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 desperate woman’s quest to hunt down a criminal to save her family in the audio edition of The New Bad Thing by Michael Ebner.

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.

633 Pieces

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Shelf Discovery: Choose Your Own Misery: The Holidays by Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin makes some difficult choices in Choose Your Own Misery: The Holidays by Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon.

Bought by KKRN, WMUU-LP, and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves into an eerie apartment with the Japanese thriller The Graveyard Apartment by author Mariko Koike.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: I Do...or Do I? by Karen King
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets cold feet with the stressed-out bride in Karen King's I Do...or Do I?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Rains by Gregg Hurwitz
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes into hiding with the daring kids in author Gregg Hurwitz's The Rains.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: First Light by Bill Rancic
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the quest for survival with the plane crash survivors in author Bill Rancic's First Light.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Things I Want to Punch in the Face by Jennifer Worick
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin looks for laughs in Jennifer Worick's blog-turned-audiobook, Things I Want to Punch in the Face.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Fat Fridays by Judith Keim
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin dines with the girls in Judith Keim's Fat Fridays.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Fat Man by Ken Harmon
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to Kringle Town for a hard-boiled holiday whodunit, Ken Harmon's The Fat Man.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Bad Hair Day by Sarah Mlynowski
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin climbs Rapunzel's tower with two lovable young heroes in Sarah Mlynowski's Bad Hair Day.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin finds art an love in Italy with Katherine Reay's A Portrait of Emily Price.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Above the Paw by Diane Kelly
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes back to school with a cop and her K-9 in Diane Kelly's Above the Paw.

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Shivers!: The Pirate Who's Afraid of Everything by Annabeth Bondor-Stone
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin sets sail with a scaredy-pirate in Annabeth Bondor-Stone's Shivers!: The Pirate Who's Afraid of Everything.

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


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Mad Love by Nick Spalding
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a highly-publicized marriage between two feuding strangers in Nick Spalding's Mad Love.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKWE Niijii Radio, WMUU-LP, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin journeys into the desert with a couple of haunted heroes in Derek B. Miller's The Girl in Green.

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


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes in search of a missing girl with Chelsea Sedoti's The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKWE Niijii Radio, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Cold as Ice by Sarah Mlynowski
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to the world of the Snow Queen with the audio edition of Sarah Mlynowski's Cold as Ice.

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


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Nowhere Man by Gregg Hurwitz
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin battles more bad guys with shadowy hero Evan Smoak in Gregg Hurwitz's The Nowhere Man.

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


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Sherlock Sam and the Sinister Letters in Bras Basah by A. J. Low
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin hunts for clues with a clever boy and his trusty robot in A. J. Low's Sherlock Sam and the Sinister Letters...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKWE Niijii Radio, WMUU-LP, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: The Young Wives Club by Julie Pennell
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the challenges of young love with the four characters in Julie Pennell's The Young Wives Club.

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Sticks & Stones by Emily Jenkins, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes back to school with the kids in the Upside-Down Magic class in Sticks & Stones by Emily Jenkins, Sarah...

Bought by KKRN and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2

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