The Ensemble, Aja GabelThe addictive debut novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives. Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; the viola is Henry, a prodigy whos always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, the angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient

the idea of love is opened up to painful examination

'Wildly entertaining

and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights

a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since

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he is forced to conclude that he "waited eighteen years just for the sake of waiting

Old San Francisco

Precisely a coach pulled by black horses appears

setting off a transformation neither can anticipate

The Ford County Times

but he has no idea what’s on the menu for the night: not only does every diner have a bone to pick with another

Rain arrived