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Join the Heritage Museum on Saturday, February 25 from 1-3 p.m. for a book signing from local author Dr. Scott Jimenez on his book PTSD: A Theological Approach. In his book, Dr. Jimenez walks readers through a theological approach on areas such as guilt, shame, soul injury, grief, hope and pain among other subjects. He challenges readers to be introspective on these subjects and approach them with a theological lens. More notably at the end of each chapter Dr. Jimenez offers Take Aways, a concise paragraph of definitions, observations and approaches to each chapter's focus that readers can apply to their own situations. Dr. Jimenez will be presenting a copy of his book to add to the library's collection which will be made available for checkout. Everyone is welcome to come to the book signing event.
This week's review are non-fiction and fiction titles.
As a former officer of Marines, a navy chaplain to Marines, and later a VA chaplain to Veterans, local author Dr. Scott Jimenez has spent many years working with countless combat Veterans struggling with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). In PTSD: A Theological Approach, Dr. Jimenez provides an effective treatment, in an easy-to-read and simple format. PTSD is often masked by substance abuse, and those suffering are treated as outcast, though there are treatment
available. However, these treatments offer an incomplete recovery, not fully addressing important areas such as guilt, shame, forgiveness, and identity, which are theological in nature, and need a theological approach. Dr. Jimenez has performed extensive research, interviewing combat veterans, as well as secondary research consisting of endless hours of study, sifting and recombining data found. Since there are neither books nor research focusing on a theological approach to PTSD, this book is a crucial and revolutionary aid to all who suffer from it, whether combat veteran or those who have experienced other forms of life trauma. This book is designed for readers who know someone suffering from PTSD, are curious about it, or just want to help. Emphasizing usage of faith-based recovery and spiritual programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) for support, the author highlights strong research in these pages, and a conviction that true, long-term recovery from this condition cannot last without attention and aid given to the all-important “soul injury” aspect of PTSD.
When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame in Call of Duty-tom Clancy's Op-center Series Bk 21 (F CLA T) by Tom Clancy. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested, unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-center's Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo reconnaissance mission, but when she sees an opportunity to free the imprisoned scientist, she seizes it. With Lt. Lee on the run and the Chinese military at her heels, Director Chase Williams sends the rest of Op-center to Mongolia as an extraction team. Meanwhile, Dr. Dàyóu's son has aligned himself with a dangerous group of counterrevolutionaries hellbent on dismantling the Communist regime, putting his father's life and his own in jeopardy. The Black Wasp team races to rescue their colleague and her high-risk companion without setting off an international incident that could leave China ready to release their greatest weapon yet.
The Calder family patriarch is known throughout Montana as a formidable adversary, a force no one in his right mind would cross in Calder Brand-calder Brand series Bk 1 (F DAI J) by Janet Dailey. But sometimes love can make a man do crazy things. Ambition drove Joe Dollarhide across the parched
plains from Fort Sam Houston to Dodge City. One day, he was determined to have a spread every bit as vast and impressive as his employers'. But when a wild stampede separates him from the cattle drive, it is survival that keeps him going when most would have given up. Survival and a burning need to settle the score with Benteen Calder, the cattle boss he used to worship, the man who'd left him for dead. Hope buoyed Sarah Foxworth when she had just five dollars to her name, traveling the dusty rails where Joe first rescued her from a violent attack, then won her heart as a cowboy in need of redemption. With dreams of becoming a doctor herself one day, she uses all her wits to save her uncle's medical practice and his reputation. But it's her own reputation that suffers when she gives birth to an illegitimate baby. Years later, when Sarah walks into Joe's world once more, he's shaken to the core. Her dreams of becoming a doctor are dashed; her only hope is to find a better life for herself and her son, a child there's no denying is his own. Now a prosperous rancher, Joe yearns to finally make a home with Sarah and their boy. Only Joe's own road to riches has been strewn with obstacles, some looming even larger than the demons he still struggles against. But life has also shown Joe that nothing worth having ever comes easy. And that Sarah is a woman worth fighting for.
After a harrowing escape from Russian agents on his last mission, Charles Jenkins thinks he's finally done with the spy game in The Silent Sisters-carl Jenkins series Bk 3 (F DUG R) by Robert Dugoni. But then the final two of the seven sisters, American assets who have been deep undercover in Russia for decades, cut off all communication with their handlers. Are they in hiding after detecting surveillance? Or have they turned and become double agents? It's Jenkins's duty to find out, but he's been added to a Russian kill list. It will require all of Jenkins's knowledge of spy craft and an array of disguises to return to the country undetected. But plans go awry his first night in Moscow when Jenkins gets involved in an altercation that ends in the death of the son of one of Russia's most powerful organized crime leaders. Pursued by mafia henchmen, Russian agents, and a particularly dogged Moscow police detective, Jenkins is determined to track down the final two sisters and get them to America or die trying. As various forces close in, Jenkins fears this time he might've pushed his luck too far.
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles William Elliot