Audiobooks by James Thomson

A Better Ending: A Brother's Thirty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister's Death

For fans of We Keep the Dead Close and The Night of the Gun, a propulsive and moving memoir about a brother's decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister's tragic death—and his own journey to forgiveness and closure. On a summer evening in 1974, Jim Thomson arrived home from a baseball game to the news that his younger sister, Eileen, had taken her own life. To Jim, his parents, and brother, the loss was unexpected and devastating. Only twenty-seven, Eileen had been living in California with her high school sweetheart, Vic, a cop. She had a circle of close friends and a job she loved. But details soon emerged that Eileen had been depressed, her storybook marriage plagued by infidelity and guilt. On the day of her death, Vic later explained, he stormed out of the room in the midst of a bitter argument. Moments later, a gunshot went off. The revelations were deeply troubling, but Jim and his family believed him. The police ended the investigation and the Thomsons moved on as best they could. In 2001, his parents and brother all dead, Jim often found himself thinking about Eileen. What had the final months of her life been like? Why had she not told him about her troubled marriage? What other demons had she been battling? Frustrated by how little he knew, Jim hired a private investigator to help track down Eileen's old friends and the police reports from that fateful afternoon, beginning a two-decade journey through a tangled web of secrecy, deception, and shifting stories that would force him to consider the unthinkable: Had Eileen really committed suicide? Told with the precision and pace of a whodunit and the searing emotion of a family saga, A Better Ending is an unforgettable tale about the love between siblings, the murkiness of truth and memory, and the path to acceptance.

James Thomson, James Whitfield Thomson (Author), Fred Sanders, Unknown (Narrator)

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Productivity: How to Create Space in Your Life for Health, Happiness, Opportunity, and Productivity

Are you tired of being distracted, or failing at simple tasks that you know you should be able to ace Do you want to develop study or work habits that will catapult you ahead of the competition and allow you to blaze new trails and stand out from the crowd? Do you believe that improving your memory or reading speed would be key to catapulting your productivity and thus, your success This book includes: - The Habits of Effective Learners What do those who are best at learning do every day? How do they view information? How can you learn from them? - How to Read and Listen Faster A lot of knowledge comes from reading and listening, so learning how to be more effective at both of these activities is essential to accelerated learning. - Fact Retention Become more efficient at retaining facts so that you don’t have to go back and relearn them later, wasting valuable time. Since most people aren’t very good at this, learning it will give you a huge advantage at work or school. - How to Improve your Memory The constant distraction of the modern day leaves many of us with poor memories, but you don’t have to be one of them. The final chapter of this book will give you step by step information on boosting your memory Time is a very important component of productivity. In as much as action is closely associated with productivity, in that, a person cannot be productive without taking necessary actions to accomplish a task, time defines and determines the productivity of a person. Having a productive mindset is vital to completing more. Think shrewd as opposed to working harder. While a large portion of us realize that we ought to have the correct mindset, we don’t know how to accomplish

James Thomson (Author), James Walker, Kenneth David (Narrator)

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The Poetry of Hymns

Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music. These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture have borne witness to hymns that change our emotions and fortify our spirit through life, death and celebrations and memorials of every type in between. Whether you are of a Christian faith or not, it is difficult to deny that these hymns create something stirring something magical which shouldn't be surprising when you hear the original poems. They speak with clarity and purpose, uplifting the heart and the soul, rejoicing God's work and man's pledge to do better in His eyes. But Hymns also have a wider duty to perform as there are many facets, themes and help on how to live lives as ourselves and appreciate each other as well as nature. In listening each of us can be swayed and persuaded on a number of levels.However many poets have called their work 'a Hymn' and have explored its theme and its definition, in different ways. They can be more irreverent and suggest that hymns can come not from churches but other places - even watermelon pavilions.One of the purposes of poems, of verse, of words, is to bring a subject into our view, imbue it with a little understanding and perhaps help us to confirm our opinions or hear in a way we might not have originally thought of it. Seeing and hearing through others can be a way to find more complex ripples of knowledge or to challenge what we hold and adjust that thinking.In this volume we bring you a wide range of Hymns from the religious and the devotional to the humane and the wonderful.

Ann Griffiths, James Thomson, John Donne (Author), Daniela Nardini, Richard Mitchley, William Dufris (Narrator)

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