by Clara Gillow Clark (2009)
As her grandmother's financial situation worsens, Hattie is forced to attend a "common school," in late nineteenth-century Kingston, New York, where she stands up to a show-off, shares embellished stories about life as a rich girl, and tries to recover her family's wealth.
Cecily von Ziegesar
In You Know You Love Me, the sequel to Gossip Girl, it's brunette vixen Blair Waldorf's seventeenth birthday, and she knows exactly what she wants--Nate, her studly troubles boyfriend of three years. But Blair's been too busy filling out Ivy League college applications to notice that Nate has found himself another playmate.
Charlotte Bronte
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?
Dacia Maraini
In early 18th century Sicily, noblewoman Marianna Ucrìa is trapped in a world of silence after a terrible childhood trauma left her deaf and mute. Married off to a lecherous uncle, she struggles to educate and elevate herself against all convention—and find her true place in a world that sees her as little more than property.
Michael Wallner
Frühjahr 1943 im besetzten Paris: Der junge deutsche Gefreite Roth glaubt sich aus den Wirren des Kriegs heraushalten zu können. Tagsüber arbeitet er als Dolmetscher für die Gestapo, abends flaniert er heimlich in Zivilkleidern durch seine geliebte Stadt. Auf einem dieser Streifzüge lernt er Chantal kennen, die Tochter eines französischen Buchhändlers. Er ahnt nicht, dass diese geheimnisvolle junge Frau der Résistance angehört und er dabei ist, sich auf eine unmögliche und äußerst gefährliche Liebe einzulassen. Und viel zu spät begreift er auch, dass er seine Zurückhaltung, die ihm das Leben retten sollte, längst aufgegeben hat …