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In a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this came to be. It’s simply how things are, and no one seems to question it except for one young boy. The room is kept clean and tidy, nobody talks about it and nobody is allowed to use it. It is for the president and no one else. But what if he doesn’t come? And what if he does? As events unfold, the reader is kept in the dark about what’s really going on. So much so, in fact, that we begin to wonder if even the narrator can be trusted… Ricardo Romero has been compared to Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and we see why in this eerie, meditative novel narrated by a shy young boy who seems to be very good at lying about the truth. Following in the footsteps of Julio Cortazar and a certain literary tradition of sinister rooms (such as Dr Jekyll’s laboratory), The President’s Room is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home.

Kes on Evelin Ilves tegelikult? Milline on ta siis, kui ta ei ole vastuvottudel voi heategevusuritustel kaamerate fookuses? Milline oli ta siis, kui ta ei olnud veel presidendi abikaasa?Katrin Lust on votnud intervjuusid kumnetelt inimestelt, kes tundsid Evelini juba lapsena, kaisid temaga koos ulikoolis, olid kolleegid tema ambitsioonika karjaari algusaastatel. Lugudest joonistub valja pilt naisest, kes ruhib kohklematult tippu, maadeldes samal ajal oma ebakindluse ja keeruliste lahisuhetega. Kas Evelin Ilvese eesmark oligi alati saada presidendiprouaks? Ja kas tema unistuse taitumine oli onnistus voi hoopis needus? Kas voim ja raha rikkusid ara tubli, tookaja sihikindla eesti naise voi olid kallid kleidid ning lakkamatu esinemisvajaduse rahuldamine algusest saadik eesmark omaette?

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him – people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back – dead or alive. Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose? Long live the President!

When China threatens to bankrupt the U.S. by calling in its debt, Americans are desperate for radical change. President Susan Hopkins, running for re-election, is floored as she watches the returns come in. Her rival—a madman senator from West Virginia who ran on the promise to nuke China’s islands out of the South China Sea—has, inconceivably, won. President Hopkins, though, knows she cannot yield power. To do so would be to spark World War III. She needs to prove the election was stolen, and to stop the looming war with China. With no one left to turn to, she summons Luke Stone, the former head of an elite FBI para-military team. The stakes could not be higher as she commands him to save America from its greatest threat: its own President Elect. Yet as one shocking twist follows another, it may, even for Luke Stone, be too late. A political thriller with non-stop action, dramatic international settings and heart-pounding suspense, PRESIDENT ELECT is book #5 in the bestselling and critically-acclaimed Luke Stone series, an explosive new series that will leave you turning pages late into the night.