Twelve year old Celeste Dusty faces abuse when her parents' sudden death and the actions of a dishonest child services employee result in Celeste being taken from idyllic farm life to Lincoln, Nebraska where she spends the next four years with Aunt Sylvie, a socialite with a secret vendetta against Celeste's dead mother. Almost immediately Celeste realizes something evil is about to touch her life. Along with malicious Aunt Sylvie, Celeste encounters Pastor Evans. He is good looking and charismatic, but unfortunately the good Pastor's interest in shy girls has nothing to do with God.

Celeste grows up, but old wounds are hard to heal-even when she runs into childhood friend Will Temple. The 'once cocky' Will is smitten with Celeste's beauty, humor, and innocence. . She feels unable to commit due to scars left by her abuse, and it may take a Christmas miracle for her to accept Will's love. Can Celeste move forward or will the ills done in her past steal future happiness?

This is a beautiful story of love and healing written by a therapist who worked with teenagers on the journey to healing. It was well researched and includes Nebraska landmarks, historical events, and the unique farming culture of the 1920s-40's.

Although previous advocates of European Unity proposed the replacement of the "balance of power" model of international relations, Jean Monnet was the first to try to do so along Franco-German rather than Franco-British lines. He concluded that restrictions on national sovereignty were essential and that there were steps that could be taken prior to full federation. Through his Community method, Monnet hoped to create a French-led, continental federation within a Western association. His "United States of Europe" was aimed not only back at the Franco-German conflict, but also forward to the problem of Europe's place in the world. This study explores Jean Monnet's European project and the intentions behind it from World War I to the 1960s. Fransen relies on a close and comparative reading of Monnet's notes and documents, placed in their political and historical context. Most work on Monnet's contribution begins with his later presence as an elder statesman of the European movement and reads his later pronouncements back into his earlier work. This book takes the opposite approach and, by concentrating on his earlier work, is able to show a more complicated picture of Monnet's aspirations than has been presented to date.

Die Fortschritte unserer Kenntnisse tiber das "Organ Knochen", welche in dem ver- gangenen Jahrzehnt durch den Einsatz neuerer biochemischer, morphologischer und ra- diologischer Untersuchungsmethoden erreicht wurden, muBten zu der Uberlegung fiihren, ob bereits der Zeitpunkt ftir die Darstellung einer "AIlgemeinen Radiologie der Skelett- erkrankungen" gekommen ist. Viele Diskussionen mit Professor HEUCK seit den Jahren unserer gemeinsamen Tatigkeit in Kiel gaben mir die GewiBheit, daB er der richtige Autor ftir dieses schwierige Wagnis sein wtirde. Er hat auf der Basis seiner eigenen langwierigen und subtilen Forschungen und in engster Zusammenschau der radiologischen und patho- logisch-anatomischen Publikationen eine bisher im Schrifttum noch nicht vorliegende Ubersicht gegeben, die den aktuellen Stand unserer Kenntnisse umreiBt und dabei auch vorhandene Probleme aufzeigt. Sein Beitrag leitet die Darstellung der speziellen Skelett- erkrankungen ein und wird sicher die verdiente aufmerksamste Beachtung finden und zu weiterer Grundlagenforschung anregen. Die Knochen- und Gelenkveranderungen durch Hitze und Kalte verdienen eine groBere Aufmerksamkeit als bisher. Professor SVAB aus Prag hat an einem umfangreichen Kranken- gut von 940 durch Brand und 50 durch Kalte geschadigten Personen einen Einblick in die mit diesen Schadigungen zusammenhangenden Skelettveranderungen gewonnen, die ihm eine groBartige Ubersicht tiber aIle Probleme der akuten Phase und der Folgezustande erlaubten.

Twelve year old Celeste Dusty faces abuse when her parents' sudden death and the actions of a dishonest child services employee result in Celeste being taken from idyllic farm life to Lincoln, Nebraska where she spends the next four years with Aunt Sylvie, a socialite with a secret vendetta against Celeste's dead mother. Almost immediately Celeste realizes something evil is about to touch her life. Along with malicious Aunt Sylvie, Celeste encounters Pastor Evans. He is good looking and charismatic, but unfortunately the good Pastor's interest in shy girls has nothing to do with God.

Celeste grows up, but old wounds are hard to heal-even when she runs into childhood friend Will Temple. The 'once cocky' Will is smitten with Celeste's beauty, humor, and innocence. . She feels unable to commit due to scars left by her abuse, and it may take a Christmas miracle for her to accept Will's love. Can Celeste move forward or will the ills done in her past steal future happiness?

This is a beautiful story of love and healing written by a therapist who worked with teenagers on the journey to healing. It was well researched and includes Nebraska landmarks, historical events, and the unique farming culture of the 1920s-40's.