Acorn Press imprint: 110 books

The Golden Boy

A Doctor's Journey with Addiction

by Grant Matheson
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017

 Before opioids destroyed Grant Matheson's career, he was a pillar of his community. Respected physician, loving husband, devoted father, and trusted friend. Grant was a straight-laced kid who grew up to be a clean-living adult. No drinking, no smoking, and certainly no drugs. It took everyone...

Fragments of Home

Piecing life together after childhood sexual abuse

by Monique Lisbon
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010

Fragments of Home: Piecing Life Together after Childhood Sexual Abuse seamlessly integrates poignant vignettes, theoretical reflections and original music, exploring a range of themes encountered by many adult survivors of childhood abuse. Whilst it honestly and courageously enters challenging territory,...

Choices

One Person's Journey out of Homosexuality

by Christopher Keane
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009

This compelling and thoughtfully written book describes one person’s journey out of homosexuality. It is the author’s own intimate story of personal transformation in the context of a loving relationship with God. Chris Keane writes with disarming honesty and compassion, as he acknowledges the...

Standing on Their Shoulders

Heroes of the Faith for Today

by Rhys Bezzant
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

Being a Christian means being part of a bigger story, for God has worked in the course of history to make a people for himself. There is great joy in being part of this story, because we are spared the anxiety of creating ourselves out of nothing. Rather than going it alone, we stand on the shoulders...

Gumbuli of Ngukurr

Aboriginal elder in Arnhem Land

by Murray Seiffert
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011

Two stories overlap and interweave in this biography of Gumbuli of Ngukurr. One is of a remarkable Aboriginal elder, Michael Gumbuli Wurramara, whose early life was spent on remote islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria. As a teenager, he moved to the historic Roper River Mission, which became known as...
by Doretta Groenendyk
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

I’m Drawing a Story combines story and images to captivate and inspire young readers to harness their creative spirit. A collaboration between artwork and text, this whimsical book has a different inspirational idea on each page, with a scene that each “artist” imagines. The concept is based...
by Bruce Rainnie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

With over 25 years of broadcasting experience, Bruce Rainnie has collected stories from every arena He has worked intimately with PEI's legendary broadcaster "Boomer" Gallant as well as many other well known characters from across the country. Bruce did the first TV interview with Sidney...
by Brent MacLaine
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016

In his new collection of poems, Prometheus Reconsiders Fire, PEI poet Brent MacLaine undertakes an exploration of fire. The prefatory title poem establishes Prometheus as the poet’s persona, a voice that is dedicated to the reconsideration of fire in both its benevolent and malevolent aspects....

Muhammad

The man who transformed Arabia

by Peter Cotterell
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011

Muhammad: the man who transformed Arabia. The man whose life in some measure determines the everyday behaviour of more than a billion of his followers across the world. And yet a man it is difficult to know. As the author of this book points out, biographies of Muhammad have tended to present him either...
by Patrick Ledwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

“If Stephen Leacock and Woody Allen had a baby, they would name it Patrick Ledwell.”

Mr Eternity

The Story of Arthur Stace

by Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

Almost every day for 35 years, Arthur Stace spent hours writing a single word – Eternity – on and around the streets of Sydney. Sometimes his mission took him much further afield, to country New South Wales and even to Melbourne. Stace’s identity was a mystery for more than two decades. Then,...

Eating Heaven

Spirituality at the Table

by Simon Carey Holt
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013

Sitting down at a table to eat is an activity so grounded in the ordinary, so basic to the daily routines of life, we rarely ponder it beyond the simple inquiry, ‘What’s for dinner?’ However, scratch a little deeper and you discover in eating one of the most meaning-laden activities of our lives,...
by Paul Arnott
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2003

This book offers solace and practical help to those who have suddenly lost a loved one and all who assist them in their grief. This revised and expanded edition has a new chapter on men, women and grief, discussing some of the different ways people grieve.
by Michael P. Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013

Does God have a sense of humour? Can Christianity make sense of our 21st-century world? What does it mean to be happy? Is it possible to survive in the jungle of office politics, or in the warzone that is social media? In this provocative and stimulating collection of pieces from Eternity magazine,...
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