Bestsellers at FriesenPress
You Be The Light Bearer
by Ronald Arle Chapman
Within us all is a current that nudges us forward in life. Yet, the essence of this flow remains generally unconsidered and unperceived. You Be the Light Bearer explores questions about our inner spiritual journey and the interaction of energy between various states, both spiritual and material. It investigates how our past reflexes and habitual expressions are self-protective strategies, and shows how we can shift ourselves to make room for increasing new love energy and awareness. This...
Andy McBeagle
A Dog’s Journey by B Taylor
Andy McBeagle yearns to leave Cathkenney Farm and explore the world. He wants to make new friends and see new things—maybe even a palace, and a queen! But everyone keeps telling him his legs are too short for such adventures. Andy knows that he is capable, brave, and kind, and he refuses to be discouraged. So he sets off to chase his dreams. On his journey, Andy finds forests, towns, noisy and quiet places, friendly and less-than-friendly faces. He is told over and over that his legs are too...
Emma's Electrical Services
by Rosemary Cescolini and Amanda Cescolini
Emma the Electrician answers a call from a family whose blow dryer has suddenly stopped working . . . and there is smoke coming from it! After Emma rushes over to help, she investigates to find out what happened and how she can fix it. Naomi is fascinated with Emma and her work as an electrician. Eager to learn, Naomi decides to tag along with Emma to understand what an electrician does and how Emma is going to solve their electrical problem. Naomi asks Emma a lot of questions and even lends...
My Life's Dream Took Me to Sea
by Ronald Epner
This book tells an engaging story of one man’s self-discovery and his adventures living his life’s dream. It targets three types of readers. The author shares life skills that have led him to a fulfilling, meaningful life. It caters to both the blue-water sailor, providing insights from seventy years of sailing experience, and the armchair sailor eager to imagine the experience of sailing a boat across oceans to distant lands. The life skills that the author has learned and shared have led...
Spirituality Put in Its Place
by Robert Bond
Something happens and “the way things should be” is upset. Next comes great effort to outdo the hurdle, interruption or sickness and get things back on track. This book is about a missing piece. Spirituality pays attention to the upsets. They are feedback: signposts to be heeded rather than end-run. This is true in medicine, psychology, religion, agriculture, engineering, … every human undertaking. Working from universal norms, the reader is led through meaning-finding and change-making,...
Dr. Danger
Life Story Of A Rural Veterinarian by Dr. Art Schatz
Dr. Art Schatz has been deeply involved with animals since he was born. During his childhood in rural Canada, his family had no local veterinarians nearby, so he learned to tend to the farm animals and turned that passion into a career. After veterinary college, Dr. Schatz entered a career primarily with large animals. Life is not a straight path, and Dr. Schatz’s is no exception; after developing an insidious illness, he took a side path from his veterinary career into teaching. It was here...
Not A Runner
A true story of tragedy, determination and paying it forward by Reginald J Willick
One moment can change the course of a life forever. For Reg Willick, that moment came with a devastating phone call—an event that would alter his path, ignite a relentless drive, and lead him toward a mission bigger than himself. In this raw and powerful memoir, Reg shares his journey through unimaginable loss, the surprising salvation he found in running, and the profound impact of paying it forward. From the heartbreak of a tragic accident that shook him to his core to the triumph of...
Coastal Navigation
for Class and Home Study by Dominique F. Prinet
Coastal Navigation for Class and Home Study is based on the notes prepared for students by the author during some 20 years of teaching navigation, initially to private or commercial pilots, and then to sailors and professional mariners. The book is copiously illustrated with graphics which explain chart projections, scales and symbols, and describe lights and other navigation aids. It demystifies the True, Magnetic and Compass Norths as well as problems of time, speed and distances, and...
Coastal Navigation Exercises
Over 100 exercises based on the Canadian chart Strait of Georgia, Southern Portion by Dominique F. Prinet
Coastal Navigation Exercises is based on the notes and exercises prepared for students during some 15 years of teaching marine navigation to sailors and professional mariners. The data tables needed to do the exercises are given in the Appendix of this manual. Most of the exercises require the Canadian marine chart CHS 3463, Strait of Georgia, Southern Portion, published under the authority of Canadian Hydrographic Services and available through chart retailers. A list of over 500 CHS...
Soul-Making
A Journey of Resilience and Spiritual Rediscovery by Christina Becker
The phrase “soul-making” comes from the poet John Keats, who struggled with the world’s random and meaningless suffering, and believed that tragedies were the crucible in which the soul is forged and refined. In Soul-Making: A Journey of Resilience and Spiritual Rediscovery, Christina Becker shares how her own tragedy—from a series of events between 2009–2011 broke her, leading to her dependency on alcohol. It could have been seen as meaningless but was transformed into soul. Part memoir and...