by Miles Franklin (2007)
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death. [ [1]:
Jessica Stirling
Elspeth and Anna Patterson of Balnesmoor have married well: Elspeth to a wealthy wool merchant, Anna to the son of a respected factor. But they are not happy. The two married sisters, leading oddly parallel lives, find themselves entanglement in a web of infidelity, scandal, and heartache in the midst of Wellington's Peninsular War on the continent.
Miasha
Celess knew she had to stop living the fast life and settle down, maybe even start a family--if she could find a man who could get past her secret. But you know what they say: Once you go bad, you can never go back. And if beauty is pain, Celess has suffered more than most and she knows how to use her looks to her advantage. She hooks up with well-connected Miami bad girl Sienna, and together they move with one purpose--get money. When modeling and bit parts in movies aren't enough, Celess and Sienna leave L.A. and head to Italy to open what quickly becomes the fastest-growing escort service in the world. They have it all--looks, style, and a six-months-long waiting list. Life is good, but they know the deal--there are always haters on the way to the top. Celess and Sienna are ready for the backstabbing and drama that come with money, power, and sex, but they'll be surprised by just who will turn on them.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Black Cat Cask of Amontillado Descent into the Maelstrom Fall of the House of Usher Hop-Frog Ligeia Masque of the Red Death Metzengerstein Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Never Bet the Devil Your Head Oval Portrait Pit and the Pendulum Premature Burial Purloined Letter Sphinx Tell-tale Heart
Shauna Singh Baldwin
"Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its power to seize their freedom."--Jacket.