TY - BOOK AU - Brooks, Terry, TI - The black elfstone: the fall of Shannara T2 - The fall of Shannara SN - 9781432841096 (large print : hardcover) AV - PS3552.R6596 B48 2017 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning KW - Druids and druidism KW - fast KW - Fiction KW - Shannara (Imaginary place) KW - Fantasy fiction KW - gsafd KW - Large type books KW - lcsh N2 - "The first book of the triumphant and epic four-part conclusion to the Shannara series...The Four Lands has been at peace for generations, but now a mysterious army of invaders is cutting a bloody swathe across a remote region of the land. No one knows who they are, where they come from, or what they are after--and most seem content to ignore these disturbing events. The only people who sense a greater, growing threat and wish to uncover the truth are society's outcasts: an exiled high Druid, a conflicted warrior, a teenage girl struggling to master a prodigious magic . . . and a scrappy young orphan, improbably named Shea Ohmsford"-- ER -