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Rex Zero and the End of the WorldIt's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place.

The MaestroBurl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life.

It's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war.

This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Tim Wynne-Jones.

Rex and his friends begin grade six against the backdrop of the 1962 Ban the Bomb protests on Parliament Hill. But once again it is trouble on the home front that has Rex's attention.

Meet someone new...

It has been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present that he has avoided examining his past.

Two years after his father mysteriously disappeared, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. Then Ruth Rose crashes into his life.

Commended, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books: Historical Fiction It's September 1963 when Rex is blindsided by some unexpected news.

Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life.

At the height of the Cold War an agent is sent to Germany and meets Anna Hartmann. She is a dancer in a strip-club, a suitable lover but also a killer.

The new action-packed Sean Dillon novel where he is racing against time to prevent an assassination that would shock the world.

The narrator and his wife Denise are rescued by the Cold Harbour lifeboat. Curiously, Zec Acland, the old lifeboat man, recognises their antique flying mascot.

For Stacey Wyatt the job seemed simple enough: free the beautiful daughter of a local millionaire from the clutches of the most evil bandit in Sicily.

It's a trip that agent Paul Chavasse will never forget.