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Will’s life is a proper muddle—and all because he was “accidentally” inflicted with the ability to run faster and leap higher than any human ever. A vengeful politician with dark secrets and powers even more magical than Will’s has duped all of London into blaming Will for the chilling imprisonments of the city’s poor. Only Will stands a chance of stopping this powerful madman bent on “reforming” London by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Will is beginning to realize becoming a legend might mean sacrificing everything that matters.

The author, writing as if he is chatting with you over coffee, addresses 10 common and recurring questions asked by husbands of childhood sexual abuse survivors. The questions comprise the chapter titles. Bill guides the listener through each chapter by exploring new perspectives and establishing new patterns for personal development and for responding to their spouse. The perspectives and patterns are based on research, years of interaction with husbands of survivors, and a blend of clinical accuracy, personal experience, and distinctly Christian perspective.

Before Adolph Sutro could complete his great work of the Sutro Tunnel, he had to first win the hearts, minds, and pocketbooks of the people invested in the Comstock Lode. He knew that a drainage adit would solve all of the problems facing the mines of the Comstock, just as it had been done the world over. His greatest difficulty was to overcome the objections of the bankers that controlled nearly the entirety of the mines. The Sutro Tunnel would cut the banks' profits and help the miners, neither of which William Sharon and William Ralston wanted to happen.

1998. All Leah Owers wants is spiritual peace. But when an unplanned pregnancy upends her life and bounces her back into the US, the former dive instructor finds surprising success selling cars. And yet she can’t ignore the ugly sexual predators at work or the terrifying visions of gore-splattered walls that create an ominous sense that something about her employer isn’t right.