Orchids have a reputation as the divas of the plant world: fussy, difficult-to-grow plants that
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In Dinnie Doone's life, she moved home a dozen times. Then, without warning, she was snatched by total strangers & taken far away. Dinnie arrives in Switzerland & becomes a pupil at an international boarding school. Separated from her family, she starts a new life that's strange, frightening, beautiful & full of adventure. ...

Tells the story of how Michael Bloomberg created a media empire. Dismissed from Salomon Brothers in 1981, Bloomberg immediately took his money & acerbic personality & started Bloomberg LP. Bolstered by a $30 million investment from Merrill Lynch, the company & the man have been sprinting ahead of the pack ever since. ...

A hands-on visual guide to understanding & investing in an important & consistently safe investment vehicle Bloomberg Visual Guide to Municipal Bonds offers step-by-step guidance to the nature & diversity of municipal securities credit structures. ...

Everyone knows about the Bloomsbury Group & their influence on art & style, on literature, life & manners, even on psychology & economics. This title traces the connections from William Poel & the Elizabethan Stage Society in the late Nineteenth Century to the foundation of the Marlowe Dramatic Society in Cambridge in 1907. ...

Lydia Lopokova lived a remarkable life. Her vivacious personality propelled her to the top of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Through a combination of luck, determination & talent, Lydia became a star in Paris, a vaudeville favourite in America & the toast of Britain, & then married the world-renowned economist John Maynard Keynes. She was an immensely captivating, eccentric & irreverent personality. This is the story of her life. ...