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Mountain Melodies - Book 1 in the Clinch Mountain Series Kindle Edition

by Elizabeth Wilmoth Solazzo (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.3 112 ratings

Book 1 of 2: Clinch Mountain Series

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Dr. Katie Cook is beginning her medical practice in a small town at the base of Clinch Mountain, TN, at the turn of the twenty-first century. She is healing from a past relationship while carving out an independent life for herself in these starkly beautiful but fragile mountains. She is befriended by Lovey Lephew, a strong woman about to celebrate 100 years of wisdom gained from a life of unimaginable stories and lessons learned from the dark hollows of this lonely Appalachian mountain. As the women band together to protect their homes from a gang of drug dealers using the forested land for cover, they learn long buried secrets from one another that will change both their lives.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07TSX1V8G
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1791 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 326 pages

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Elizabeth Solazzo

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Elizabeth Solazzo is an author who enjoys writing about relationship and family issues. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and good friend to many. She grew up loving a good story and that evolved into finding funny and interesting stories in her life to share with others. She has been published at Alamance Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post and Bride and Groom Magazine.

After releasing two books of essay/memoir and one collection of short stories, she was commissioned to write a book on the history of Saxapahaw, a small mill village near where she lives. Despite all of that, fiction was her first love, because life doesn't always offer a happy ending.

After publishing her second novel, Mountain Mercies, Elizabeth is at work on the third and final installment in this story of Lovey Lephew and Katie Cook and how their lives are entwined. We're all hoping for a happy ending to the trilogy. The seeds that started this book and her previous novel, Mountain Melodies, were planted from unanswered questions about her maternal grandmother, Lovely Oia Lephew, who was born in the Smokey Mountains at the turn of the 20th century and buried three husbands in her short life. Ideas loosely based on the imagined life of her grandmother, whom she never knew, sprouted and grew into what could have been a lovely if heartbreaking story. It has become almost totally fiction. Set in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, an area she has romanticized during many visits throughout her life, it is a story of the courage to love in spite of heartbreak.

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This is an excellent read.

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2021

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Mountain Mercies follows Lovey's life from the early 1900s up to today as she becomes friends with the town's new doctor, Katie. Solazzo's depiction of life in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains is compellingly accurate. As Lovey's and Katie's stories unfold, we see how strong women have always survived what life brings them.

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J. Spradlin

Almost a perfect read

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2022

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I was excited to begin reading this book since Grainger county is two counties over from where I lived. But the thrill disappeared when I read it misspelled as GRANGER COUNTY with that “i” plumb missing. Then there was “women” for “woman”. Do you see the difference? After that it took a strong effort for me to continue reading. So I finally dropped it after realizing they were planning to make ‘shine in a steal, but not a still. I am looking forward to a new author.

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Great read

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2022

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This book was an easy read once you start you won’t want to put it down

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2022

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I would have hi en it 5 stars but there were several formatting errors. Loved the story. Lovey was enchanting. Can't wait to read the next book.

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Gloria Ingle

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2019

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I thought this book was well written. The story line kept me reading with anticipation. I highly recommend this book.

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Shawn

Story of strong Appalachian women - highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2019

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Great story taken from Appalachia and written by someone who understands the subject well of the life of mountain people.

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Leesa K.C. Payne

Wonderful story of life and love, past and present

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2022

Follow the beautifully interwoven journey of two women, one young and the other who's aged and much of her story is from an earlier time, as their lives and paths cross and intertwine. This homespun story tells of struggle and hardship in the Tennessee mountains but also of the indomitable spirits that rise above and choose to live and love through it all.