Jay Atkinson: 4 books
Paradise Road
Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America
Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal...
Legends of Winter Hill
Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
“At McCain Investigations, I’d be sent looking for people who didn’t want to be found, following guys who didn’t want to be followed, and entering neighborhoods where I was not at all welcome. There would be no commercials, no time-outs, no ‘do-overs’ if somebody got shot or stabbed or...
Ice Time
A Tale of Fathers, Sons, and Hometown Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
As kids, we all had passions -- something we loved doing, experienced with our friends, dreamed about every spare moment. For Jay Atkinson, who grew up in a small Massachusetts town, it was hockey. When Bobby Orr scored the winning goal in the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals against the St. Louis Blues, Atkinson...
Massacre on the Merrimack
Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her...