Abbott Press: 610 books
Brownie
Mascot of the Seventy-Fifth Naval Construction Battalion
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
When Roy Althouse rescued a little dog at Camp Hueneme in California in 1943, it was the beginning of a wonderful storyone that has finally been told by his daughter. During their enlistment in the Navy Seabees, Althouse and his fellow members of the Seventy-Fifth Naval Construction Battalion all...
by Srikanth Ramaswamy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Rajeev Desai came from a modest, lower-middle-class background, but that never kept him from dreaming. A true child of Mumbai, he knows that he alone is the one to make those lofty dreams come true. His ultimate goal is to move to the modern-day mecca for the financial industry, New York City. From...
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Financial Stability in Nonprofit Organizations
A New Assessment of Social Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Faced with significant budget reductions, nonprofit organizations have moved beyond being one-dimensional entities that rely only on grants.
Now, they attract social entrepreneurs who are determined to establish relationships before raising moneysomething that the late Dr. J. Gregory Dees,...
by John H. Bailey II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Although John H. Bailey IIs father attained only a third-grade education, he imparted an important message to his son: you only fail when you stop trying. This is a piece of advice that Bailey II followed diligently throughout his life.
In Up from the Fields, Bailey narrates his life story...
Wow, What a Day!
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
On August 16, 1938 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, a tiny boy opened his mouth and cried for the first time. As Germany persecuted Jews and Orson Wells prepared for his infamous War of the Worlds radio program, Edgar Allen Moore began his life as the second of three boys in a Scottish-Irish family who...
I Became the Boat People
A Refugee’S Path to America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The Vietnam War featured political upheavals, battle tactics, and lots of publicity. But underneath all that were everyday people whose lives were forever altered by three decades of fighting. In this memoir, author Don Lao looks back at what the people of Vietnam went through with this account of...
D Is for Dysfunctional—And Doo Wop
Songs of a Hoosier Schizo
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Author Mary Ellen Stepanich, with tongue firmly in cheek, answers the question, How do you turn a normal, happy-go-lucky, poor, small-town girl of the Midwest into a push-me-pull-me, multi-married, mass-of-inner-conflicts schizophrenic?
In her memoir, she shares the personal (and mostly true)...
Honoring My Journey
Memoir/Family History
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Author Barbara Gray Armstrong came of age during Jim Crow when the color line was clearly drawn and America was divided into black and white. Black people were denied rights and endured discrimination. In Honoring My Journey, she weaves together both personal and public events as an exploration of...
Fifty on Fifty
Fifty Reasons Why We Love Mr. Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
What woman has not desired a man she knows she should not have? In Fifty on Fifty, A. Kim Weston shares all the hilarious reasons why the common woman loves Christian Grey, the wealthy, controlling, and addictively captivating billionaire CEO of Grey Enterprise Holdingsalso known as Mr. Fifty. For...
My Dear Son
Letters from John Mcdougall (Weaver), Isle of Lismore, Scotland, to His Son, John, in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
John McDougall, the last weaver on the Isle of Lismore in the West Highlands of Scotland, was not wealthy but his life as superintendent of the small islands Sabbath school was far from simple. As his eight children passed away or left Lismore for other parts of Scotland and America to live more prosperous...
Don’T Call Me Lady
The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This biography tells the true story of one of historys forgotten women, a Englishwoman named Alice Seeley Harris who has also been called the Mother of Human Rights. She has been hidden by her husbands shadow since she started her African journey near the end of the Victorian era, but now her story...
by Rodolfo Balao
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Thirteen-year-old Rodolfo Balao was in church listening to a solemn Mass when Japanese planes flew over his town in the Philippines and bombed the airfield. Just days after Rodolfo and his family evacuated to a farm high above Tuguegarao, the Japanese took over their town, razing and killing until...
by Thomas Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
NO VILLAINS, NO HEROES is a moving historical novel of the 1912 Hillsville Massacre, the most shocking crime in the state of Virginia, and a cautionary tale for our own time about the true meaning of law and justice.
No Villains, No Heroes dramatizes a shocking episode in Virginia history....
Budo and the Badge
Exploits of a Jersey Cop
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Lt. Patrick J. Ciser (Ret.) of the City of Clifton Police Department, in New Jersey, is also known to his many karate students as Sensei (Teacher). Ciser achieved national and international fame by representing the United States in five international karate tournaments, winning gold medals in South...