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The probable future

Struggling to cope with her unwanted ability to see the future, Stella must confront her legacy when her father is jailed, wrongly accused of homicide, and Stella joins forces with her grandmother and mother to uncover the truth.

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  • "Struggling to cope with her unwanted ability to see the future, Stella must confront her legacy when her father is jailed, wrongly accused of homicide, and Stella joins forces with her grandmother and mother to uncover the truth."@en
  • "Struggling to cope with her unwanted ability to see the future, Stella must confront her legacy when her father is jailed, wrongly accused of homicide, and Stella joins forces with her grandmother and mother to uncover the truth."
  • "Een meisje kan vanaf haar dertiende verjaardag zien wanneer en hoe iemand dood zal gaan, een gave die tegelijkertijd een vloek lijkt."
  • "Alice Hoffman's most magical novel to date'three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love. Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future'a future that she might not want to see. In The Probable Future this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past'and a very current murder'against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows's legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet and to a historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors. Poignant, arresting, unsettling, The Probable Future showcases the lavish literary gifts that have made Alice Hoffman one of America's most treasured writers."@en
  • "The women of the Sparrow family have lived in New England for generations. Each is born in the month of March, and at the age of thirteen, each develops an unusual gift."
  • "Three generations of Sparrow women have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falshood, her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep, and granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future."@en
  • "In this bewitching tale, three living generations of Sparrow women confront their strange and challenging heritage. It all begins in 1697 when a strange girl who can't feel physical pain walks out of the woods surrounding the tiny settlement of Unity, and unnerves the witch-fearing townsfolk. Each of her descendents, all female and all born in the volatile month of March, possesses a similarly troublesome gift. Elinor can recognize a liar at 100 paces, although her husband still betrays her. Jenny, her daughter, dreams other people's dreams. And her daughter, Stella, can see people's deaths, a burden that at first wreaks havoc when her feckless father is accused of a murder she foresees but later becomes a boon."@en
  • "The women of the Sparrow family have lived in New England for generations. Each is born in the month of March, and at the age of thirteen, each develops an unusual gift. Elinor can literally smell a lie. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella, newly a teen, has just developed the ability to see how other people will die. Ironically, it is their gifts that have kept Elinor and Jenny apart for the last twenty-five years. But as Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance, the unthinkable happens: One of her premontions lands her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. The ordeal leads Stella to the grandmother she's never met and to Cake House, the ancestral home full of talismans and fraught with history. Now three generations of estranged Sparrow women must come together to turn Stella's potential to ruin into a potential to redeem."@en
  • "The women of the Sparrow family have lived in New England for generations. Each is born in the month of March, and at the age of thirteen, each develops an unusual gift. Elinor can literally smell a life. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams as they're dreaming them. Granddaughter Stella, a teenager, has just developed the ability to see how other people will die. Now three generations of estranged Sparrow women must come together to turn Stella's Potential to ruin into a potential to redeem."@en
  • "When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, she is able to see a person's probable future. When she foresees a gruesome murder, she tells her father about it - but the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Stella has to hide out with her grandmother Elinor, who lives alone by a lake where Rebecca Sparrow, a washergirl with a deadly gift, was drowned three hundred years before. In Unity, Massachusetts, the same prejudices and mistakes are recyled over generations. Stella herself brings light to this closed world, but the dark thread of the past meets the sinister trail of contemporary murder."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Mystery and detective stories"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "The probable future (lg. print)"
  • "Prémonitions"
  • "Märzkinder Roman"
  • "Märzkinder : Roman"
  • "The probable future"@en
  • "The probable future"
  • "The probable future : a novel"@en
  • "The Probable future"@en
  • "Premonitions"
  • "To pithano mellon"
  • "The probalbe future"
  • "The Probable Future"
  • "The Probable Future"@en
  • "Что было, что будет"
  • "Chto bylo, chto budet"
  • "Märzkinder"
  • "Probable future"
  • "De waarschijnlijke toekomst"
  • "The probale future"
  • "En möjlig framtid"@sv

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