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2) Carnival
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A stirring new masterpiece from the IMPAC Dublin Literary Awardwinning author of Cockroach and De Niros Game. In Carnival, internationally acclaimed author Rawi Hage takes us into the world of Fly, a taxi driver in a crime-ridden apocalyptic metropolis. Raised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying-carpet man, Fly sees everything, taking in all of the citys carnivalesque beauty and ugliness as...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This sci-fi inspired taxi trip will have kids roaring with laughter. Victor is everyone's favorite extraterrestrial taxi driver, but he has a big problem. His memory is terrible! He can never remember his way around the galaxy. When he drops off his passengers at the wrong locations, there are some unexpected and hilarious high jinks. Elsa Klever's wonderful drawings incorporate every day experiences--like going to the dentist, the library, or the...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
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.
8) Goodbye Solo
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A Senegalese cab driver in North Carolina befriends an elderly fare who has given up on life.
9) 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.
11) Waterproof
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Eli, a Washington, D.C. storeowner, is inadvertently shot by the young son of a taxi cab driver. In a panic, his mom kidnaps the wounded Eli and flees to her hometown of Waterproof, Louisiana. Arriving at the home of her estranged family, its not long before a dark childhood secret is revealed. An emotionally-charged, faith-based story that focuses on the interaction of a stranger and a family torn apart by a long-buried secret.
12) D.C. Cab
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
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.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2007.
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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Donald and Isabelle have a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome. Donald, a good-natured but hapless cab driver has a knack for numbers. He falls head over heals in love with the beautiful but complex Isabelle when she joins the autism support group he leads.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the nightwhatever you call himJules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he cant see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he cant get...
17) Collateral
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After morphing into 187 very large white rats in the name of self-preservation, Jules Duchon is back to his portly self, a member of that secret class of New Orleans citizens known as the undead. Though he would like nothing better than to spend his nights raising hell and biting flesh in his beloved French Quarter, duty calls when an exclusive club of blue blood vampires demands that the 450-pound cabbie find out who is attacking its young and beautiful...
19) 99 River Street
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her lack of social status. Involved with jewel thief Victor Rawlins, Pauline is murdered by him when she impedes his ability to fence the jewels. Blamed for his wife's murder, Ernie must track down Rawlins before he leaves the country.
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....
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