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Barbara Anne King

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Watsonville, California, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Romance

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series, featuring multicultural stories told from the heart.

Barbara was born and raised in Watsonville, California, a third-generation Croatian-American whose great, great uncles were pioneers in the town’s apple industry which they helped develop into the Apple Capital of the World. After graduating from UCLA with a political science degree, she headed east for a job on Capitol Hill. She also worked in broadcast journalism and corporate public affairs before trading the work world for the home front to raise three children. But while she may have left California, it never left her, and she remains a California Girl who is a proud new member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. Barbara and her husband live in Connecticut.

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Average rating: 3.54 · 98 ratings · 28 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The California Immigrant (Monterey Bay #1) 3.40 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apple King: A World War 1 Family Saga 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Where Flowers Grow

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I wanted to let you know that I just published my third novel, Where Flowers Grow, a family saga
about an ambitious man's pursuit of fortune as a Monterey Bay flower grower who battles a dysfunctional family and forces of nature amidst the rising farm worker movement.

Where Flowers Grow was the first novel I wrote but it needed a lot of TLC and editing before it was ready to publish. I am Read more of this blog post »

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Barbara King said: " The Apple King is the 2021 Winner of the Connecticut Author Project Award for Adult Fiction sponsored by the Indie Author Project. "

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