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Book Review of The Songcatcher (Ballad, Bk 6)

The Songcatcher (Ballad, Bk 6)
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Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song. Passed down through generation, it carried her ancestors from a Scottish island, through the pages of American history, to western North Carolina. Over the years, through the memory of the old song has dimmed and Larks's only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain wisewoman Nora Bonesteel, who talks to both the living and the dead......