Bestsellers at FriesenPress
Talk Matters!
Saving the World One Word at a Time; Solving Complex Issues Through Brain Science, Mindful Awareness and Effective Process by Mary V. Gelinas
We create the present and future in our meetings and conversations every day. What can we do to increase the likelihood that we’re creating a future that we all want? We can start by talking more constructively and productively about what matters to us all. After decades of advising groups in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, process design and facilitation expert Mary V. Gelinas has integrated her best knowledge of brain and behavioral sciences, mindful awareness, and effective...
Today!
by Erin Rose Sahm
What are we going to do today? Do today? Do today? What are we going to do today, today, today, today? Every day for a small child is an adventure—and that can be overwhelming! When toddlers start learning the flow of the day-to-day, it helps them keep focus. This delightful, repetitive story is a tool for parents to provide that focus, and to help their children learn what’s coming every day. It all starts when they wake up! It’s time to pick out an outfit, make breakfast and pack snacks,...
Family, Entrepreneurship and Service
Count Hassanali R. Dedhar of Eldoret by Jenny Jina and Altaf Jina
Family, Entrepreneurship, and Service: Count Hassanali R. Dedhar of Eldoret is the biography of Count Hassanali R. Dedhar (1900–1978), an entrepreneur in Eldoret, Kenya. After migrating from Zanzibar to Eldoret in search of a better life and opportunities, Hassanali marries and opens a small shop. This modest life is only the beginning of a grander adventure. Composed from interviews, research, and personal anecdotes, this biography details the social and cultural histories of Eldoret, the...
Art & Science of Foot Care
A Multidisciplinary Resource by Cindy L.M. Lazenby
This third edition of The Art and Science of Foot Care is an in-depth resource for practitioners and students of nursing foot care. The authors offer a readable and straightforward discussion of new and established best practices and care techniques required for the standardization of foot care and foot care education. The textbook is intended primarily to provide a functional resource to those pursuing a career in nursing foot care. It is also a valuable educational tool for other...
No Escape
Witness to a Canadian Genocide by Ron Gosbee
IN THE 1950S, AT FIVE YEARS OLD, Ron Gosbee, the son of the post manager for the Hudson’s Bay Company in remote Fort Albany, Ontario, was sent to the local St. Anne’s Indian Residential School with his two sisters. The only white children at the school at the time, they would become unwilling witnesses to the systemic cultural genocide against Canada’s Indigenous Peoples. While there, they too lived in fear of cruel nuns and priests, choked down inedible food, and were forced to maintain a...
The Rose Bird
A Mother's Perspective on Loving and Losing Her Daughter to Fentanyl by Helen Davies
The Rose Bird is a personal account of what goes on behind closed doors in a family coping with severe mental illness. Told as only a mother can, this is the true story of loving and losing a daughter affected by mental illness and addiction. Although author Helen Davies begins the story with the fentanyl-related death of her twenty-three-year-old daughter Katie on the streets of Kitchener, Ontario, The Rose Bird is really a tale about resilience and a family cherishing and supporting a...
No One Left Behind
How Nurse Practitioners Are Changing The Canadian Health Care System by Claudia Mariano
No One Left Behind: How Nurse Practitioners Are Changing The Canadian Health Care System, is a collection of stories from NPs across Canada, sharing their most memorable experiences with patients, which clearly illustrate the critical role they play throughout the health care system. Each story is compelling and unique in its own way; true-life accounts which will take you on an emotional journey, however, one that defines a genuine passion that exists for their work. The role of an NP has...
Follow the Lamb Wherever He Goes
A Call to Discipleship from the Book of Revelation by Andy Rapko
The world is changing at a rapid pace and most people are busy just trying to keep up. Some are moving in the right direction, some in the wrong direction, and many are just running without much thought about where they are going. Who will you follow today? What are you living for? What are you willing to die for? The book of Revelation brings these questions to the forefront and presents us with clear concise answers about the world situation, our life, and eternity. Most importantly...
A Daughter's Plea
Letters To My Mother by Kimberly J. Sigurdson
What is a woman to do when all she’s ever wanted was a happy, healthy family of her own, but now has nothing left to screw up? She has two choices: she can give up completely or start choosing herself, one day at a time. That’s exactly the choice Kimberly Sigurdson made: to heal, moment by moment. Growing up amid dysfunction, anger, and emotionally unavailable parents, Kimberly soon lost her voice and became a people pleaser. As she grew older, this led to dysfunctional relationships, where...
The Reesor Siding Tragedy
Canada's Bloodiest Labour Conflict by Charles A Beaudoin
Northern Ontario, January 1963. Weeks of violence and rising tension, mob mentality, and failures in leadership culminated in the Reesor Siding Tragedy: a shooting that took the lives of three strikers from the Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper Company and left eight wounded. In the political and legal aftermath, the details of the event were quickly covered up, leaving Canadians to forget about it—until now. Set against the backdrop of the harsh environment of the northern frontier, The Reesor...