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The author recounts how he formed the San Francisco Special Olympics basketball program.

"Choosing service in the last remaining almshouse in America, and tracing our understanding of medicine back to its medieval roots, a physician uncovers lost lessons in the care of body and soul"--.

Shortly before San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, a twelve-year-old orphan named Sung Li finds a box containing a locket with a photograph and an address, which lead her to a better life away from her demanding aunt and cousin.

Follows nine-year-old Julie Albright as she learns to adjust to the changes that occur in her life after her parents divorce in 1974 and she is forced to move a few miles away with her mom and sister, start a new school, make new friends, and conquer new challenges.

Private investigator Sharon McCone must reach back into her past for answers when the arrest of one of her trusted operatives on a charge of credit card fraud proves to be only the first step in a deliberate campaign to ruin her business and destroy her life.