Bestsellers at FriesenPress
Resilience on the Front Line
101 Recommendations for Trauma-exposed Professionals, Organizations, Leaders, and Family Members by Mike Lockington
Resilience on the Front Line is a practical, boots-on-the-ground guide for anyone working—or caring about someone working—on the front lines of trauma. Drawing on nearly thirty years experience as a police officer and Wellness leader, author Mike Lockington offers 101 real-world recommendations to help trauma-exposed professionals, their leaders, and their families take proactive steps toward resilience and mental wellness. Whether it be policing, firefighting, paramedicine, nursing,...
Hidden Within the Human Husk
Beyond Self - Service, Philosophy, and Personal Development by Dustin R. C. McClellan
What if the life you dream of is already within reach, hidden beneath the surface of who you think you are? Hidden Within the Human Husk offers a path to uncover that hidden potential, blending life lessons, personal insights, and wisdom from visionaries like Chief Golden Light Eagle, Bruce Lipton, Napoleon Hill, Maya Angelou, Jordan Peterson, Nikola Tesla, Marcus Aurelius, and many others. But this isn’t their story—it’s yours. This book is a journey of personal transformation designed to...
Getting Here from There
The First 10 Years by Donna Armstrong
Learn to tell your truth from a reflective, honest, nonreactive perceptive. Recently retired from a challenging legal career, Donna Armstrong is asking the big questions: Who am I now? Why am I here now? Why am I still so Lonely? Digging in to the first ten years of her life, Armstrong uncovers secrets and hidden truth and treasure. Blame and anger turned to wonder and curiosity. The emotions and trauma experinced in those first ten years were still defining her. And yet her ability to...
Awakening Animus
by Denis LaFreniere
While they sat stunned against their cold limestone pillars, blankly gazing at the barely flickering Earth Crystal, five adolescents from across Animus were frightened awake, the words “Smith Gully” ringing in their ears. Rich, ambitious, and beautifully told, Awakening Animus is the story of “The Five”—Elior, Gaia, Asa, Frona, and Bodhi—five young individuals from across the kingdom of Animus called in a dream to the town of Smith Gully. There, they will meet Belinay the Shaman and Roshan...
The Farthest
by Peter B. MacIntyre
In a distant solar system, a dying red dwarf star has locked its first planet in a constantly degrading orbit. Zetara Prime exists in eternal shadow by its home star forcing the technologically advanced Zetarans to live underground in the twilight zones to escape their planet’s inhospitable surface. When Sattek discovers an anomaly in one of his assigned observation sectors, the introspective researcher for the Zetaran Stellar Observatory is drawn into a cosmic mystery. The discovery of this...
Rebel Researcher
The Unconventional Path to Discovery by N. Kirk Hillier
The most groundbreaking discoveries in science don’t come from following the rules, but from breaking them with purpose. In Rebel Researcher: The Unconventional Path to Discovery, Kirk Hillier introduces the concept of the rebel researcher—an innovator who sees the power of rule-breaking, dares to ask disruptive questions, and challenges consensus—and guides them through reframing failure as a strength, transitioning from solitary thinker to collaborative leader, and navigating institutional...
The Witness
A Personal Journey Through Fear, Trauma and Healing by Sharon Berk
Can we live from a place of love instead of fear? How much does fear shape our beliefs, behaviours, and identities? What if the fear we carry isn’t ours alone, but the echo of generational trauma? These are the central questions author and retired psychotherapist Sharon Berk seeks to answer in this holistic guide on self-healing. In The Witness: A Personal Journey Through Fear, Trauma, and Healing, Sharon shares her personal story as a child who grew up immersed in domestic violence and...
Glimpses
1 Corinthians 13:12 by Audrey Shepherd
Glimpses is a deeply personal memoir of a very long and impactful life that began during the Great Depression of the 1920s, continued through the Second World War, and evolved into a lifetime of service, from the author’s volunteer work with early feminist organizations in Canada, which helped push through new governmental programs and protections for women, to advocating for equal-rights regulations and invaluable programs designed to help victims of spousal and domestic abuse. Working with...
Charlie's Riddle
by Julia Bartley
Join Charlie on her quest to discover the answer to her riddle. Charlie feels unprepared until her imagination turns the objects left in her backpack into valuable tools that help her along the way. She is able to overcome her obstacles with the guidance of her new friends who encourage her to not give up.
You Don't Fall Out of the Universe
Surviving the loss of our son by B. J. Jewett
A hybrid of memoir and poetry, You Don’t Fall Out of the Universe navigates what one family endures before and after the unimaginable loss of a son. With quiet moments of heartache and resilience, Jewett shows the strength in being vulnerable. If you think you know how to console someone who’s grieving, this memoir reveals there’s more to learn, how our simplest phrases can cause more hurt than healing. This book is so many things: a means of honoring a son, a fierce commitment to family, a...