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Author
Language
English
Description
Ed Kennedy is a nineteen-year-old cab driver who doesn't think much of his life. He inadvertently helps stop a bank robbery, and that is when his life starts to change. He begins to receive mysterious messages that instruct him to go to addresses where people need help. Ed becomes the messenger, but who is behind the messages? Meet Ed Kennedy - underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted...
2) Carnival
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fly is a taxi driver in a crime-ridden apocalyptic metropolis. Raised in the circus, Fly sees everything, taking in all of the city's carnivalesque beauty and ugliness as he roves through its dizzying streets in his taxi. Fly is a reader, too, his tiny apartment filled with books. His best friend is Otto, a political activist who's in and out of jails and asylums. One night Fly meets Mary, a book-loving passenger with a domineering husband. So begins...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The second book in the Shake Shop Mysteries--a new murder in town has Trinidad Jones thrown for a scoop! It's Alpenfest in Upper Sprocket! Yodelers are congregating in the square, tourists flocking to the town, and Trinidad Jones is scooping up some fall flavors at her Shimmy and Shake Shop. The cherry on the sundae is her upcoming feature in The Scoop magazine. She's determined to serve up the perfect interview, but it won't be easy, thanks in part...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rex is a cab driver who has never left the mining town of Broken Hill in his life. When he discovers he doesn't have long to live, he decides to drive through the heart of the country to Darwin, where he's heard he will be able to die on his own terms; but along the way he discovers that before you can end your life you've got to live it, and to live it you've got to learn to share it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to stay out of trouble for too long, Dublin limo driver Megan Malone helps her latest client, a world-renowned romance novelist, look into the death of her protégé, leading her to the victim's writing group and to a killer who wants to write her out of the story--permanently.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous taxi dispatcher for a New York City taxi company. He tries to maintain order over the varied collection of strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage, " they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Leo Ricci's already handling all he can, between taking care of his little sister Gabby, driving a cab, and being the super of his apartment building in the Bronx. But when Gabby spots a 'princess' in a gown outside of the UN trying to hail a cab, she begs her brother to stop and help. Before he knows it, he's got a real-life damsel in distress in the backseat of his car. Princess Marie of Eldovia shouldn't be hailing a cab, or even be out and about....
10) Luz
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (70 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this slick and disturbing horror film, Luz is a young cab driver fleeing from the grasp of an evil entity who covets her. When she seeks refuge at a local police station, a series of events unfolds that endangers the lives of everyone around her. It starts when an off duty police psychiatrist finds himself the easy prey of the sexy Nora who approaches him at a bar and relays a seemingly random story about her former classmate... Luz. As luck would...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (491 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This sitcom followed the life of a group of cabbies in New York. The group, employees of the Sunshine Cab Company, was made up a motley crew including Bobby, a frustrated actor, Tony, a struggling boxer, Louie, the tyranical dispatcher, and Reverend Jim.
14) D.C. cab
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves.
15) Taxi driver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This humorous, insightful collection gathers essays inspired by conversations with cabbies, ranging over the possible nature of alien societies, the inevitability of life, and links between environmentalism and space exploration"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Orla, the boss at Leprechaun Limos, becomes a suspect in the murder of an American who came to Ireland, believing herself to be an heir to an old Irish earldom, Megan attempts to clear Orla's name and find the real killer.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 590 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He is still trying to maintain order over his off-the-wall collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage, " they continue to form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
20) Dead in Dublin
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ferrying tourists around Dublin for the Leprechaun Limo Service makes quite a change after years in the military. Still, Megan Malone is enjoying her life in Ireland. She likes the scenery, the easy pace, the quirky, quick-witted locals. Everything--except having one of her clients drop dead at the statue of fabled fishmonger, Molly Malone. Most restaurant critics notch up their share of enemies. Elizabeth Darr, however, was a well-loved international...
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