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 travels to Hawaii with a single girl who’s desperate to find an impressive date for her sister’s wedding in The Suite Life by Portia MacIntosh.

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.

629 Pieces

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Shelf Discovery: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a portrait painter as she adjusts to a new way of seeing her subjects in Hello Stranger by Katherine ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 10, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Better Half by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a middle-aged woman as life takes her through some unexpected twists in The Better Half by Alli Fra...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a mom-to-be in reminiscing about her turbulent early 20s in The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WUTC


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows one woman’s fight for freedom in The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to the Greek Islands as a young woman reminisces about a life-changing summer in The Girls of Summe...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: Hot Pot Murder by Jennifer J. Chow
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for a killer with a food stand owner and her cousin in Hot Pot Murder by Jennifer J. Chow.

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Women Who Built Hollywood by Susan Goldman Rubin
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels back to the early days of movies to meet 12 influential women in The Women Who Built Hollywood by S...

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores life in an eerily utopian community in The Ferryman by Justin Cronin.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a romance author’s quest to find love on TV in The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Last Word by Katy Birchall
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes to work with two bickering coworkers with a past in The Last Word by Katy Birchall.

Bought by WRMU and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Swamp Story by Dave Barry
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin ventures into the Everglades with a motley group of misfits in Swamp Story by Dave Barry.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: French Holiday by Sarah Ready
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a brokenhearted young woman as she escapes to France in French Holiday by Sarah Ready.

Bought by RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, WRMU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for love and truth after tragedy strikes two very different couples in The Soulmate by Sally Hepwo...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the ugly side of the quest for beauty in Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: I'll Stop the World by Lauren Thoman
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin finds herself back in the ‘80s, on a quest to stop a tragedy, in Lauren Thoman’s I’ll Stop the World.

Bought by RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WRMU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Jacky Ha-Ha by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin laughs along with a 12-year-old comic in the audio edition of Jacky Ha-Ha by James Patterson and Chris Grab...

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Syndicate Spy by Brittany Butler
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the fight to keep the world’s energy sources out of the wrong hands in The Syndicate Spy, the first J...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Deep Fake by Ward Larsen
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins an anxious wife on a quest to find answers that could be vital to national security in the audio edit...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Weyward by Emilia Hart
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows generations of women as they find strength and peace and power in a country cottage in Weyward by E...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Spite House by Johnny Compton
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves into a haunted house with a desperate family in The Spite House by Johnny Compton.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3

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