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The Monday Book: NOT TOO TIRED TO CARE by Angela Thomas Jones

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Happy Publication Day to Angela Thomas Jones, who has written a help book for health professionals on the edge of burnout. Angela was invited to provide information for today’s Monday Book. Here is her press release:

PRESS RELEASE

New Hampshire author Angela Thomas Jones of Bethlehem released a new book with Amazon Sunday November 29. Foreword written by Dr. Art Hengerer, MD co-lead of the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Clinician Well-being and Epilogue by Michael Meit, ETSU Center for Rural Health Research and his team from Kentucky. NOT Too Tired to Care chronicles how a grassroots movement in the northern rural region of NH based on data showing many health care workers are burned and NOT talking about it for fear of losing their job.  This book weaves research and data with real-life experience into a recipe that will boost your natural ability to move from survival mode to thriving and sustain the long haul. Studies suggest 20% compassion satisfaction in our total workload is necessary for maintaining resilience to keep burnout at bay.Learn how to deepen your capacity for compassion satisfaction by using a simple 4-step evidence-informed practice called HomeBase. Angela has led her colleagues to join the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience founded in 2017 by the National Academy of Medicine. As a licensed addiction professional with three decades of experience on the front lines specializing in trauma-sensitive mind-body practices, she is helping individuals, families, and organizations deepen their capacity for compassion satisfaction. Step by step instructions for how to join this national movement for Well-Being and Resilience are included. Hear what others are saying about NOT Too Tired to Care.

Subscribe at https://www.nottootiredtocare.com/book and receive updates and access to receiving a FREE electronic copy of the book.

“Thomas Jones has captured a hidden and essential truth in America’s healthcare system: those holding it up are exhausted. Healthcare professionals will find solidarity and self-care suggestions alike in her work.”  Wendy Welch, author: From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis and COVID Conspiracies.

“In these unprecedented times when social isolation, the rise in suicide rates, and a spike in behavioral health issues are gripping this country, along comes this book offering helpful techniques to guide each of us so we can actively learn to take care of ourselves which will better prepare us to take care of others.”                        

Linda Massimilla, Vice-Chair States/Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee, Grafton 1 New Hampshire State Representative

The Monday Book: THE DISAPPEARED by CJ Box

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Paul Garrett, a regular contributor to THE MONDAY BOOK, reviews The Disappeared. It’s not his fault it’s appearing on a Tuesday.

My introduction to C. J. Box was his 2013 thriller The Highway, a book about a semi-driving serial killer. I picked up the book around ten-thirty one morning and the world stopped until 11:30 that night when my wife admonished me to put the book down and go to sleep. Since then, I have read several of his novels.  While he once produced a book about every couple of years, lately he has been pumping them out at a brisk pace, James Patterson style.

 In Disappeared, he continues the story of Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game Warden. Over the years we have become familiar with Joe, his wife, who is a librarian and sort-of silent partner in his investigations, and his two daughters, one adopted.  Along with the investigations, we have followed their personal difficulties.

Joe once again teams up with Nate Romanowski, a renegade and former special operator (think Jesse Ventura with an even bigger attitude). He once yanked the ears off a recalcitrant perp.

When A British celebrity and a fellow game warden both go missing at about the same time, the new governor sends Joe out to investigate.  Joe sets off on a search that jeopardizes his career as well as his life and that of his adopted daughter. On the trail of the missing, he crosses paths with the [PG1] standard variety of ne’er-do-wells and unique characters who populate his stories.

Like most of the Pickett stories, this is a procedural, wherein we follow Joe as he chases clues and goes down various blind alleys and switchbacks on the way to solving the crime. Picket stories take place in Northwestern Wyoming, and as usual the breathtaking and often desolate setting, brutal weather and environmentalism play important roles. Joe’s workmanlike prose gets the job done without flourish or extravagance.

The story develops like an avalanche crashing down Gannett Peak; slowly at first but gaining speed and momentum until reaching a final deadly crescendo. Though I consider myself adept at prematurely guessing the outcome of these types of stories, I was totally unprepared for the final plot twist that put everything in perspective.

The Disappeared will not disappoint C. J. Box fans. For those new to Joe Pickett, it will be a satisfying intro.

 [PG1]