Ever (31 page)

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GAIL CARSON LEVINE
grew up in New York City and has been writing all her life. Her first novel,
ELLA ENCHANTED
, was a Newbery Honor Book. Levine's other books include
FAIREST
, a
New York Times
bestseller,
Publishers Weekly
Best Book, and
School Library Journal
Best Book;
DAVE AT NIGHT
, an ALA Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults;
THE WISH; THE TWO PRINCESSES OF BAMARRE; A TALE OF TWO CASTLES;
and the six Princess Tales books. She is also the author of the nonfiction book
WRITING MAGIC
:
Creating Stories That Fly
, the poetry collection
FORGIVE ME, I MEANT TO DO IT
:
False Apology Poems
, and the picture books
BETSY WHO CRIED WOLF
and
BETSY RED HOODIE
, illustrated by Scott Nash. Gail and her husband, David, live in a two-centuries-old farmhouse in New York's Hudson Valley. You can visit her online at www.gailcarsonlevinebooks.com and at www.gailcarsonlevine.blogspot.com.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Levine, Gail Carson.

   Ever / Gail Carson Levine.— 1st ed.

      p. cm.

   Summary: Teenaged Kezi is to be sacrificed to the Hyte god because of a rash promise made by her father, but young Olus, Akkan god of the winds, falls in love with her and together they try to change her fate through a series of quests.

   ISBN 978-0-06-122964-0

   EPub Edition February 2013 ISBN 9780062253491

   [1. Fate and fatalism—Fiction. 2. Gods—Fiction. 3. Winds—Fiction. 4. Immortality—Fiction.] I. Title.

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REVISED EDITION
, 2011

The quote about Jephthah is from the New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition) of the Bible, copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.

The quote about Ishtar is from
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
, translated by Stephanie Dalley (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

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