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The Flight from Kar (The Emperor's Library: Book One)
The Flight from Kar (The Emperor's Library: Book One)
The Flight from Kar (The Emperor's Library: Book One)
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The Flight from Kar opens The Emperor’s Library series with seventeen-year-old Jon’s trial and expulsion from the only home he has known, the Valley of Women. In the larger world beyond the Valley, he finds a love that will change his destiny and unexpected allies among old and new friends, including Zoë the Forester and her family. But a brewing religious war ends Jon’s idyllic romance with Zoë’s brother John and sends him with his comrades to Kar, the imperial capital, to save the Emperor from the fanatics who menace the city. A last-ditch attempt to rescue the Emperor’s Library from their onslaught leads to a journey of remarkable discovery, in which the travelers encounter unknown lands and intimations of an undreamed-of past. Can they use this knowledge in their counteroffensive against the enemies of the Empire, the religious zealots who call themselves The Chosen?
Part high fantasy, part adventure, part psychological exploration, The Flight from Kar and the novels that follow introduce readers to a vividly realized alternative world in which strange powers from a forgotten past threaten to destroy the present. Against this backdrop, Jon, Zoë and their friends take on responsibilities that transform them in unexpected ways.

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Release dateMay 3, 2011
ISBN9781466169883
The Flight from Kar (The Emperor's Library: Book One)
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Frederick Kirchhoff

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Fred Kirchhoff graduated from Harvard and for many years taught English at a state university in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was responsible for course in British Romantic and Victorian literature. While in Indiana, he also wrote two books on William Morris and a book on John Ruskin, as well as articles on other literary subjects. He later moved to Minneapolis, where he served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Metropolitan State University. Since retiring, he has lived in Portland, Oregon. He began writing the Emperor's Library series while living in Minnesota, but completed it in Oregon, where his chief pleasures have been writing, classical piano lessons, and cooking up dinners for his favorite man and a few cherished friends.

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