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Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Working as an apartment superintendent to support his little sister, a Bronx cab driver accepts a holiday-season job from a princess from a small Alpine country who is desperate to protect her people"--
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into disarray by the arrival of the younger sister she had thought dead.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"--
5) Sorum
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Looking for a new start, a young taxi driver moves into Apt. 504 of an old tenement. He soon finds that the previous tenant died mysteriously, and everyone on the floor is connected to the man.
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened, and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
7) Piku
Publisher
Reliance Home Video & Games, a division of Reliance Big Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Hindi
Description
A quirky comedy about the relationship between an aging father and his young daughter, living in a cosmopolitan city, dealing with each other's conflicting ideologies while being fully aware that they are each other's only emotional support.
8) Taxi blues
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
In a world filled with hustlers and black marketers, Shlykov, a hard-working, anti-semitic taxi driver, is pushed over the edge when Lyosha, a Jewish saxophonist who personifies everything he despises, stiffs him for a fare. Shlykov tracks the irresponsible musician down and the two form a bizarre love-hate relationship. At first, class and race division make friendship for these two nearly impossible, until they both learn they aren't so different...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Kannada
Description
Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. Instead she gets on the bus, choosing to live... and goes on to become South India's first female taxi driver. We first meet 18-year-old Selvi at a girls' shelter...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
Author
Series
Ranjit Singh novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"NYC taxi driver Ranjit Singh has 10 days to prove his innocence... Bollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours before. Ranjit's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a statue of the elephant god Ganesh used to grotesquely smash the actress' beautiful face. Caught on film leaving the apartment alone, Ranjit is accused by the NYPD as an accessory to murder. Ranjit's only...
Author
Publisher
Conundrum International
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the brightest new talents in Europe comes this debut auto-biographical work, focusing on taxi rides from four cities: Los Angeles, Paris, Jakarta, and Washington, D.C. As the drivers slowly open up about their personal lives, de Jongh does too, even when it means challenging her own ideas and prejudices. Through these vulnerable--and often humourous -- moments, de Jongh finds common ground with the people driving her. Taxi! is an ode...
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