TICKETS are required for this event and are available at all Books & Books locations, while supplies last. Your purchase of Spoken from the Heart ($30 + tax) entitles you to receive one (1) ticket to the autographing. Limit two tickets per customer. You must show your ticket and attached receipt to enter the signing line. You are welcome to take photos while passing in line, but Mrs. Bush will not pose for any photos. Mrs. Bush will not be able to personalize books or sign memorabilia. Autographing will begin promptly at 1pm.

When Laura Welch first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world stage and the White House. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had last passed in the hallway in seventh grade. Three months later, "the old maid of Midland married Midland's most eligible bachelor." With rare intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as she was thrust into one of America's most prominent political families, as well as her deep longing for children and her husband's decision to give up drinking. In 2001, after one of the closest elections in American history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she captures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9/11, when fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent the family to an underground shelter. She writes openly about the White House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of the first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations and tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop urban violence. And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast schools and libraries post-Katrina. With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her sense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her heart make Spoken from the Heart (Scribner, $30) revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any other first lady's memoir ever written.