by K.M. Peyton (1982)
In this darker (and more adult) installment of the Flambards series, Christina finds truth in her Aunt's warning about marrying outside of her class. Neither Dick nor the wealthy neighbors desire to associate with one another, putting a strain on Christina's marriage, and leaving the two without any mutual friends. Tensions intensify when Mark returns to live at Flambards, while Dorothy remains in France. Both marriages are pushed to their limits, and tragedy and heartaches ensue as the four try to manage their tangled lives. In this final installment the author takes the characters in directions readers are unlikely to have anticipated. 4th book in the Flambards series. (Some readers prefer to consider the series a trilogy, and to skip this book which was added some years later, and after the television series was made.) *Note:* This volume covers themes that keep it from fitting into the children's or young adult genre, in which the earlier books are often viewed.
Graham Greene
"A direct descendant of his famous namesake, Father Quixote is a humble parish priest. By chance he is advanced to Monsignor, resulting in furor in the bishopric. Quixote and his friend Sancho Zancas, the Communist ex-mayor of the village, leave for a pilgrimage across Spain."--Audio cassette container.
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best. His readers are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’. Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.
James Kahn
It has been years since Joshua the Scribe, Lon the Vampire, Jasmine the Neuroman, and Beauty the Centaur journeyed to save their lost families from the strange Queen in the City With No Name. And as time went on, they were visited by ghosts of themselves, sometimes aiding in their quest and sometimes just a haunting presence. But were they really ghosts? Or were they simply incarnations of their own souls, visiting from another time to learn from them as well as to teach and to save their own world from the imminent destruction of the Timefall? A new Joshua and friends fall through a complex weave of time tunnels, landing in the terrain of the first adventures. But to their dismay, they discover that the fates of both times are interdependent, and the new world's Joshua must enlist forces from the old to save the whole tipping universe from extinction.
Thomas Hardy
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.