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12.21
THOMASON, DUSTIN
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim,
when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the world will end. In Los Angeles, two weeks before, all is calm. Dr.
Gabriel Stanton takes his usual morning bike ride, drops off the dog with his ex-wife, and heads to the lab where
he studies incurable prion diseases for the CDC. His first phone call is from a hospital resident who has an
urgent case she thinks he needs to see. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the
Getty Museum, is interrupted by a desperate, unwelcome visitor from the black market antiquities trade who
thrusts a duffel bag into her hands. By the end of the day, Stanton, the foremost expert on some of the rarest
infections in the world, is grappling with a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. And Chel,
the brightest young star in the field of Maya studies, has possession of an illegal artifact that has miraculously
survived the centuries intact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This extraordinary record,
written in secret by a royal scribe, seems to hold the answer to her life’s work and to one of history’s great
riddles: why the Maya kingdoms vanished overnight. Suddenly it seems that our own civilization might suffer this
same fate.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 50,000
THE DIAL PRESS 336 PAGES
9780385341400
$29.95 HC
AUGUST 2012
THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED
JONASSON, JONAS
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only
problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan
really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He
climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving,
among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand
operator, and an elephant (not to mention a death by elephant). It would be the adventure of a lifetime for
anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important
events of the twentieth century, but he has actually played a key role in them.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
HYPERION 384 PAGES
9781401324643
$17.99 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
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