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Getting Old Will Haunt You

By: Rita Lakin

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Gladdy Gold and Associates are tasked with proving a deadly fishing accident was more than it appears in this hilarious cozy mystery. Restless after having no new cases for months and with their partners away on a safari, when a call comes through about a seemingly straightforward case in the Florida Keys, the girls accept the job no questions asked in hope of some excitement. Arriving at their destination they discover the case revolves around a man who’s been killed – speared through the stomach by a marlin as he was taking a selfie. All involved are adamant it was simply a bizarre fishing accident, except for the Wassingers, a dithering couple at risk of losing their family home due to the death. It turns out the reason the Wassingers are convinced of foul play is because they have a witness. Unfortunately for Gladdy and the team, the witness is other-worldly . . .

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1448301882

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The Only Woman in the Room

Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer

By: Rita Lakin

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The Only Woman in the Room

Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer

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(Applause Books). Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings she was literally "the only woman in the room." In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table. Widowed with three young children, she talked herself into a secretarial job at Universal Studios in 1962, despite being unable to type or take dictation. With guts, skill, and humor, she rose from secretary to freelancer, to staff writer, to producer, to executive producer and showrunner, meeting hundreds of famous and infamous show biz legends along the way during her long and unexpected career. She introduced many women into the business and was a feminist before she even knew she was one. The general public did not know her name, but Lakin touched the lives of millions of viewers week after week, year after year. The relevance of her personal journey charming yet occasionally shocking will be an eye-opener to present-day who take for granted the abundance of female creative talent in today's Hollywood.

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1495050459

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Getting Old Can Hurt You

By: Rita Lakin

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Getting Old Can Hurt You

By: Rita Lakin

The unexpected arrival of a long-lost granddaughter leads to mystery and mayhem in the thoroughly entertaining new Gladdy Gold mystery. Life in sunny Fort Lauderdale's Lanai Gardens is about to be turned upside-down. Ida’s long lost granddaughter, Tori, gatecrashes the ladies’ deli lunch, demanding protection from men she insists are out to kill her. Determined to assist Ida and her granddaughter, Gladdy Gold’s Detective Agency is on the case. But the stubborn and resentful Tori is not easy to help, she’s secretive and regularly sneaks off to the puzzlement of Gladdy and her girls. A whole host of family secrets leave a grudge heavy in the air between Tori and Ida, but will Gladdy’s gals be able to reunite Ida and Tori in time to figure out who the sinister men chasing Tori are?

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1780109881

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Getting Old is to Die For

By: Rita Lakin

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Getting Old is to Die For

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Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she’s loving every minute of it. Between poolside gossip, a hot-to-trot boyfriend, and a booming detective business, life couldn’t be sunnier—until a trip back north with her sister Evvie leads to murder and mayhem starring the usual suspects. Unbeknownst to Gladdy, her fellow detectives are hot on her trail. Sophie, Bella, and Ida no sooner land their tootsies in the Big Apple than trouble promptly finds them. But while the girls go deep undercover, posing as bag ladies to catch a criminal, there’s another surprise awaiting Gladdy. Her boyfriend, Jack, is in town too—and he’s reopening a forty-seven-year-old cold case: the murder of Gladdy’s husband. Can Gladdy and Jack join forces to solve a decades-old crime—and maybe heal some wounded hearts in the process? From the Paperback edition.

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Getting Old Can Kill You

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Getting Old Can Kill You

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Gladdy Gold Mystery #7 “The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and creative ways...colorful and Meshugeneh.”—Mystery Scene Life isn’t always sunny in Florida! Back from her blissful honeymoon with her longtime beau, Jack Langford, Gladdy Gold thinks it would be perfect for Jack, an ex-cop, to join her detective agency. But Gladdy’s gals say no dice and soon, Ida, Sophie, and Bella are taking classes to be real PIs on their own. Soon enough, there’s plenty of trouble to go around when sultry Joyce Steiner reopens an old rivalry with Arlene Simon, whose husband ran off with Joyce fifty-five years earlier. And when Joyce is murdered, Arlene is the prime suspect. Gladdy and her girls will have to reunite if they’re going to get to the truth...if it doesn’t kill them first!! "Ms. Lakin pens an entertaining cozy mystery series with a set of lovable and oddball characters. The mystery has a puzzling plot with twists and turns that will surprise readers at the outcome. Retirement takes on a new meaning after spending time with Gladdy and her gladiators! Gladdy Gold and her screwball bunch of gladiators are out to solve another hilarious case." –Fresh Fiction “This is a wonderful series for cozy-lovers of all persuasions.” –Mystery Lovers “Rita Lakin’s delightful series featuring senior sleuth Gladdy Gold and her posse of kibitzing friends continues . . . full of humor and heart.” –Mystery Scene

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1943772495

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Getting Old is a Disaster

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Gladdy Gold Mystery #5 “The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and creative ways...colorful and Meshugeneh.”—Mystery Scene After schlepping all over New York City, senior PI Gladdy Gold is happy to be back on Florida turf. Especially now that she and Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner has the yenta brigade gotten back to their favorite routines, such as poolside stretching and kvetching—than the notorious outlaw, the “Grandpa Bandit,” issues Gladdy’s detective agency a direct challenge: Catch me if you can. The dapper thief has hit six Fort Lauderdate banks and it’s up to Gladdy and the girls to stop him before he robs another. But a bandit takes a back burner to murder any day—especially when a monster hurricane reveals a 50-year-skeleton at Lanai Gardens retirement community. Gladdy and the gals are about to uncover a ruthless killer—if he doesn’t kill them first!! "Ms. Lakin pens an entertaining cozy mystery series with a set of lovable and oddball characters. The mystery has a puzzling plot with twists and turns that will surprise readers at the outcome. Retirement takes on a new meaning after spending time with Gladdy and her gladiators! Gladdy Gold and her screwball bunch of gladiators are out to solve another hilarious case." –Fresh Fiction “This is a wonderful series for cozy-lovers of all persuasions.” –Mystery Lovers “Rita Lakin’s delightful series featuring senior sleuth Gladdy Gold and her posse of kibitzing friends continues . . . full of humor and heart.” –Mystery Scene

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1943772487

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Getting Old Is Murder

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Getting Old Is Murder

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She’s not Miss Marple. Her friends are no Charlie’s Angels. Nevertheless, 75-year-old Gladdy Gold and her gang of eccentric Fort Lauderdale retirees are out, about, and hunting down a killer–one who is silently stalking them. Selma Beller was the first to go–but Gladdy and her neighbors never suspected murder until another of their friends died in an eerily similar way. Now a handsome young detective won’t listen to them, Hy Binder won’t stop telling them dirty jokes, and crazy old Greta Kronk is doing everything humanly possible to make herself into a suspect. But amid the endless rounds of poolside kibitzing, early-bird specials, bittersweet memories, and interminable grocery-shopping trips, Gladdy and her gals are about to discover how the murders are being committed. And when it comes to catching this culprit–time really is running out….

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Getting Old is Criminal

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Getting Old is Criminal

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Gladdy Gold Mystery #3 “The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and creative ways...colorful and Meshugeneh.”—Mystery Scene Gladdy Gold’s exotic vacation has reached a pinnacle: a romantic soak in a hot tub with the man she adores, far from Florida and her nosy neighbors...until an urgent message concerning the safety of her best friends sends her running home. Now, her idyll is ony a memory, her would-be-beau, Jack, is furious, and not only are the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency alive and well—they’re onto a hot new murder case. Is a suave senior Romeo to blame for the mysterious deaths in Florida’s most luxurious retirement communities? Gladdy and her silver squad of “gossip girls” must go undercover to find out—assuming many fancy airs as possible. But Gladdy’s drama queen sister, Evvie’s role of a Palm Beach flirt soon turns their fun and games deadly. For by the time the girls ID their perp, Evvie is in the arms of a killer. The mavens of meddling better find out fast!! “Twists worthy of Agatha Christie's archetypal dame detective, Miss Marple.” –Publishers Weekly “GETTING OLD IN CRIMINAL by Rita Lakin is outrageously funny and one of the best mysteries I've read in a long time. I hope Ms. Lakin keeps this series going.” Fresh Fiction “Rita Lakin’s delightful series featuring senior sleuth Gladdy Gold and her posse of kibitzing friends continues . . . full of humor and heart.” Mystery Scene

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1943772479

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Getting Old Is the Best Revenge

By: Rita Lakin

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Getting Old Is the Best Revenge

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“NEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!” That’s the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. Don’t laugh: having solved a case of serial murder, Gladdy and her eccentric neighbors are building their reputation between canasta games and pool exercises–hunting down everything from lost pocketbooks to missing octogenarians. And when a jealous woman sets them after her wayward husband, and a flasher strikes their retirement complex, two seemingly unrelated cases collide with a third: a series of dastardly murders targeting Florida’s wealthiest wives. But when the girls win tickets for a luxury bingo cruise, they hit the jackpot. Because this ship is carrying not only Florida’s fiercest bingo competitors but also a killer–and it’s up to Gladdy and her friends to stop him before one of them becomes his next victim….

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Getting Old is a Disaster

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The Only Woman in the Room

Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer

By: Rita Lakin

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Getting Old is Criminal

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Getting Old Is Murder

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Getting Old is Tres Dangereux

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Getting Old is Tres Dangereux

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Gladdy Gold Mystery #6 “The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and creative ways...colorful and Meshugeneh.”—Mystery Scene Senior sleuth, Gladdy Gold and her beau, Jack, are finally headed to the altar and life is simply perfect until a spontaneous excursion brings a gorgeous Frenchwoman back into Jack’s life. Younger than Gladdy, she still has eyes only for Jack and can’t see the danger her glamours undercover work and books have put her in. Gladdy may wish she was dead, but solving who’s behind the threat will be the right thing to do—and get Miss France back on the plane besides! The game’s afoot! Gladdy Gold finds out that she has a competitor wanting to steal Jack Langford away from her. She's a gorgeous younger redhead from France. Not only that, but there is a killer wanting to murder the Frenchwoman, and Jack is the only one who can save her. Thrills and chills. Don't miss it! "Ms. Lakin pens an entertaining cozy mystery series with a set of lovable and oddball characters. The mystery has a puzzling plot with twists and turns that will surprise readers at the outcome. Retirement takes on a new meaning after spending time with Gladdy and her gladiators! Gladdy Gold and her screwball bunch of gladiators are out to solve another hilarious case." –Fresh Fiction “This is a wonderful series for cozy-lovers of all persuasions.” –Mystery Lovers “Rita Lakin’s delightful series featuring senior sleuth Gladdy Gold and her posse of kibitzing friends continues . . . full of humor and heart.” –Mystery Scene

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Getting Old is Tres Dangereux

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Getting Old is to Die For

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Getting Old Can Kill You

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Getting Old Is the Best Revenge

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Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

By: Rita Wicks-Nelson

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Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

By: Rita Wicks-Nelson

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology with DSM-5 Updates, 8/e presents students with a comprehensive, research-based introduction to understanding child and adolescent psychopathology. The authors provide a logically formatted and easy to understand text that covers the central issues and theoretical and methodological foundations of childhood behavior disorders. Rich with illustrations and examples, this text highlights the newest areas of research and clinical work, stressing supported treatments and the prevention of behavior problems of youth.

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Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

By: Allen C. Israel,Jennifer Weil Malatras,Rita Wicks-Nelson

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Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

By: Allen C. Israel,Jennifer Weil Malatras,Rita Wicks-Nelson

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It covers theoretical and methodological foundations and examines the characteristics, epidemiology, etiology, developmental course, assessment, and treatment of disorders of childhood and adolescence. At the heart of the text is the partnership of the developmental psychopathology perspective, which analyzes problems of youth within a developmental context, and a traditional clinical/disorder approach, which underscores the symptoms, causes, and treatments of disorders. Woven throughout the text is the view that behavior stems from the continuous interaction of multiple influences, that the problems of the young are intricately tied to their social and cultural contexts, and that empirical approaches and the scientific method provide the best avenue for understanding the complexity of human behavior. This edition explores the latest areas of research and tackles important contemporary topics, including: how to best classify and diagnose problems the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework the roles of genetics and early brain development and their interaction with the environment the complex roles of family and peers; sex/gender; and culture, ethnicity, and race in psychopathology progress in early intervention and prevention improvements in accessibility and dissemination of evidence-based treatments social issues such as poverty, child maltreatment, substance use, bullying/victimization, and terrorism and war This edition also features a new full-color design and over 200 color figures, tables, and photos. The text is written in a clear and engaging style and is approachable for students with varying academic backgrounds and experiences. It is rich in case descriptions that allow students to examine problems through the lens of youth and their families. The "Accent" boxes foster discussion of current interest topics such as infant mental health, scientific evidence regarding vaccines and autism, suicidality in sexual minority youth, and the impact of stigmatization. The "Looking Forward" sections focus students’ attention on the central concepts to be addressed, while the "Looking Back" sections provide students with a synopsis of the chapter for further study and reflection. The text is also supplemented with online resources for students and instructors.

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1000198367

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Harlequin Intrigue September 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Rachel Lee,Rita Herron,Tyler Anne Snell

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Harlequin Intrigue September 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Rachel Lee,Rita Herron,Tyler Anne Snell

Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. CONARD COUNTY: HARD PROOF Conard County: The Next Generation by Rachel Lee Former soldier and newbie deputy Candela “Candy” Serrano is assigned as a liaison to Steve Hawks, the host of TV’s Ghostly Encounters. Chasing shadows isn’t Candy’s idea of police work, but soon some very real killings start occurring around town… PROTECTIVE ORDER A Badge of Honor Mystery by Rita Herron Reese Taggart’s search for her sister’s stalker lands her in Whistler, NC, where she must win the trust of arson investigator Griff Maverick. But as the pair close in on the criminal, can Griff stop Reese from using herself as bait? LAST STAND SHERIFF Winding Road Redemption by Tyler Anne Snell Soon after Remi Hudson tells Sheriff Declan Nash he’s going to be a dad, Remi becomes the target of repeated attacks. Declan will do anything to keep her and their unborn baby safe, especially once he realizes the danger is related to an unsolved case involving his family. Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s September 2020 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue!

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