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: Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a teenager’s quest to find a place where she fits in Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Ale...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on the run with the former operative known as Orphan X in Gregg Hurwitz’s The Last Orphan.

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


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Feel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for a killer with Bernie Sanders and his intern in Feel the Bern.

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


  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Buck's Pantry by Khristin Wierman
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins three women as their lives are changed when they’re thrown together in a stressful situation in Buck’...

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


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Snap Out of It by Maddie Dawson
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a woman’s quest to save the heartbroken through performance art in Snap Out of It by Maddie Dawson.

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


  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets caught up in a story of business, family, and class for a powerful Indian family in Age of Vice by Dee...

Bought by RADIOLEX and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Regrets Only by Kieran Scott
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves to a wealthy small town where everyone is hiding a dark secret or two in Regrets Only by Kieran Scott.

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


  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to Italy—to a beautiful villa with a dark past—in the audio edition of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins.

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to England to solve a decades-old murder in Maureen Johnson’s latest Truly Devious mystery, Nine Li...

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a small-town sheriff for one last adventure in A Hard Day for a Hangover by Darynda Jones.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin celebrates the holidays with Hercule Poirot in the audio edition of Agatha Christie’s The Adventure of the ...

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


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a woman’s journey through recovery and self-discovery in Rachel Kapelke-Dale’s The Ingenue.

Bought by RADIOLEX and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Coffee Self-Talk by Kristen Helmstetter
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin learns about a new way to build confidence and start the day off right in Kristen Helmstetter’s Coffee Self...

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


  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Egypt's Fire (The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves #1) by Tom Phillips
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins an adventurous orphan and his detective guardian on a quest to find a thief in Egypt’s Fire, the firs...

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


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for answers to a college kid’s death in the audio edition of The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett.

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


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Prisoner by B. A. Paris
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin fights for survival with a kidnapped young woman in the audio edition of The Prisoner by B. A. Paris.

Bought by RADIOLEX and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: And Justice for Mall by E. J. Copperman
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes an unusual case with a Jersey girl turned Hollywood lawyer in And Justice for Mall, the fourth Jersey...

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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin uncovers a neighborhood full of secrets in the audio edition of On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass.

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin returns home for a deadly holiday scavenger hunt in The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict.

Bought by RADIOLEX and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets a healthy dose of holiday humor and romance with a little help from the Holiday Spirit in Just Like Ma...

Bought by RADIOLEX and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2

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