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'This is the Star Wars of every horror fan's dreams-gory, funny,
and brimming with a blood-spattered cast of swashbucklers and
space-zombies.' Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to
five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, Rebels,
scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant part of space, its
only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and
seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is
sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing
with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly
all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine. And death
is only the beginning. The Purge's half-dozen survivors will do
whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for
what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. For the dead are
rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
Set before the events of "Star Wars: "Episode I "The Phantom
Menace, " this new novel is a thrilling follow-up to "Star Wars:
Darth Plagueis."
It's kill or be killed in the space penitentiary that houses the
galaxy's worst criminals, where convicts face off in gladiatorial
combat while an underworld gambling empire reaps the profits of the
illicit blood sport. But the newest contender in this savage arena,
as demonic to behold as he is deadly to challenge, is fighting for
more than just survival. His do-or-die mission, for the dark
masters he serves, is to capture the ultimate weapon: an object
that will enable the Sith to conquer the galaxy.
Sith lords Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious are determined to
possess the prize. And one of the power-hungry duo has his own
treacherous plans for it. But first, their fearsome apprentice must
take on a bloodthirsty prison warden, a cannibal gang, cutthroat
crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and an unspeakable alien horror. No one
else could brave such a gauntlet of death and live. But no one else
is the dreaded dark-side disciple known as Darth Maul.
Praise for "Lockdown"
"Schreiber . . . was a great choice for this novel, imbuing the
story with a dark, foreboding tone while never quite stepping into
the horror territories that "Death Troopers" and "Red Harvest" took
us."--"Jedi News"
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"Fans of the dark side should rejoice. "Lockdown" delivers a
can't-put-this-down tale of scum and villainy."--"Club Jade"
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" "Lockdown "is] an action-packed ride that spins one entertaining
chapter after another. The multiple layers of story keeps readers
guessing what will happen next and just who will live and who will
die. . . . It certainly adds to the character of Darth Maul while
matching "Darth"] "Plagueis"'s complexity with sheer fun. . . .
Five out of five metal bikinis."--"Roqoo Depot"
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"Somehow, Schreiber is able to skate the line between hard-hitting
prison story and the adventure and excitement I love from "Star
Wars" in a way that doesn't betray either genre. It's really quite
masterful."--"Big Shiny Robot"
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""Lockdown" is an exciting, engaging read. . . . It actually lines
up beautifully for a sequel, which I, for one, would love to
read."--"Coffee with Kenobi"
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"The novel makes "The Clone Wars" better. It also illuminates "The
Phantom Menace." I think it's the hallmark of the best tie-in
fiction to resonate throughout other parts of the expanded universe
in that way."--"Knights' Archive"
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"By the fiftieth page, I was hooked. . . . "Lockdown "is a
wonderful 'antihero' novel, where it's just fine to root for the
villain, because there are even worse things out there. This book
was so fun and entertaining. I'll have to keep an eye out for more
"Star Wars" books from Schreiber."--"Seattle Geekly"
"From the Hardcover edition."
But he soon runs into Andrea, a fellow con-artist. With the school
not big enough for the both of them, they make a bet that whoever
can con Brandt Rush, the richest, most privileged student in the
school out of $50K, gets to stay at the school. Will starts setting
up his con (an online poker scam) with his uncle who's one of the
best grifters in the business, but also with the unwanted help of
his father...The plot thickens as Will starts falling for fellow
student Gatsby, and some of Will's lies start to catch up with him.
In this twisty tale of scams, secrets, lies and deception, it hard
to figure out who's conning who!
Unlike other young Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural
Corps--those whose abilities have not proved up to snuff--Hestizo
Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants.
But suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden
specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from
Darth Scabrous, a Sith Lord with a fanatical dream poised to become
nightmarish reality. For the rare black orchid that Hestizo has
nurtured and bonded with is the final ingredient in an ancient Sith
formula--crucial to the Dark Lord's obsession, but with
consequences far worse than fatal. Now, spawned by a heretofore
unknown virus, the rotting, ravenous dead are rising, driven by a
bloodthirsty hunger for all things living--and commanded by a Sith
Master who lusts for power and the ultimate prize: immortality . .
. no matter the cost.
When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?
Scott Mast thought he got away-first from a family haunted by a
dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in
Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown
only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home,
and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.
Fifteen years ago, Scott's mother died in a fire. And now the
shadowy circumstances-the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the
lives ripped apart that fateful day-are starting to be revealed.
The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript-an
unfinished ghost story written in his father's own hand that
beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless
corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will
uncover all that has been hidden-and perhaps finish his father's
unspeakable work.
Received with enormous buzz and anticipation, Joe Schreiber's Star
Wars: Death Troopers was the first time the Star Wars galaxy
entered the realm of horror. Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times
bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, called it
"the Star Wars of every horror fan's dreams--gory, funny, and
brimming with a blood-spattered cast of swashbucklers and
space-zombies." Now the horror continues in a whole new adventure
bringing Sith and Jedi both face to face with the undead in the
dark times of the Old Republic...
It seemed so logical at first. Fourteen-year-old Lenny Cyrus had
loved Zooey Andrews since third grade. All the boy genius needed to
do to win her heart was shrink down to the size of an amoeba, ooze
into a gelatin capsule, and have his friend Harlan slip it (him )
into Zooey's Diet Coke.
Told in three voices, this fantastical middle grade novel takes
Lenny deep into Zooey's loud, splashing innards. The question is,
will Lenny and Zooey survive his crazy experiment in
nanotechnology?
From the mind of Joe Schreiber, New York Times bestselling author
of Star Wars: Death Troopers, comes the delirious follow-up to last
year's Darth Plagueis. In a tale of retribution and survival set
before the events of The Phantom Menace, Darth Plagueis and Darth
Sidious dispatch Sith apprentice Darth Maul on a secret mission to
infiltrate a criminal empire operating from inside Cog Hive
Seven--a hidden prison teeming with the galaxy's most savage
criminals. There, he must contend against the scummiest and most
villainous in gladiatorial death matches while carrying out his
masters' clandestine commands. Failure is not an option; success
will ignite the revenge of the Sith against the Jedi Order.
When Perry ends up in Venice on a European tour with his band,
Inchworm, he can't resist a visit to Harry's Bar, where Gobi told
him she'd meet him someday. The last time he saw Gobi, five people
were assassinated one crazy night in New York City. Well . . . Gobi
shows up, and once again Perry is roped into a wild, nonstop thrill
ride with a body count. Double crossings, kidnappings, CIA agents,
arms dealers, boat chases in Venetian canals, and a shootout in the
middle of a Santa Claus convention ensue.
Ferris Bueller meets La Femme Nikita in this funny, action-packed
young adult novel. It's prom night--and Perry just wants to stick
to his own plan and finally play a muchanticipated
gig with his band in the Big Apple. But when his mother makes him
take Gobija Zaksauskas--their quiet, geeky Lithuanian exchange
student--to the prom, he never expects that his ordinary high
school guy life will soon turn on its head. Perry finds that Gobi
is on a mission, and Perry has no other choice but to go along for
a reckless ride through Manhattan's concrete grid with a trained
assassin in Dad's red Jag.
Infused with capers, car chases, heists, hits, henchmen, and even a
bear fight, this story mixes romance, comedy, and tragedy in a true
teen coming-of-age adventure--and it's not over until it's "au
revoir."
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