Althea's Reading Corner

Title: Kids Cook Dinner Author: Deanna F. Cook Genre:  Cookbook Format: Kindle No. of Pages: 64 pages Date of Publication: August 30, 2022 Description:  It's kids' cooking night—and they’re in charge of making dinner! This selection of 25 easy, budget-friendly dinner recipes from the best-selling   Cooking Class   series teaches kids how to make tasty, healthy meals with easy-to-follow step-by-step photos. The recipes feature a range of kid favorites, including Popcorn Chicken, Easy Cheesy Quesadillas, Pasta with Tomatoes & Fresh Mozzarella, Black Beans & Rice, Pizza, Meatballs with Creamy Sauce, Super Sliders, and Supper Salad have been specially selected for their budget-friendliness (averaging $2 a serving) and use of easy-to-find pantry staples, as well as their nutritional value. With instructions on basic cooking skills, like chopping vegetables and stir-frying, grocery shopping, and kitchen safety,  Kids Cook Dinner  offers aspiring chefs age...

Title: Lady of Bones Author: Carolyn Haines Series: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Genre: Mystery & Thrillers Format: Kindle No. of Pages: 347 Date of Publication: June 14, 2022 Description:  Carolyn Haines's  Lady of Bones  is the next novel in the series that  Kirkus Reviews  characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets  the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. It’s Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie’s new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to refresh the cocktails when she hears a knock on the door and opens it to find a woman named Frankie, distraught at the disappearance of her daughter Christa, a young journalist. Christa had been investigating the disappearance of young women in New Orleans over a five-year period—one every year around Halloween. Now Christa herself is missing, and Frankie fears it may be connected to a cult based in the G...

Title: 214 Palmer Street Author: Karen McQuestion Narrator:  Stacey Glemboski Genre: Mystery & Thriller Format: Audiobook Listening length: 8 hours and 24 minutes   Date of Publication: April 6, 2022 Description:  A house with a secret. A woman with nothing to lose. When Maggie sees the beautiful Venetian blinds moving in the Caldwells’ front window, she freezes. Her favorite neighbours Cady and Josh are away, so who is in their house? The pretty young woman who answers the door tells a convincing story. She’s Sarah. The house-sitter. Just here for a month. An old friend of Cady’s who needed a place to stay. She’s pleasant and warm, and Maggie wanders back to her house thinking she might have made a new friend. Yet she can’t help but wonder why Cady never mentioned Sarah. What Maggie doesn’t know is that on the other side of the door, Sarah is starting to panic. No one was meant to see her at 214 Palmer Street… An unputdownable psychological thriller from number one b...

Title: Nothing to Hide Author: Allison Brennan Series: Lucy Kincaid Genre: Mystery, Suspense Format: Paperback No. of Pages: 410 Date of Publication: April 30, 2019 Description:  With a background in psychology, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is good at getting into the heads of killers and victims both. Still, her latest case is leaving her stumped. A third body has turned up in San Antonio—and it bears the same unique and troubling M.O. as the first two. The killer is clearly trying to send a message. But what is it—and to whom? All roads keep leading Lucy down a dead end. . . The victims are all married men who led honest lives alongside their adoring wives, but have nothing else in common. When Lucy catches each widow in a lie, she realizes that things are not at all as they seem. What begins as a seemingly straightforward investigation turns into something far darker and more sinister than Lucy could have ever imagined. Can she solve this case before more lives are lost. . . includ...