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Joe Pfeiler

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Oxnard, California, The United States

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http://halfitalianbook.blogspot.com/

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Memoir, Travel

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Joe Pfeiler holds Bachelor degrees in music and accounting. He grew up on a farm in southern California where both sides of his family were farmers. Joe’s maternal grandparents immigrated to southern California from Lombardy, Italy in the early 1900s. A tribute to his Italian family, Half Italian (and then some) is his first book. Joe speaks a bit of Italian and lives in Los Angeles where he works in finance. He travels often to France and Italy.

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Half Italian

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It's a bronze!

Half Italian (and then some) has won a Readers' Favorite bronze award in the Nonfiction - Cultural category; I got the email this morning. So that's a big woohoo, for today.

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