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 back to the early days of movies to meet 12 influential women in The Women Who Built Hollywood by Susan Goldman Rubin.

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.

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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 GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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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
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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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

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