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Rules is the debut novel by author Cynthia Lord. Released by Scholastic, Inc. in 2006, it was a Newbery Honor book in 2007. [1] It is a Sunshine State Young Readers book for 2008–2009 and won A 2007 Schneider Family Book Award. [2] In 2009 it also won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. [3]
The House of God is a 1978 satirical novel by Samuel Shem (a pseudonym used by psychiatrist Stephen Bergman). The novel follows a group of medical interns at a fictionalized version of Beth Israel Hospital over the course of a year in the early 1970s, focusing on the psychological harm and dehumanization caused by their residency training.
The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right is a self-help book by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, originally published in 1995. [1] [2]The book suggests rules that a woman should follow in order to attract and marry the man of her dreams; these rules include that a woman should be "easy to be with but hard to get". [3]
Heather Lewis was born in Bedford, New York.She attended Sarah Lawrence College. [1] [3]She was the author of three published novels. The first, House Rules (1994), details the experiences of a fifteen-year-old girl working as a show rider of horses—an experience the author herself had in her teenage years.
The Law and the Lady is a detective story, and sensation novel published in 1875 by Wilkie Collins. It is not quite as sensational in style as The Moonstone and The Woman in White . Plot summary
When I began to have my own life and my own children and I became a mother myself, I saw her differently; I suddenly realized how extraordinary she was—not just as a mother, but as a person.
The novel has a complex plot, which is common in Collins's work. [3] In the Prologue, a selfish and ambitious man casts off his wife in order to marry a wealthier and better-connected woman by taking advantage of a loophole in the marriage laws of Ireland. The initial action takes place in the widowed Lady Lundie's house in Scotland.
Like many of Heyer's novels, Lady of Quality is a Regency romance, relying heavily on its setting as a plot device. [3] [4] As noted by literary critic Kay Mussell, Heyer's Regency romances revolved around a "structured social ritual – the marriage market represented by the London season" where "all are in danger of ostracism for inappropriate behavior". [5]