QUICK TAKES - April 21, 2009

Royalty is coming to bookstores.

England’s Prince Charles is working on “Harmony,” a call for balance between “man and nature” that HarperCollins has tentatively scheduled for next year, with a picture book version planned for 2011, the publisher said Monday.

Meanwhile, Penguin Group (USA) will release a memoir in 2010 by Jordan’s King Abdullah II. The book is called “The Last Best Chance: An Intimate Account of the Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril.” In a statement Monday, Penguin called the book a “personal narrative rich with human drama.”