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Name: Mortal words
Author: Kathryn Lasky

The irrepressible Calista Jacobs, a children's book illustrator, follows a trail from Harvard to the Smithsonian, to a Dallas Bible college, in pursuit of fundamentalist extremists who may have murdered one of her "secular humanist" colleagues

First publish date: 1990

Authors: Kathryn Lasky

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