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Glenroy Series by Steven Carroll

6 primary works • 6 total works

Book 1

The Art of the Engine Driver
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3.79 · 324 Ratings · 37 Reviews · published 2001 · 14 editions
On a hot summer's night in the 1950s, the old and …

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    Book 2

    The Gift of Speed
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    3.56     · 171 Ratings · 20 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    The history of his summer is written in the grass.…

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    Book 3

    The Time We Have Taken
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    3.33     · 350 Ratings · 61 Reviews · published 2007 · 9 editions
    The straight line of history has led, and was alwa…

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    Book 4

    Spirit of Progress
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    3.72     · 109 Ratings · 20 Reviews · published 2011 · 12 editions
    The thing that makes you, it never goes.
    A sleek hi…

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    Book 5

    Forever Young
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    3.27     · 131 Ratings · 26 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    And is nostalgia not so much a longing for a place…

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    Book 6

    The Year of the Beast
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    3.49     · 110 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 2019 · 5 editions
    Melbourne, 1917: the times are tumultuous, the cit…

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