FriesenPress

© 2026 FriesenPress, Inc. All rights reserved.



  • Through the Grey Skies

    A Mother’s Journey of Grief and Hope
    by

    “It wasn’t supposed to be this way.” Every mother carries hopes and dreams for her unborn child, rarely imagining a motherhood journey that veers so far from the path she once envisioned. Through tender storytelling and honest reflection, Megan...


  • Reflections

    Poems and stories from a lifetime of observation
    by

    The book is a collection of poetry, verse and five short stories. It is a reflection on the author's observations of people, cultures, and commentary on the idosyncracies of humankind. Its content also draws attention to the disagreeable...


  • Schumann, Vienna and the Cat

    by

    Robert Schumann—one of the most imaginative figures of the Romantic era—and concert pianist Robert Silverman: in both lives, brief but psychologically complex sojourns in Vienna became decisive crucibles, testing ambition against reality and...


  • I Want to Break Free

    An Abacus Story
    by

    In 1984, fourteen-year-old Koorosh Eslami left Tehran with his father to escape being drafted into the Iran-Iraq War. After living and studying in Türkiye, his unique adventure begins and he flees to Canada alone, illegally where he was detained...


  • Songbirds Keep Singing

    A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation
    by

    In 2017, forty-five-year-old Lisa Lauter experienced mysterious neurological symptoms. For months, she didn’t feel like herself and doctors had no answers. A mother of three preteen boys, Lisa had many reasons to explain away her odd symptoms. In...


  • Simple Healing

    A Year of Learning
    by

    When your body won’t give you answers, how do you keep living with hope? Simple Healing is a warm, reflective year-long memoir that invites readers to walk alongside Tanus Tosh McNeill as she searches for the cause of her debilitating headaches....


  • Circle Round

    by

    My memoir is organized around Medicine Wheel teachings: Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, and Elderhood. It traces my life from White Anglo-Saxon Christian upbringing through marriage to a Black Mohawk man, exposure to Indigenous teachings, and...


  • Retired Ground

    A Climber's Odyssey
    by

    He went looking for adventure. The mountains gave him so much more. In Retired Ground, Michael J. Collins documents his fifty-year pilgrimage into wild places, braiding his lifelong travel journal together with poetry, history, philosophical...


  • Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will

    Finding Joy and Purpose in Life After Child Loss
    by

    Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will is a mother’s raw, tender, and ultimately life-affirming memoir of love after loss. When Joni Bouchard’s twelve-year-old son, Will, dies suddenly and tragically, her world fractures. She continues their daily...


  • I Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest

    A Memoir
    by

    Elaine Ross grew up knowing she was adopted. Brought into a loving family on the Canadian prairies at eleven months old, she felt secure in the life she was given and the parents who chose her. For many years, that story felt complete. Gradually...