64 Results for : roughneck
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I Married a Communist: Nathan Zuckerman, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 686min
Winner of the 1999 Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union in Fiction Iron Rinn, born Ira Ringold, is a Newark roughneck, a radio actor, an idealistic Communist, and an educated ditchdigger turned popular performer. A six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln lookalike, he emerges from serving in World War II passionately committed to making the world a better place and instead winds up blacklisted, unemployable, and ruined by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. His life is in ruins. On his way to political catastrophe, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent film star, Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from glamorous, romantic idyll to a disparaging soap opera of tears and treachery when Eve's dramatic revelation to gossip columnist Bryden Grant of her husband's life of espionage with the Soviet Union soon twists the couple's private drama into a national scandal. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive...fierce and comical, eloquently rendered, and definitely accurate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Silver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000683/bk_pnix_000683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
Champions Way is a searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of fans and generates massive revenues. New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles the rise in the popularity and power of college athletics, revealing deeply troubling relationships between college sports programs, the universities that host them, booster organizations, local police departments, and the courts. Using the Florida State Seminoles, one of the most successful teams in NCAA history, as an example, McIntire details a system that exploits athletes for profit, enables players to violate academic standards, and, in some cases, shields them from criminal prosecution. At the heart of Champions Way is the wrenching story of a whistle-blower, Christie Suggs. This shocking exposé reveals the extent of a corrupt culture at the center of American higher education and the toll it takes on the players and those who dare to challenge the system. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry Abrams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008290/bk_tant_008290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Stranger on the Ice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 525min
How deep is she willing to go to find the secrets of her past?Tour guide Valerie Blaine has always been haunted by the tragic death of her mother during an Arctic expedition thirty years before unsolved, hushed up, and for Valerie, an unsettled part of a past she’s never been able to escape. Its grip on Valerie is tighter than ever, now that she’s been hired to lead a tourist group across the same desolate terrain where her mother died.But when a woman’s frozen corpse is found outside a quiet Inuit village just as they’re about to depart, and a friend of Valerie’s mysteriously disappears, Valerie’s suspicions grow; her disquiet is only eased by Clem Hardeven. A man of adventure and roughneck charisma, he’s drawn to Valerie—but he knows nothing of the mysteries that consume her.As their search takes them into the icy reaches of the Arctic north, Valerie starts to fear that it’s all tied to the darkness that befell her own family long ago—a dangerous puzzle whose pieces have remained elusive to her. Until now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Hanfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010854/bk_brll_010854_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Midnight Vengeance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min
Morton "Jacko" Jackman isn't afraid of anything. He's a former Navy SEAL sniper, and he's been in more firefights than most people have had hot meals. Lauren Dare scares the crap out of him. Gorgeous, talented, and refined, she's the type of woman who could never be interested in a roughneck like him. So he's loved her fiercely in secret, taken her art classes, and kept a watchful but comfortable distance. Until now. Lauren has finally found a home in Portland, far from her real identity, far from the memories of her mother's death, and outside the reaches of the drugged-out psycho who's already tried to kill her twice. One tiny misstep, a single photograph, shatters it all. She has no choice but to run again, but this time she'll give herself a proper farewell: one night with Jacko. Their highly charged emotional encounter changes everything. In Jacko's arms there cannot be fear, there can be only pleasure. Anyone wishing her harm will have to pass through him, and Jacko is a hard man to kill. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Hart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004676/bk_harp_004676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Best Friend Is a Pirate, Really!!!: My Best Friend Is, Book #7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min
It's a pirates life fo' me Get ready to take the adventure of a lifetime as 10-year-old Timmy Wilson meets up with the Crimson Pirate, the Captain of a bunch of roughneck pirates who try to take him hostage and steal his treasure map. In the seventh installment of the wildly popular My Best Friend Is children's adventure book series, author A. J. Westin takes kids on a journey out to sea to meet the meanest band of pirates since the likes of Blackbeard. Who else wants to battle the crimson pirate? A local legend that has come to life, The Crimson Pirate has been sailing the seven seas for the past 300 years looking for buried treasure. When Timmy's parents are kidnapped by the Crimson Pirate's crew who decide to mutiny. Timmy and the Crimson Pirate strike a deal to help Timmy free his parents and help the Captain get his ship and crew back as well as find the buried treasure. Will they succeed? Find out in another exciting adventure from A. J. Westin that teaches the value of true friendship and courage against all odds. Get My Best Friend Is a Pirate, Really!!! audiobook right now for your kids! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Sinn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020425/bk_acx0_020425_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Mechanic: Fair Oaks, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 420min
We go together like champagne and whiskey. Now we're married! Olivia Gage Carter is the poster boy for rude, rugged, and obnoxious. He's the town's mechanic. When he's not giving me a hard time about my car, he's mocking my city girl ways. He's a small town roughneck with a dirty reputation and a mouth to match. I'm a city girl. We go together like champagne and whiskey. People told me he was trouble. But that didn't stop me from craving his filthy promises that make my blood pound for hours. Or having full body shivers whenever he says my name. This joy ride's gone too far. Now we're married - by accident - no less. The town's most ineligible bachelor is my husband. Oh, and I'm pregnant. Gage The last thing I need is a wife.... Especially a high-maintenance one like Olivia Stewart. I've got no patience for a demanding, feisty city girl who thinks she can walk into my business and order me around. But now that I've tasted her, I can't get her out of my mind. She may be a burr in my side but she's as sweet as honey. When she's not driving me crazy, she's driving me wild. One problem: Some puffed-up rich boy from San Francisco thinks she's his, and he'll make my life hell if I don't give her up. Good luck with that. I can't be bought, and I'm not giving up my wife and baby. He wants a fight? This means war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ginger Cornish, Alastair Haynesbridge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032025/bk_adbl_032025_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Oilfield Survival Guide, Volume One: For All Oilfield Situations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min
Save money, time, and lives with the real-world oil and gas experience of others. Learning the hard way in the oilfield can cost you millions, sometimes billions of dollars in addition to injury and loss of life. Cut through the noise to focus on the most critical aspects of working in the oil and gas business. Based on more than 1,000 oil and gas situations involving drilling, cementing, fracking, wireline, coil tubing, snubbing, running tools, welding, production, workover, logging, trucking, geology, land, engineering, resource development, executive management, and much, much more. Expand your value-creation opportunities by learning from the real-world experience of others. Whether you work in the office or in the field, work as a company man, engineer, driller, tool pusher, roughneck, geologist, landman, truck driver, frac hand, treater, cementer, lawyer, flowback hand, welder, geophysicist, snubber, pumper, equipment operator, derrick man, mechanic, petrophysicist, roustabout, manager, director, VP, or executive, consider adding Oilfield Survival Guide to your toolbox of knowledge. In other words, if you work hard for your money in the oil business, this audiobook is for you. The oil and gas industry is one of the most capital-intensive businesses today. As a result, mistakes/situations can be expensive, in addition to injury and loss of life. To prevent undesirable situations, Oilfield Survival Guide was created, based on more than 1,000 oil and gas situations. The ultimate guide for all oil and gas situations: Tactics Procedures Fatalities Short stories Train wrecks Disaster avoidance Court cases Life-savings skills Checklists Troubleshooting Problem job prevention ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew J. Hatami. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129146/bk_acx0_129146_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1040min
To many, Walter Johnson is the greatest pitcher of all time. He was a star second to none from the dawn of the game's modern era through the "Golden Age of Sports" of the Roaring Twenties. The playing career of "The Big Train", as the sportswriters called him, spanned the era of such greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Lou Gehrig, and Al Simmons. Johnson knew every President from William Howard Taft to Franklin Roosevelt, and was friends with the likes of Will Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks. But it wasn't Walter Johnson's blazing fastball alone that placed him on a pedestal as high as any in American sports. It was Johnson, above all others, who came to personify "gentlemanly conduct in the heat of battle", as Shirley Povich put it. One of a small number of like-minded stars tempering the game's roughneck reputation in the century's early years, he was still around to help shepherd it through its darkest hour of the "Black Sox" scandal. For several generations, Johnson's presence in the big-league consoled parents all over the country. If the game was good enough for the modest, decent, and honest Kansas farm boy, they figured, it was okay for their sons, too. Throughout a life as full as it gets, and a career as dazzling as any in the history of sports, Walter Johnson remained an unspoiled individual, his name unmarred by any hint of wrongdoing on or off the field. This is the grand story of one of the good guys. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian Esmo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001449/bk_blak_001449_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rough Way to the High Way , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
Pastor turned long-haul trucker Mack struggles with grief and perceived failures as a minister while he is confronted with a mysterious hitchhiker, smugglers, and a determined killer. After an unbearable tragedy strikes his life, he sells everything he owns and buys a new Peterbilt truck, returning to the trade he learned decades earlier.Hoping for some windshield therapy and peace of mind behind the wheel of his new rig, Mack gets neither, after God nudges him to pick up a hitchhiker near the Jordan State Prison outside Mack’s childhood home of Pampa, Texas.When his world is ripped apart, he seeks to run away from it all, going as far as to cut off communication with all but a handful of people. But he is pursued by God, who will not let him go. Unbeknownst to Mack, God is equipping his servant with tools to handle events his past education and experience could never have prepared him for.The story unfolds as the hitchhiker enters Mack’s Peterbilt. The man reminds Mack of his father, a hard-living, hard-drinking oilfield roughneck who died in prison. God begins to do a work in Mack’s heart while Mack seeks to minister to his new passenger. But Mack soon rues the day he let the hitchhiker into his truck.His old life in ruins now, Mack learns he has angered a new enemy who threatens to destroy his life on the road, as well. Mack suspects he is being followed and is in the sights of a killer who plots a revenge no one could have seen coming. God works his mysterious way in Mack’s life steamroller-style all the way to an ending that will leave the listener thinking about it long after listening to the end.Rough Way to the High Way is the first of a series of novels about Mack’s adventures on the road as lives are transformed through his new ministry. The first life to be transformed as Rough Way to the High Way develops appears to be that of the hitchhiker. But God is working in Mack’s life all along, preparing him fo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Weir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224260/bk_acx0_224260_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Smutty Hotwife Confessions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min, (USK 18)
Brooke is innocent when she marries one of her college instructors, but James wants a sexy, exciting hotwife: a woman who will call the shots, and let him watch her on video chat as she has affairs with other men - and other women. Brooke is taken by a virile roughneck and a horny English lady before finally succumbing to her exciting alpha male black boss.~~~~~ PG excerpt ~~~~~Russell was new to the crew. Like all the men, he slept in the crew quarters, which was large barracks-style rooms. There were private rooms only for the supervisors and for me, of course. The crew quarters consisted of two rows of single beds facing each other, a small wardrobe between them for the men to store their work clothes and other miscellaneous belongings, and a rail for their towels to hang.We had communal showers and sink areas, one vacated for an hour a day for my exclusive use. The men worked in shifts, so my hour came after the day shift had started work. It was intoxicating to walk into the large tiled room with a dozen shower heads that had just been used by a group of naked men coming off the night shift. I could sense the testosterone in the air.My imagination would run wild, wondering what it would look like to see a dozen naked men washing themselves where I was standing. What if I could share the shower with them at the same time? Would they stare as I washed my breasts or when I used my razor to touch up my bikini lines? Would they like watching me?I found myself more excited than usual when Russell walked in naked while I was in the shower. He’d missed his allotted time because he was working on a particularity stubborn coupling and was too new to know it was my time to bathe. My arm automatically covered my breasts while my hand covered me ‘down there.’ My eyes just as automatically focused on his manhood - his oh-so-beautiful manhood. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joanna Gibson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128954/bk_acx0_128954_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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