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Shusterman, Neal.
Everfound / Neal Shusterman.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(Skinjacker trilogy ; bk. 3)
Summary: In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
ISBN 978-1-4169-9049-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4424-2384-8 (eBook)
[1. Future life—Fiction. 2. Dead—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S55987Euf 2011
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Acknowledgments
Prologue: Allie the Outcast’s FAQs
PART ONE Confernal Jamnation
CHAPTER 1 Jix
CHAPTER 2 Figureheads
CHAPTER 3 Doomed Worthy
CHAPTER 4 Green Goddess
CHAPTER 5 Allie in Distress
CHAPTER 6 Cat on a Cold Tin Roof
CHAPTER 7 What Allie Saw
PART TWO The Wraith and the Warriors
High Altitude Musical Interlude #1 with Johnnie and Charlie
CHAPTER 8 Half-lost
CHAPTER 9 Assaulting Gravity
CHAPTER 10 Wraith, Wraith, Go Away
CHAPTER 11 Chocolate Reign
CHAPTER 12 Universal Justice
CHAPTER 13 End of the Line
CHAPTER 14 The Neon Nightmares
CHAPTER 15 Memory Makes the Man
CHAPTER 16 Wurlitzer
CHAPTER 17 And Then Along Came Mary . . .
CHAPTER 18 You Put Your Whole Self In . . .
PART THREE The Gates of Grief
High Altitude Musical Interlude #2 with Johnnie and Charlie
CHAPTER 19 Roadkill
CHAPTER 20 Home Body
CHAPTER 21 The Benson Burner
CHAPTER 22 A Balance of Power
CHAPTER 23 Uptown Boy
CHAPTER 24 Face the Music
CHAPTER 25 The Souler Eclipse
CHAPTER 26 The Angels of Life
CHAPTER 27 Last National Life
CHAPTER 28 The Tears of Eternity
PART FOUR Mary Rising
High Altitude Musical Interlude #3 with Johnnie and Charlie
CHAPTER 29 The Great Awakening
CHAPTER 30 Something About a Chicken
CHAPTER 31 The Road to Corpus Christi
CHAPTER 32 The Hand of Judgment
CHAPTER 33 Creature Discomforts
CHAPTER 34 Separate Ways
CHAPTER 35 Dark Cumulus
PART FIVE Stealing Life
Philosophical Interlude with Arnie, the Grand Inquisitor
CHAPTER 36 Holding Patterns
CHAPTER 37 Skinless
CHAPTER 38 Blame It on Mavis
CHAPTER 39 Ghost Town
CHAPTER 40 Pittsburgh Stealer
CHAPTER 41 Punishment and Crime
CHAPTER 42 Sense and Sensibility and Skinjackers
PART SIX Ruin Nation
Historical Interlude with Angry Gods and Insufficient Sunscreen
CHAPTER 43 The City of Souls
CHAPTER 44 Zero Recall
CHAPTER 45 Mikey, the God
PART SEVEN Journada de Muerto
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CHAPTER 46 The Sum of All Tears
CHAPTER 47 Thunderbird Persuasion
CHAPTER 48 Suicide King
CHAPTER 49 The War of Souls
CHAPTER 50 Straight Up, with a Twist
CHAPTER 51 Westinghouse Blue