Set betwen Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, an action-packed official novel based on the release of the new Star Wars video game follows Darth Vader as he embarks on a quest to rid the galaxy of the Jedi and confronts life-altering decisions that could change everything. 200,000 first printing.

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Product Description: In the forty-third millennium of human history, Imre Bergamasc awakens after two hundred years to the realization that he has been the victim of an elaborate murder plot-a plot that also destroyed the intergalactic transport milieu known as the Continuum...read more

Product Description: Imre Bergamasc's life has been nothing if not interesting. Returning from the grave to rule the galaxy, one might be tempted to say that he's taken the worst the universe could throw at him and emerged triumphant. But Imre's problems are only beginning...read more

Product Description: When mirror twins Seth and Hadrian Castillo travel to Europe on holidays, they don’t expect the end of the world to follow them. Seth’s murder, however, puts exactly that into motion. From opposite sides of death, the Castillo twins grapple with a reality neither of them suspected, although it has been encoded in myths and legends for millennia...read more

Product Description: “The Sith always betray one another. . . . I’m sure you’ll learn that soon enough.”The overthrow of the Republic is complete. The Separatist forces have been smashed, the Jedi Council nearly decimated, and the rest of the Order all but destroyed...read more

Comprised of essays from 'The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia' (1998), this title offers detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examines the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.

Product Description: In the far future, in the aftermath of a mysterious galactic catastrophe, a false prophet comes face to face with his greatest adversary yet: a man who thinks he's god, and might very well be right. While the battle for Earth rages around them, they face off, one wanting to conquer the world and the other to redeem it, and the victory may well decide the future of the galaxy, and of humanity itself...read more

Product Description: Ancient enemies stalk ghostly fog forests as legends come to life and old friends are lost forever ... The Divide is flooded, at great cost of human - and inhuman - life. Far from home, Sal, Shilly and Skender seek the source of the deluge in the legendary Hanging Mountains, traveling in a magical ship of bone...read more

This companion to The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook combines scholarship with a unique approach to the study of the world's foods, musics, and cultures. Covering over four dozen regions, the entries in these collection each include a regional food-related proverb, a recipe for a complete meal, a list of companion readings and listening pieces, and a short essay that highlights the significant links between music and food in the area. The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook, Volume 2 will appeal to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and sociologists, but should also find a welcome place on the bookshelf of anyone who enjoys eating and learning about foods from around the world.

Three people--a human rebel searching for ancient secrets, a former Exarch of Bedlam, and a pilot seeking revenge--are united in their cause to destroy the Archon, the artificial intelligence responsible for destroying the system of Bedlam, and gain control of Geodesica. Original.

After waking from a three-year coma, Jonah McEwen is faced with catching a serial murderer who is killing women that resemble his former lover, Marilyn, in a future world where cloning and matter transmission are commonplace.

In 2388, the discovery of an alien artifact called the Geodesica sets in motion a chain of events that could finally free humanity from the rule of the Exarchs with the help of a courageous group of rebels. Original.

When the gifts to humanity from the Spinners lead to war, Caryl Hatzis, Peter Alander, and a group of alien beings join forces to save Earth from the Starfish, a genocidal race determined to bring about the destruction of the world. Original.

After finding the sentient planet of Zonama Sekot, Luke Skywalker and his companions are confronted with a new dilemma when the living world refuses to follow them back to a galaxy wracked by war and misery, while the Yuuzhan Vong launch a vicious new campaign against the new alliance, leaving Han and Leia facing a perilous battle against hopeless odds. Original.

After finding the sentient planet of Zonama Sekot, Luke Skywalker and his companions are confronted with a new dilemma when the living world refuses to follow them back to a galaxy wracked by war and misery, while the Yuuzhan Vong launch a vicious new campaign against the new alliance, leaving Han and Leia facing a perilous battle against hopeless odds.

While Luke Skywalker and the Jedi continue their search for Zonama Sekot, a living planet that holds the key to defeating the Yuuzhan Vong, Han and Leia confront deception and treachery as they struggle to bring peace to a region of the galaxy that has descended into chaos.

Determined to contain the savage Yuuzhan Vong and bring peace to the galaxy, Luke Skywalker of the new Galactic Alliance searches for Zonama Sekot, a legendary, sentient planet that decades ago had repelled an invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong, hoping the secrets of the long-lost world will turn the tide in devastating interstellar war. Original.

After the destruction of Earth, human Caryl Hatzis and human engram Peter Alander must learn how to unleash the power of the Gifts in order to conquer a legion of deadly alien ships that arrive to exterminate what is left of the human race. Original.

In the early twenty-second century, human engrams, or electronic reproductions, explore the known universe, searching for signs of life, but when they stumble onto what appear to be gifts from an advanced alien race, including a faster-than-light spacecraft, it may be more than humankind can handle, in the first volume of a new trilogy. Original.

Product Description: This book examines the ways in which the urban aristocratic Sundanese of West Java recall the rural past of their ancestors through performances of the tembang Sunda ensemble (voice, zithers, and bamboo flute). This is the first book on Indonesian music that focuses on a non-gamelan ensemble as well as the first book to highlight Sundanese cosmological and cultural practices through an examination of musical performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)