During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.

Abridged from the Six-Volume Classic by Michael Cathcart

Not happy, John, with the way: bull; you snuck us into the Iraq war without ever really telling us why bull; you trample on our democratic right to know bull; you'd like to give the Media Moguls control of ALL our news bull; a Big Donation lets Big Business share a barbecue with you and George W. bull; you let President Bush ambush OUR Parliament - and then let President Hu roll us all over again, the next day bull; you use 'glo balisation' to avoid accountability bull; you treat us as passive consumers - not as CITIZENS and people of goodwill. Margo Kingston, one of Australia's most fearless political journalists, thinks it's crunch time for Australia. Not Happy, John! is a gutsy, anecdotal book with a deadly serious purpose: to lay bare the insidious ways in which John Howard's government has profoundly undermined our freedoms and our rights.

Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. & lt;br/ & gt;The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan - it's The Family Frying Pan, blessed with a Russian soul. & lt;br/ & gt;From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travelling with her across Russia to freedom. In return, each of the group must tell a story around the campfire at night - stories of compassion and bravery, of human frailty and, above all, of hope.

'This is the story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of our country from the beginning until we came of age as a nation.'

The traditional Aussie jokes told in pubs and cabs now compete with global jokes. it's Dad 'n' Dave versus Monica Lewinsky.

This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with simple honesty, compassion and courage. A parentless boy who started work at eight on the rough West Australian frontier, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss of his farm in the Depression, the death of his son in World War II and that of his beloved wife after 60 devoted years - yet felt that his life was fortunate. Facey's life story, published when he was 87, has inspired many as a play, a television series, and an award-winning book.