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Beth L Barnett

I am a native mid-westerner but graduated of Mills College in Oakland CA, Am an x-ray technologist and have sold major x-ray equipment internationally. Now write novels and blog for fun. Member of Kansas City Writers Group and KC Ebooks. Love all kinds of movies, dining out, cooking in, reading, certain causes (environmental, animals and women), politics, bridge, friends, and family.

This Borrowed Land

Published November 13, 2020 | By Beth L Barnett

The President of the United States, twenty state attorneys general, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency have declared climate change a hoax. Elin McCracken, wife of a Kansas rancher, disagrees fut feels powerless until the death of a… Continue reading →

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Tom Pendergast

Published July 22, 2018 | By Beth L Barnett

Did you know that during prohibition, many jazz clubs in Chicago, New York, and New Orleans floundered, but in Kansas City they flourished because political boss Tom Pendergast kept the liquor flowing.

Read more about Big Tom in my first novel, Jazz Town.

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Benny Moten

Published June 17, 2018 | By Beth L Barnett

When jazz fans hear the name, Benny Moten, they think of Kansas City. Benny was born there in 1894, and died of a botched tonsillectomy in a Kansas City hospital at the age of forty one. But in between,… Continue reading →

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