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 follows a new bride’s search for the truth in Bride and Groom by Rona Halsall.

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.

630 Pieces

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Shelf Discovery: A Purely Private Matter by Darcie Wilde
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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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
Shelf Discovery: Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz
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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
Shelf Discovery: Dear Dwayne, With Love by Eliza Gordon
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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
Shelf Discovery: The Running Girl by Sara Blaedel
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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
Shelf Discovery: Royal Wedding Disaster by Meg Cabot
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin dons her tiara for Meg Cabot's Royal Wedding Disaster.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Spin the Golden Light Bulb by Jackie Yeager
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes to camp with a team of young inventors in author Jackie Yeager's Spin the Golden Light Bulb.

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


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Sugar and Spice by Sarah Mlynowski
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin tries to outrun a kid-eating witch with a couple of adventurous siblings in Sarah Mlynwoski's Sugar and Spice.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: It Had to Be You by Keris Stainton
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a hopeless romantic on the quest to find the man of her dreams in It Had to Be You by Keris Stainton.

Bought by KKRN and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin curls up with real-life bedtime stories in Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli and Frances...

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


  • Added: Dec 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Death, Taxes, and a Shotgun Wedding by Diane Kelly
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On this week's Discovery, Kristin looks back on years of cases with an IRS agent in author Diane Kelly's twelfth and final Tara Holloway mystery, D...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The List by Patricia Forde
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the fight for language with author Patricia Forde's The List.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Ring in the New Year with Murder by Auralee Wallace
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin hunts a would-be killer at a small-town party in Ring in the New Year with Murder, the fourth Otter Lake My...

Bought by KKRN and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Mirror, Mirror by Cara Delevingne with Rowan Coleman
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin navigates the ups and downs of teenage life with three troubled bandmates in Mirror, Mirror by Cara Delevin...

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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Flunked by Jen Calonita
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin enrolls in school for fairy tale troublemakers in the audio edition of author Jen Calonita's Flunked.

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin battles a threatening neighbor with Dirk Kurbjuweit's Fear.

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Code Girls by Liza Mundy
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin meets a group of unsung war heroes in author Liza Mundy's Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Wome...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: Murder Over Mochas by Caroline Fardig
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin comes face to face with relationships past in Caroline Fardig's fifth Java Jive mystery, Murder Over Mochas.

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


  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets caught up in a modern take on a beloved classic in author Hillary Manton Lodge's Jane of Austin.

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


  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Genie in a Bottle by Sarah Mlynowski
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on a magic carpet ride with a couple of precocious young siblings in Sarah Mlynowski's Genie in a Bottle.

Bought by KKRN and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Ax to Grind by Tonya Kappes
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin digs up dirt with a small-town sheriff in author Tonya Kappes's third Kenni Lowry novel, Ax to Grind.

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


  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3

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