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- Reader recommendation: Little Princes
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- World Book Night: coming your way, but no room for Amazon
On World Book Night thousands of volunteers in the US and Europe will hand out books, hoping to pass along their own love of reading.
- Festival of Faith and Writing: the conference that brought John Updike, Salman Rushdie to western Michigan
This year's Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College included Jonathan Safran Foer, Marilynne Robinson, Chimimanda Ngoze Adichie, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Leila Aboulela.
- Vladimir Nabokov: 10 quotes on his birthday 10 quotes on author Vladimir Nabokov's 113th birthday.
- Jade de Jong: South Africa's answer to 'The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency'
South African author Jassy Mackenzie has created private investigator Jade de Jong – the grittier, South African version of Botswana's Precious Ramotswe.
- Children's book promoting veganism gets mixed reception from experts
Author Ruby Roth's new book 'Vegan Is Love' discusses how food gets from the farm to the kitchen table.
- Cow
Florian Werner's book is a bright biography of the animal that's given us so much.
- Reader recommendation: The Heart of Christianity
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.