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: Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Inkwell Chronicles: The Ink of Elspet by J. D. Peabody
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Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on a magical mission with a pair of young siblings in The Ink of Elspet, the first Inkwell Chronicles ...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Take-Over Friend by Carol Dines
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins one teenager’s struggle to keep her own personality and her own life when her best friend moves in in...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin works toward a forgotten dream with a house cleaner turned author in the audio edition of The Messy Lives o...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin spends some time on the beach with three shop owners who are struggling with their relationships in the aud...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Happier Hour by Cassie Holmes, PhD
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin works to live her happiest life with help from Happier Hour by Cassie Holmes, PhD.

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Beach Party by Amy Sheppard
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates the murder of a young woman with a couple of true-crime podcasters in The Beach Party by Amy S...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The New Neighbor by Karen Cleveland
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a CIA analyst’s search for a spy within her tight-knit community in The New Neighbor by Karen Cleve...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Someone Else's Honeymoon by Phoebe MacLeod
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin finds reality TV romance with a heartbroken woman on vacation in Phoebe MacLeod’s Someone Else’s Honeymoon.

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Ambassador by Tom Fletcher
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a diplomat’s quest for answers after an activist is murdered at his embassy in Tom Fletcher’s The Amb...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a woman’s journey back into her dark past in the audio edition of An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher.

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Look Closer by David Ellis
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin digs into the seemingly perfect lives of a Chicago couple in Look Closer by David Ellis.

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes on a challenging mission with a no-nonsense bodyguard and her Hollywood heartthrob client in Katherin...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The It Girl by Ruth Ware
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin revisits an old murder case with a woman who’s been haunted by it for the last 10 years in Ruth Ware’s The ...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Dream On by Angie Hockman
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin spends summer in Cleveland with a young lawyer and the man of her dreams in Angie Hockman’s Dream On.

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  • Added: Jul 04, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Second Husband by Kate White
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a widow’s search for answers about her husband—and the one who came before him—in Kate White’s The ...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Half Sisters by Virginia Franken
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin reconnects with long-lost family in Virginia Franken’s Half Sisters.

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Attraction Distraction by Jenn McKinlay
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels the world in search of ancient artifacts and lost love in the audio edition of The Attraction Distr...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates murder in the library with an author and her new friends in The Woman in the Library by Sulari...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the women of a small town as they work together to help the wartime effort in author Jennifer Ryan’s ...

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  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3

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