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THE HOST
Stephenie Meyer
ALSO BYSTEPHENIEMEYER
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Copyright © 2008 by Stephenie Meyer
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this
publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or
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Little, Brown and Company
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First eBook Edition: May 2008
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or
dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
The author is grateful for permission to reprint the poem “Question” fromNature: Poems Old
and New,by May Swenson. Copyright © 1994 by The Literary Estate of May Swenson.
Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-316-03232-2
Contents
Prologue: Inserted
Chapter 1: Remembered
Chapter 2: Overheard
Chapter 3: Resisted
Chapter 4: Dreamed
Chapter 5: Uncomforted
Chapter 6: Followed
Chapter 7: Confronted
Chapter 8: Loved
Chapter 9: Discovered
Chapter 10: Turned
Chapter 11: Dehydrated
Chapter 12: Failed
Chapter 13: Sentenced
Chapter 14: Disputed
Chapter 15: Guarded
Chapter 16: Assigned
Chapter 17: Visited
Chapter 18: Bored
