Posts Categorized: Books

Daisy in the Doghouse is a Sweet, Funny Novel About Post-Millennial Family Life and Social Anarchy

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Joe Barrett’s second novel, Daisy in the Doghouse, is a story about the normal, day-to-day parental challenges associated with using your pre-teen children to instigate social anarchy. What happens when an ex-CEO, frustrated with the unfairness of the American financial system, hijacks his twelve-year-old daughter’s blog to try and change things from the bottom up? … Read more »

Bethel College Selects Akademos’ Full-Service Online Platform To Manage Course Materials & Support Textbook Buyback

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Beginning Fall 2019, Bethel College students and faculty will have access to an expanded selection of low-cost textbooks and course materials along with a personalized, 24×7 online shopping experience. By leveraging the new Akademos course materials platform, the Bethel community will benefit from a more transparent, convenient, and cost-effective solution to manage physical and digital… Read more »

Night Picnic Journal Launches to Give Fantastical Sustenance to Readers and Creators Alike

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Setting up shop where fiction and poetry intersect, a new literary journal has launched to showcase authenticity in literature and art.  Created by educators with a no-politics approach, Night Picnic Journal speaks as much about co-existence as it does about multidimensional metaphysics.  Eager to publish writers from all walks of life, the journal is a… Read more »

Sakura Nobeyama’s The Watanabe Name Has a Dark Family Secret Worth Dying For

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In 2002, Kenji Watanabe, venerable Japanese business tycoon, receives the call he has dreaded for years. While not unexpected, he had hoped the questions would never come. A detective has been asked to reopen the investigation into his father’s murder in 1967. Unlike the detective, Kenji knows, has always known, who killed his father –… Read more »