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CLASSIC AUDIOBOOK LORD OF THE FLIES By William Golding This compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on an island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long disappears and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them—	AUDIOBOOKS FLIGHT by Sherman Alexie Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a search for his true identity. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant—making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking.	NOVELLAS THE DEAD by James Joyce The Dead is widely considered to be one of the greatest stories in the English language. The story centres on Gabriel Conroy and develops toward a moment of painful self-awareness, culminating at the point when Gabriel discovers that, through years of marriage, there was much he never knew of his wife's past.	SHORT STORIES THE WINDOW OF TIME by Richard Matheson The story of Richard Swanson, an 82-year-old widower who steps through a window and into his past - 70 years ago.	INTERMEDIATE THE BEAUTY OF BEING A MISFIT 2) Muslims Are the Latest Scapegoats 3) Catholic Church's Sex Abuse Scandal 4) Two Brothers on Different Sides of BREXIT 5) Prize-Winning Wrestler, Child Bride At 13 6) The Kitty Genovese Murder 7) Sleep Deprived: Recharging Our Phones, Not Ourselves 8) Negin Farsad: Social Justice Comedy	ADVANCED 'BLACKOUT' DRUNK TO SOBER 2) Generation Politics: 25-Year-Olds 3) Generation Politics: 45-Year-Olds 4) Generation Politics: 65-Year-Olds 5) The Funny Side of Alzheimer's 6) 'But What If We're Wrong' 7) Jill Stein to Bernie Sanders 8) From Medical Maggots To Stench Soup 9) The Man Problem
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