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Two auditors for the US egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night - an entire egg farm's worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland - a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits - assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues.

Jeremy Gunn was a young child when he first used his gift. He touched his father's cheek as he peered into his casket and cried. That's when he saw it, his father's darkest secret. Tormented, he seeks to act on the secrets of the dead. To right the wrongs of people passed, to find the missing, and to avenge the fallen. Jeremy comes for you when you die, but that's not his gift. His gift is stealing your secret, the one you died with and never told a soul. But It's what he does with your secret; that is the epic story!

Jeremy Gunn was a young child when he first used his gift. He touched his father's cheek as he peered into his casket and cried. That's when he saw it, his father's darkest secret. Tormented, he seeks to act on the secrets of the dead. To right the wrongs of people passed, to find the missing, and to avenge the fallen.

An Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal, in terrifying clarity, the rage, despair, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme, Lorrie Moore, and George Saunders, but in Unferth's unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.

Doctor John Varnum’s reign of terror is over, or is it? Handcuffed and bleeding, John Varnum needs to pay for his sins. While in custody, he leads an unnamed man to bodies while others search for the governor’s daughter, Julie. The bodies are piling up. Yet, the discarded license of the governor’s daughter brings light to her absence. Where is she? What did he do with Julie? Time is running out as the governor abuses every ounce of his power to save her! When the bones are collected, will John Varnum pay for his sins?

While investigating an incident 7,000 feet deep inside the Duke Mining copper mine, Tom Porter stumbles across a doorway that transports him into a parallel world of hell. He wakes up hairless, bruised, and naked in a wasteland controlled by an insidious faction of people, led by Chief Sanders, Trashman, and The Preacher. Tom journeys through this hell while searching for a way home as insidious men fight to stop him.

Women are missing, and multiple lie dead, a serial killer preying on the innocent. As if that weren’t bad enough, the town of Mecklenburg is forced into lockdown after a medical helicopter crashes into the Colorado mountains carrying the deadliest plague known to man, ultimately spreading through the town like wildfire.

Somewhere, lurking in Mecklenburg, Jeremy Gunn is uniquely collecting another body. He is the Body Remover. Jeremy comes for you when you die, but that's not his gift. His gift is stealing your secret, the one you died with, the one you never told a soul. But the daring story isn't about him taking your secret, not at all. Explore two absolutely addictive stories detailed with terrifying regret, pulse-racing revenge, and a haunting decades in the making.

A couple is briefly kidnapped in South America. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

From the author of The Missing comes an extraordinary novella of four twisted short stories connected to the fictional town of Mecklenburg: "Hitler's Last Words", "The Runner", "The Drunk", and - title story - "The Message" were specifically designed to rip apart your emotional heartstrings, leaning on regret, sorrow, fright, the supernatural, and the need for a second chance.

To all the locals in the small beach town of Dream Point, Carter and Lilah seem like the perfect It Couple - but their relationship is about to brutally unravel before everyone's eyes. Carter has always been a good guy, and while Lilah has a troubled past, she's been a loyal girlfriend for the last four years. When smart, sexy Jules enters the picture at a senior-year bash, Carter doesn't intend to succumb to temptation. He's not planning to fall in love.

If you could know exactly how and when calamity would strike, would you want to know? And more importantly, would you tell your insurance company? What if it was something smaller, like the next time you were going to get a bad case of athlete’s foot? Would you let them know then? In House of Apollo, they already know. The actuaries have won: Big Data predicts it all.

Jen and her brother Nick, along with some friends, are ready for some friendly competition. Who ends up selling more lemonade—Jen with the yellow or Nick with the pink? At the end of the day, it all adds up to "sum" fun.

Three bears go fishing in a little house on the ice and catch only one fish, they still have a good time by eating what they have brought in their backpacks.

What does it mean to be a strategic owner? How might it matter if something is owned in the public market or, by a founder or family? What about the time horizon, and what does it mean to say you are invested for the long term? Beyond a single business’ success, do the patterns of ownership of businesses across the country make a difference in the ways these businesses run, whether mom-and-pop shops or multi-national corporations? These hidden patterns of ownership are an invisible current with implications on the products we buy, the companies we work at, and the communities we live in. ...

Jake loves to skate. He skates here and there. Find out what happens when Jakes tries to skate everywhere!

On Principle, a production of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, tells the stories of pivotal business decisions. What led to them? What were the choices? And what lessons can executives, entrepreneurs and other leaders draw from them?

Carter and Lilah seem like the perfect It Couple - sexy, beautiful and madly in love - but their relationship is about to brutally unravel before everyone's eyes in Dream Point, Florida. Carter has always been a good guy, and while Lilah has a troubled past, she's been a loyal girlfriend. So when smart, sexy Jules turns up at a senior-year bash, Carter doesn't intend to succumb to temptation…and he doesn't intend for Lilah to find out. But by the end of the summer, the line between right and wrong will be blurred beyond recognition.

MMAnomaly is a channel/show for MMA fans by MMA fans. Have ideas you want me to discuss? Want to possibly get a shout out or be in an episode? Let me know!

Welcome to Climb Hard Love Harder Podcast - an extension of Climbers for Christ. The interviews will open a window into the life and story of members, interesting climbers, and hangers-on. By listening we hope to stir you up to love and good works at your home crag and everywhere this climbing life takes you.