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Imprisoned in the Druid's Keep, young Pen Ohmsford is separated from all who care for him, and at the mercy of the usurper Shadea a'Ru, who will do anything to destroy the rightful High Druid. Although Pen was successful in his mission to obtain the magical staff called the Tanequil, Shadea has taken it from him. Without the Tanequil, Pen cannot open the gateway to the Forbidden and rescue his aunt, the rightful High Druid.
Pen has allies, but they are under siege as well -- his parents fleeing from the Druids, the Rock Troll Kermadec and the dwarf Tagwen far away, and the young elf Khyber Elessedil in deadly danger within the Druid's stronghold. Can the scattered band of friends join forces in time to defeat Shadea's evil plot?
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| ISBN 13: | 9780743483964 |
| ISBN 10: | 0743483960 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 464 |
| Dimensions: | 178 x 111 mm |
| Released: | 01/08/2006 |
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Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is a writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy,[2] and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 22 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career,[2] and has over 21 million copies of his books in print.[3] He is one of the biggest selling living fantasy writers.
Brooks was born in the rural midwestern town of Sterling, Illinois and spent a large part of his life living there.[5] He is an alumnus of Hamilton College, obtaining his B.A. in English Literature in 1966.[5] He later obtained a J.D. from Washington and Lee University. He was a practicing attorney before becoming a full-time author, and now resides in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Judine.[5]
Brooks had been a writer since high school, writing mainly in the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction.[5] One day, in his early college life, he was given a copy of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, which inspired him to write in one genre.[5] While Tolkien inspired the genre, Brooks stated at the Charlotte Literary Festival that he credits the inspiration of his style of writing to William Faulkner's works. With this inspiration, he then made his debut in 1977 with his first novel The Sword of Shannara. [5] This novel became the first fantasy book ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list, where it stayed for five months.[5]
After finishing two sequels (which were originally intended as stand-alone novels[citation needed]) to The Sword of Shannara, Brooks moved on to the series which would become known as the Landover novels.[5] Brooks then wrote four-book series titled The Heritage of Shannara.[5] For the next fourteen years, he wrote more Landover books, then went on to write The Word and Void trilogy. Continuing the Shannara series, Brooks wrote the prequel to The Sword of Shannara, titled First King of Shannara. He then wrote two series, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara and High Druid of Shannara and recently finished a third, Genesis of Shannara, a trilogy bridging his Word and Void and Shannara series. His next project has been announced as a novel in the Landover series.
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