Welcome back to another edition of Tarkin’s Top Shelf! Mark and Becca go over the Young Adult novel “Guardians of the Whills,” a tie-in story to the film “Rogue One.” They discuss the character relationship between Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe, and the exciting new scriptures of Force lore that act as an introduction to each chapter throughout the book.

Quick News Recap:

• Partnering with Starlight Foundation: Fun Centers (All info on our twitter & Facebook pages)

• Book Release Timeline: Coming October 2017, “From a Certain Point of View” will bring together more than 40 authors for 40 stories. Each story is written from the perspective of background characters in A New Hope — “from X-wing pilots who helped Luke destroy the Death Star to the stormtroopers who never quite could find the droids they were looking for,” they say.-Del Rey Books

• Battlefront II: Inferno Squad-July-Del Rey Books

• Phasma- September- Del Rey Books

• September 1 – Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray.-Disney

• October 31 – The Legends of Luke Skywalker by Ken Liu.-Disney Books

• Star Wars: the power of the Force - Reference Book - September 1st 2017

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This is a special presentation of the entire Making Star Wars Podcasting Network! Live from Orlando, Steele Saunders from ‘Steele Wars’ hosted the entire event from Marlow's Tavern. Steele made his rounds by asking each podcaster their initial thoughts and highlights of Star Wars Celebration.

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Episode highlights:

Rebecca is joined by fellow Star Wars podcaster and friend Ryder from Idiot's Array. Rebecca and Ryder take the podcast stage at Celebration Orlando to discus the why the new literary canon is relevant & important to the Galaxy far, far away. Not just in the episodic films of the Skywalker Saga, but to the entire Star Wars universe as a whole. How it connects, expounds, and enhances what we see on screen.

Mark and Becca have read the final conclusion to Chuck Wendig’s literary trilogy, AFTERMATH: Empire's End ― the most anticipated novel to date! In this episode, your librarians of the Whills go into full detail during their analysis, and nothing is off limits. So, if you intend to listen before you've read Empire's End, consider yourself warned because you will be spoiled.

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Mark and Becca have digested all that they can from Rogue One, now they take on the task of bridging the novels Rogue One: Catalyst and Rogue One's novel to the movie Rogue One: a Star Wars Story. In fact it's such a big task, they invited friend and host of Idiot's Array, Alan Zaugg. So sit back relax and enjoy the friendly analysis.

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In this episode:

• Ahsoka's new life after order 66
• The Battle on Mandalore and Ahsok's last moments with Anakin and Obi-Wan
• Parting ways with Rex
• The significance of the interludes 
• Ahsoka's new friends
• R2-D2
• Bail Organa and the start of Fulcrum
• The 6th brother
• the purification of the crystals
• The Grand Inquisitor
  
• And much, much more

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Mark and Becca have been getting a lot of feedback since the launch of podcast and a few weeks back they asked their listeners to supply them with questions, topics and to give their thoughts on all things Star Wars. Their listeners provided them with some thought-provoking star wars questions.

Mark and Becca welcome Adam Bray, one of the authors of Star War: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know!  Adam gives an inside look on the making of this latest DK book, as well as some interesting adventures he's had in his life. So join Mark, Becca, and Adam on this fun and casual conversation about Star Wars.

You can fine Adam Bray on twitter @athoradanbray and on his  web site www.adambray.com

In this episode:

• The timeline controversy?
• Canon references
• Leia's true linage
• Han and Leia's marriage
• Thought's on Luke and Ben
• Ransolm and Lady Carise
  and much more

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Mark and Becca are back to dissect the novel Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp.

In this Episode

• Fall out from the Clone Wars
• Cham Syndulla & Isval defending Ryloth
• Palpatine taking matters
• How has Cham Syndulla evolved from the Clone Wars, Lords of the Sith and Rebels
• Comparing Cham to Hera Syndulla
• Darth Sidious and Darth Vader's relationship at this point in time
• Do we see hints of Anakin in Lords of the Sith?

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In this episode Mark and Becca touch on the highlights from Rey's story and how it connects to The Force Awakens, the main topic is Lost Stars. Mark and Becca breakdown and analyze how this novel fits in to the canon as well as the characters comparison to Anakin and Padme's relationship.

In this episode:

• Was Vader's lightsaber sold?
• The Dark Acolytes
• Boba Fett's armor
• Temmin Wexley AKA Snap Wexley
•  The nameless man at the young academy
• Rea Sloane
• The mysterious Admiral and who he could be, Snoke? Thrawn?
• and much more

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This is the 1st episode of Tarkin's Top Shelf. Join Rebecca and Mark as the explore the Star Wars novelization of The Force Awakens.

in this episode:

• How does the Novel compare to the movie
• Does the Novel revel anything the movie does not?
• The conflicts between the movie and the novel
• Before the Awakening young adult book and much, much more.

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