Rick Barrick files these reports:
James "Boobie" Miles (left) and author H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger recount events during the tumultuous 1988 football season at Permian High School at an event in Mansfield on April 25. Mr. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, a nonfiction book centered on Odessa, was the subject of the One City, One Book program sponsored by the Friends of the Mansfield Public Library. Mr. Miles was the star running back of the Permian Panthers whose injury ended his football career and derailed his team's quest to win the state championship. Friday Night Lights, published in 1990, has become a film and a current television show.
First lady Laura Bush and her daughter, Jenna Bush, add their signatures Wednesday to the book they wrote, "Read All About It." The Bushes appeared at the Borders store at Preston Road and Royal Lane beginning at about 6:25 p.m. Borders issued about 800 wristbands that entitled each holder to as many as three signed books. The store began passing out wristbands at 9 a.m., but the rush of buyers caused Borders to ran out of books temporarily at about 10 a.m. More books arrived shortly afterward.
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