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The Book Show #1489 - Tracy Chevalier

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published January 31, 2017 at 3:00 PM EST
Book Cover - At the Edge of the Orchard

  Writer Tracy Chevalier spins fiction from history. Her new novel, At the Edge of the Orchard, takes us back to the Gold Rush era to tell the tale of a pioneer family on the American frontier.

Originally aired as Book Show 1446.
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