The Cab Driver's Daughter
Author : Lynda Randle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2016-02-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780692620724
The Taxi Driver's Daughter
Author : Julia Darling
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dysfunctional families
ISBN : 9780141012612
Book Description
When her mother is sent to prison for three months for assaulting a policeman with a stiletto shoe, fifteen-year-old Caris goes gently off the rails. Whilst her taxi-driver father Mac attempts to keep the family together, Caris meets George, a boy from the other side of the vale and from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world - and looks set to throw the family into terrifying chaos. Julia Darling's acclaimed novel blends the gritty and the everyday with the evocative and the enchanting, to create an original, inventive and often moving portrayal of family ties, suburban life, love and growing up.
The Santa Claus Girl
Author : Patricia P. Goodin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780578995472
Book Description
"Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus"Virginia grew up.Yes, THAT Virginia-who became a teacher-encouraging students through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Polio epidemic. "The Santa Claus Girl," a novel drawn from true events, imagines Virginia's far-reaching influence and her exceptional gift of inspiration. Set in New York City, December 1952, the story uncovers how a remarkable woman sparks a band of humble do-gooders to overcome the odds stacked against them-and reach for an extraordinary goal. Uplifting, inspirational story in a historical fiction book about the "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus" girl who eventually became the principal of a New York hospital school during the Polio Epidemic in the early 50s.
Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver (The Confessions Series)
Author : Eugene Salomon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007500963
Book Description
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.
Hack
Author : Melissa Plaut
Publisher : Villard Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812977394
Book Description
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.
Short Dog
Author : Dan Fante
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781574232509
Book Description
"In the freewheeling, debaucherous tradition of Charles Bukowski, a taxi driver's stories from the streets of lowlife Los Angeles. Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog (the title comes from street slang for a half-pint of alcohol): I had been back working a cabbie gig as a result of my need for money. And insanity. Hack driver is the only occupation I know about with no boss, and because I have always performed poorly at supervised employment, I returned to the taxi business. The upside, now that I was working again, was that my own boozing was under control and I was on beer only, except for my days off.s"--
The Child in Time
Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795304099
Book Description
A child’s abduction sends a father reeling in this Whitbread Award-winning novel that explores time and loss with “narrative daring and imaginative genius” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children’s books, is on a routine trip to the supermarket with his three-year-old daughter. In a brief moment of distraction, she suddenly vanishes—and is irretrievably lost. From that moment, Lewis spirals into bereavement that effects his marriage, his psyche, and his relationship with time itself: “It was a wonder that there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none at all.” In The Child in Time, acclaimed author Ian McEwan “sets a story of domestic horror against a disorienting exploration in time” producing “a work of remarkable intellectual and political sophistication” that has been adapted into a PBS Masterpiece movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “A beautifully rendered, very disturbing novel.” —Publishers Weekly
The Caretaker
Author : A. X. Ahmad
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250016835
Book Description
Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends? Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha's Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages. But Ranjit's idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator's shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator's beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own. Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India. A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.
My Little Yellow Taxi
Author : Stephen T. Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152164652
Book Description
Kids must fasten their seatbelts as they prepare, by checking the mirrors, checking the oil, and starting the engine, to take their little yellow taxi for a wild ride, in this vibrant, interactive book that introduces the concept of telling time.
Curb
Author : Divya Victor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2021
Category : POETRY
ISBN : 9781643620701
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 PEN Open Book Award! Winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award! Finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Awards in Poetry! Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States. Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. Curb witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark "other" by reclaiming the throbbing, many-tongued, vermillion heart of kith.
