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229 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged hackie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. 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...
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xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"--
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Persian
Description
Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.--From container.
10) The heiresses
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
11) Cartas cruzadas
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pages cm
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Español
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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.
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Bruno is a Las Vegas cab driver. Scientist Dr. Alex Friedman is one of his passengers. She is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space. The next day Jack notices Sara and Seth sitting in the back seat of his cab. He takes them to a run down house in the middle of nowhere, where they must obtain an object. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke is searching for information pertaining to two aliens that landed days earlier....
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English
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"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...
14) Goodbye Solo
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1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more...
15) Speedy
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Criterion collection volume 788
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2 videodiscs (86 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
16) The Duke
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
18) Kilometre zero
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Kurdish
Description
A Kurdish soldier and an Iraqi taxi driver work together to return the body of a fallen soldier to his family. The family happens to live on the other side of the country.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rex is a cab driver who has never left the mining town of Broken Hill in his life. When he discovers he doesn't have long to live, he decides to drive through the heart of the country to Darwin, where he's heard he will be able to die on his own terms; but along the way he discovers that before you can end your life you've got to live it, and to live it you've got to learn to share it.
20) She's the one
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mickey has been driving a New York City taxicab for the past two years, ever since the breakup with his promiscuous ex-fiancée, Heather. Finding relief in driving his cab, Mickey asks Hope to marry him after knowing her for only 24 hours. Francis, Mickey's younger brother is a Wall Street corporate raider who is unhappy in his marriage to Renee. This leds him to have a dangerous affair with Heather, all this despite Mickey's warnings that Heather...
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