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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Haley Hill |Holly Gramazio |Anna Akbari |Oyinkan Braithwaite
While being single has taught me many things, so far my main takeaway has honestly been that dating is actually just that absurd. From spending a first date at a grandfather’s funeral to being strung along by someone who left to pursue a passion for puppeteering, I’ve had my fair share of strange encounters with potential soulmates.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Rupert Holmes |Holly Gramazio |Kira Peikoff |Kimberly Baer
In the near future, scientists have figured out how to create eggs and sperm from any bodily cell. Now there’s an illegal market devoted to stealing celebrities’ DNA so fans can have their babies. This imaginative premise piqued my interest, and a series of well-paced plot developments kept me turning pages. The perspective shifts smoothly among three protagonists, allowing readers to explore this intriguing scenario from multiple perspectives.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Jenny Holiday |Holly Gramazio |Ali Hazelwood |Julia Alvarez
Books always provide excellent company — it’s a fact! Whether your upcoming weekend plans include a long travel day, a sunny beach trip, or just a weekend spent relaxing in the shade with a cold glass of lemonade, a good book is sure to deliver top-notch entertainment. Here, FIRST Book Club (aka FFW Book Club) has gathered a variety of recommendations for the week of July 19 to August 1. From historical romance to family saga, magical realism and more, we have something for everyone.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
itsonlyzach.substack.com | Percival L. Everett |Holly Gramazio |Zach Wilcha
If I absolutely must vacation in the summer, I try to plan on avoiding the heat. So, this year my husband and I traveled to various locales in South America, literally hauling off to a different hemisphere to beat the heat/humidity and visit places we’d never been, and the vacation turned out to be more bookish than usual. I always visit bookstores wherever I go even if I don’t speak the language well because foreign countries seem to have a lot of fun with book culture.
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May 31, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Lynn Rosen |Holly Gramazio |Ruth Reichl |Rebecca Serle
Summer Reading: Philadelphia Edition Bookseller Lynn loves her hometown of Philly, PA for so many reasons. The food, the people, the culture — and most importantly, the reading. If you’re looking to get a taste of what the City of Brotherly Love is looking forward to reading this summer, check out Lynn’s excellent recommendations below. — Isabelle McConvilleFrom Bookseller Lynn R. I lived in New York for years and then went home to Philadelphia.
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May 30, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Holly Gramazio
Narrator Miranda Raison immerses listeners in this intriguing speculative audiobook. Lauren, a single 31-year-old British woman, comes home from a party to discover she has a husband waiting for her in her apartment. When he goes off to change a light bulb in the attic, he is replaced by another man. This cycle continues for months as Lauren tries out short and long-term relationships, discarding the men who feel wrong for her.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Holly Gramazio
Debut author Holly Gramazio asks “How many husbands does one woman need?” in the aptly named THE HUSBANDS, a wildly inventive work of contemporary fiction in which a simple question becomes a dizzyingly broad array of options, lifelines and futures.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
people.com | Holly Gramazio
Holly Gramazio and 'The Husbands' . Photo: Diana Patient; Doubleday I was always that kid in the playground who climbed onto benches and tried to convince everyone to join in on the new game that she’d just made up. Or who actually read the full Monopoly rules and wanted to follow them to the letter. Or who raced through schoolwork in order to get time in the computer lab, in order to play one of the four games that my school’s computers had available.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
calgaryherald.com | Jane Philpott |Leigh Bardugo |Holly Gramazio |Elsie Silver
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Holly Gramazio |Chris Hewitt
The HusbandsBy Holly Gramazio; Doubleday (336 pages, $29)Some say a good marriage is when you wake up and choose your spouse again, every day, a truism a Londoner named Lauren repeatedly puts to the test in Holly Gramazio's rollicking "The Husbands."As the book opens, a tipsy Lauren is returning home from a bash when she encounters a strange man in her apartment, claiming to be her husband. One problem? She's not married. Hundreds more problems?
