Bøger af Cynthia Lee

"Some horror stories come true." At the Glass Town Establishment for Girls, imaginations starve.Mr. Glass, the school's benefactor, doesn't believe in imagination for young girls. Young girls must attend to their proper duties. Belle Fortune couldn't care less about being proper. She loves to imagine adventures for her fictional heroine, Penny Dreadful, who fights many mythological monsters.There is a house in Glass Town that squats darkly on its own island. No one ever enters or leaves. Townspeople hear strange noises emanating from its interior. What does the House on the Island have in store for Belle? Will its mysteries free her from the clutches of Mr. Glass?

What do you do when you find that your life has been "unmade." 19th century In the city of Dawlish, people and things disappear without explanation, an event known as an "unmaking." Those that survive an unmaking are cast out of good society. Many form "unmade societies" in which life's mysteries are celebrated. The unmade world observes different rules of behavior, when it can be bothered to have rules at all. When her husband is unmade on their wedding night, young Allegra Janeway has few options left in "good" society. And in the unmade world, everyone seems to think she possesses special abilities. What do these strange unmakings mean to Allegra and her new friends? How will they survive the unmaking of the world?

It's 1985 and the Satanic panic has set in. Alice Ayre keeps seeing things, little girls who disappeared years before, characters from 1980s TV shows. Sometimes the visions talk to her. Sometimes they tell her things. An outcast, everyone in her small Southern town thinks she and her mother are witches.Judge Hand, a figure both feared and revered, returns to the town. He's there to rid the town of its Satanic underground. He means to finish something he started years before. He's there to burn all the witches. Alice must save herself but what if she's the person she's most afraid of?

"Her mirror image has a life of her own." The Memory Fair is held every year in 17 year old Sally Frost's small Southern hometown. This year, some of the townspeople are selling some strange things, antique mirrors, bloodstained wedding gowns, even human teeth. A strange gentleman has set up shop in the town. Sally learns that he only comes to the Memory Fair every seven years and every seven years people disappear, never to be seen again. . Why are the townspeople selling such strange things at the Memory Fair? Why is the strange gentleman so interested in Sally? Sally must unlock the mysteries of the gentleman, the Memory Fair and even her own past if she is to save herself and everyone she loves.

Here are ten creepy and bewitching tales that will assault sleep and invade waking moments. Strange black birds descend upon a village and bring with them a plague that kills only young marriageable girls. A 19th century city in which bloody and public displays of revenge are sanctioned. In this city, a grieving mother stages a pitiless act of revenge for the boy who corrupted her daughter. A strange nameless man in a gypsy wagon serves up illusions for those who require them. A successful writer of horror novels is haunted by the death of an imaginary friend from childhood.And more . . .

Twelve Tales of Gothic HorrorThe interview between a young writer and the once-famous female star of cult horror films does not go exactly as planned.A career woman can't understand why strange people follow her around town, insisting she "used to be Alice."A young woman crashes wedding receptions to perform her dance of death. A young woman escapes from a cult and begins to wonder if she really does have superpowers. And more . . .

This edited collection addresses the link between second language pragmatics (including interlanguage and intercultural) research and English language education. The chapters use different contemporary research methods and theoretical frameworks such as conversation analysis, language-learners-as-ethnographers, discourse and interactional approaches and data in contexts (either in the region or overseas).The content explores and discusses the significance of learning and teaching of second language (L2) pragmatics in language education for learners who use English as a lingua franca for academic and intercultural communication purposes with native and non-native speakers of English, focusing on pragmatic actions, social behaviours, perceptions and awareness levels in three regions in East Asia - China, Japan and South Korea. It is an important contribution to the area of second language pragmatics in language education for East Asian learners. It recommends research-informed pedagogies for the learning and teaching of interlanguage or intercultural pragmatics in regions and places where similar cultural beliefs or practices are found.This is an essential read for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers, readers who are interested in second language pragmatics research and those interested in second language acquisition and English language education in the East Asian context.

It's said to write well, write what you know. Never would I have believed myself to be so bold if someone had told me I would be writing these words as I once experienced them. I've learned a lot in my life. But the one constant has always been love whether I've chased after it or learned to embrace it for myself. Sometimes it meant just learning to love myself so that others could love me and cherish me in the same way that I did them. During my darkest times I never fully grasped that I was Love. It is the very essence of my being. Something far more profound than anything I have ever looked for outside of myself. So this is my journey. My story in poetry and prose. Why I am the way that I am; filling these pages in one book of many. These feelings and passions I share with you are the hopes of something greater than what this heart and soul have experienced to date. And maybe in a way, this will give others hope or a purpose for their life that they may have missed. It's hard being open and vulnerable in a world full of judgment and fake. Yet here I am. The writings of this flesh; the expression of heart and soul. One of Life, Love, Great & Unfortunate Things.

Provides the reader with both critical race and critical feminist theory perspectives on criminal law while following a traditional format. All of the usual subject areas are covered, but the book is unique in highlighting the cultural context of substantive criminal law.

It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research, acquisition and teaching, with particular reference to speech acts performed by Chinese learners of English, and their relationships with the learners' first language and cultural concepts.

This book is a report of a 2-year web-based teaching project called Multimedia English Learning Web. It demonstrates the use of information technology on English language teaching. A CD-ROM accompanies the book to demonstrate the system design of the web-based project.

This innovative book examines the relationship between foreign (L2) language acquisition and task-based learning from an output perspective, with a concentration on the learner's discourse and retrospection. Author Cynthia Lee explores this issue in an experimental context; with particular reference to Hong Kong Chinese tertiary learners of English. Lee's study contributes to research on L2 acquisition and casts light on task-based learning and pedagogy in Hong Kong classrooms and beyond. English language teaching practitioners, researchers, and applied linguists will find special value in this book.

Shows how two well-established, traditional criminal law defenses - the doctrines of provocation and self-defense - enable certain defendants to more easily justify their acts of violence than others. This work suggests three tentative legal reforms to address problems of bias and undue leniency.