Cuba is often perceived in starkly black & white terms
- either as the site of one of Latin Americas most successful revolutions
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When Dot Mc Cann playing with her pals decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's almost empty dustbin she overhears a conversation which could send one man to prison & the other to the gallows
- & suddenly finds herself in possession of stolen goods. Dot lives with her aunt & uncle the cuckoo in the nest abandoned to these relatives after her parents died. She feels very alone until she meets up with Corky who has run away from a London orphanage. They join forces with Emma whose jeweller's shop has been burgled & with Nick a handsome young newspaper reporter who is investigating the crime. The four of them begin a plot to catch the thieves. But Dot & Emma have been recognised & soon both are in very real danger... Set in Liverpool in the 1920s The Cuckoo Child is vintage Katie Flynn the beloved author of saga fiction with over two million books sold nationwide.
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When Elsie & Bert Jones move with their children Ann & Arthur to Candle Lane a modest street in Battersea they miss their comfortable house in Wimbledon. But the move is the right thing to do as it will enable Bert to finance his new removal business. They are a warm-hearted family & Elsie soon makes friends with her less fortunate neighbour Ruth & her daughter Sally. But before long Elsie realises that all is not well in the house next door... ...

Keep your enemies close your family less so... Last year Nat found herself with nowhere to live. She considered sleeping on the bus & washing in the rain but inevitably ended up on her parents doorstep. It was only for a month she assured them if that. She repeated this phrase a lot over the next six months while the housing market stagnated like a spoilt kids fish tank & her life followed suit. While her friends pursued normal adult lives Nat was taking packed lunches to gigs & being treated to lectures on Why Its Nice When All The Tins Face Forwards In The Cupboard. (So we can see what they all are at a glance!) Nat wouldnt say she & those like her were the real victims of the recession but it would be nice if you did. Then she would do a tiny brave smile. A book for anyone whos been forced back to the family nest parents who cant shake off their adult kids or anyone whos ever excused themselves from a family gathering for a quick scream into a pile of towels. ...

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However her brother has his doubts & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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Your customers want rock-solid bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they cant always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. The Cucumber Book dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people. Cucumber saves the day; its a testing communication & requirements tool
- all rolled into one. Well show you how to express your customers wild ideas as a set of clear executable specifications that everyone on the team can read. Youll learn how to feed those examples into Cucumber & let it guide your development. Youll build just the right code to keep your customers happy & not a line more. The first part of the book teaches you how to use the core features of Cucumber. Youll learn how to use Cucumbers Gherkin DSL to describe-- in plain language
- the behavior your customers want from the system. Youll learn how to write Ruby code that interprets those plain language specifications & checks them against your application. In Part 2 youll consolidate the knowledge you just gained with a worked example. Although it was born in the Ruby community you can use Cucumber to test almost any system from a simple shell script or a Perl script to enterprise PHP or a Java web application. In Part 3 youll find a selection of recipes for some of the most common situations youll encounter using Cucumber in the wild. Youll learn how to test Ajax-heavy web applications with Capybara & Selenium REST web services Ruby on Rails applications comm&-line applications legacy applications & lots more! Written by the creator of Cucumber & one of its most experienced users & contributors The Cucumber Book is an authoritative guide that will give you & your team all the knowledge you need to start using Cucumber with complete confidence. What You Need: Windows Mac OS X (with XCode) or Linux Ruby 1.9.2 & upwards

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You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have & in Cucumber Recipes well show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once youve mastered the basics this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical recipes youll test desktop web mobile & server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter & do it well. The Cucumber Book showed you how your team can work together to write executable specifications--documents that tell a clear story & also happen to be working test code. Well arm you with ready-rolled solutions to real-world problems: your tests will run faster read more clearly & work in any environment. Our first tips will help you fit Cucumber into your workflow. Powerful filters will tame tables full of test data transforming them into the format your application needs. Custom output formatters will generate reports for any occasion. Continuous Integration servers will run your Cucumber tests every time the code changes. Next youll find recipes tailored to the platform youre running on. Ever wanted to know how to test a Grails app from Cucumber? Need to put a Windows program through its paces? How about a mobile app running on Android or i OS? Well show you how to do all of these. Throughout the book youll see how to make Cucumber sing as you interoperate with different platforms languages & environments. From embedded circuits to Python & PHP web apps Cucumber has something for you. What You Need: Youll need basic working knowledge of Cucumber & Ruby. Individual recipes may have additional requirements; for example a recipe on Windows automation might pull in an open source GUI driver. Weve written the recipes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3 & 1.8.7 plus Cucumber 1.1.4. Other versions may work as well but these are the ones we test with. ...

Spot all the cuddly friends around the home in this fun & interactive book. The chunky index tabs make it easy to turn the pages & the shiny finish on every page is sure to engage little ones. A fun & interactive early learning book. With chunky tabs & a shiny finish on every page for children to touch & explore Children will love joining in with the catchy rhyming text ...

Dudley is so lovely & cuddly that his brothers & sisters just can't leave him alone
- even when he wants some time to himself.
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Fleeing from the evil Sir Philip Morton Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law. On the run to London he meets Kit & the two decide to stick together. But a chance discovery endangers their lives & soon Peter is deep in murderous plots secrets & even treason. Set in the turbulent days of Elizabeth I this classic story of danger & intrigue conjures up a world of mystery twists & turns & thrilling action. ...