Download or read book Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver The Confessions Series written by Eugene Salomon and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir.
Download or read book Cab Driver She is written by Ayyampalayam Raghavendra Rao and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayaram is the Managing Director of Ravali Auto Parts Pvt. Ltd. When he landed in Hyderabad from Singapore where he went for a business meet, he straighway went to Hatti Coffee shop and sipped a cup of hot coffee. After finishing coffee, he is in a mind to give a call to his driver to bring his car to the airport as the flight was unusually delayed due to a technical snag developed in Singapore. When he was about to call, he heard a female taxi driver offering her services. He recently read an article in Economic Times sometime ago about the lives of female taxi drivers and determined to help one of them. This is the first time he encountered a lady cab driver. He helped himself in putting his luggage in the boot and sat in passenger's seat in front. When he asked, she told her name, Malavika. He introduced himself and they had a conversation about her family during the journey. When they reached home Jayaram got down, took the luggage out and handed over to Kumbhu the caretaker of the house. He went to Malavika to settle the bill. But he found her leaning against the steering wheel. He called her name twice but she would not respon. When he touched her, she fell on the passenger seat. He therefore rushed her to the hospital where she took time to recover.
Download or read book Taxi Driver Wisdom written by Risa Mickenberg and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Insights on love, pleasure, fate, and other topics” collected from conversations with New York City cabbies (AM New York). The worse a town’s economy is, the better looking the guys who work at the local gas station are. I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place. There is no chivalry. For that you have to go upstate. Real taxi drivers know more than how to get you there without a GPS—often, they know how to get you there in life. This twentieth anniversary edition of the wise and hilarious classic, as true now as ever, is a celebration of the witty, philosophical perspective on human nature culled from real quotations from real cab drivers who’ve been around the block.
Download or read book Hack written by Melissa Plaut and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her late 20s, Plaut decided to honor a long-held secret ambition by becoming a New York City taxi driver. With wit and insight, she recreates the crazy parade of humanity that passes through her cab and shows how this grueling work provides her with a greater sense of self.
Download or read book Hack written by Dmitry Samarov and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. In Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the most seasoned urbanite. We follow Samarov through the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick up a shift, ferries comically drunken passengers between bars, delivers prostitutes to their johns, and inadvertently observes drug deals. There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrating after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. Throughout, Samarov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In the grand tradition of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable vision of Chicago and its people.
Download or read book Driven written by Marcello Di Cintio and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren’t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan’s lyrics, Di Cintio’s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it’s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.
Download or read book The Cab Driver s Daughter written by Lynda Randle and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adriana Estrada The Taxi written by Adriana Estrada and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amaryllis's life changes when a driver of a curse cab forces her to take his place behind the wheel of hell. As the cab's driver, she needs to capture and kill sinners. If she does not become the new driver, then the driver will kill her love interest Taron. She is challenged by her heart and those who live in her hometown Bridgeton, New Jersey.
Download or read book Taxi written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.
Download or read book The Blue Room written by David Hare and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tony Award–winning playwright and screenwriter delivers “a witty, contemporary reworking of Arthur Schnitzler’s nineteenth-century shocker La Ronde” (The Mail on Sunday, four stars). Arthur Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as “completely unprintable,” and indeed, its premiere in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophüls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors playing a succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh like a daisy chain. The Blue Room is a brilliant meditation on men and women, sex and social class, actors and the theater. With deft insight about the gap between the sexes, it takes the treacherous Freudian subject of projection and desire and reinvents it in a bittersweet landscape that is both eternal and completely up to date. “[Hare’s] play slides up on one insidiously—always suggesting more than they first suggest, planting depth charges in the mind, subtly laying a minefield in the self-confidence of one’s first impressions.” —New York Post “In the jungle of this city, sex is a driving force, a commodity and a need . . . This play could almost be a vividly illustrated Freudian textbook: the erotic drive in action, amoral and ruthless. Hare’s version is, in the deepest and most essential sense, completely faithful to Schnitzler.” —The Sunday Times “Hare—buttressed by Freud and Proust—has turned sexual disappointment into something more interesting, the idea that what we are in love with is part illusion.” —The Observer
Download or read book Park Rose written by Tiffaney Dulaney and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Park Rose is a story based on actual events that occurred in my life growing up. I titled the book Park Rose because Park Rose was a street I lived on in Duarte, California, a very nice, quiet neighborhood in the Monrovia area. Our house wasn't right in the middle of the neighborhood, but I'm sure all the screams and sounds coming from that house made it the center of the neighborhood attention. I will never forget the things that occurred on Park Rose and in my life thereafter. God has brought me a might long way. Without God, I know I would not be here being able to share my testimony with you all. I also wanted to make awareness to mental illness. Enduring through years of abuse, my mother was not able to care for us appropriately anymore. She is not able to care for herself today. Abuse doesn't just end when the abuse stops; it continues for years without the proper help.
Download or read book End of the World written by Jeremiah Semien and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Day They Took My Uncle and Other Stories written by Lionel G. Garcia and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Day They Took My Uncle and Other Stories is a collection of 15 shorts by novelist Lionel Garcia, dealing mostly with working-class and poor inhabitants of the southwestern U.S. Difficulties encountered by Latinos in America are a recurrent theme.
Download or read book Friends Deception Murders In Aruba written by Steven Winer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four young and naïve college students from Minnesota were seeking an organization to help immigrants assimilate into the culture and laws of the United States. They all agreed to work with a group of other college students in the Somali Adult Literacy Training group located in an area called Little Mogadishu just outside of downtown Minneapolis. The leader of the Mosque located in the area agreed to allow the group to do their work under strict conditions. Some years later, those conditions caused those four individuals to involuntarily become involved in a criminal enterprise in which they thought were being run by the Mosque while generating millions of dollars. The criminal activity was actually a sting in which those four individuals, and others, were not even aware of exactly who had taken control of the Sting. Unbeknownst to them, the sting was based out of Aruba and other major cities throughout the United States. During the two year sting operation several murders, thought to be related to the sting, occurred in Aruba. This book takes the reader into the undercover world of the FBI and Aruba police to determine who and why the murders occurred. It sets forth the mystery of several stings causing all four individuals, and others, to become suspects in both the murders and the illegal operations by the Mosque. It further reveals the mystery of who committed the murders as well as who was actually involved in reaping the large sums of money generated by the complicated schemes.
Download or read book Closure A Javin Pierce Spy Thriller written by Ethan Jones and published by Knightsville Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covert operative Javin Pierce will avenge his betrayal or die trying . . . Wounded, off the grid, and needing to rescue his partner from a Saudi jail ... Javin Pierce wants to settle the score with the traitor who double-crossed him. With time short and options few, Javin strikes a shaky deal with sworn enemies. But before long, alliances crumble, and Javin's rogue team is surrounded on every side. Now, desperate to rescue his partner and exact retribution with no one to trust, can Javin survive the deadliest mission of his life? With a plot ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, Closure, the third book in the all-too-real Javin Pierce international espionage thriller series, confirms Jones’s status as a spy fiction master alongside Flynn, Clancy, and Fleming. If you like novels that are loaded with action and suspense, barreling at neck-break speed with well-crafted characters and ingenious plots, you are guaranteed to love Closure. Reviews ★★★★★ “This story is so well written that the deft description will make you feel as is you need a bullet proof vest as you tag along right there with these characters.” ★★★★★ “If you love action thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat, don’t miss this book and this series.” ★★★★★ “Another whiz-banger by one of today's best writers of thriller/fiction!” The Javin Pierce Series Closure is the third novel in this best-selling series with hundreds of five-star reviews and thousands of sales and downloads. Each book is a clean, self-contained story without cliffhangers and can be enjoyed on its own. Scroll up, click and get lost in the fast-paced intriguing world of Closure now. If you love assassinations, conspiracies, crime, espionage, military, political, psychological, technothrillers, terrorism, suspense, spy thrillers, secret agents, clandestine covert missions, and action & adventure with series favorites such as Jack Storm, Justin Hall, Javin Pierce, Carrie O’Connor, or Max Thorne… You’ll love this book.
Download or read book District of Columbia Appropriations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book District of Columbia Appropriations for 1984 Repayment of general fund deficit written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
