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Book Club

Upcoming Star Wars books rise to the
occasion of the Skywalker saga fi nale.

Available in
bookstores
March 3!

More than

the whole

story!

Rae Carson’s expanded
novelization adds extra
sparkle to Star Wars: The
Rise of Skywalker (2019).

It’s an old theatrical adage that you
should always leave your audience
wanting more—and if there’s one
audience that always wants more,
more, more, it’s the dedicated fans
of Star Wars.
Even with the Skywalker saga now
complete, and all the long-protected
secrets of The Rise of Skywalker out
in the open, fans with a desperate
need to know the complete story will
delight in Rae Carson’s novelization
of the movie. This expanded edition
contains additional, intriguing new
plot details and original scenes that
bring even more depth and color to
its tale of darkness, danger, and
ultimate redemption.
Best known as a writer of teen

fiction, Carson has previous form in

riing on the events and characters

of Star Wars, having written a short
story for the 40th Anniversary
anthology A Certain Point of View, Wanted, the Solo: A Star Wars Story them into something fresh and new,
and a longer tale—Hear Nothing, See (2018) tie-in which dug deeper into Carson’s expanded take on The Rise
Nothing, Say Nothing—for the Canto the lives of young Han and Qi’ra as of Skywalker, to be released by Del
Bight anthology that revealed more they struggled to survive Corellia’s Rey and available on March 3, will
about the casino world of Star Wars: criminal underbelly. Adept at taking have you revisiting the movie with a
The Last Jedi (2017). Her fi rst full existing characters and situations whole new perspective on what you
length Star Wars novel was Most then fi nding novel ways of twisting thought you knew.

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