title: The Lovers: A Novel
author:  Vendela Vida 
description: Quietly provocative, The Lovers explores the perils of self-involvement and the ease with which we destroy one anothers lives. (People)<br /><br />Haunting....Vida, a cofounder and coeditor of literary magazine The Believer, has a gift for probing the workings of memory. (Time Out New York)<br /><br />Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height of her craft. (Stephen Elliott, author of THE ADDERALL DIARIES)<br /><br />Vendela Vida writes with elegance and economy. In this engrossing novel, she has managed to combine a stingingly acute portrait of grief, a moving meditation on love (both filial and romantic) and a page-turning adventure. (Zo Heller, author of The Believers)<br /><br />[Vida] has an eye for understated details that leap from the page and linger in the soul...Vida deftly weaves the power of description into the broader tapestry of Yvonnes journey...THE LOVERS, slim and transportive, is an invitation to join Yvonne on her journey. Its worth the trip. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)<br /><br />A wise and generous book. (Aleksandar Hemon, author of National Book Award Finalist THE LAZARUS PROJECT)<br /><br />A languorous meditation on how accidents of fate shape a life. (Vogue)<br /><br />A captivating account of a woman seeking escape and discovering emotional clarity...THE LOVERS is both a meditation on grieving and a gripping page-turner. (The Daily Beast)<br /><br />A beautiful, complex journey....Ideal for book clubs...its filled with rich, luminous prose, and its deceptively delicate plot and pacing provide ample topics for discussion. (Rating: 5 out of 5) (Carrie LaGree, Bookbrowse.com)<br /><br />Vidas rich imagery and deep, skillful dives into tangled emotions will keep you riveted. (Daily Candy Chicago)
zlib_text: > > KNOCKED UP BY THE BEAST
  
  > > A MAFIA ROMANCE
  
  > ARIA R. BLUE
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Aria R. Blue
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  Contains explicit love scenes and adult language. 18+
  
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   _For the good girls who dream of bad boys_
  
  > > “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
  
  > > > > > RUMI
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  > 1\. _Belle_
  
  > 2\. _Belle_
  
  > 3\. _Leo_
  
  > 4\. _Belle_
  
  > 5\.