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The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mike Leonard, PUBLISHER: Books On Tape, 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. In the course of their humorous, often poignant cross-country tour, from the desert Southwest to the New England coastline, the Leonards reminisce about their loves, their losses, and their rich and heartwarming (and sometimes heartbreaking) lives, while encountering a veritable Greek chorus of roadside characters along the way. The home stretch finds the clan racing back to Chicago, hoping to catch the arrival of the next generation, Jack and Marge's first great-grandchild. Through it all, Mike pieces together acentury of family lore and lunacy-and discovers surprising sides to his parents that allow him to see them in a whole new light. Mike Leonard has captivated millions of television viewers with his wry and witty feature stories for NBC's Today. Now he brings that same engaging charm and keen insight to the foibles and passions of his own blessedly unique family. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, The Ride of Our Lives delivers a lifetime of laughs, lessons, and priceless memories. "From the Hardcover edition."

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The Best Days of our Lives Destiny 1

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Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives (Paperback)

Oil is not pretty,but it is a resource that drives the modern world. It has made fortunes for the lucky few and provided jobs for millions of ordinary folks. Thick and slippery,crude oil has an evil smell. Yet without it,life as we live it today would be impossible. Oil fuels our engines,heats our homes,and powers the machines that make the everyday things we take for granted,from shopping bags to computers to medical equipment. Nations throughout the last century have gone to war over it. Inde

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Wasgij Destiny Puzzle entitled The Best Days of our Lives Contains 2 x piece puzzles Used but all pieces present in unmarked original box Collection only but will consider posting for an additional £3 Read More

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language,from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic,penny dreadful,and pornography to fantasy,romance,and high literature. Each author was chosen,Professor Sutherland explains,becaus

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Who Am I in the Lives of Children?: An Introducton to Early

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Feeney, Stephanie / Moravcik, Eva / Nolte, Sherry, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, "Who Am I in the Lives of Children "is a warm and comprehensive introduction to early childhood education that is dedicated to helping you promote the development of the whole child--physical, social, emotional, and intellectual. Its practical orientation, personal voice, appealing photographs, and numerous stories and examples set it apart. Because of its emphasis on respecting and honoring the individual child and showing you how your values and ethics impact your work with children, it has become one of most well-respected books in the field. You will be encouraged to begin with children as they are and focus on getting to know each individual's strengths, interests, challenges, and circumstances. This will enable you to support each child in growing and learning in ways that are in harmony with who they are, rather than according to a predetermined plan.

An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gordon, John Steele, PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial, Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth and the capacity to create more of it.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

THE SEEKERS, A WORLD OF OUR OWN. 33SX , An FXB

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Encyclopaedia of the Geniuses of Islam: The Lives and

ISBN No.: Publisher: Koros Press Encyclopaedia of the Geniuses of Islam: The Lives and History of the Great Muslims Who Contributed to Make Islam the Great Relig Contributors/Editors: Mohammad Mahtab Alam Publisher: Koros Press Pub. Date: Price: £ http://www.korospress.com/islam-other-religions/779-Encyclopaedia_of_the_Geniuses_of_Islam:_The_Lives_and_History_of_the_Great_Muslims_Who_Contributed_to_Make_Islam_the_Great_Relig.html

  The Sanctity of Louis IX: Early Lives of

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Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor

For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein,there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture,and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. InBlack Frankenstein,Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture,in fiction,film,essays,oratory,painti

Samirah's Ride: The Story of an Arabian Filly (Paperback)

Samirah is an eight-year-old Arabian mare,who has been carefully raised and trained by her girl,Jasper,to be the ultimate family ranch horse. Sami has long sensed that Jasper is itching for freedom,and wants to be a real cowgirl. And when Jasper hears a rumor that her family is being forced to sell their ranch and decides to run away,the filly and her girl find themselves lost in a beautiful,legendary wilderness,but one fraught with dangers. Sami must use all of her resources and strength to

The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dye, Thomas R. / Zeigler, Harmon, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, While most American politics texts address American politics from a pluralist perspective, THE IRONY OF DEMOCRACY: AN UNCOMMON INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS, Fourteenth Edition, approaches the subject by addressing the theme of elitism and contrasting it with democratic theory and modern pluralist theory. Its key question is, "How democratic is American society?"

Taryn Simon - An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Author: Taryn SimonTitle: An American Index of the Hidden and UnfamiliarPublisher: SteidlYear of publication: Number of pages: 153Binding: HardcoverDimensions: cmCondition: Near mint. Read More

The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American

A collection of 56 works by Italian American women writers,drawing on rare sources and archival material. Works encompass genres of prose,poetry,oral history,and fiction. An introductory essay examines barriers to Italian American women writers,within their own ethnic tradition and within the world of publishing. Originally published in by Schocken Books. Barolini is author of seven books and many short stories. Annotation c. Book News,Inc.,Portland,OR (booknews.com)

Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era

"[W]e can't come off as a bunch of angry white men.” Robert Bennett,chairman of the Ohio Republican Party One of the enduring legacies of the Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night,after Obama was announced the winner,a distressed Bill O’Reilly lamented that he didn’t live in a traditional America anymore.” He was joined by others who bellowed their grief on the talk radio airw

House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Juers, Evelyn, PUBLISHER: Farrar Straus Giroux, "Scintillating and rather magical... "House of Exile" is an extraordinary book, and a really rare accomplishment." --Michael Hoffman, "The Times Literary Supplement" In the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in the south of France and later, in great despair, in Los Angeles, where Nelly committed suicide in and Heinrich died in . Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Lubeck, Heinrich was one of the leading representatives of Weimar culture. Nelly was twenty-seven years younger, the adopted daughter of a fisherman and a hostess in a Berlin bar. As far as Heinrich's family was concerned, she was from the wrong side of the tracks. In "House of Exile," Heinrich and Nelly's story is crossed with others from their circle of friends, relatives, and contemporaries: Heinrich's brother, Thomas Mann; his sister, Carla; their friends Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Doblin, and Joseph Roth; and, beyond them, the writers James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Virginia Woolf, among others. Evelyn Juers brings this generation of exiles to life with tremendous poignancy and imaginative power. In train compartments, ship cabins, and rented rooms, the Manns clung to what was left to them--their bodies, their minds, and their books--in a turbulent and self-destructive era.

Lives of the Writers: Comedies,Tragedies (And What the

Shakespeare wrote with a feather quill and ink; Emily Dickinson wrote with a fountain pen; Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote on a Yiddish typewriter. But what did such writers do when they weren't writing? What did Jane Austen eat for breakfast? What could make Mark Twain throw his shirts out the window? Why would Zora Neale Hurston punch a fellow elevator passenger?Lives of the Writers tells all that and more.

The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

With record numbers of students competing fiercely to get into college,schools are no longer primarily places of learning. Theyre dog-eat-dog battlegrounds in which kids must set aside interests and passions in order to strategize over how to game the system. In this increasingly stressful environment,kids arent defined by their character or hunger for knowledge,but by often arbitrary scores and statistics. In The Overachievers,journalist Alexandra Robbins delivers a poignant,funny,riveting narrati

500 Nations, an Illustrated History of North American Indians. Not a book for the Emotional

500 NATIONS, By Alvin M.Josephy, jr An illustrated History of North American Indian nations. How they lived (and died). How the West was won, at the expense of almost every native tribe, from the Inca to the Inuit and almost every Plains and Desert dwelling tribe that occupied North America. Harrowing in many places, to read the documented accounts of how the numerous tribes were decimated by the invasion from the white man. Beautifully illustrated, with many archive publications depicting the primitive manner in which the tribes lived. Their own battles to survive, and the pacts that they formed. From Farmers to Warriors, this book has to be read from start to finish, in order to understand but a little of the harsh, yet wonderful lifestyles, that these ancient peoples endured. I found it difficult to put this book down once I started reading, and the picture really do bring the accounts to life, superbly written whilst maintaining a sense of accuracy from the research material used. With about 400 pages, it's difficult to know what to ask for such a work, I simply hope that whoever buys it will enjoy it as much as I, and be as impressed and emotionally humbled by the content as I was. Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

The Lives of Enoch Powell

The Lives of Enoch Powell, written by Patrick Cosgrave, Published , come with Original Dust Jacket, in used condition, but no damage, all pages are intact, Read more

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