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Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed Set in the aftermath of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the story follows the creation of a special ragtag group of starfighter pilots who are tasked with tracking down a dangerous rogue squad of TIE fighters wreaking havoc on the New Republic. Price: ~$15 Amazon Walmart Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice If you’re a glutton for challenging games, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice hangs with the likes of Dark Souls, as it comes from the same developer. Set in feudal Japan, this game puts even more of a focus on reflex-based fights and vertical gameplay.Price: ~$40 Amazon iRig Micro Amp The iRig Micro Amp is a guitar-friendly amplifier packed into a miniature box with a four-inch speaker that can connect with your phone, iPad, Mac, or PC. It’s got EQ, gain, and volume controls, and it can last for about 15 hours on six AA batteries at 7.5 watts. Use a nine-volt adapter, and it’s bumped up to 15 watts. Price: ~$150 Best Buy Amazon Folio Society’s Game of Thrones Perfect for the disillusioned Game of Thrones fan in your life, return to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series that the show is based on with this impressive Folio Society edition. It’s filled with incredible illustrations, a massive map, and it has a gorgeous design. The Folio Society promises that it’ll be releasing the rest of the series in a similar fashion, assuming GRRM ever gets around to writing it. Price: ~$195 Folio Society How To by Randall Munroe How To is the latest book from XKCD creator Randall Munroe. Filled with his iconic stick figure drawings, clever sense of humor, and cold, hard science, How To gives instructions on everything from moving your house to building a lava moat. Price: ~$17 Amazon Walmart Twelve South Fermata headphone stand Having a headphone stand is a lot like having dedicated hangers for your belts and / or ties: it’s not completely necessary, but it makes life feel a lot more organized. Fermata’s stand is better than most because it includes a Micro USB charging cable, so you’ll never have dead headphones.Price: ~$50 Amazon Amazon Echo Dot Amazon’s Echo Dot is an affordable smart speaker that will impress you with its countless skills. It’s also a fairly good-sounding speaker on its own, capable of filling a room with music from your favorite streaming service. Price: ~$50 Amazon Best Buy Sonos Move The Sonos Move is the speaker a lot of Sonos owners have been waiting for. It’s battery-powered, so users can move it from one room to another in their homes. At its price, it’s definitely a premium gift, but there’s little else out there quite like it. Price: ~$399 Amazon Sonos The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie This is Leckie’s first fantasy novel. Much like her Imperial Radch science fiction series, it tells the story from the perspective of someone who doesn’t think or process things the way a human does. In this
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