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: Catastrophe Queen by Emma Hart
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Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin starts a new job with a walking disaster in Emma Hart’s Catastrophe Queen.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin digs for clues in the Dewey Decimal System with a bunch of clever kids in Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from M...

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: Beach Read by Emily Henry
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves out to the lake with a blocked author in Emily Henry’s Beach Read.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Home Sweet Motel by Chris Grabenstein
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a couple of kids in their quest to save a quirky seaside motel in Chris Grabenstein’s Home Sweet Motel.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a desperate nanny on her quest to find a rich husband on 1960s Martha’s Vineyard in Summer Darlings...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Parental Guidance by Avery Flynn
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin teams romance with hockey in the audio edition of Avery Flynn’s Parental Guidance.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Logging Off by Nick Spalding
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes offline with an Internet addict in Nick Spalding’s Logging Off.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Kent State by Deborah Wiles
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin looks back on a tragic moment in history with author Deborah Wiles’s Kent State.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin sets out on a dangerous quest with two adventurous siblings in the audio edition of Rick Riordan’s The Maze...

Bought by Harford Community Radio and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes the case with the new sheriff in town with A Bad Day for Sunshine, the first book in the new Sunshine...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Bunny Double, We're in Trouble by Dan Gutman
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin hunts for candy with A.J. and his friends in the audio edition of Dan Gutman’s Bunny Double, We’re in Trouble.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on the road with a couple of bickering TV stars and their long-suffering assistants in Christina Laure...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin unpacks years of baggage with a grieving family in Sally Hepworth’s The Mother-in-Law.

Bought by WOUB, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Follow Me by Kathleen Barber
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the dark side of social media fame with Kathleen Barber’s Follow Me.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets caught up in the rage and revenge of author Hannah Capin’s Foul Is Fair.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WOUB


  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin battles monsters and fairy tale curses with an unlikely hero in Ursula Vernon’s Hamster Princess: Harriet t...

Bought by Harford Community Radio and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Been There, Married That by Gigi Levangie
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin braces herself for battle with a couple of soon-to-be Hollywood exes in Gigi Levangie’s Been There, Married...

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: Into the Fire by Gregg Hurwitz
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on another mission with The Nowhere Man in Gregg Hurwitz’s Into the Fire.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Oh, Valentine, We've Lost Our Minds! by Dan Gutman
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin sits in on a chaotic class with the audio edition of Dan Gutman’s Oh, Valentine, We’ve Lost Our Minds!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin closes in on a pair of killers from different decades with a teen sleuth in The Hand on the Wall, the final...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, GCR (Global Community Radio), WOUB, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4

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