In the midst of the Clone Wars Master Mace Windu returns to his Separatist-occupied homeworld where his former Padawan Depa Billaba has been working as an undercover agent. But Depa hasnt been reporting in lately & Republic intelligence has been gathering disturbing hints of bloody ambushes & terror-strikes in the deep outback. Mace trained Depa--he knows that no one but he can hope to even reach her let alone save her from the darkness... ...

Luke Skywalker & his wife Mara get a strange message from the Chiss: Come & get the remains of the mysterious Outbound Flight Project. But there is more than meets the eye to this unexpected gift as the newlyweds come face to face with the past! For someone is still alive in the Outbound Flight ships & they're not interested in visitors. Plus there's at least one imposter along on the mission & maybe more & it will be up to Luke & Mara to uncover all the secrets & prevent another war from breaking out. ...

Marriage has not changed Han & Leia much
- they still bicker & banter with each other but now they have something new to disagree
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In the years since the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace the Republic has continued to crumble & more & more the Jedi are needed to help the galactic government maintain order. As Star Wars: Episode II opens Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker have just returned from a mission on a world called Ansion. Written by beloved Star Wars veteran Alan Dean Foster & starring a new character from the Episode II The Approaching Storm tells the story of that daring mission. The Republic is decaying even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine who was elected to save the galaxy from collapsing under the forces of discontent. On the tiny but strategic planet of Ansion a powerful faction is on the verge of joining the growing secessionist movement. The urban dwellers wish to expand into the prairies outside their cities
- the ancestral territory of the fierce independent Ansion nomads. If their demands are not met they will secede
- an act that could jump-start a chain reaction of withdrawal & rebellion by other worlds of the Republic. At the Chancellors request the Jedi Council sends two Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi & Luminara Unduli to resolve the conflict & negotiate with the elusive nomads. Undaunted Obi-Wan & Luminara along with the their Padawans Anakin Skywalker & Barriss Offee set out across the wilderness. Many perils lie waiting to trap them. The Jedi will have to fulfil near-impossible tasks befriend wary strangers & influence two great armies to complete their quest stalked all the while by an enemy sworn to see the negotiations collapse & the mission fail.

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The Confederacy is trying to get its hands on some very special battle droids & the Republic is determined to stop them so Obi-Wan Kenobi is sent to the planet Ord Cestus manufacturer of the droids. His mission: diplomacy. But if diplomacy doesnt work he will use any means a Jedi can to help keep these potentially super-dangerous weapons out of enemy hands. & diplomacy cant work. Someone is pulling the manufacturing planets strings--someone with an agenda all his or her own which cant allow for either side to win control. As Obi-Wan & Jedi Master Kit Fisto uncover the secret plans layer by layer Obi-Wan learns just how much he can trust a clone warrior...and just how reprehensible war can be especially in the face of true honour. ...

Ever since Emperor Palpatine's Order 66
- which called for the execution of all Jedi
- Jax Pavan is the last Knight around to

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The third mass market paperback original in our br&-new Star Wars spin-off series THE NEW JEDI ORDER
- which launched in hardcover
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A string of smashing victories by the forces of the sinister aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong has left New Republic resources & morale stretched to the breaking point. Leia Organa Solo estranged from her husband Han oversees the evacuation of refugees on planets in the path of the merciless invaders. Luke Skywalker struggles to hold the fractious Jedi Knights together even while one of them undertakes a bold but reckless undercover mission. Manipulating their alliance with the amoral Hutts the Yuuzhan Vong leave a cunning trail of vital information where New Republic agents are sure to find it-information the desperate defenders cannot afford to ignore: the location of the aliens' next target. Then Han Solo stumbles into the dark heart of a raging battle thus beginning a furious race against time that will require every skill & trick in his arsenal towin ...

In the aftermath of one tragedy will a young Jedis search for redemption lead to yet another? There is no place else to cannel the flood of refugees fleeing the murderous Yuuzhan Vong but the overcrowded planet Duro poisoned by centuries of technological excess. Fortunately a deal struck: In exchange for a new home the refugees will work to restore the planet to health under the watchful eye of Lei Organa Solo. While tempers flare between the Duros & the New republic Han Solo his son Jacen & the Ryn called Droma arrive to keep the peace. They are unaware that Leia is on Duro...and that Luke Mara & Anakin are on their way searching for a missing Jedi apprentice. & none realize that the Yuuzhan Vong have chosen this embattled planet as the next target in their brutal coreward thrust. Now as the fragile stability on Duro threatens to collapse into violence Jaen Solo must face his greatest dilemma: At what point does the use of power become aggression? Whatever he decides his next step could tip the galaxys destiny toward the light or toward the darkness-with the life of someone he loves hanging in the balance... ...

Following intense personal loss Jaina Solo descends to the dark side determined to take her revenge on the Yuuzhan Vong. In the process she learns something new about how to fight the alien invaders but she must also remember that revenge is not the way of the Jedi
- even which it seems the only way to fight the enemy.
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