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The Library at Mount Char is a contemporary fantasy/horror novel written by Scott Hawkins. It is his first novel.

An unexplained catastrophe destroys part of a town, but twelve children survive. The survivors are "adopted" and raised by a powerful, god-like figure called Father. Together they live in "the Library", an extensive pyramid structured building filled with books cataloging all knowledge of the universe - past, present and future. Father himself, who is revealed to be extremely old (~60,000 years), has authored these books on the basis of his own observation and experimentation concerning the overarching principles that govern the universe. He subdivides this grand oevre into 12 areas or disciplines of knowledge, each of which is assigned to one of his adopted children. Father requires each child to master his or her specific area of knowledge and warns them against the temptation to educate themselves in disciplines outside of the one they have been assigned. His children suspect that this rule is to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful and a potential threat to Father's unchallenged authority. Father is ruthless in unleashing extreme violence against those who disobey this rule while forcing his other children to witness these punishments. After several years of rigorous and often cruel-seeming methods of training, the children are mysteriously ejected from the Library and cannot re-enter it due to the presence of an invisible field that rapidly incapacitates them when it is breached. Consequently, the children do not know what has become of Father or whether he has been killed or captured by his enemies. The children mobilize and organize themselves in order to solve this mystery and rescue Father.