Friesenpress jul 2026 (70 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Clem the clementine's life is pretty sweet; after all, she gets to live in a big bowl with all her fellow fruit friends. But one day, despite the sunshine from Clem's favourite kitchen window, a cloud is cast over the fruit bowl: Gus the grape is feeling cranky, and he's butting heads with the others. Clem hates seeing her friends disagree, so with a little help, she tries to understand Gus's feelings and show him he's not alone.A fun, thoughtful, and endlessly a-peel-ing story, Clem and the Grumpy Grape invites children and adults alike into an important conversation about empathy and the root of negative feelings. Bruneau, Michaella (ilustrador).…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Clem the clementine's life is pretty sweet; after all, she gets to live in a big bowl with all her fellow fruit friends. But one day, despite the sunshine from Clem's favourite kitchen window, a cloud is cast over the fruit bowl: Gus the grape is feeling cranky, and he's butting heads with the others. Clem hates seeing her friends disagree, so with a little help, she tries to understand Gus's feelings and show him he's not alone.A fun, thoughtful, and endlessly a-peel-ing story, Clem and the Grumpy Grape invites children and adults alike into an important conversation about empathy and the root of negative feelings. Bruneau, Michaella (ilustrador).…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Have you ever had a favourite mug that came from a pottery This is the story about a mug from a pottery. The mug gets decorated with a bird and so is known as Bird Mug. The story follows the journey of Bird Mug from being clay turning on the potters wheel, being decorated, fired in the kiln and then unexpectedly growing a collection of favourite humans. Alexander, Fae (ilustrador). …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Every night, just as the world grows quiet, Linzy Binzy closes her eyes and opens the door to her wondrous world of 'Let's Pretend' where imagination becomes a passport, and every dream invites a new adventure. With a heart full of curiosity and a spirit eager to learn, Linzy travels to extraordinary places, meeting new friends who share their traditions, stories, and ways of seeing the world.Written with lyrical warmth and sprinkled with delightful discoveries, Linzy Binzy: Around the World with Friends gently weaves lessons of kindness, courage, empathy, and honoring what makes each child wonderfully unique into a rhythmic, read-aloud experience perfect for little learners. As Linzy journeys through her dreamscape, children are invited to explore geography, cultures, languages, and customs through a lens of wonder-strengthening imagination while nurturing the skills that help them connect deeply with others.A celebration of friendship, curiosity, and the beautiful possibilities that live inside every child's imagination, this book reminds readers that, no matter where our adventures take us, the world feels a little smaller, and a lot brighter, when we explore it together.Ideal for children ages 4-8, bedtime reading, classroom circles, and anyone who believes that every great journey begins with a dream. Estelle, Elena (ilustrador).…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Nicky Ryan has been a police officer in Canada's Northwest Territories for six months when she's faced with her first homicide investigation. A teenage girl has been maimed, her mother murdered, and her father is the prime suspect. Nicky's naïve dream of heroic crime-fighting is now up against the reality of life and death in a small Indigenous community. In Fort Gabriel, the wounds of the past still bleed, and white cops from down south are neither trusted nor welcomed.Alison's mother is dead and her father is in jail. Her aunt Lucy brings her to Yellowknife, where Alison desperately wants solid ground in a world that keeps shifting like melting river ice. Instead, she has to go back to Fort Gabriel to testify. She needs to hide, to find some way to feel safe in her own skin. When she turns to the faith and practices of Islam for that refuge, no one seems to accept or understand it. Nicky's job is to find out what really happened that night and bring the killer to justice, but she is learning the hard way that being the lesbian rookie on the investigation will only make that job harder for her. Worse, the criminal justice system's relentless grind can only make everything more painful for Alison, her family, and their community.Can justice be worth the painful cost.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the wake of profound loss, grief becomes a journey of transformation for a diverse group of individuals seeking solace, understanding, and healing.Five years after the devastating loss of her son, Colleen Friesen-a compassionate woman no stranger to sorrow-forms a grief group called The Price We Pay. Drawing from her own experiences with loss, she guides its members through the complexity of grief in sessions held in a cozy café during Saskatchewan's blistering winter. From Sarah, a college student who recently lost her father, to Ray, a young widower battling anger and guilt, to Paul, an Indigenous man whose loss of a friend unearths long-repressed grief and reconnects him with his heritage-they discover that while sorrow may isolate, it can also ignite a personal evolution, both within and beyond. Through their discoveries, revelations, and vulnerable moments, the group grows closer together, forming a lasting bond that becomes the foundation for their future journeys in life. Comforting, inspiring, and with interactive questions posed to the reader at the end of each chapter, The Price We Pay not only explores and embraces grief and the many forms it takes, but also expands on themes of resilience, connection, and the enduring nature of love.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - THIS BOOK STANDS ALONE IN A BOLD WORLD, AND CHALLENGES THE NORMS OF SOCIETY. The collection tackles the Trump administration, Israel and Gaza, fatherhood, Canadian identity, and the struggle for artistic freedom in a world increasingly dominated by billionaires and technology. These writings urge readers to look up from their phones and textbooks, resisting, ass media and the ivory towers as they strive to liberate their minds especially the white noise of religions around the world.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Are you an elementary school leader, teacher, or support worker who would like to learn successful ways to help children when the rubber hits the road In his last few years as an elementary school principal, Jon Wheatley saw a growing number of children with challenging behaviors entering his school, and many well-intentioned educators who were unsure of how to best support them. This led him to write The Kid Calming Toolkit, a practical guide to help educators more skillfully talk and work with children. This clear and comprehensive resource explains how to better calm children's challenging behaviors, build skills, and create solutions. The book's approaches are effective, teacher tested, and research based. Find out why a relationship-first teaching philosophy is critical for elementary school students. Discover what attachment, brain, and behavioral research say about how to best support children. Learn a range of teaching and support strategies to more effectively calm kids, reduce conflict, and improve learning. The Kid Calming Toolkit will help educators better understand: - why relationships matter more than discipline - how behavior is more about skills than choices - the myth of escalating consequences - why kids become what they believe - the biology behind behavior- how to use a range of HELP intervention and support strategies, and moreAddressing challenging student behavior is a stressful and difficult task. Educators can better help children, and make their school a happier place, by including more relational approaches to build trust, rapport, and skills.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Author Blaire Hoffos Peterson takes an innovative approach to storytelling in Shifting Light, in which she focuses on themes of fractured family relations and the effect on youth of grief and socio-economic disadvantage. The book comprises two novellas, the first of which, Renewal, tells of best friends Drake and Tish (Patricia), teenagers who come from very different backgrounds, but each of whom suffers from neglect in a dysfunctional family. When they set out on an adventure to explore an abandoned house on Hallowe'en, the story veers into the paranormal with a shocking discovery that just may show them the way to healing, and ultimately, to closure and a better future.In Residual, the second novella, sisters Danny and Angelica struggle to come to terms with the abuse and neglect they suffered as children at the hands of their alcoholic and drug-addicted mother as she lies dying in hospital. One year later, while in Mexico on vacation, they get a mysterious phone call that will catapult them into a shadowy underworld that offers them a life of wealth and luxury they never could have imagined. Good fortune or bad They'll have to decide.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Our approach to productivity is broken. The common principles and tools often improve the numbers, sure - but the numbers don't tell the full story. Many have mastered the mechanics of productivity yet feel hollow in their success. The ceaseless pressure for endless growth, for maximizing every minute, for commodifying every ounce of energy and time - it's crushing. It feeds a voice of panicked stress that doesn't quiet when the clock strikes five. There has to be a better way to bring work and life into balance than forcing them further apart.Thankfully, feeling stuck isn't the same as being stuck. We can experiment with new ways of working - ways that reconnect our professional ambitions with our human needs, our struggles and strengths, our desire for meaning. If you're a professional or creative who's tired of the culture of constant optimization, who values structure but craves depth, who's reached a stage where 'getting things done' is no longer enough - Productiveness offers a way forward.Productiveness reclaims what it means to be productive in a world that confuses busyness with value. Where productivity has become a relentless pursuit of quantity, productiveness restores balance between quantity and quality - between output and outcome, doing and being.Drawing on a lifetime of curiosity and practice in time management and creative focus, Mike Vardy explores nine enduring elements of productiveness - humanness, grace, prudence, cadence, nuance, tolerance, efficacy, trust, and will - principles that help readers reorient their relationship with time and attention. Through reflective essays and grounded practices, Vardy offers a path toward wholeness in work and in life.Productiveness isn't a manual for managing time - it's an invitation to partner with it. A guide to rediscover the art of being productive without losing your humanity in the process.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Language is messy. Idioms are worse. We use them recklessly without asking ourselves why we do it. We expect everyone to understand us, but many of these phrases have outlived the societies that created them. Why is Friday the 13th unlucky Why do people throw salt over their shoulder How can you drop the ball at work but still be left holding the ball, especially after your boss just threw you a curve ball Sh\*t People Don't Know pulls back the curtain on a language that behaves less like a rulebook and more like an inside joke. This is an entertaining deep dive into the strange origins of the words, phrases, customs, and superstitions woven into everyday English. You'll also uncover the forgotten logic behind traditions, the surprising roots of major holidays, and the quiet fingerprints of secret societies, old-world rituals, and religion that still shapes how we speak and behave today. Some stories are hilarious, others are dark, and a few might make you squirm.Whether you're a native speaker or just learning, this book reveals language for what it really is: a living record of human behaviour that is illogical, fascinating, and often ridiculous. Eventually, you'll catch yourself thinking . 'Well sh\*t, I didn't know that.'.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Most individuals who embark on a health care career discover quite early that their working journey is one of responding to others' needs. No matter what the circumstance or where the location, health care is a global need requiring a response from those prepared to serve others. The Taylors' health care careers have taken them across Canada and throughout the globe over a period of more than fifty-years. Many of their global deployments have been to isolated settings with low-resources, to disasters, to war zones and to detention centres, where a wide perspective of health care response is required. At different times they have worked with faith-based missions, university programs, professional NGO's and the Red Cross. Their faith in God and in His love for all humanity, and the confidence that He is always at work for good, has been a significant factor motivating their readiness to respond. Here are highlighted memories and reflections on what they have learned on their journey.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 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 behaviour of our species towards each other, and sadly, the growing exploitation of our planet. On a more whimsical note, the book contains a light-hearted and satirizing look at life. While some of the content is thought-provoking, it is mostly relaxing and fun reading.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In For the Life of You-One Hundredfold, Calvin McDonald takes readers on a devotional-style journey toward a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Drawing from Scripture-especially the Gospels of Matthew and John-he unpacks the key teachings of the Christian faith, including salvation, grace, the Holy Trinity, and the second coming of Christ.In one hundred engaging reflections, Mr. McDonald combines biblical insight with personal testimony and meaningful analogies. Writing from a Catholic perspective, he touches on the sacraments of the Church, with a special focus on the life-giving nature of the Eucharist, yet his message of faith and God's love for humanity will resonate with a wide range of readers from a variety of backgrounds.These powerful reflections will inspire readers to remain watchful and spiritually alert as they read the words of Jesus to His disciples. They are a beautiful reminder that through trials and suffering, God's presence is near for those who open their hearts to Him and believe. Ideal for individual or group study and reflection, For the Life of You-One Hundredfold will bring comfort and hope to those seeking a fulfilling life in Christ.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In The Difference Maker, author Bjorn Thorvaldson draws on decades of real-world experience to offer readers simple frameworks for decision-making, communication, leadership, and navigating uncertainty. The Difference Maker is an influential work on developing and sustaining leadership and relationship skills, with grounded tools to help readers confidently move from being overwhelmed to finding clarity, building trust, and leading with purpose in life's important areas.The Difference Maker is not only a book about leadership, nor is it only a book about personal development. Thorvaldson instead has created a field-tested framework that acts as a bridge between thinking, acting, and contributing, a bridge that will define and inspire readers to consistently turn awareness into action and create meaningful impact across work, relationships, and life.With The Difference Maker, Thorvaldson delivers time-tested arguments for a new mindset of leadership, of doing the right thing, inspired by conversations with grandparents while growing up and developed over years of client work and presentations. Thorvaldson suggests that leaders need to aspire to more of a difference maker mindset, to aim to 'think clearly under pressure and give people reasons to respect them.' This mindset will encourage readers to make maximum impact at work and in life, following foundational principles of well-being and opportunity.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - From This Day Forward is an epic story about the search for a purposeful life, the many different paths of love, and the complex forces that bind people together across vast distances and in the face of great difficulties and through tough times. Losing his parents at age four, spending ten years in a Catholic orphanage, four years completing an apprenticeship program in the aircraft industry, and being caught up in the world's upheaval and conflict made Walter von Bergen no stranger to challenges. Struggling to survive post-war Germany, with the Cold War between Russia and the Western world and the threat of a nuclear attack looming, Walter and Thea, his wife, feared for the future of their six children. A letter from a cousin arrives, asking Walter to go abroad to inspect a landholding in Quebec, Canada, which he purchased sight unseen. For Walter, it was the perfect solution, and when Thea, anxious and bewildered, finally relented after his promise to return within the year if he was not successful, Walter set sail on The Seven Seas bound for Montreal. Once on board, Walter meets a fascinating cast of characters, each with their own reasons for making the journey, whose lives will quickly intersect in myriad and lasting ways.But what does the future in the New World hold Will Ingrid and her young son find the stability and freedom from judgment and persecution they so desperately need Will Dan, the former journalist who delights in spreading venom among his fellow passengers, mend his ways before tragedy strikes Will Thea change her mind about uprooting the family to join Walter in Canada after she discovers a letter that he has concealed from her Will Walter's shipboard romance derail their marriage.…

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