Ergebnis für "Original Sin" in Belletristik

Als Holly Winseed in einem Krankenzimmer aufwacht, sind ihre ersten Gedanken bei ihrem Ehemann Jonathan. Aber ihre Erinnerungen sind verschwommen. Ein Team von Regierungsbeamten erklärt ihr umgehend, dass sie ein provisorischer Klon ist, der nach der Verurteilung ihres Originals wegen Mordes an ihrem Ehemann Jonathan erstellt wurde. Sie hat nun eine Woche Zeit, um ihr Original zu finden und zu töten. Wenn sie Erfolg hat, wird sie das Leben ihres Originals übernehmen. Wenn sie versagt, wird sie sterben.

The blood of slaveholders and slaves, settlers and natives, and indentured servants and patriots mingles in America’s heritage. The rotating wheel of villainy, victimhood, and heroism spins through our history, and to this day we struggle to escape our original sin. In Colonial South Carolina, Dr. Cyrus Watt has conceived a utopian scheme, born out of personal tragedy and loss. His family and friends consider it madness, but he will not be stopped, and the seeds of violence and war that he sows will endure throughout future generations.

After falling in love and making a quick exit from her nine-year career in the USAWMD (United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction), ex-spy Sally Sin does her best to become Lucy Hamilton, a stay-at-home mom in San Francisco. No one, not even her adoring husband Will, knows about her...

The last in the Afrolit Now series, The Sins of The Fathers by Zukiswa Wanner is narrated by a man dealing with immense grief. When he’s unable to heal from the trauma of loss, Akani begins to question his and his father’s role as a parent and, in doing so, awakens to the patterns between them. In trying to avoid being like his father as a husband and as a parent, did he inadvertently become exactly the man he wished not to be? And what secrets lie untold? As he grieves, he wonders whether he was ill-advised to keep secrets that may unwittingly hurt his family.