Mara Purl
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Can an artist's imagination alter reality during the magic of the holiday season? Can something in the heart manifest in the real world? Artist Miranda Jones might have agreed that dreams sometimes come true. But she'd never presume to believe something could leap from her canvas into the life of someone she hardly knows. Until now, that is. Over-scheduled during the busy holiday season, she none the less can't help bu follow the imperative to paint...
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Can a secret be, kept for most of a young man's lifetime? Joan Calvin must have thought so before she died years ago. Yet it was a secret she didn't want kept from her son forever, just until he was, ready to hear the truth. This Christmas, the time has come. It wasn't that she placed it on a future calendar for her husband Joseph to find. Instead, she entrusted the timing of the disclosure to fate, and to the trustworthy butler whom she knew would...
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Can an intuition save a man's life? Astronomer and competent mountain climber Cornelius Smith depends upon his intelligence for both his career and his hobby. Never before has he faced a situation where logical steps couldn't be followed to an inevitable conclusion. But just two days before Christmas, it's going to take more than logic to get him off the sheer rock face where he can neither climb out, nor slide down. Though his own brand of spiritual...
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Can a soul hover after passing on? Can a person be unaware of her own death? Journalist Christine Christian had always been a pragmatist. Not even her own persistent intuitions could compete with her commitment to logic and to empirical proof. In fact, that's what had gotten her into to trouble in the first place. Of course, that very quality had also gotten her "the story" time and again, making her an award-winning reporter, a freelancer who'd managed...
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Is the heart smarter than the head? Artist Miranda Jones begins to trust her heart enough to escape from her life of privilege and start over in Milford-Haven, the small town of undiscovered beauty on California's Central Coast. She connects with environmentalist Samantha Hugo- a brilliant PhD twenty years her senior, who gave up a son years earlier, and with restaurant owner Sally O'Mally, who left Arkansas to create her own dream. Each woman wrestles...
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"In a half-built house high on a bluff overhanging the ocean, reporter Chris Christian persues a treacherous lead and fails to appear for her clandestine dinner date. While in an endangered forest overlooking the Cove, artist Miranda Jones is sharing a secret location with a stranger who might be the man of her dreams. Meanwhile on Main Street, Sally is dishing up home cooking and perfecting her eavesdropping on everything from Jack Sawyer's nefarious...
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Researched and written by a historian-playwright and performed by a professional cast of actors, this play carries the listener into the heart of agonizing debate.
An independent nation now exists, forged in the fires of battle and founded upon lofty principles. But treaties with indigenous people have been broken, women had no rights, and slavery was still legal. Can integrity be legislated? Can equality be lived? Can truth be heard? Can individual...
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