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The Resource The ride of our lives : [roadside lessons of an American family], Mike Leonard, (electronic resource)
The ride of our lives : [roadside lessons of an American family], Mike Leonard, (electronic resource)
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The item The ride of our lives : [roadside lessons of an American family], Mike Leonard, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The ride of our lives : [roadside lessons of an American family], Mike Leonard, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It's not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack's bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite - pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two world-class originals along with three of his grown kids and a daughter-in-law into a pair of rented RVs and hit the road for a month? Mike was thinking that he wanted to give his parents the ultimate family reunion. And so, one February morning, three generations of Leonards set out on their journey under the dazzling Arizona sky. Thirty minutes later, one of the humongous recreational vehicles has an unplanned meeting with a concrete island at a convenience store. Thus begins the adventure of a lifetime - and an absolute gem of a book
- Language
- eng
- Note
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- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 7:49:12
- Isbn
- 9780739330111
- Label
- The ride of our lives : [roadside lessons of an American family]
- Title
- The ride of our lives
- Title remainder
- [roadside lessons of an American family]
- Statement of responsibility
- Mike Leonard
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It's not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack's bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite - pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two world-class originals along with three of his grown kids and a daughter-in-law into a pair of rented RVs and hit the road for a month? Mike was thinking that he wanted to give his parents the ultimate family reunion. And so, one February morning, three generations of Leonards set out on their journey under the dazzling Arizona sky. Thirty minutes later, one of the humongous recreational vehicles has an unplanned meeting with a concrete island at a convenience store. Thus begins the adventure of a lifetime - and an absolute gem of a book
- Accompanying matter
- libretto or text
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947 November 30-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Leonard, Mike
- Dewey number
- 917.304/931
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- E169.Z83
- LC item number
- L46 2006ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- biography
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Marc Cashman
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Cashman, Marc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Leonard, Mike
- Leonard, Mike
- Irish Americans
- Irish American families
- Recreational vehicles
- United States
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The ride of our lives : [roadside lessons of an American family], Mike Leonard, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 7:49:12
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Control code
- ocm80940126
- Dimensions
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- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780739330111
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
- (OCoLC)80940126
- System details
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- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 112422 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The ride of our lives : [roadside lessons of an American family], Mike Leonard, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 7:49:12
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Control code
- ocm80940126
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780739330111
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
- (OCoLC)80940126
- System details
-
- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 112422 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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