Marry Her Anyway

Kate and Brody met on a blind date. They're not hideous, just grew tired of the bar scene. After a whirlwind few months of dating, Brody asks Kate to marry him during a Milwaukee Admirals hockey game. Well, he didn't exactly ask...he was hit by an errant hockey puck as he was about to ask. Not exactly how he'd planned, it's just the way it worked out. On their way to visit Kate's parents for the first time, she recalls a family tradition. She tells Brody he must ask her father for permission to get married. A family tradition her father takes very seriously. 

            Brody doesn't share enthusiasm for the custom, but agrees to do it for Kate. When Kate's father Walt refuses his request, Brody is stunned and forced to examine why. The way Brody sees it, he can try to change Walt's mind. If that should fail, he can ignore him and his ritual, and marry Kate anyway. 

Marry Her Anyway

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Punk Rocker

Punk Rocker is the much anticipated sequel to “L.A. Punk Rocker”: top author Brenda Perlin’s best-selling punk anthology. 

Here you will find a collection of short stories from those who were there in the early days. Hard core musical anarchists who saw it all, heard it all, did it all - and survived to tell their stories.  
Along with Brenda and the West Coast punks, Punk Rocker features rebels, writers, commentators and street kids from all over America – talking about the music, the fashion, the attitude, the passion, the lifestyle and, of course, the bands who made it all happen. 
Meet people who discovered punk’s new dawn – and those who were there for its sunset, in the ramshackle mausoleum of the Chelsea Hotel. 
Backstage, in the clubs, in the gigs, in hotel rooms with the band, on the streets –Brenda was there. She saw it all. And so did her friends.  

Punk Rocker . If you missed it…what are you waiting for? 

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The Goldfinch

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review

Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.

It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. 

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. 

The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

The Goldfinch

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