon Valley, and 6 audio commentaries from the cast & crew.

Created by by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, the series follows Richard Hendricks (played by Thomas Middleditch), a young man who quits his job at the tech company Hooli to start up his own tech business, Pied Piper. Working with him is programmer Bertram Gilfoyle (played by Martin Starr), programmer Dinesh Chugtai (played by Kumail Nanjiani), CFO Donald "Jared" Dunn (played by Zach Woods) and Erlich Bachman (played by T. J. Miller), co-owner of Pied Piper.

Despite winning the Tech Crunch Disrupt at the end of Season One, the Pied Piper team has had a series of setbacks, including the sudden death of their financier, Peter Gregory, as well as being sued by Hooli, whom has their own ripoff compression called Nucleus.

Most of season two shows Hooli's creator, Gavin Belson (played by Matt Ross), trying to get rid of all the bugs in Nucleus, so they can get their product out before Pied Piper does. Meanwhile, the Pied Piper team seeks out sponsors to help them show off their product's streaming abilities, but unfortunately things go horribly wrong. After several more setbacks, their company's only chance of survival lies in the hands of the lawyer Pete Monahan (played by Matt McCoy), who happens to be an convicted criminal.

We live in a world that revolves so much around technology and electronic devices. While you walk down the street it is not unlikely that you will see people, young and old, walking around with their cell phone pressed to their ear while in conversation, or you will see them texting their friends, family, or even their boss or others at work. Many employers no longer accept paper applications, it needs to be filled out and sent online.

In this world, children are running around with about as many electronic devices as their parents are, so why not use those devices as a learning tool at school. There are a number of benefits to having a child bring their electronic device from home in order to learn at school.

• Students already know how to use their own devices and are comfortable using them. This helps save time in the classroom to train students on how to use the devices. They can just begin learning with them.

• The devices that students use tend to be newer and more advanced, so the schools can have the kids use their own devices in order to stay up to date with technology.

• When the students are using their devices for learning and doing their work at school, they are more likely to continue using them for learning when they are outside of school as well.

• Teachers will not have to worry as much about students not remembering to bring their electronic device with them. An electronic device is a prized possession for many children, so if they are able to bring them to school, the will probably not forget, not the way they forget their textbook.

Thomas Nelson; 336 pages; Buy Link; Blog Tour

Reading a book is the perfect way to get your mind off life's many problems. I had a terrible week, which I won't go into details here, but everything that occurred in my life led me to delay in writing a few post, including this review.

It's no secret that I like reading a good Amish romance, so it should come to no surprise why I wanted to read A Dream of Miracles (part of An Amish Wonders series) by Ruth Reid.

Right from the get-go, us (readers) are introduced to Mattie Diener, a young Amish widow and mother of three-year-old Nathan and eighteen-month Amanda, who finds herself once again in the emergency room. Her son has had signs of a serious illness since right after his birth. Unfortunately, their regular doctor is on vacation and they are forced to see a different doctor. The new doctor doesn't understands Mattie's situation and automatically believes that she is abusing Nathan, which leads to the doctor to call social services.

Now is this when Bo Lambright comes into the picture, the social service investigator who takes Nathan's case. While Bo might look like he has his life in working order, he actually has plenty of problems, including a melding mother and a shadowy past. Nevertheless, as Bo spends more time in the Amish world, the faster he starts to fall in love with Maddie.