Karen Mack könyvei a rukkolán

Jennifer Kaufman - Karen Mack - Book ​Lover
One ​woman's passion for books and search for romance lie at the heart of this touching and funny novel about literature and longing in Los Angeles.

Jennifer Kaufman - Karen Mack - Literacy ​and Longing in L.A.
Some ​women shop. Some eat. Dora cures the blues by bingeing on books—reading one after another, from Flaubert to bodice rippers, for hours and days on end. In this wickedly funny and sexy literary debut, we meet the beguiling, beautiful Dora, whose unique voice combines a wry wit and vulnerability as she navigates the road between reality and fiction. Dora, named after Eudora Welty, is an indiscriminate book junkie whose life has fallen apart—her career, her marriage, and finally her self-esteem. All she has left is her love of literature, and the book benders she relied on as a child. Ever since her larger-than-life father wandered away and her book-loving, alcoholic mother was left with two young daughters, Dora and her sister, Virginia, have clung to each other, enduring a childhood filled with literary pilgrimages instead of summer vacations. Somewhere along the way Virginia made the leap into the real world. But Dora isn’t quite there yet. Now she’s coping with a painful separation from her husband, scraping the bottom of a dwindling inheritance, and attracted to a seductive book-seller who seems to embody all that literature has to offer—intelligent ideas, romance, and an escape from her problems. Joining Dora in her odyssey is an elderly society hair-brusher, a heartbroken young girl, a hilarious off-the-wall female teamster, and Dora’s mother, now on the wagon, trying to make amends. Along the way Dora faces some powerful choices. Between two irresistible men. Between idleness and work. And most of all between the joy of well-chosen words and the untidiness of real people and real life.

Jennifer Kaufman - Karen Mack - A ​Version of the Truth
In ​the wilds of Topanga Canyon, Cassie Shaw is right at home - with the call of birds, the sound of wind in the trees, the harmony of a world without people. But everywhere else, life is a little harder for Cassie. Her mother believes in Big Foot. Her wisecracking pet parrot is a drama queen. And at the age of thirty, newly single and without a college degree, Cassie desperately needs a decent paycheck. Which is why, against all her principles, she lies on her résumé for an office job at an elite university - and then finds herself employed in academia by two professors who are as rare as the birds she covets. One of her new bosses is Professor William Conner, a sexy, handsome, cheerfully aristocratic expert in animal behavior. Soon, under Conner’s charismatic tutelage, Cassie carefully begins her personal transformation while meeting the kind of people who don’t flock to wildlife preserves - from impossibly brilliant academics to adorably spoiled college boys. But her future - and unlikely new career - is teetering on one unbearable untruth. And Cassie’s masquerade is about to come undone…in a chain of events that will transform her life - and the lives of those around her - forever. A novel for late bloomers of every exotic shade and stripe, A Version of the Truth is pure entertainment - at once hilarious and wry, lyrical and uplifting.

Karen Mack - Jennifer Kaufman - Freud ​szeretője
A ​századfordulós Bécs pezsgő, dekadens világában járunk. Minna Bernays, az éles eszű, tanult társalkodónő hirtelen munka nélkül, az utcán találja magát. Bécs az avantgárd művészek és a forradalmi gondolatok otthona, ahol azonban egy ifjú hölgy számára még mindig a házasság jelenti az egyetlen biztonságot. Minna azonban ennél jóval többre vágyik, és kétségbeesésében nővéréhez, Marthához fordul segítségért. Ám Marthának is megvan a maga gondja: hat gyermeket nevel, túlhajszolt, közönyös férje pedig nem más, mint a zseniális, ám zsarnoki természetű Sigmund Freud. Freud ebben az időszakban sokat küszködik, kollégái kerülik, szexuális késztetésekkel, ösztönökkel és perverziókkal foglalkozó elméletei pedig támadások kereszttüzében állnak. Martha megdöbbentőnek és visszataszítónak találja férje „pornográf” munkáját, Minnát azonban lenyűgözik Freud korszakalkotó felfedezései. Minna mindenben Martha ellentéte: intellektuális kíváncsiság hajtja, vonzó és szenvedélyes. Freud szellemi társa lesz, ám a felszín alatt valami ennél sokkal mélyebb is lappang. Valami, amitől egyikük sem menekülhet. A szerzőpáros a szerelem, a hűség és az árulás e lenyűgöző történetében egy kivételes nő portréját rajzolja meg. Egy nőét, aki gyötrődött a testvére iránt érzett szeretet és a pszichoanalízis megteremtője iránt érzett elsöprő szerelem között.