Jo Barney

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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Ellie is a crabby old woman who cleans graffiti off local mailboxes. When she meets Sarah, a black-haired teenager in Goth garb and makeup, neither imagines that they will join forces to stop a psychopathic killer of homeless young people in the neig...

• Apr-2013
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• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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UPRUSH is a story, four stories actually, of four women who come together at a beach house to gossip, laugh and drink wine, only to discover that one of them is determined to kill herself. Madge, a writer, has reasons to do so and to ask for their he...

• Jan-2015
• / General Fiction
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SYNOPSIS: EDITH by Jo Barney Edith, sixty-seven, wakes on Christmas morning to find her husband Art lying next to her, dead. Their shotgun wedding, forty-some years before, has not led to a happy-ever-after scenario. Edith is pretty sure she doesn’...

• Sep-2015
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Decades ago, a shotgun wedding locked Edith into a life with a husband she’s not sure she ever loved. Now, at a ‘certain age,’ she feels like a ghost in her own life, wondering where all this came from: the scornful husband, the mercenary brood...

• Sep-2015
• / Mystery
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Ellie is older, gruff and independent. She doesn't expect much from life; it’s broken enough promises to her. The only ugliness in the world Ellie can truly clean up is the graffiti marring mailboxes in her neighborhood, and she centers her days ar...

• Oct-2015
• / Women's Fiction
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Every summer four old friends flock together at Madge’s seaside house to swap stories and sip wine. Throughout divorces, children, and new marriages, only the beach house and the sisterhood that comes with it, hold constant. This time, though, some...

• Sep-2018
• / General Fiction
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Eleanor Ellison has a cross to bear. Being married to a man with combat fatigue and mothering her austistic son are daily struggles.  Luckily, living at Holgate Farms with its overgrown laurel has kept her life quiet and confidential.  The two-...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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The time is 1970; the place is the postwar housing development, the small bungalows built for returning veterans and for shipyard workers. F0r first time in their lives, families had some money. They can afford a new house, two bedrooms, one bath, ya...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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Half of Jan Morrison’s life is pure chaos, the half that has to do with her family, her sense of wifeliness, motherliness, womanliness. The other half, the half in which she counsels children whose own lives are as chaotic as hers, is the core ...

• Sep-2020
• / Women's Fiction
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Mom has just died, is a patch of floating dust on the Columbia slough. We see the world through the eyes of her ex-hockey player son: divorced, depressed, ready to settle in for thirteen more weeks of unemployment checks, beer, and reading his mo...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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An old woman, not that she thinks of herself that way, sits quietly reading as she has done every evening for years. The night is rainy, dark, but she ignores the weather, as she does most negative scenes, until she hears a knock, a plaintive knock, ...