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When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery novel by debut author Yosha Gunasekera. Siriwathi Perera doesn’t quite know where she’s going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s international bestseller about the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space remains the “greatest adventure of all time” (Associated Press). The future is here…in an adventure of cosmic...

Jed Leida is trudging through another day at work as a taxi driver...until the pregnant and in-labor Sasha Walker hails his cab and changes the trajectory of his day...and his life.

This witty romance follows Robert Hervey Randolph and his adventures through the glitter and drama of early 20th-century New York City as a gentleman of leisure turned taxi driver for love.

He was one of the most beloved performers in music history, a spokesman of the people and poet laureate to cab drivers, housewives, and common folk alike. Taxi is the definitive biography of Harry Chapin, written by his long-time friend and confidant. Chapin was an unsung hero, a modern-day Woody Guthrie. The recognition due him was late in coming. Awards are being given to Chapin in his death that he should have received while he lived. His music, his beliefs, and his social activism are finally being appreciated. Most of the world will remember Chapin for the "Story Song; ' the musical ...

A man alights from a train at London’s Liverpool Street station, and takes a taxi to Scotland Yard. On arrival there, the cabbie finds that his fare is dead, and it is soon realised that the man has been shot. The victim worked for the intelligence services. This killing is clearly associated with a much larger investigation into other matters, including treason. Chief Inspector Adair and Inspector Davison are seconded to Special Branch to deal with the murder. The two detectives help to uncover a web of intrigue involving thugs, murderers – and traitors in high places.

Lou - a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned to his home state of Mississippi after decades away - drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Lou’s way of life fast vanishing, an ex-dispatcher returns to town on the lam, triggering a bedlam shift that will test Lou’s sanity and perhaps cost him his life. Against this backdrop, Lou has to keep driving and driving - even if that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car.

«Tenemos que hablar», le dice Lola a su marido durante el desayuno. Él le responde que lo harán por la noche, cuando acabe su jornada en el taxi. Sandino es un hombre melancólico, que duda en regresar a casa porque teme que Lola, harta de sus infidelidades, lo deje. No está muy seguro de si desea que eso suceda, como tampoco sabe si le gusta ser taxista, si es capaz de querer a alguien o si todo consiste en seguir rodando y chocando, como una bola en una mesa de billar llamada Barcelona.

As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change. China--America's...

Arguments about taxation are among the most heated - no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America. But while understanding of our tax system is of vital importance, the complexity can create confusion. Two of America's leading authorities on taxes, Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, bring clarity in this concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved.

The streets of New York are hungry tonight...Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York's ghostlier problems. This time it's a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn's Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals - and is bound to take more. The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie's botánica, where she worked.

People come to Miami for many reasons, but the city is built on only one: survival. For more than half a century, Miami has been shaped by men and women who arrived with nothing except determination, landing by plane, by boat, or on anything that could float. Their stories rarely make headlines, yet they carried entire chapters of Latin American history into the streets of a single American city. Miami Taxi follows one taxi medallion as it passes through the hands of seven immigrants who remade their lives behind the wheel. The characters are composites drawn from countless real stories ...

Forty-seven year old Carl Nixon once dreamed of driving one of the world-famous black cabs he'd seen in London. After the sadness of losing his wife and now losing the job he's had for most of his life, his dream of being such a cab driver is coming true. Despite not being the same confident person he was in his youth, forward he goes, embarking on a new chapter in his life that will encompass not only a new job, but quite a few other kinds of new experiences...

A filthy collection of insta-lust shorts. Hot… Naughty… Dirty… Tales of taxi drivers and their fares. Forbidden fantasies and messy finishes. Featuring first time, group MMMMF, reluctance and acceptance, and revenge.

REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON There's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi...

“Being directed by the Jimmy Burrows, while on Friends, was like hitting the jackpot. I’m delighted that everyone can now share in his incredible insight with this book.”—JENNIFER ANISTON From the director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, and Will & Grace comes an...

When Maggie McTigg's brother Michael went off to fight in World War II, he left his taxicab company in her hands. As the only member of the family with a lick of business sense, he asked her to keep it running while he was gone. Maggie took it as a sacred trust, her own contribution to the war efforts, and resolved that it would still be operating when the conflict was over and he finally returned home—no matter what it took and what she had to do. Just how far will a woman go to keep her soldier brother's heritage alive for him until a war is over?

Miami Taxi erzählt die Geschichte von sieben Einwanderern, einem Taxi und einem amerikanischen Traum, der nie einfach, aber immer greifbar ist. Die Figuren sind keine Porträts einzelner Menschen, sondern Verdichtungen zahlloser Schicksale, die in Miami landen–per Flugzeug, Boot oder auf Wegen, die niemand freiwillig wählen würde. Jeder von ihnen kämpft mit Vergangenheit, Hoffnung und der harten Realität einer Stadt, die Chancen bietet, aber nichts verschenkt.

After 10 years of professional driving, a taxi driver invites you into his cab to hear all the interesting, salacious, and humorous things that went on and were said. “I’ve seen more shit than most people see in a lifetime,” one young homeless man commented, proud of such a distinguished accomplishment. After a while, this cabbie began feeling the same way, and states: “some entertaining, weird, and even paranormal things took place in my cab, which you won’t want to miss!”

Fürstin Gloria hat sich als öffentliche Person in zahllosen Interviews zu verschiedensten Themen geäußert und gilt bis heute ob ihrer klaren Standpunkte häufig als »umstritten«. Mit diesem Hörbuch, das in ihrem Sommerschloss am Starnberger See aufgenommen wurde, zieht sie nun ein umfassendes Resümee ihrer Überzeugungen und Sichtweisen, ob über Adel und Manieren, Demokratie und Populismus, Gender und Migration oder Glaube und Lebensfreude.