Bestsellers at FriesenPress
For Those Who Mourn
by Trudy Kleckner
Death, grief, and loss are as much a part of life as birth, love, and celebration. Yet when we lose someone we love dearly—a parent, a sibling, a partner—we are stunned, bewildered. In some deep pocket of our hearts or minds, we thought they would live forever. For Those Who Mourn is a book of poetry that gives voice to those topics that we spend our lives trying to avoid. Every individual expresses grief differently, and each of us must find our way through the forest of mourning that...
All About the Intensive Care Unit
How to Prepare Kids for an ICU Visit by Alexandria Friesen and Morgan Livingstone
It is normal to feel worried or afraid if you know someone who is in the intensive care unit (ICU). This book will help prepare children and youth for what to expect if they have a family member or loved one in the ICU. Simple language and medically accurate images will help explain the ICU setting, including information about: • Why a person may be in the ICU, • Machines, tubes, and other equipment they may see, • The importance of sedation, and • Different medical staff that care for...
Unleashed
Intention, Empowerment, Influence by Kimberly Magnus
Are you trying to find work-life balance? Are you starting the journey of leadership in your career? Do you see opportunities in your organization you want to help influence? Are you wanting to accelerate your personal and professional development? This book can help you with these and more. Leading people is truly a privilege, although it might not always feel that way. While every company requires leaders, not every company has a plethora of effective leaders. If your exposure to great...
Walking in Two Worlds
by Laura Dale
Walking in Two Worlds is a fascinating, authentic account of an individual’s encounters with the unexplained. Here is a collection of journal entries—spanning many years—that recount the author’s dreams, telepathic events, out-of-body experiences, visions, and spiritual encounters. Also depicted are occurrences of clairaudience, claircognizance, divination, precognition, psychometry, second sight, and many other mysteries of being alive. The author enhances her accounts with interpretations...
From Failure to Failure
The Canadian Military’s Attempts to Manage Its Sexual Misconduct Crises, 2000–2022 by Allan English
What should we do when a critical institution says all the right things yet repeatedly fails to live up to its word? In their latest sexual misconduct crisis, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has clearly "failed as an institution to properly address" sexual misconduct. Unless these crises are properly dealt with, they threaten to make the military "irrelevant" in Canadian society. These are the words of General Wayne Eyre, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff from 2021 to 2024. What does this...
When Time Stands Still
A collection of poems about birth, stillbirth and rebirth by Rose Pearce
Now, I know death’s canter With each out-breath I wait for his horse Thundering through the valley Flying between hoof beats Sun and I, drumming the earth Separation and grief, oneness and connection—two radically different experiences of losing someone we love. But how do we find our way from one to the other, when we are in the depths of grief and depression? When Time Stands Still is a book of soulful poetry about profound life transitions from the poet’s own experience, born of...
Pride Of Wrath
Setting Stones by Kristofer James Honborg
In the untouched, lifeless lands of Naveroth, a Demonic entity revels in It’s twisted malice. Using the desolate realm as It’s sinister playground, It repeatedly spawns races of humanlike creatures, only to take delight in annihilating them. However, with each new iteration, remnants of It’s creations endure, each one growing more resilient and courageous. As generations rise and fall, a group of survivors comes together, determined to embark on a daring quest for freedom. Born of despair,...
Grandma's Blue Bucket
by Valerie E. Fritz
Grandma’s garden is a magical place. With a blue bucket in hand, Linh and Grandma explore the wonderful vegetables that grow in the warm, dark earth. Linh learns how to open a pea pod to eat the fresh peas nestled inside, which tomatoes are the best to pick, and where to find potatoes deep in the soil. There are so many incredible plants and vegetables, and Linh can’t wait to find them all. One, two, three… a dozen or maybe 200! And after all the vegetables are picked, what will Grandma and...
Love for Sale
Chronicles of a Canadian Call Girl by Maureen Teahan
Sometimes hilarious and sometimes horrifying, this darkly candid memoir is guaranteed to educate and entertain. From precocious pre-pubescent to troubled trollop, Sandi takes you on a deep dive to her rock bottom that will leave you gasping for air. Alternating between vivid accounts of encounters with Johns and tender childhood memories, the narrator paints a graphic portrait of a woman’s journey through rebellion, addiction, and self-discovery. I pause dramatically, whirl around, and flip...
Max and Indy at the Christmas Market
by Charmaine Blackman
The annual Christmas market is a wondrous place. It is full of beautiful sights and delicious smells. Each year, Max and Indy pick out gifts for each other at the market. This year, they head to the market to choose their gifts. They part ways after agreeing to meet back at the towering tree at midnight. Indy finds the perfect gift for Max: gingerbread cookies! But when she sees a little girl hungry and crying in the cold, she must decide what to do with the gift. Should she give it to the...