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: Just Haven't Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a reporter on her quest for a fairy tale love story in Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, RADIOLEX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Murder at an Irish Christmas by Carlene O'Connor
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for a murderer at a family holiday gathering in Carlene O’Connor’s Murder at an Irish Christmas.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the lives of a trio of ballerinas in The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, RADIOLEX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Christmas at the Restaurant by Pamela Kelley
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin returns to Nantucket for food and family in the audio edition of Pamela Kelley’s Christmas at the Restaurant.

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Sway with Me by Syed M. Masood
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows an awkward teen on a quest to find love in author Syed M. Masood’s Sway with Me.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Twas the Knife Before Christmas by Jacqueline Frost
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates a small-town murder during the holiday festivities with the audio edition of Jacqueline Frost’...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Return of the Pharaoh by Nicholas Meyer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to Egypt with a legendary detective and his faithful friend in Nicholas Meyer’s The Return of the P...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to the Cotswolds to visit a couple of booksellers on a quest to bring some holiday cheer to their t...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Game On by Janet Evanovich
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows along (at a safe distance) as a lovable bounty hunter and her friends chase an international hacker...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Party Crasher by Sophie Kinsella
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets to be a fly on the wall at a family bash when a young woman shows up uninvited and goes into hiding in...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: A Perfect Bind by Dorothy St. James
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a librarian in her quest to solve the mystery of a library parking lot murder in A Perfect Bind, the ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Restaurant by Pamela Kelley
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to Nantucket to follow three sisters in their quest to run their grandmother’s business in the audi...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Midnight Brigade by Adam Borba
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a trio of average kids as they discover something magical in The Midnight Brigade by Adam Borba.

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves in with a clever chimp and his trainers in Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle.

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Into the Lake by L. K. Chapman
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for answers about a tragic day long ago with the audio edition of Into the Lake by L. K. Chapman.

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets caught up in a small-town mystery with author Richard Chizmar’s Chasing the Boogeyman.

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: Half Dead by Brandon Graham
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin digs for clues with a detective, a journalist, and a man who believes he’s dead in the audio edition of Hal...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins two women in their hunt for a killer outside a small Canadian town in Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens.

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Hide and Seek by Emily Jenkins, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a group of magical misfits at an exclusive school in the audio edition of Hide and Seek by Emily Jenk...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin reunites with brilliant detective-in-the-making Stevie Bell to solve a decades-old mystery at a summer camp...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4

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