Shelf Discovery

Series produced by Kristin Dreyer Kramer

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Each week on Shelf Discovery, host Kristin Dreyer Kramer offers listeners a brief look inside the pages of a new book. From mysteries to memoirs, classics to chick lit, busy readers are sure to find plenty of picks to add to their shelves. On this week's show, Kristin boards the train with a struggling mystery writer in the audio edition of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson.

Shelf Discovery is a three-minute weekly feature, dedicated to helping busy readers wade through the shelves and shelves of options to discover books that are worth their often limited reading time.

The show is hosted by Kristin Dreyer Kramer, frantic reader, lover of all things entertainment, and editor-in-chief of NightsAndWeekends.com.

Please feel free to send questions, comments, or suggestions to Books@ShelfDiscovery.org.

626 Pieces

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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the unexplained with a team of scientists in author Michael McBride's second Unit 51 thriller, For...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Harford Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), Enchantment Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves into a sleepy Danish village with a spirited little girl in When Mischief Came to Town by Katrina Nan...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), Enchantment Radio, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins four friends on a journey through a literary classic with Sarah Mlynowski's Abby in Wonderland.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, Enchantment Radio, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates the death of the maid of honor with Erica Bloom in Auralee Wallace's fifth Otter Lake Mystery,...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin spends the summer on a food truck with author Maurene Goo's The Way You Make Me Feel.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels through time with a tangled web of family and friends in Rebekah Frumkin's The Comedown.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the history of a hero in training with the audio edition of John David Anderson's Sidekicked.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin races through Turkey with a targeted intern in Liar's Candle by August Thomas.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Harford Community Radio, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin starts a middle school revolution with a couple of clever young girls in Nothing But Trouble by Jacqueline ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, and KKRN


  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin spells her way to stardom with timid young India Wimple and her eccentric family in Deborah Abela’s The Stu...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin commiserates with a group of new moms in author Emma Robinson's The Undercover Mother.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin navigates the beginning of one marriage and the end of another in author Marilyn Simon Rothstein's Husbands...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KUPR low power FM, Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the battle against evil in the audio edition of author Marion Jensen's Almost Super.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KMXT, KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 6
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates the rich and influential in author Colin Watson's first Flaxborough Mystery, Coffin, Scarcely ...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin finds love at a wedding in author Jasmine Guillory's The Wedding Date.

Bought by KKRN, KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin lies her way into a Greek getaway with a struggling author in Lie with Me by Sabine Durrant.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KUPR low power FM, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin dons her best gloves to dig for clues in the Darcie Wilde’s second Rosalind Thorne Regency mystery, A Purel...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin teams up with the government assassin known as Orphan X in Gregg Hurwitz's Hellbent.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin falls in love with the romance, the hilarity, and the motivation of Eliza Gordon's Dear Dwayne, With Love.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin tries to save a hurting mother in Sara Blaedel's The Running Girl.

Bought by KKRN and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2