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After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation. Then one of his Neimoidian contacts disappears, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down. But he is too late. The secret has already passed into the hands of information broker Lorn Pavan, which places him right at the top of Darth Maul''s hit list. Then, in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewers of Coruscant, capital city of the Republic, Lorn crosses paths with Darsha Assant, a Jedi Padawan on a mission to earn her Knighthood. Now the future of the Republic depends on Darsha and Lorn. But how can an untried Jedi and an ordinary man, stranger to the powerful ways of the Force, hope to triumph over one of the deadliest killers in the galaxy?

Dos autores best-seller do The New York Times, Michael Reaves e Maya Bohnhoff, mais um clássico de Star Wars! A Ordem 66 quase exterminou todos os Jedi. Os poucos que sobraram decidiram se exilar ou se esconder. Mas não Jax Pavan, que vem enfrentando o Império como um guerrilheiro solitário e um valioso parceiro da Whiplash, um secreto grupo de resistência com sede em Coruscant.

Avant La Menace Fantôme, Dark Maul, au service de son maître maléfique, cherchait déjà à éliminer les Chevaliers Jedi. An -32. Pour le champion du côté obscur, le moment est venu de sortir de l''ombre. Simple blocus de la planète Naboo : voilà l''opération que Dark Sidious, le Seigneur Noir de Sith, a proposée aux Neimoidiens. Pour une galaxie, une guerre locale, un abcès de fixation. Et un piège minutieusement tendu : s''il fonctionne, la république s''effondrera, entraînant la galaxie dans sa ruine. Mais un des Neimoidiens fait faux bond ; Dark Sidious flaire la traîtrise et envoie son champion, Dark Maul, traquer le félon, qui a un cristal à vendre avec toutes les informations qu''il contient ; l''acheteur pressenti ne sait pas que cette seule transaction le mettra sur la liste des gens à éliminer ! Et l''ombre de Dark Maul, le chasseur noir, se profile au loin... plus près... plus près...

Javul Charn ist ein gefeiertes Popstarlet und die durchgebrannte Braut eines ausgesprochen brutalen Leutnants des Verbrechersyndikats "Schwarze Sonne". Als der Corellianer Dash Rendar sich von Javul als Bodyguard anheuern lässt, ahnt er nicht, dass ihn schon bald seine Vergangenheit einholen wird - und zwar in Person des Schmugglers Han Solo und des Verbrecherkönigs Prinz Xizor. Eine brandgefährliche Mischung, die die Galaxie erzittern lässt ...

JOEY HARKER É UM HERÓI. Depois de dominar a habilidade de andar entre dimensões, Joey ajudou a salvar da destruição o Altiverso. Mas os poderes rivais – um ligado à magia e o outro, à ciência – que pretendem controlar todos os mundos continuam sendo uma ameaça, e a missão de manter a paz está longe de terminar. Quando uma desconhecida chamada Acacia faz o impossível e segue Joey de volta à Cidade Base, as coisas se complicam. Ninguém sabe quem ela é ou de onde vem – ou como sabe tanto sobre o EntreMundos. Joey terá de enfrentar tempos perigosos à sua frente. Há um traidor em meio ao grupo dos combatentes da liberdade, e, se Joey tem alguma esperança de salvar o EntreMundos, o Altiverso e a missão, precisará confiar em seu bom senso e esperteza e, talvez, na misteriosa Acacia Jones. Repleto de bravura, lealdade e viagens no tempo e no espaço, Sonho de prata é a instigante sequência de EntreMundos e narra a história do futuro de um jovem que é mais poderoso do que pensa.

Joey Harker is a Leader. With InterWorld trapped by HEX and his only other companion—the mysterious Time Agent Acacia Jones—missing in action, Joey''s the only one left. Though injured and alone, he refuses to give up. How can he, when all the worlds are depending on him? As the threat of FrostNight looms ever closer, Joey seeks out more of his fellow Walkers across the Altiverse, training them as fast as he can and trying to track down InterWorld Base Town along the way. But even a solid team of recruits—including Acacia''s brother, Avery, who''s not a recruit so much as a tenuous ally—can''t prepare Joey for the ultimate showdown with InterWorld''s enemies, old and new. Joey never wanted to be in charge. But he''s the one everyone is looking to now, and he''ll have to step up if he has any hope of saving InterWorld, the Multiverse, and everything in between. Eternity''s Wheel is the heart-pounding conclusion to the InterWorld series, full of time and space travel, magic, science, and the bravery of a young boy who must now face his destiny as a young man.

"Mirroring the iconic style of the four-time Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series, experience the comic that proved as groundbreaking as its television counterpart, in all-ages stories that feature the Dark Knight''s fiercest adversaries, greatest allies and all-new threats to Gotham City! THE BATMAN ADVENTURES VOL. 3 collects issues #21-27 and THE BATMAN ADVENTURES ANNUAL #1, featuring stories by writers PAUL DINI (BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY, ZATANNA) and KELLY PUCKETT (BATMAN: NO MAN''S LAND, BATGIRL) and artists BRUCE TIMM (BATMAN ADVENTUES: MAD LOVE) and RICK BURCHETT (SUPERMAN ADVENTURES)"--

Teens—and tweens and adults—who obsessively read the His Dark Materials and Harry Potter series will be riveted by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves''s InterWorld and its sequel, The Silver Dream. InterWorld tells the story of Joey Harker, a very average kid who discovers that his world is only one of a trillion alternate earths. Some of these earths are ruled by magic. Some are ruled by science. All are at war. Joey teams up with alternate versions of himself from an array of these worlds. Together, the army of Joeys must battle evil magicians Lord Dogknife and Lady Indigo to keep the balance of power between all the earths stable. The Silver Dream: After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, Joey Harker and his fellow InterWorld freedom fighters are now on a mission to maintain peace between the rival powers of magic and science who seek to control all worlds. When a stranger named Acacia somehow follows Joey back to InterWorld''s base, things get complicated. No one knows who she is or where she''s from—or how she knows so much about InterWorld.

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La secuela del bestseller de The New York Times InterWorld , por los galardonados escritores Neil Gaiman y Michael Reaves. Tras dominar su capacidad para caminar entre mundos, Joey Harker y sus colegas, junto a quienes combate por la libertad de InterWorld, tienen una misión: mantener la paz entre la magia y la ciencia, potencias rivales que persiguen el control de todos los mundos. Cuando una extraña llamada Acacia Jones sigue a Joey de vuelta a InterWorld, la situación se complica. Nadie sabe quién es ni de dónde viene, o cómo sabe tanto acerca de InterWorld. El peligro acecha a Joey y su misión. Un traidor se ha infiltrado entre ellos y si Joey tiene alguna esperanza de salvar InterWorld, el multiverso y la misión, va a tener que confiar en su intuición, y también, en la misteriosa Acacia Jones.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER KNIGHT OF RECKONING The Emperor’s ruthless Order 66 has all but exterminated the Jedi. The few remaining who still wield the Force for good have been driven into exile or hiding. But not Jax Pavan, who’s been steadily striking blows against the Empire—as a lone guerrilla fighter and a valued partner of Whiplash, a secret Coruscant-based resistance group. Now he’s taking on his most critical mission: transporting a valued Whiplash leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world. It’s a risky move under any circumstances, but Jax and his trusted crew aboard the Far Ranger, including the irrepressible droid I-Five, are prepared to pit their combat skills and their vessel’s firepower against all Imperial threats—except the one Jax fears most. Reports have raced across the galaxy that the dark lord of the Sith has fallen in a duel to the death with a Rebel freedom fighter. But Jax discovers the chilling truth when he reaches out with the Force . . . only to touch the dark, unmistakable, and malignantly alive presence that is Darth Vader. And Jax knows that Vader will stop at nothing until the last Jedi has fallen.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the infamous, power-hungry Sith, beholden to the dark side, the time has come to rise again. “Full of lightsaber battles, the Jedi philosophy, and lots of new life-forms.”—Chicago Sun-Times After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation. Then one of his Neimoidian contacts disappears, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down. But he is too late. The secret has already passed into the hands of information broker Lorn Pavan, which places him right at the top of Darth Maul’s hit list. Then, in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewers of Coruscant, capital city of the Republic, Lorn crosses paths with Darsha Assant, a Jedi Padawan on a mission to earn her Knighthood. Now the future of the Republic depends on Darsha and Lorn. But how can an untried Jedi and an ordinary man, stranger to the powerful ways of the Force, hope to triumph over one of the deadliest killers in the galaxy?

When Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Reaves teamed up, they created the bestselling YA novel InterWorld. InterWorld tells the story of Joey Harker, a very average kid who discovers that his world is only one of a trillion alternate earths. Some of these earths are ruled by magic. Some are ruled by science. All are at war. Joey teams up with alternate versions of himself from an array of these worlds. Together, the army of Joeys must battle evil magicians Lord Dogknife and Lady Indigo to keep the balance of power between all the earths stable. Teens—and tweens and adults—who obsessively read the His Dark Materials and Harry Potter series will be riveted by InterWorld and its sequel, The Silver Dream.

After the Empire’s bloody purge of the Jedi, one lone Knight still fights for those who cannot, unaware that he’s about to be swept into a cataclysmic battle against the Master of Darkness himself. Throughout the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in Coruscant’s most foul subterranean slums, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggle–to unlock the secrets of his father’s death and his own past. While Jax believes that I-5YQ holds some of those answers, he never imagines that the truth could be shocking enough to catapult him to the frontlines of a plot to kill Emperor Palpatine. Worse yet, Darth Vader’s relentless search for Jax is about to end . . . in triumph. The future looming over the valiant Jedi and his staunch pals promises to be dark and brief, because there’s no secret whatsoever about the harshest truth of all: Few indeed are those who tangle with Darth Vader . . . and live to tell the tale.

With the Jedi all but wiped out in the grim aftermath of Order 66, the Empire’s power seems unchecked. But one lone Knight continues to fight the good fight–against all odds and when all else fails. Deep in the bowels of Coruscant, Jedi Jax Pavan ekes out a living as a private investigator, a go-to, can-do guy for the downtrodden. Now a mysterious Zeltron knockout named Deejah approaches Jax with a case that needs to be cracked: to find out who killed her artist lover Volette, brutally murdered hours after his triumphant unveiling of a dazzling new light sculpture with obvious links to lightsaber pyrotechnics. Finding Volette’s killer won’t be easy–too many secrets, too many suspects, and all kinds of motives. But with the droid I-5YQ’s help, and ex-reporter Den Dhur’s excellent snooping skills, the investigation is soon operating like a well-oiled machine. Unfortunately, there’s a far more efficient machine hunting Jax. It’s a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as the clock starts ticking toward the final explosive showdown . . . to see who strikes first and who will die first.

While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatists. . . . The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droids’ durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell “Uli” Divini know that time is running out. Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her death– and that of countless others. For the conflict is growing–and for this obscure mobile med unit, there’s only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, it’s the only option Jos and his colleagues really have. The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

As Civil War between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy, nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own . . . A surgeon who covers his despair with wise-cracks; another who faces death and misery head-on, venting his emotions through beautiful music . . . A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor . . . A Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master . . . These are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar, where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant, and an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying—mostly clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species. While the healers work desperately to save lives, others plot secretly to profit from the war—either by dealing on the black market or by manipulating the events of the war itself. In the end, though, all will face individual tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

Alors que la guerre des clones ravage la galaxie, la situation est désespérée sur la lointaine planète Drongar. Pour faire face à l''offensive ennemie, les Séparatistes lancent des légions de droïdes dans la bataille. Même assistée de renforts, la République faite de chair et de sang ne peut rien contre le Duracier des druides de combat. Une situation douloureusement claire, dans la jungle moite de Jasserak, où une petite unité de médecins et d''infirmières tente de faire face. Alors que morts et blessés s''amoncellent, les chirurgiens Jos Vandar et Kornell " Uli " Divini comprennent que le temps leur est compté. Même les pouvoirs Jedi de la Padawan Barriss Offee sont poussés à leurs limites. Une mise à l''épreuve qui pourrait bien causer sa perte. Le conflit s''aggrave, et pour cette obscure unité médicale, il ne reste plus qu''une seule solution. Choquante, audacieuse, sans précédent, c''est la dernière option envisageable pour Jos et ses compagnons. L''impensable est désormais inévitable. Savoir s''ils survivront est un autre débat...

A killer lurks in the shadows of Whitechapel and the police have a suspect, John Watson. To save his friend from the gallows, Sherlock Holmes enlists a band of street urchins to act as his eyes and ears on the streets.

An illustrated history of Henry County, Georgia, paired with histories of the local companies.

Science fiction-roman.

"In a Greenwich Village townhouse, a mysterious man named Colin, an orphan raised by sorcerors skilled in dark magic, awakens to find the talisman known as the Trine missing from its place of safekeeping - and an angel named Zoel impatiently ringing his doorbell." "In the death chamber of the Oregon Federal Penitentiary, Liz Russell, author of a bestseller on the serial killer called the Maneater, watches her subject receive the lethal injection that will end his life. But the Maneater has sworn that she will be his next victim - even if he has to claw his way up from Hell." "On the streets of Los Angeles, Terry Dane, a bodyguard with a dark and bloody secret, fights to protect his rock star client from a knife-wielding maniac impervious to pain and injury." "And in an Alabama backwoods clinic, a young girl gives birth to something monstrous and unholy, something that thirsts not for mother''s milk but for the blood of all that lives." "Now it''s up to Colin, with the assistance of Zoel and the demon Asdeon - aiding Colin for his own sinister purposes - to recover the Trine before its awesome power can be used to spark Armageddon. It''s a struggle that Liz and Terry will find themselves part of as well, whether they like it or not. The only trouble is, without the Trine, Colin''s magic is no match for that of his enigmatic adversary. And Zoel can be trusted no more than Asdeon to avert an apocalypse that may be as much God''s plan as the Devil''s desire."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

As a Louisiana parole officer, Lia St. Charles is used to tough customers, but the man in front of her doesn''t fit the description. Shane LaFitte had been a priest of vodun--a healer, not a killer--until he was put away for the brutal ritual murder of his beloved wife. Something about his case just doesn''t make sense. And now a ruthless drug lord who controls the New Orleans street trade has opened a door to the Invisible World beyond, summoning monstrous forces for a dreadful day of reckoning. To work this terrible evil, he needs the sacrifice of an innocent, a very special child. Only Shane LaFitte has the power to stop his old enemy--but first he must convince Lia not to put him back in prison for trying...

Los Angeles homicide detective Jake Hull confronts a serial killer who slays his victims--petty street hustlers, late-night entertainers--with a wooden stake, in the belief he is ridding the city of a plague of vampires