Ergebnis für "Identical" in Literatur & Belletristik

'The Queen of the Summer Novel' (People) The ultimate summertime reading for fans of Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult. Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been...

Was für ein Skandal: Prof. Dr. Saraswati ist weiß! Schlimmer geht es nicht. Denn die Professorin für Postcolonial Studies in Düsseldorf war eben noch die Übergöttin aller Debatten über Identität - und beschrieb sich als Person of Colour. Während das Netz gegen Saraswati hetzt und Demos ihre Entlassung fordern, stellt die enttäuschte Studentin Nivedita ihr intimste Fragen. Mithu Sanyal erzählt mit beglückender Selbstironie und befreiendem Wissen von Identitätsfragen und Zugehörigkeit.

In the year and a half since Jack Clausen lost his five-year-old daughter, Rosa Marie, his life has fallen apart. His marriage is failing, he’s been fired from his job, and his drinking is problematic. Sitting in a local bar on a typical weekday, Jack encounters an old woman who issues a dire warning. Later that night in a drunken stupor, Jack ignores three phone calls from his teenage son, Bryson. After learning Bryson was calling him for help but then died from an overdose, Jack decides he cannot live with the guilt and pain of losing two children.

‘Incredibly good, intriguingly twisty, beautifully written... I loved it. I couldn’t put it down.’ No.1 bestselling author, Valerie Keogh ‘Please, I need your help. You’re the only person I can turn to. The only person who can pretend to be me…’ When Alice gets a desperate message...

Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student, is in awe of her supervisor—postcolonial and race studies professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita’s praise of Saraswati during a radio interview just hours before the news breaks calls into question her own reputation as a young activist. Following the uproar, Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life, when she doubted her identity and her place in the world.

Sometimes one moment can be monumental… For Sunjiya Daniels, one call leads her into the arms of an assassin who is hired to track her twin sister. She finds herself in another bad situation that she has to get out of and like every other time in her life, she will do whatever is necessary to...

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Alex Toles and Claire Brackett are back in action. Once rivals, the pair of FBI agents receive a summons from President Candace Reid to the White House. Evidence of forced starvation scattered throughout Russia coincides with a growing military presence in the small Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Concerned about potential Russian aggression in the Baltic States and confronting subversion within her cabinet, Candace turns to Alex and Claire to put the pieces of a growing puzzle together.

Shayna Darby is finally coming to terms with her parents’ deaths when she’s delivered another blow. The body of her estranged twin sister, Angela - the possible victim of a serial killer - has been pulled from the Seine. Putting what’s left of her life on hold, Shayna heads to Paris. But while cleaning out Angela’s apartment, Shayna makes a startling discovery: a coded message meant for her alone... Alive. Trust no one.