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Beth Szillagyi

Born: 1956 in Gary, Indiana
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Szillagyi resides in Petersburg, Illinois.

Biography: Szillagyi has been a sheet metal worker for appx. 30 years and a writer for as long as she can remember. The heroine of her book ''Hey, Lady! Your Tin Snips are Showing!'' is a woman who joins a formerly all-male sheet metal shop as an apprentice. It's a tale about growing up female, challenging the norms, and following one's dreams, down an unusual and oftentimes hilarious road that few have traveled before.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: rugszi@peoplepc.com
Website: http://www.bluecollargal.homestead.com
Beth Szillagyi on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=beth+szillagyi


Selected Titles

  Cobwebs in the broiler :
ISBN: 0744308844 OCLC: 247722523

SynergEbooks, [Davenport, Iowa] : ©2005.

Val Szabo thought that being the first woman sheet metal worker in her local would be the toughest adventure she'd ever undertake. As it turns out, being the wicked stepmother to two kids is the hardest thing she's tackled yet. Join Val on her crazy, zany, (and sometimes scary) journey into everything you never wanted to know about helping raise other people's kids.

  Cobwebs in the broiler :
ISBN: 0744309921 OCLC: 62188219

SynergEbooks, King, NC : ©2001.

"Val Szabo thought that construction work would be the toughest adventure she'd ever undertake. As it turns out, being the "wicked" stepmother to two kids is the hardest thing she's tackled yet"--Page 4 of cover.

  Hey, lady! Your tin snips are showing!
ISBN: 9781931540193 OCLC: 900473465

Hey, lady! Your tin snips are showing! /
ISBN: 1931540918 OCLC: 51072505

SynergEbooks, King, NC : ©2001.

Notes from Rainbow Bridge.
ISBN: 0744311411 OCLC: 166368054

Synergebooks, 2007.

 

 

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