12.21 is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 by Dustin Thomason
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Thomason, Dustin.
12.21 : a novel / Dustin Thomason.
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ISBN 978-0-385-34140-0
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1. Mayas—Antiquities—Fiction. 2. Manuscripts—Fiction. 3. Prophecies—Fiction. 4. Communicable diseases—Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Twelve twenty-one.
PS3620.H646A614 2012
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