When Birds Sing
Milford-Haven Adventure Novella
Published on 1. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-936878-84-0 (ISBN)
Description
Do birds sing for fun or are do they actually have a complex system of aural communication? Artist Miranda Jones, doing research for a commissioned painting, is delighted by their songs but increasingly intrigued to understand what they seem to be saying. She's excited to learn more both when she hikes with an expert and when she kayaks on the Columbia River in Oregon. Yet imagine her surprise when she hears what she thinks is a bird call but turns out to be a woman screaming! Can Miranda help without putting herself in danger? Or have the avians fooled her . . . When Birds Sing?
Though the e-book stands alone, it also is a midquel for Book 3 of the Milford-Haven Novels, the critically acclaimed, popular series, a multi-generational saga. Based on Purl's BBC Radio drama Milford-Haven U.S.A.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
199 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-936878-84-0 (9781936878840)
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Mara Purl is the best-selling author of the Milford-Haven Novels, which pioneered small-town fiction for women. Her books have won an unprecedented 75 book awards, and Mara was named Fiction Author of the Year by The Authors Show, the preeminent podcast for indie authors. As one of the most respected and successful independently published authors of women's fiction in the U.S., she is a trend-setter whose work has been consistently noted as an example by fellow authors. In the newest publishing model, she exemplifies direct contact with readers as every new book in her series hits #1 on multiple best-seller lists on Amazon.Mara's beloved fictitious town has been delighting audiences since 1992, when it first appeared as Milford-Haven, U.S.A.(c)-the first American radio drama ever licensed and broadcast by the BBC. The show reached an audience of 4.5 million listeners throughout the U.K. and won the Finalist Award at the 1994 New York Festivals World's Best Radio Programs. What the Heart Knows (Book one), Where the Heart Lives (Book Two), and Why Hearts Keep Secrets (Book Three) all reached #1 on Amazon's best-seller lists, #22 on Barnes & Noble's best-seller list, have been ranked in Kobo's top-100. The newest novel in her series Whose Hearts Align makes its debut this autumn. Mara's novellas When Hummers Dream, When Whales Watch, and When Otters Play along with her Holiday Novelettes, Where an Angel's On a Rope, When Angels Paint, and Whose Angel Key Ring are all also best-sellers, and so is her paranormal Novella for the series What the Soul Suspects.Mara is a former journalist (Associated Press, Financial Times of London, Rolling Stone, et al) which gave her a strong foundation for her research-based stories. And as an actress on Days of Our Lives, she learned the long-form of story which helped her create her successful radio drama, which in turn led to the development of her richly complex novel series. Mara was named one of twelve Women of the Year by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women.