Being deeply, tragically unaccomplished in music, art, or even revolution, at age 19 Ed Kennedy is behind schedule compared to Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, and Joan of Arc. Living in a cramped riverside hovel, this underage cab driver spends his time reading obsessively; playing cards with his loser friends Marv, Ritchie, and Audrey (also his intense ...
The fifth in the Carlotta Carlyle series, "Snapshot" begins with a photo of a newborn baby in Carlotta's mail. An obsessed mother, one of Boston's finest hospitals, and a deadly conspiracy attempt to prevent Carlotta from outsmarting the forces of hypocrisy and corruption.
When an Emerson student and a Combat Zone prostitute both go missing at the same time, Carlotta Carlyle--the six-foot tall, redheaded private eye with an attitude--is called in to solve the case.
A winning tip on a horse race and things are looking up for NY cabbie Chet Conway. But, when the bookie is found dead, the police want him for questioning, and rival criminal gangs are interested in him as well, things dont look promising for Chet. And then, the murdered bookie's beautiful sister shows up to exact her revenge.
"The Book of Dave" is based around the rants of Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London. Will Self's big bold book dares to take on the grand themes in the ...
When the younger sister she had thought was dead arrives on her doorstep, followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae-Lynn is forced to grapple with the horrible truth she discovers about the life her sister's been living.
Drawing on conversations with the drivers themselves, "Taxi!" details both the pressures and triumphs of life behind the wheel. Mathew reveals in this highly readable, fast-paced survey of New York's taxi business, that just about everything has been dramatically altered except the yellow paint.
This exuberant celebration of the visual and verbal pun will tickle young and old funny bones alike. Come along for a ride on some of the strangest streets you've ever seen as Max drives his taxi through a not-so-normal day. Max and his bright yellow taxi make every trip an amusing adventure. Full color.
Jules, a feckless, overweight vampire, has watched his neighborhood go to hell--and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out. Jules must find a way to contend with life's hurdles--without getting a stake through the heart.
An unconventional love story from the highly-acclaimed author of MELTING and THE DINNER Kathryn Cheet is not looking for love when she meets Craig Summer. Far from it. Kathryn is the female cab-driving equivalent of a sailor with a girl in every port. For some time, she has been leading five separate lives; conducting five simultaneous ...
Take a savory trip into the kitchen with Manhattan's expatriate taxi drivers, who contribute 150 authentic recipes from their far-flung homelands. They stir up delicious foreign comfort foods along with recollections from more than 80 countries, including Colombia, Egypt, Morocco, and Haiti.
Naturally identified with the Big Apple, New York City cabdrivers hold a special place in the American folk culture writ large. Cabbies proverbially counsel, console, and confound, all the while flitting through the snarling traffic and bustling masses of the nation's largest city. Variously seen as the key to street-level opinion, a source of ...
This rocking heist tale is a hysterical, fictionalized look at four Maryland hoodlums who pull off one of the greatest rock n' roll swindles in history--robbing the biggest group of the 1970s.
The urban underbelly of Kodiak, Alaska, is the backdrop for this haunting first novel of a young man's search for the father he never knew--and for himself. Disturbing and deeply attuned to the longings and fears that drive us all, this poignant novel by a gifted young writer depicts a vivid world of chance meetings and strange characters.
A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada's largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, snakes, politicians, ...
In Mexico City, an old woman entices a young, street-smart taxi driver to be her chauffeur. Her vehicle is a cherry 1942 Ford, a classic ride. Together they circle through the city which, as time passes, becomes the city of the old woman's youth - the '40s and '50s. She deliberately surrounds him in the past, which is for her the present. Modelo ...
Abandoned by his mother 16 years ago, Walker Devereaux is in Toronto to find the truth about his parents. Working as a cab driver, Walker befriends Krista, a wheelchair-bound night dispatcher. But they soon become the prey of another abandoned boy who has transformed himself into the embodiment of his own desperate, violent, and sinister ...
Trudy, a cab driver, is yanked out of her drab, daily routine by a mysterious and attractive young woman. At first the lure of danger is seductive and exciting, but when the dispatcher at her cab company is killed, the romantic allure turns real, and frightening. Yet Trudy cannot resist a call for help from this exciting and enigmatic woman.
In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver; 'Yellow Cab' is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of night time Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug dealers. In this mixed bag of rich vignettes and interludes of poetry, Leonard ...
A matchmaking New York City taxi driver must convince three women he's found their matches in these three original stories by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Julie Elizabeth Leto, and Kate Hoffmann. Includes bonus features. Original.
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