Happy Holidays From Christopher Paolini!

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Kvetha Fricäya!

Kvetha Fricaya! Greetings Friends! And Happy Holidays to you and your families! I’ve finally returned home from my tour across the United States and Canada. Wow! What an amazing experience. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to say goodbye to Inheritance and to the series as a whole. I’ve always been impressed by the response of readers to my events, but this time the amount of excitement, dedication, and devotion for the Inheritance cycle really blew me away. During the tour, fans gave me both an ostrich and an emu egg, battle-patches from Afghanistan, pictures, drawings, and marriage proposals. I signed swords and dragons, books and posters. And I even had one young woman faint during one of my readings (a first for me). What really got to me, though, was hearing from so many different people who have been deeply touched by the books. I can’t tell you how much that means to me. Now that I’m back, all I can say is, “Thank you!” Thank you for supporting the series. Thank you for showing up at the events, and thank you for your enthusiasm for the series. Also, thanks to the many booksellers, librarians, and folks from Random House who made this tour possible. For those of you who have already read Inheritance, you may be interested in reading the interview that I did with Mike from shurtugal.com wherein I discuss many of the questions readers have had about the end of the story. Be forewarned, there are spoilers galore. Click here to read the interview. So, what does the future hold for me? Well, I’m going to rest a bit, and then I’ll choose one of the many stories that have been bouncing around my head for the past ten years and dive into it. That said, I am going to be heading to Europe for more events during the spring of next year, and I may visit a couple of other places too. In the meantime, I wish you the very best for the end of the year and the beginning of the new one. Atra esterní ono thelduin. Christopher Paolini

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This holiday, give the gift of another world! For our last-minute shoppers out there, we're offering a 30% discount plus FREE SHIPPING when you order before Christmas. Just enter STRANGELANDS11 during check out at RandomHouse.com. Now who says early birds get all the worms? Don't know where to start? How about venturing into an Orwellian future where teens are monitored Big Brother style, with Scored by Lauren McLaughlin? Or experience the perks and perils of being able to heal anything, even the dead, with Unforsaken by Sophie Littlefield. And for you forward-thinking folks, our round-up gives you a taste of the exciting titles to come in the brand new year!

"The writing is stupendous, the characters are flawless, and Miss McLaughlin has certainly made George Orwell very, very proud." -- Amy Lignor Set in the future when teenagers are monitored via camera and their recorded actions and confessions plugged into a computer program that determines their ability to succeed. All kids given a "score" that determines their future potential. This score has the ability to get kids into colleges, grant scholarships, or destroy all hope for the above. Scored's reluctant heroine is Imani, a girl whose high score is brought down when her best friend's score plummets. Where do you draw the line between doing what feels morally right and what can mean your future? Friendship, romance, loyalty, family, human connection and human value: all are questioned in this fresh and compelling dystopian novel set in the scarily forseeable future. Check out the Author's Appearance on Random Buzzers Buy the book

Hailey Tarbell is no typical girl. As one of the Banished who arrived from Ireland generations ago, Hailey has the power to heal—and, as she recently learned, to create zombies if she heals someone too late. But now, Hailey is finally getting a chance at a normal life. After realizing the good and bad sides of her power, Hailey has survived the unimaginable to settle with her aunt, Prairie, and her little brother, Chub, in the suburbs of Milwaukee. Finally Hailey has a loving family, nice clothes, and real friends. But her safe little world is blown apart when she tries to contact her secret boyfriend, Kaz—and alerts the incredibly dangerous man who's looking for her to her true whereabouts. Read an excerpt Buy the book

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