Charles Atkins: 12 books

Book cover of Modern Buddhist Healing

Modern Buddhist Healing

A Spiritual Strategy for Transcending Pain, Dis-Ease, and Death

by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002

In 1987 Charles Atkins was struck with Hodgkin's disease and underwent the ravages of chemotherapy. Throughout his illness he used his Buddhist training and the power of the mantra Nam-myoho-renge-kyo to carry him through the cancer treatments and allay his fears of death and doubts for recovery....
Book cover of Minehead - Port of Call
by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014

At the turn of the 20th century the holiday trade was developing and in 1901 a pier was built at Minehead to allow pleasure steamers to call independent of tides. In Minehead – Port of Call, Minehead born local historian Charles Atkins charts the history of Minehead Pier from its initial planning...
Book cover of The Cadaver's Ball

The Cadaver's Ball

A Novel of Revenge

by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005

There are times when a trusted "friend" is so filled with hatred that he will do anything possible to ruin the other. Ed, Peter, and Beth had been friends through medical school. At the Cadaver's Ball, the somewhat ghoulish-named celebration that is the closest thing to a senior prom the...
Book cover of Ashes, Ashes
by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

A Manhattan forensic psychologist is targeted by a madman in this “taut, mind-blowing . . . Genuinely gripping thriller” (Booklist).   Dr. Barrett Conyors knows just how dangerous Richard Glash is. She’s studied him. An easily triggered paranoid schizophrenic obsessed with Charles Manson...
Book cover of Mother's Milk
by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Forensic psychiatrist Barrett Conyors is back. Barrett Conyors finds the discovery of the bodies of two heroin-addicted teens particularly hard to accept. Barrett's convinced that chief suspect Jerod, a homeless schizophrenic, didn't do it but she's the only one, apart from Detective Ed Hobbs, who...
Book cover of Vultures at Twilight
by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

First in a New England mystery series featuring a formidable pair of widow-sleuths and “a baffling mystery that will keep readers turning the pages” (Publishers Weekly).   Something wicked has come to Grenville, Connecticut, where high-end antique dealers are being murdered in gruesome—yet...
Book cover of The Bipolar Disorder Answer Book

The Bipolar Disorder Answer Book

Professional Answers to More than 275 Top Questions

by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

Approximately 5.7 million Americans have bipolar disorder, a brain disorder also known as manic-depressive illness. The Bipolar Disorder Answer Book is an authoritative reference for people with Bipolar Disorder and their loved ones, providing sound advice and immediate answers to their most pressing...
Book cover of Best Place to Die
by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

New England’s lesbian senior sleuths return in “this winning second entry in a thriller series you simply must try” (Library Journal). Widows Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss are exploring their newfound romance when they are woken early by the sound of sirens. The local nursing home in their...
Book cover of Done to Death
by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

New England’s sexagenarian sleuths are back to solve a reality-show murder in this “fast-paced mystery with two unforgettable leading ladies” (Booklist Online). Desperate TV producer Barry Stromstein’s career depends on his latest brainstorm: “Antiques Roadshow meets The Hunger Games...
Book cover of Prodigy

Prodigy

A Novel of Suspense

by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

James "Jimmy" Martin IV should never have been released from the mental institution. But thanks to incredible wealth and a devoted twin sister, that's just what happens. Once a gifted cellist who wowed audiences at Carnegie Hall, Jimmy is now confined to his Gramercy Park mansion. Surrounded...
Book cover of Go To Hell
by Charles Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

What would you give to cure mankind's suffering? Dr. Spencer Williams, a brilliant young researcher, is on the verge of that discovery. Haunted by the freakish suicide of his famous mother, he is driven to find a cure for the illness that ended her life. Blessed--or cursed--from birth with second sight,...
Book cover of T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition
by Anderson D. Araujo, Hazel Atkins, William Blissett
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014

T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion...
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