Jess Bela

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.

"- Maintenant, assieds-toi, il faut que l'on parle, a dit l'ombre. Je me suis assis en tailleur sur le sol. - Tu as un pouvoir très rare, il faut que tu acceptes de t'en servir, même s'il te fait peur. - Pour quoi faire ? - Trouve pour ceux dont tu dérobes l'ombre cette petite lumière qui éclairera leur vie, un morceau de leur mémoire cachée, c'est tout ce que nous te demandons. - Nous ? - Nous, les ombres, souffla celle à qui je m'adressais. J'ai souri, je comprenais très bien de quoi elle parlait."

Elle se nomme Hélène, mais se fait appeler Joe parce qu'elle veut vivre en garçon comme lady Oscar, son héroïne de dessins animés préférée qui est la capitaine de la garde rapprochée de Marie-Antoinette. Comme elle, elle aimerait vivre à l'époque de la Révolution française et réaliser de grands exploits, car elle a l'âme romantique et un imaginaire avide de grands drames. Mais elle doit se contenter de passer les journaux, puis de travailler comme serveuse dans une salle de bingo.

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.

When they met at an airport, it was love at first sight. But in time, everything collapsed. As an unnamed but unforgettable woman muses on her life—from meet cute to marriage and parenthood—her recollections inexorably build to a devastating truth. In this shattering performance, Carey Mulligan, star of the critically lauded drama An Education, captivates audiences with playwright Dennis Kelly’s harrowing ruminations on family, ambition, gender, and violence.

A major audiobook about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.