Selection of 29 of the best articles which appeared during the first decade of publication of 'GRID', the quarterly Christian leadership letter published by World Vision Australia. Topics covered include careers in the church, enriching the church community, and the mission of the church. Editors are a Baptist pastor and World Vision administrator respectively.
A duke meets his match in the last place he'd ever expect in this charming Regency romance. Wrexham, Duke of Elsmore, is overrun by family obligations. With three sisters to escort about Town, a legion of cousins to look after, and aunties who insist he dance with every eligible young woman, he barely has time to manage his dukedom. When he finally carves out a moment to evaluate his family's finances, he learns that he -- and his sisters -- are on the verge of social catastrophe. Eleanora Hatfield has an uncanny knack for numbers, but she knows from experience that dealing with the peerage can only lead to problems. Though she wants nothing to do with any titled gentleman, she reluctantly agrees to help when Rex seeks aid from her employer. What starts out as an unwanted assignment soon leads to forbidden kisses and impossible longings. But with scandal haunting Ellie's past and looming in Rex's future, how can true love lead to anything but heartbreak? Includes the bonus story "The Lady in Red" by Kelly Bowen!
Enjoy the first three books in this bestselling Regency romance series about the highly unconventional Wentworth family. My One and Only DukeLondon banker Quinn Wentworth is facing execution. So when widowed and pregnant Jane Winston crosses his path, Quinn offers her marriage as a way to provide for her child. Neither thinks they'll actually have a future together, until Quinn is declared the long-lost heir to a dukedom-and set free. Are they doomed from the start or destined for a happily-ever-after? When a Duchess Says I DoDuncan Wentworth has vowed to never again try his hand at rescuing a damsel in distress-until he meets the beautiful, bewildering woman hiding in the woods of his estate. Widowed duchess Matilda Wakefield can't entrust Duncan with her secrets without embroiling him in her problems, but neither can she resist the honorable, brilliant man offering her his aid. Falling into Duncan's arms is a distraction Matilda can't afford-or they'll both pay the price. Forever and a DukeWrexham, Duke of Elsmore, is on the verge of social catastrophe. And as much as Eleanora Hatfield would like to avoid titled gentlemen, she has no way to refuse when the duke seeks her help. Only what starts as an unwanted assignment soon leads to forbidden kisses and impossible longings. But as Ellie begins to untangle the severity of Rex's plundered finances, the clearer it becomes their passion cannot lead to anything other than heartbreak.
The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton Delaval to Sir Charles Monck's austere Belsay and Norman Shaw's romantic Cragside. Monuments of a great industrial past, as well as a wealth of smaller buildings, such as bastle houses (peelhouses or stronghouses unique to the Border country), are all vividly described in this revised guide to Northumberland's architectural pleasures.
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