Troy Denning

Its been 45 years since the rebel destroyed the Empires terrible Death Star. Today, freedom, democracy, and the Jedi Order rule the universe. In this setting, Han Solo and Princess Leia (now long married) travel to the Outer Rim to help out their old friend, Lando Calrissian. Pirates and aliens intent on a corporate takeover have made life dangerous for any honest miners in the Rim, including Lando. But how far will these raiders go for a profit? And can even a Jedi warrior match up to their nefarious plans? Crucible tells that tale.Pretty much any Star Wars fan 12 and older in your family will enjoy this fast-paced, fun-filled adventure.

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER In the stunning finale of the epic Fate of the Jedi series, Jedi and Sith face off--with Coruscant as their battlefield. For the Sith, it''s the chance to restore their dominance over the galaxy that forgot them for so long. For Abeloth, it''s a giant step in her quest to conquer all life everywhere. For Luke Skywalker, it''s a call to arms to eradicate the Sith and their monstrous new master once and for all. In a planetwide strike, teams of Jedi Knights take the Sith infiltrators by swift and lethal surprise. But victory against the cunning and savage Abeloth, and the terrifying endgame she has planned, is anything but certain. And as Luke, Ben, Han, Leia, Jaina, Jag, and their allies close in, the devastating truth about the dark side incarnate will be exposed--and send shock waves through the Jedi Order, the galaxy, and the Force itself. There can be no surrender. There will be no mercy. It''s not just the future of the galaxy at stake. It''s the destiny of the Force.

La guerra no puede durar siempre. Ahora, en el campo de batalla la desafiante Nueva Orden Jedi se enfrenta a la descomunal Alianza Galáctica. Con todo perdido y con el curso futuro todavía en juego, ya no hay vuelta atrás. No importan las consecuencias.

A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universebased on the New York Times bestselling video game series!2526. It has been more than a year since humanity first encountered the hostile military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant, and several weeks after the United Nations Space Commands devastating counterattack of Operation: SILENT STORM was deemed an overwhelming success. The UNSC has put its faith in the hands of the Spartans, led by the legendary Master Chief, John-117: enhanced super-soldiers raised and trained from childhood via a clandestine black ops project to be living weapons. But the Covenantenraged and fearful of their enemys unexpected strategies and prowessis not taking its recent defeat lightly, and is now fully determined to eradicate humanity from existence, brutally overrunning the ill-fated planets of the Outer Colonies faster than retreats can be ordered.If the UNSC has any chance of stemming the tide of the war, the Master Chief and Blue Team must drop onto an empty, hellish world in order to capture a disabled Covenant frigate filled with valuable technology. It has all the makings of a trap, but the bait is far too tempting to ignoreand this tantalizing prize is being offered by a disgraced and vengeful Covenant fleetmaster, whose sole opportunity for redemption lies in extinguishing humanitys only hope of survival

A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universebased on the New York Times bestselling video game series!2526. It has been a year since humanity engaged in its destructive first contact with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant. Now the hostilities have led to open war, and the United Nations Space Command understands virtually nothing about its new enemy. There are only two certaintiesthe Covenant is determined to eradicate humanity, and they have the superior technology to do just that. The UNSCs only hope lies with the Spartans: enhanced supersoldiers raised and trained from childhood via a clandestine black ops project to be living weapons. Their designated commander, Petty Officer John-117, has been assigned to lead the Spartans on a desperate counterattack designed to rock the Covenant back on its heels, and to buy humanity the time it needs to gather intelligence and prepare its defenses.But not everyone wants the Spartans to succeed. A coalition of human insurrectionist leaders believes an alliance with the Covenant to be its best hope of finally winning independence from the Unified Earth Government. To further their plans, the insurrectionists have dispatched a sleeper agent to sabotage the UNSC counterattackand ensure that John-117 and the Spartans never return from battle....

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!December 2553. Less than a year after the end of the Covenant War, a string of violent incidents continues to threaten the tenuous peace in human-held space, culminating in the assassination of UNSC fleet admiral Graselyn Tuwa and the abduction of her family. It is a provocation so outrageous that the Office of Naval Intelligence must retaliate swiftly and ferociouslybut only after its operatives identify her killer and rescue the hostages. This mission will be the first for homicide-detective-turned-ONI-operative Veta Lopis and her young team of Spartan-IIIs, and something feels wrong from the start. The obvious suspect is an infamous Brute dokab who leads the Keepers of the One Freedom, a Covenant splinter group in fierce opposition to the UNSC. But Lopis and her team soon realize that the truth is much more insidious than they could ever have imagined, and along with Fred-104, Kelly-087, and Linda-058 of Blue Team for combat support, must stop a plan hatched in the bowels of the secret research station Argent Moona plan so sinister it could destroy all those still reeling from thirty years of intergalactic conflict...

El reino ha sobrevivido más de un milenio. Durante todo este tiempo, el trono púrpura ha sido ocupado siempre por un Obarskyr. Pero ante los zarpazos de la magia negra, los enemigos malignos y un dragon de una crueldad jamas vista, ¿cuanto tiempo mas podra resistir la familia real de Cormyr? ¿O el reino mismo?

An original novel set in the Halo universebased on the New York Times bestselling video game series! October 2559. With the galaxy in the suffocating grip of a renegade artificial intelligence, another perilous threat has quietly emerged in the shadows: the Keepers of the One Freedom, a fanatical and merciless Covenant splinter group, has made its way beyond the borders of the galaxy to an ancient Forerunner installation known as the Ark. Led by an infamous Brute named Castor, the Keepers intend to achieve what the Covenant, in all its might, failed to: activate Halo and take the last steps on the path of the Great Journey into transcendence.But unknown to Castor and his new, unexpected ally on the Ark, there are traitors to the cause in their midstnamely the Ferrets, composed of Office of Naval Intelligence operative Veta Lopis and her young team of Spartan-IIIs, who have been infiltrating the Keepers to lay the groundwork for Castors assassination. But with ONIs field operations now splintered and cut off by the Guardian threat, Vetas original mission has suddenly and dramatically escalated in scope. Theres simply no choice or fallback planeither the Ferrets somehow stop the Keepers or the galaxy faces an extinction-level event.