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| Author | : Tom Frias |
| Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2016-01-21 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 1480920150 |
Real Cab Stories By Tom Frias It's here! Finally, what you have been waiting for has arrived. Real cab stories from a real cab driver. For your enjoyment, author Tom Frias has hand-selected these unique stories from 166,000 personal experiences. Alternately hilarious and tragic, Real Cab Stories covers all the bases: out-of-control bachelorette parties and shady businessmen, strip clubs and prostitutes, casino jackpots and unlucky accidents, all told with the wit and sincerity of someone who’s seen it all. In Las Vegas, anything can happen—and half of it happens in the cab. Ranging from the wild to the hilarious, the lucky to the unlucky, there's a favorite story waiting here for you. Which one is yours?
| Author | : Eugene Salomon |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2013-01-31 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0007500963 |
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.
| Author | : Dmitry Samarov |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0226734749 |
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.
| Author | : Sean Singer |
| Publisher | : Tupelo Press |
| Total Pages | : 75 |
| Release | : 2022-12-28 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1946482854 |
From the passenger seat of Sean Singer’s taxicab, we witness New York’s streets livid and languid with story and contemplation that give us awareness and aliveness with each trip across the asphalt and pavement. Laced within each fare is an illumination of humanity’s intimate music, of the poet’s inner journey—a signaling at each crossroad of our frailty and effervescence. This is a guidebook toward a soundscape of higher meaning, with the gridded Manhattan streets as a scoring field. Jump in the back and dig the silence between the notes that count the most in each unique moment this poet brings to the page. “Sean Singer’s radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman’s, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient of Singer’s jazzy curation as I move from page to page. Today in the Taxi is threaded through with quotes from Kafka, facts about jazz musicians, musings from various thinkers, from a Cathar fragment to Martin Buber to Arthur Eddington to an anonymous comedian. The taxi is at once a real taxi and the microcosm of a world—at times the speaker seems almost like Charon ferrying his passengers, as the nameless from all walks and stages of life step in and out his taxi. I am reminded of Calvino’s Invisible Cities, of Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn... Today in the Taxi is intricate, plain, suggestive, deeply respectful of the reader, and utterly absorbing. Like Honey and Smoke before it, which was one of the best poetry books of the last decade, this is work of the highest order.” —Laurie Sheck
| Author | : M. C. Mars |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Taxicab drivers |
| ISBN | : 9780976078807 |
A literary memoir of thirty, true, truly outrageous taxi stories spanning four decades in the inner city. The majority of stories take place at night in SF (with a few earlier stories set in NYC and the NY area.) Through stories that are in turn -- funny, dangerous and simply outrageous, the reader meets a whole cavalcade of characters, and observes with the eye of a hidden camera, the stresses that create the cabdriver's evolution to a higher consciousness; a greater awareness of himself and the wolrd he inhabits.
| Author | : Shep Hyken |
| Publisher | : Shepard Presentations, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 80 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0963782002 |
| Author | : Amy Braunschweiger |
| Publisher | : 671 Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2009-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0982173326 |
An outrageous encounter in a cab is a rite of passage in New York City. Trap two or more strangers in a careening yellow sedan and add an unexpected variable-say, a well-armed transvestite hooker, the urgent need for a restroom, or a stabbing victim-and the story that emerges is sure to be worth telling. In Taxi Confidential, cabbies ranging from a lead-footed pothead to a philosophizing immigrant sage grapple with what chance tosses their way. Author Amy Braunschweiger uncovers the best taxi stories from the 1970s through present day, and takes the reader on a 100-mile-per-hour ride through Gotham's darkest alleys, roughest neighborhoods, and hidden sweet spots.
| Author | : Kent Nerburn |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 2010-09-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 006202857X |
Kent Nerburn's Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace, immerses us in the spirit of one of the most universally inspiring figures in history: St. Francis of Assisi. The Prayer of St. Francis boldly but gently challenges us to resist the forces of evil and negativity with the spirit of goodwill and generosity. And Nerburn shows, in his wonderfully personal and humble way, how we each can live out the prayer's prescription for living in our everyday and less-than-saintly lives. "Where there is hatred, let me sow love...Where there is injury, let me sow pardon..." Expanding upon each line of the St. Francis Prayer, Nerburn shares touching, inspiring stories from his own experience and that of others and reveals how each of us can make a difference for good in ordinary ways without being heroes or saints. Struggling to help a young son comfort his best friend when his mother dies, moved by the courage of war enemies who reconcile, being wrenched out of self-absorbed depression by responding to someone else's tragedy, taking a spirited old lady on a farewell taxi ride through her town-these are the kinds of everyday moments in which Nerburn finds we can live out the spirit of St. Francis. By incorporating the power and grace of these few lines of practical idealism into our thoughts and deeds, we can begin to ease our own suffering-and the suffering of those with whom we share our lives. And, remarkably, find a way to true peace and happiness by tapping into our basic human goodness. As we open our hearts and embrace his words, St. Francis "touches our deepest humanity and ignites the spark of our divinity." Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love, Where there is injury let me sow pardon, Where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there is darkness, light, And where there is sadness, joy... In this beautifully written book, Kent Nerburn leads us into the heart of the St. Francis Prayer and line by line demonstrates how St. Francis's words can resonate in our lives today.
| Author | : Courtney Hernandez |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 2012-06-06 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0987983202 |
Immigration... a word I never knew I would become so familiar with. After my first vacation to the Caribbean my life was turned upside down forever. Who would have known the bar tender would end up being my future husband? We could barely communicate. When my vacation was over, I was determined to see him again. I was oblivious to the heart wrenching journey that lay ahead of me and how I would be laughed at and insulted by my own friends and family. The countless stories I started hearing of women who marry and sponsor their husbands only to find out their marriage has been a scam compelled me to be extra cautious with my choices. This story is about the struggle to marry and sponsor my spouse, while secretly praying that both our intentions were in the right place. Was he marrying me only to have a better life, or because he really wanted to be with me?
| Author | : Jagada Chambers |
| Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2014-05-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1628381272 |
Have you experienced the deepest point of your life where you have nothing but your unwavering faith in God? For twenty-three-year-old Jagada Chambers, life took a turn for the worst when he, under the influence of alcohol, made a grave mistake during Spring Break vacation in Florida. He hit rock bottom facing twenty-plus years in prison and a violent-felony conviction. He was confronted with the reality of being stripped of his freedom and doomed to adjust to life behind bars. If you were faced with the same circumstances, how would you respond? In this book, you will gain a new perspective in life. You will know more of hope, love, life and justice. You will learn that, win or lose, God is with you always. Most of all, learn when to accept defeat and to wholeheartedly trust God, without questions, without doubts.
