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Once an Engineer

A Song of the Salt City

2009 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction)

Joe Amato
Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press (September 2009)
Hardcover $24.95 (268pp)
978-1-4384-2843-7

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A funny, tragic, garlicky chronicle of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in Central New York.

Dear Virginia, Wait For Me - Central Avenue Publishing
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