Abbott Press: 610 books
Whispers in the Church
Swedish Witch Hunt, 1672
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This history explores the lives and trials of the accused during Swedens seventeenth-century witch hunts.
It may come as a surprise that Sweden had a witch hunt and that it was a precursor to Salems witch trials.
Mrit Hansdotter and Karl Karlsson lived in an age of war, religious upheaval,...
A Poet’S Tone of Heart
From My Heart, to Your Sight
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
A Poet's Tone of Heart presents a collection of poetry that touches the heart and soul to the core. Author Answer-Pray Alcius has written verses on topics ranging from heroes returning from war to endless love to the relationships that create our world. He has composed forty-eight poems that offer...
Shattered Dreams
A Girl Named Silas and Me
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In Shattered Dreams: A Girl Named Silas and Me, author Susan Peterson Lane presents a collection of powerful poetry that seeks to help each of us to find ourselves in the face of pain, hurt, and shame and enable us to escape the prisons, labels, and mistakes of both the past and present. Lanes poems...
by Dinah Havens
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
A single mother and her son from small Beachtown, Missouri, decide to indulge on a vacation to New York City. When an accident changes their lives, the teenage boy finds out that there is a large bill from the hospital waiting in the mailbox. Being the small population that Beachtown is, the boy finds...
America, Who Are You?
A Story of Adventure and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
As a young girl, Sylvie revels in the idyll of living in Madagascar, a magical island. When her family moves to Europe to further the childrens studies, however, they are caught in the whirlwind of World War II. For four years, they hide in the deep valleys of France away from the German occupation....
by Henry Sherman Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
A memoir reveals the struggles of a southern boy as he attempts
to overcome his greatest obstacle in lifehis stuttering.
Henry Sherman Christmas observed a man trying to do what most people do so easily, however, he was having little success. He was sixty five years old and the mans...
Flight Deck, Part 1
A Pictorial Essay of a Day in the Life of an Airdale
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Part 2 Available here: http://bookstore.abbottpress.com/Products/SKU-000523607/Flight-Deck-Part-2.aspx
This absolutely unique book contains 355 superb full-size photographs (Part 1 has 204 and Part 2 has 151) which document life on the flight deck of a fleet WWII aircraft carrier where the...
The Lebensborn Experiment
Book I
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Amid the chaos and destruction of World War II, racial profiling runs rampant. After kidnapped children whose appearances fail to meet the Nordic ideal are taken to concentration camps, some are used in experiments to satisfy the Reichs quest for Aryan Superiority. It is April 28, 1945, and a sinister...
Backroads to 'Bethlehem'
Odysseys of the Maroon Warrior, in the Shadows of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
It is 1693, during the waning days of a militaristic, fugitive slave village in northeastern Brazil and the widening landscape of Maroon Wars in Jamaica. There exists a patchwork of shared morality and beliefs among the myriad mix of West African tribes and the indigenous peoples of Latin America...
Into the Tornado of War
A History of the Twenty-First Michigan Infantry in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In the summer of 1862, a group of volunteer soldiers joined the Twenty-First Michigan Volunteer Infantry in western Michigan. For the next two and a half years, these men saw extensive combat against the Confederacy in Americas most brutal and bloody war.
Drawn from hundreds of letters, diaries,...
Manifest Destiny
Fire on the Water
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Tense, complex and fast-moving, Manifest Destiny: Fire on the Water is the story of a desperate battle to save a nation. When a cataclysmic Middle East nuclear war deprives the world of a third of its easily-accessible oil, prices pass $400 a barrel as a record-cold winter bears down on the Northern...
by Christopher Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Located just north of Boston, Nashua, New Hampshire, is known as a quiet cityuntil a series of violent murders makes front page news just before Memorial Day weekend. The brutal killings leave citizens terrified, and the NH State Police respond by bringing in an experienced investigator.
Detective...
Hunting Men
The Career of an Oregon State Police Detective
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Mike Davis grew up in eastern Oregon riding dirt bikes, hunting, fishing, and attempting to avoid the Oregon State Police. It was not until after a stint in the US Marines, however, that Davis joined the very department he once tried to evade and realized his long-held dream of arresting bad guys....
by Joe Baxter Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Joe Baxter Davis tells the story of his family who lived on a farm in Equality Alabama. Daddy worked in town as an auto body man and painter. Some of the time Mama taught school across the county and only was home only on the weekends. So my older brother Winston and my younger brother Michael and...