Drew Karpyshyn
Author
Series
Mass Effect. Main series volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When they vanished fifty thousand years ago, the Protheans left their advanced technology scattered throughout the galaxy. The chance discovery of a Prothean cache on Mars allows humanity to join those already reaping the rewards of the ancients’ high-tech wizardry. But for one rogue militia, the goal is not participation but domination. Scientist Kahlee Sanders has left the Systems Alliance for the Ascension Project, a program that helps gifted...
Author
Series
Mass Effect. Main series volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Humanity has reached the stars, joining the vast galactic community of alien species. But beyond the fringes of explored space lurk the Reapers, a race of sentient starships bent on “harvesting” the galaxy’s organic species for their own dark purpose. The Illusive Man, leader of the pro-human black ops group Cerberus, is one of the few who know the truth about the Reapers. To ensure humanity’s survival, he launches a desperate plan to uncover...
Author
Series
Mass Effect. Main series volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Description
-- Sanders is now the prime suspect, but finding her creates more problems for Anderson than it solves. Partnered with a rogue alien agent he can’t trust and pursued by an assassin he can’t escape, Anderson battles impossible odds on uncharted worlds to uncover a sinister conspiracy . . . one he won’t live to tell about. Or so the enemy thinks. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Drew Karpyshyn's Mass Effect: Ascension.
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Description
"Drew Karpyshyn has made his mark with imaginative, action-packed work on several acclaimed videogames, including Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as well as in a succession of New York Times bestselling tie-in novels. Now Karpyshyn introduces a brilliantly innovative epic fantasy of perilous quests, tormented heroes, and darkest sorcery--a thrilling adventure that vaults him into the company of such authors as Terry Goodkind,...
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Darth Bane volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
As the last surviving Sith, Darth Bane promulgated a harsh new directive: the Rule of Two. Determined to put this policy into action, Darth Bane thinks he has found the perfect apprentice. Zannah, though young, possesses an instinctive link to the dark side that rivals his own. Under Darth Bane's tutelage, she will become essential in his quest to destroy the Jedi and dominate the galaxy. But there is one who is determined to stop Darth Bane: Johun...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Darth Bane, greatest of Sith Masters and inventor of the Rule of Two, is now approaching the time when his apprentice, Darth Zannah, must challenge and kill him and take an apprentice herself. Meanwhile, from the mined-out, troubled planet Doan, Princess Serra, widow of the crown princess, and her bodyguard, Lucia, travel to Coruscant to confer with the Jedi over their involvement on her home planet. The Jedi seem to her rather complacent about the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Joined by hot-headed smuggler Teff'ith, with whom Theron Shan has an inexplicable bond, and wise Jedi warrior Gnost-Dural, Darth Karrid's former master, Theron Shan must match wits and weapons with a battle-tested crew of the most cold-blooded dark side disciples. But time is brutally short.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Darth Bane volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Millennia before the rise of Darth Vader and Darth Sidious, in an Old Republic marked by an ongoing struggle between the Sidi and Jedi, Darth Bane plots to bring down the Brotherhood of the Sith and to replace it with a more powerful order.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Drew Karpyshyn has long thrilled readers with his kinetic, fast-paced storytelling style. Now he returns with The Scorched Earth, the second novel in his acclaimed series about four young people who will either save the world or bring about its destruction. The Children of Fire--four mortals touched by the power of Chaos--each embody one aspect of a fallen and banished immortal champion: Keegan, the wizard; Scythe,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Joined by hot-headed smuggler Teff'ith, with whom Theron Shan has an inexplicable bond, and wise Jedi warrior Gnost-Dural, Darth Karrid's former master, Theron Shan must match wits and weapons with a battle-tested crew of the most cold-blooded dark side disciples. But time is brutally short.
Series
Star Wars novels. Darth Bane volume 3
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom and one apprentice to learn, challenge and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Bane's acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the...