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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 memory of a song. Passed dowm through generations, it carried her ancestors from a Scottish island, through the pagesd of American history, to western North Carolina. Over the years, through the memory of the old song has dimmed and Lark's only hope of perserving her family legacy lies in mountain wisewoman Nora Bonesteel, who talks to both the living and the dead..