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The Orchid Whisperer

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Expert Secrets for Growing Beautiful Orchids

Orchids can bloom year after year. In this essential guide, Bruce Rogers, The Orchid Whisperer, shares his expert tips from more than three decades of breeding and growing orchids. The book demystifies the growing process and features more than 100 lush color photographs of breathtaking plants. Best of all, it reveals professional secrets not found anywhere else for blooming, repotting, spotting hazards and pests, grooming, decorating, and much more. Perfect for beginners as well as orchid experts looking for new tricks, The Orchid Whisperer provides everything readers need to know to keep healthy orchids that will flower again and again!

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Amazon Best Books and Amazon Editor’s Picks, May, 2012
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From American Orchid Society magazine

The Orchid Whisperer is an eminently intelligent and attractive book for beginning orchid growers. Rogers’ language is engaging and humorous, and strikes the right balance between being easy to read and needing a science degree to understand. He presents plenty of easy-to-understand advice to get novice growers on the road to success. Rogers even adds a chapter on decorating with orchids to challenge even experienced growers.

The Orchid Whisperer is one to put on the holiday list for novice orchidists.

— Sue Volek, Oregon Orchid Society

From NZ Gardener, New Zealand

If you’re only kinda into orchids, this book will turn you into an ardent collector. It’s jam-packed with wisdom about orchids by an expert grower. The information is clear, concise and easy to assimilate, from where to find the best bargains, to how to help your orchid survive the ride home in your car (I’d estimated that 10 per cent of orchids bought by novices never make it home alive and another 10 per cent suffer significant damage”). As well as tips on growing orchids, you’ll find out which are the best rooms in the house to grow them, how to care for them while you’re away, and more. This is a likeable, intelligent read.

–Barb Rogers

From the Author

I hope you enjoy your journey into the orchid world.

About the Author

Bruce Rogers has more than 30 years of experience as an orchid grower and consultant. A member of the Advisory Council at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, he lives in San Francisco.

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Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis

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How to Manage Stress and Live Well with Your New Health Condition 

An inspiring and empowering guide to changing your mindset, feeling better, and living a full life after receiving a troubling diagnosis.
Discussing everything from diet and exercise to stress and emotion management, Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis provides tools readers can use immediately to help them feel better while living with a diagnosis. Written by a master certified mindset coach who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, readers won’t find negative, scary stories about how a diagnosis will hurt them. Instead, they will find stories of bravery, wellness, support, and detailed steps on how they too can live their life—not their diagnosis.
Praise for Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis
“Powerful and empowering. Hanson shares a fresh, brand new, systemic guide to reframing one’s perspective and living with a difficult diagnosis.” —Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, Founder and Chief Director, Center for BrainHealth, distinguished University Professor, author of Make Your Brain Smarter
“A spectacular book. . . . The lessons [Andrea] teaches and the exercises she provides will help anyone who is struggling with any type of medical diagnosis or challenge.” —Brooke Castillo, Master Certified Coach and Founder of The Life Coach School
“A true guide on how to listen to our bodies, connect to them, nurture ourselves, and understand the power of our mindset. . . . A must-read for anyone diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Love it!” —Katherine Treadway, LCSW, MSCIR, CRND

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Mayo Clinic Guide to Arthritis

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A guide to living well with this common—and complex—condition from”one of the most reliable, respected health resources that Americans have” (Publishers Weekly).
 
From the doctors at Mayo Clinic—the top-ranked hospital in the country according to US News & World Report—this book is a complete guide to understanding and living with arthritis. Find the latest expertise on various forms of arthritis, medications and other treatment options, and self-care to successfully manage joint pain and stay active and independent.
 
If you have joint pain, you know it can lead to frustrating limitations in daily life. In fact, this complex group of joint diseases—osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and many other forms—is the most common cause of disability in the United States. But living with it doesn’t have to mean sitting on the sidelines. This book offers the same expert knowledge that Mayo Clinic doctors, nurses and therapists use in caring for patients. Mayo Clinic Guide to Arthritis:
 
• Breaks down different forms of arthritis and joint pain to help you understand their causes, their signs and symptoms, and what each may mean for your health
• Explores the latest in arthritis treatments, including new medications to slow or stop the disease, improved options for joint surgery, joint injections, and evidence-based guidance on pain control and integrative medicine
• Provides practical tips for living with arthritis while exercising, traveling, or working
• Offers useful advice on diet, mental health, and protecting your joints

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You Are Old

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Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life

Did you suddenly wake up and realize you are old? How did this happen? Where did all your youthful health, energy, and beauty go? And what can you do to recapture it and revitalize your life? Nothing. You’re old.

From the New York Times best-selling authors of You Are Worthless and Just Give Up comes a new book. This book is even less inspiring for those past their prime. One of Scott Dikker’s most hilarious creations, Dr. Oswalt T. Pratt is a sad and seriously inept marriage and family counselor barely holding on to his rapidly retreating 40s. And he’s out of shape, too. So he knows the pain of growing old. In You Are Old, he offers steaming buckets of wisdom. These are crafted especially for those wracked with memory loss. They also help with other aged infirmities.

* Dating after 40: good luck with that.

* Ear hair: how did you get so much of it?

* You’re past your prime. Your best days are behind you. You’re over the hill. Your body doesn’t bounce back like it used to. It’s starting to hurt a lot. Your back hurts, your neck hurts. Your knees hurt. You’re arthritic. You have rheumatoid arthritis, chronic pain syndrome, Bursitis, shingles, hives, cataracts and ringworm. You’re starting to sag, wrinkle, dry out and develop spots.

* It’s your choice: learn to navigate our serpentine, Rube Goldbergian healthcare system, or just give up and die.

* Today is the first day of the end of your life.

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The Bridesmaids

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True Tales of Love, Envy, Loyalty . . . and Terrible Dresses (Picador True Tales)

“An entertaining beach read… [and] a nice way to provide your besties with reading material for the bachelorette weekend.”—Lauren Conrad

WHAT DO A FORMER FASHION MODEL, AN EX-NUN, AND A FRAT BOY HAVE IN COMMON? VIRTUALLY NOTHING, EXCEPT THAT EACH HAS EXPERIENCED A UNIVERSAL RITE OF PASSAGE: BEING A BRIDESMAID.
Each year 11 million bridesmaids lead their best friends down the aisle. Most wear matching dresses, and nearly all have a thing or two to say about the bride. In this uproarious oral history, editor and journalist Eimear Lynch provides us with an intimate glimpse. She shares moments the wedding photographer failed to capture.
The story goes from the accidental bridesmaid who helped sew the bride into her “designer” gown. Then it moves to the tomboy who struggled to carry Princess Diana’s twenty-five foot train. The Bridesmaids lifts the veil on the Big Day. Eimear begins by sharing her experiences as a five-time ‘maid. She provides stories that are heartfelt, funny, and scandalous. Some stories are downright strange. An ode to the good, the bad, the strapless chiffon, and the occasional three-piece suit. Above all, it celebrates the supporting actresses and actors who wore them. The Bridesmaids is a colorful walk down the aisle that you won’t want to miss. It’s the perfect companion for every bridesmaid-to-be.

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