Bestsellers at FriesenPress
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...
Kick Ass At Work
Master the 7 Aspects of Work to Level Up Your Career by Josh MacKinnon
Are you looking to reach your greatest potential at work? Do you want to fast-track your career, make more money, or get promoted? Do you wish you could take more pride in your accomplishments? If so, it’s time to KICK ASS AT WORK! KICK ASS AT WORK is a collection of critical on-the-job lessons designed to help you master the seven aspects of work and accelerate your career success. It will teach you how to take pride in your work, earn the income you desire, achieve the advancement you...
Give That Child A Mouth
by Frederic L. Oliver
Give That Child A Mouth is a powerful piece of children's literature. It utilizes the routine thread of loose rhyme to create a written work of embroidery that is absolutely captivating! This exciting read teaches a lesson to children - it's okay to tell someone when you are hurting. Meet Little Freddy: Little Freddy is forever running away in tears, and without a voice for years, trying to escape a mysterious character named Mouthy. But Mouthy has something that could change Little Freddy's...
Community Development Finance
COVID, George Floyd, and the Fight for Equity, 2016-2025 by Clifford N. Rosenthal and Dana Archer-Rosenthal
In this sequel to earlier studies of the origins and growth of the community development financial institutions (CDFI) movement, Clifford N. Rosenthal and Dana Archer-Rosenthal document and assess the most momentous period in the movement’s history--- the tumultuous decade from the first Trump administration, with its systemic hostility toward Black, Native, and other minority initiatives, through the Biden administration’s embrace of equitable community development, to the wholesale,...
I am a F*cking Miracle
A Story of Brokenness, Pain, Recovery and the Miracle of Second Chances by Ellen Livingstone
The odds were stacked against her from the beginning. Born in rural British Columbia, Ellen spent much of her childhood with her siblings in an old, small, one-bedroom trailer without power or running water. Raised primarily by an alcoholic father, after losing her mother at a young age, Ellen was—in her own words—the “weird, dirty, bush kid who wore dirty clothes to school … and that nobody wanted to play with.” By the age of ten, Ellen had already been sexually abused by several people,...
Homeless to Homerun
Turning Struggles Into Success by Glenn M Stein
Homeless To Homerun is my story. My story is about struggle, grit, and the power of never giving up. It’s about starting from rock bottom and finding your way to success one setback one lesson, and one small victory at a time. This book is for anyone who has been counted out or knocked down. It’s about seeing life through the lens of empathy, understanding why people do what they do and realizing that change is not something to fear. It’s where growth begins.
The Bowling Tour
Sparky & Boo's Badass Nordic Adventure by Boo King
The Bowling Tour is a personal travel memoir that takes place over two weeks from November 20, 2024 to December 4, 2024. It follows the journey of a grandmother (her first time leaving North America at 73) and her granddaughter (a seasoned world traveller at 24) from Vancouver, to Stockholm, Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, Helsinki, Tallinn and back to Vancouver. It is a time of firsts. Full of adventure, from walking tours around Helsinki to ABBA The Museum visit in Stockholm, chasing the...
The Mass
The Mystery at the Centre of Salvation by National Catholic Broadcasting Council
“The Eucharistic Celebration is much more than a simple banquet: it is exactly the memorial of Jesus’ Pascal Sacrifice, the mystery at the centre of salvation …” —Pope Francis Many Catholics attend Mass regularly but lack a deep understanding of the “mystery” at the centre of our salvation, and many younger Catholics don’t even understand why we gather as a community. The Mass: The Mystery at the Centre of Salvation Study Guide serves as a resource for Catholics who want to pass along the...
Intelligence Operator 230
In the Service of Canada by Mike Fournier
Forget the tuxedos and shaken martinis. This isn’t fiction—it’s colder, quieter, and much more real. As an intelligence operator during the tense Cold War period, Mike served as a Peacekeeper and operated covertly behind the Iron Curtain, where silence spoke louder than words. Later, he participated in the Afghanistan War as an Electronic Warfare Intelligence Analyst. His story isn’t pulled from Bond movies or Smiley novels — it’s rooted in the real tension of secrecy, service, and warfare....
You Are Loved, You Are Enough
A Memoir about embracing life by Sheryl A. Oleksak
You Are Loved, You Are Enough is an emotional memoir of one woman’s journey towards self-love and self-acceptance. Sheryl Oleksak grew up as an only child in New York, with a narcissistic mother and a kind but mostly passive father. From a less-than-perfect childhood—foster siblings coming in and out of the house and attending a harsh diet camp—to an adolescence and young adulthood marked by issues with food, body image, and self-esteem, Sheryl lays out her struggles in a clear,...