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Start: 2:00 pm
A family emergency will prevent Ms. Andrews from visiting on Sunday, May 23,as had been planned. Instead, the event has been rescheduled to Sunday, July 11, 2pm. Your tickets are all still valid for the autographing. We are still planning to distribute the books at the July 11 event. Please let us know if you have any questions.We are currently sold out of tickets for this event. This event is an autographing only. TICKETS are required for this event and are available at all Books & Books locations, while supplies last. Your purchase of The Very Fairy Princess ($16.99 + tax) entitles you to receive one (1) ticket for the autographing line. Your book may be redeemed at the event and you must show your ticket and attached receipt in order to enter the signing line. This is an autographing only and only copies of The Very Fairy Princess will be signed. Ms. Andrews will not be able to personalize or sign memorabilia. Photos and video will not be permitted, so please leave your cameras at home. Julie Andrews Edwards is one of the most recognized and beloved figures in the entertainment industry. Her legendary career encompasses the Broadway and London stages, blockbuster Hollywood films, award-winning television shows, multiple album releases and concert tours and the world of children's publishing. Andrews' dedication to children has been steadfast throughout her career. She began writing books for young readers over thirty-five years ago and her first two novels - Mandy and The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles - remain in print and in high demand. Her other books include the Little Bo series, and an additional 15 picture books, novels and Early Readers co-authored with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, including the best-selling Dumpy the Dump Truck series, Simeon’s Gift, Dragon: Hound of Honor, The Great American Musical and Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child. Together the best-selling mother-daughter team head-up "The Julie Andrews Collection" publishing program, formerly with HarperCollins Publishers and now with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, dedicated to publishing "quality children's books which nurture the imagination and cultivate a sense of wonder." The main character in their newest collaboration, The Very Fairy Princess, is Geraldine. While her friends and family may not believe in fairies, Geraldine knows, deep down, that she is a VERY fairy princess. From morning to night, Gerry does everything that fairy princesses do: she dresses in her royal attire, practices her flying skills, and she is always on the lookout for problems to solve. But it isn't all twirls and tiaras - as every fairy princess knows, dirty fingernails and scabby knees are just the price you pay for a perfect day! This new picture book features the joyful illustrations of Christine Davenier, and is sure to inspire that sparkly feeling within the hearts of readers young and old. | 24
Start: 8:00 pm
Businesses are awash in information, some valuable, some suspect, some misinterpreted. Analytical methods can turn information into insight or, as in the subprime mortgage crisis, put Wall St. in the tank. Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results is a businessperson’s guide to making better use of information while recognizing its limitations, to relying more on analysis and less on guesswork, and to encouraging colleagues to become more informed decision makers. Coauthor Robert Morison will discuss how analytics already affects us as managers, employees, and consumers, and how to be smarter about the information we use. | 25
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Start: 7:00 pm
How can people tap the potential available at the quantum level of the universe to make personal change? Motivational speaker, corporate consultant, and leadership entrepreneur Marcille explains to readers how to turn any possibility into reality. (New World Library, $14.95) | 28
Start: 1:00 pm
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. | 29
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