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Stand Like a Cedar

Nicola I. Campbell

illustrated by Carrielynn Victor

HighWater Press

Named for her home region, a Nicola Valley in B.C.’s southern interior, Nicola I. Campbell is a author of 4 prior children’s books: Shi-shi-etko, a award-winning Shin-chi’s Canoe, Grandpa’s Girls and A Day with Yayah (grandmother). New design book Stand Like a Cedar will be expelled on Feb. 23. Aimed during readers ages 6 to 9, it explores nature, Indigenous enlightenment and languages, as kids learn about birds, fish, mammals and plant life.

Pain Killer: A Memoir of Big League Addiction

Brantt Myhres

Viking Canada

If you’re extraordinary to know accurately what a hockey actor has to do to get criminialized for life from a NHL, consternation no more. Brantt Myhres recounts his rise, rain and liberation — operative his approach adult from a teenager leagues to a big-money career in a NHL, floating it all on drink and drugs and finally removing purify in rehab. Sober for some-more than a decade now, a L.A. Kings hired him in 2015 to try to keep that team’s players on a true and narrow. His discourse lands on bookstore shelves Feb. 16.

Kill a Mall

Pasha Malla

Knopf Canada

Horror, humour and surreal hairpieces come into play when this bizarro novel’s anecdotist is invited to take adult a weeks-long residency position during a suburban mall, where he’s approaching to live in a store and order his time between “engaging a public” and carrying out uncertain work. It isn’t prolonged before his idea of a selling centre as a consumer bliss is challenged, interjection to a poser involving a creatures who live a mall during night.

A Stranger in Town

Kelley Armstrong

St. Martin’s Publishing Group

In a sixth novel in a Rockton series, a misfit inhabitants of a tip Yukon bower are on corner when an harmed hiker lands in their midst. Detective Casey Butler (formerly Casey Duncan) and her boyfriend, a internal sheriff, are on a case, perplexing to find out who pounded a lady — and learn because they are saying fewer locals around city all of a sudden.

— Pat St. Germain