Summary: "Here are ten original stories about the valiant Jedi and the evil Sith. Larger-than-life characters clash in epic lightsaber battles that will appeal to young readers and to the young Star Wars fan in all of us! Ten acclaimed authors imagine new tales for some of the most iconic Star Wars characters ever, from Luke Skywalker to Darth Vader, from Obi-Wan Kenobi to Darth Maul, and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2022
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Summary: Travel to the far reaches of the Star Wars universe-- including to the remote outer rim world of Batuu from Galaxy's Edge-- with this unique treasury of in-world space tales. Featuring lush illustrations, this beautiful collection includes nine original fairy tales, myths, and fables. Passed down through generations, spanning millennia, carried from planet to planet, these are the legends that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STASummary: Join Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia for one action-packed story after the next! This collection features eighteen tales from the original Star Wars trilogy, beautifully illustrated by Brian Rood. Relive all the classic moments-- from Darth Vader's search for the Rebels' secret plans, to the Rebellion's triumph over the Empire, and every adventure in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J 791.43 LUCHopkinson, Nalo
Summary: Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: In Skin folk, with fifteen works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste," a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guin’s final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEGMann, George
Summary: Read on if you dare! This unique in-world collection hallows the spooky tales and ghost stories that would have kept young Luke and Leia up at night. Created by George Mann and Grant Griffin--the same team behind the stunning Star Wars: Myths & Fables--these seven frightful fables have been carefully woven from the expansive fabric that is the Star Wars galaxy (including the thrilling landscape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Lucasfilm Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MANBova, Ben
Summary: "In this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVBradbury, Ray
Summary: Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRALe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: This first volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon’s World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy; Planet of Exile, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them; City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEGHerbert, Brian
Summary: "Collected for the first time, these four previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune universe. Spanning space and time, Sands of Dune is essential reading for any fan of the series. The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand blasted world of Arrakis, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERWalker, Landry Q. (Landry Quinn)
Summary: The worlds of Star Wars are full of countless alien species, each stranger and more fascinating than the last. Here you'll find six stories about just some of the amazing aliens who appear in the smash-hit movie. Featuring a dashing tale of piracy and double crosses, the story of a wise Jakku constable and an unfortunate droid, and a mystery that can be solved only by the gruff cook at Maz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2016