Roughneck

Author : Jeff Lemire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781476774008

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Roughneck by Jeff Lemire Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning creator of Essex County, Secret Path, Descender, and The Underwater Welder comes an all-original graphic novel about a brother and sister who must come together after years apart to face the disturbing history that has cursed their family. Derek Ouelette’s glory days are behind him. His hockey career ended a decade earlier in a violent incident on ice, and since then he’s been living off his reputation in the remote northern community where he grew up, drinking too much and fighting anyone who crosses him. But he never counts on his long-lost sister, Beth, showing up one day out of the blue, back in town and on the run from an abusive boyfriend. Looking to hide out for a while, the two siblings hunker down in a secluded hunting camp deep in the local woods. It is there that they attempt to find a way to reconnect with each other and the painful secrets of their past...even as Beth’s ex draws closer, threatening to pull both Derek and Beth back into a world of self-destruction that they are fighting tooth and nail to leave behind. Simultaneously touching and harrowing, Roughneck is a masterwork from New York Times bestselling writer/artist Jeff Lemire—a deeply moving and beautifully illustrated story of family, heritage, and the desire to break the cycle of violence at any cost from one of today’s most acclaimed comic creators.

Author : Bonar Alexander Gow
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552380673

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Roughnecks, Rock Bits and Rigs by Bonar Alexander Gow Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution of the component aspects of drilling technology in Alberta, from the evolution of power sources and drill bit designs to the composition of drilling muds and the use of fishing tools. Included are explanations of the costs and risks of oil well drilling and of the larger issue of industrial technology -- how it evolves and under what conditions. The author draws extensively from original source material such as interviews, photographs, and appendices from both the Glenbow Archives and the Devon-Leduc Petroleum Hall of Fame and Interpretive Ce.

Author : Jim Thompson
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316196062

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Roughneck by Jim Thompson Pdf

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good.

Author : Thomas Cochran
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152022007

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Roughnecks by Thomas Cochran Pdf

Travis Cody prepares for the final game of his high school football career, a rematch with his school's chief rival.

Author : James J. Patterson,Quinn, Quinn O'Connell, Jr.
Publisher : Santa Fe Writer's Project
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984832965

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Roughnecks by James J. Patterson,Quinn, Quinn O'Connell, Jr. Pdf

To his fellow crewmembers on rig number 34 of the Bomac Drilling Company, 27-year-old newcomer Zachary Harper is a mystery. To Marty, the derrick hand, he's a welcome working body. To Freddy, the chainhand, he's just another newcomer like himself trying to break out in the oil patch. To Jesse Lancaster, the driller, he's a "worm"—a risk, taken out of necessity, who just might make it as a roughneck. We join Zachary Harper the day after he has left the East Coast, for reasons yet unknown, and the day before he discovers the stark reality that a clean slate is just that—a cold, empty space where the self struggles with the soul. A tale of trial, risk, sacrifice, and self-discovery, Roughnecks takes its place in the tradition of American literary quest fiction. Is Zachary Harper an Ishmael or a Sal Paradise? A Jay Gatsby or a Huck Finn? Whoever he might be, he seeks self-knowledge, awareness, and authenticity.

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780870208126

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Roughneck Grace by Michael Perry Pdf

New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and newspaper columnist Michael Perry returns with a new collection of bite-sized essays from his Sunday Wisconsin State Journal column, “Roughneck Grace.” Perry’s perspectives on everything from cleaning the chicken coop to sharing a New York City elevator with supermodels will have you snorting with laughter on one page, blinking back tears on the next, and--no matter your zip code--nodding in recognition throughout.

Author : Trace Adkins
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345499349

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A Personal Stand by Trace Adkins Pdf

Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn’t exactly known for holding back what’s on his mind. And if the millions of albums he’s sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things oughta be. In his inimitable pull-no-punches style, Trace gives us the state of the union as he sees it, from the lessons of his boyhood in small-town Louisiana to what he’s learned headlining concerts around the world. Trace has worked oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, been shot in the heart, been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and braved perhaps the greatest challenge of all: being the father of five daughters. And shaped by these experiences, he’s sounding off. • I’m incredibly frustrated with the state of American politics. If there were a viable third party, I’d seriously consider joining it. • If anybody wonders who the good guys are and who the bad guys are in this world, just look at the way we teach our children as opposed to the way the fundamentalist Muslims teach their children. • Organized labor now exists for the sake of organized labor, and not for the workers it once protected. • I believe the easiest way to solve the illegal immigration enforcement problem is to go after the employers who hire illegal aliens. • As a society, we’re unwilling to sacrifice our luxuries and our conveniences in order to conserve. We won’t change until we’re forced to. • The war on terror is like herpes. People can live with it, but it’ll flare up from time to time. Brash, ballsy, persuasive, and controversial, A Personal Stand isn’t just the story of Trace Adkins’s life; it’s the story of what life can teach all of us.

Author : Frank Antenori,Hans Halberstadt
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429967556

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Roughneck Nine-One by Frank Antenori,Hans Halberstadt Pdf

An inside look at a special forces A-Team and the story of how the author's outnumbered and outgunned team won a crucial and dramatic battle on the Iraqi battlefields. On April 6th, 2003, twenty-six Green Berets, including those of Sergeant 1st Class Frank Antenori's Special Forces A-team (call sign Roughneck Nine-One), confronted a vastly superior force—one that included battle tanks and more than 150 well-trained, well-equipped, and well-commanded soldiers—at a remote crossroads near the small village of Debecka, Iraq. The rest is history... Along the way, they endured a U.S .Navy F-14 dropping a 500-pound bomb on supporting Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, the ever-present threat of WMDs, and countless other deadly obstacles. This is the never-before-told, unsanitized story of how one Special Forces A-team recruited and organized, trained and eventually fought—and won—a legendary conflict that will influence American military doctrine for years to come.

Author : Ronalee Bennett Orr
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525556692

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Windy Rafters Roughnecks by Ronalee Bennett Orr Pdf

Strange things have been happening at Windy Rafters resort. Mellie Stevens is indignant that the shadow of blame falls repeatedly on herself, her sister, and their younger cousins. To clear their names, the six cousins organize themselves as the Windy Rafters Roughnecks. Working out of the old treehouse in the farmyard, the Ferris cousins investigate suspects and, in the process, make some unlikely friends, and discover some great neighbours. Just when they think they have the mystery solved, the younger kids are transported back in time to the days before their family owned the Windy Rafters land. Both the Blackfoot people the younger cousins meet and their experiences in the past will prove invaluable when a big Californian company offers to buy out the resort and solve the family’s money problems for good.

Author : Will Pettijohn P.E.C.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781468545326

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Oil & Gas Handbook by Will Pettijohn P.E.C. Pdf

This book offers you a brief, but very involved look into the operations in the drilling of an Oil & Gas well. From start to finish, you'll see a general prognosis of the drilling process. If you are new to the oil & gas industry, you'll enjoy having a leg up with the knowledge of these processes. If you are a seasoned oil & gas person, you'll enjoy reading what you may or may not know in these pages.

Author : Ron Baker
Publisher : Petroleum Extension (Petex) the University of Texas
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Oil well drilling
ISBN : 088698274X

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The Roughneck Training Handbook by Ron Baker Pdf

Author : Peter Carlson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393302083

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Roughneck by Peter Carlson Pdf

Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780292786349

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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers by Gerald Lynch Pdf

A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers. Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did—for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider’s view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.

Author : Kit Kittle
Publisher : Olympic Marketing Corporation
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0878334661

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Roughnecks by Kit Kittle Pdf

Author : Dale Jacobs
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496839138

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Jeff Lemire by Dale Jacobs Pdf

In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario—his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his transition to reading the first wave of Vertigo titles when he was sixteen. In other interviews, he describes discovering independent comics when he moved to Toronto, days of browsing comics at the Beguiling, and coming to understand what was possible in the medium of comics, lessons he would take to heart as he began to establish himself as a cartoonist. Many cartoonists deflect from questions about their history with comics and the influences of other artists, while others indulge the interviewer briefly before attempting to steer the questions in another direction. But Lemire, creator of Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth, The Nobody, and Trillium, seems to bask in these discussions. Before he was ever a comics professional, he was a fan. What can be traced in these interviews is the story of the movement from comics fan to comics professional. In the twenty-nine interviews collected in Jeff Lemire: Conversations, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers like DC and Marvel, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium. We see him embrace a variety of genres, using each of them to explore the issues and themes most important to him. And we see a cartoonist and writer growing in confidence, a working professional coming into his own.