Do you like to read nail-biting thrillers that keep you on the edge? Read excerpts from Nita Prose’s The Maid and Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment, two books that have taken over the world of crime readers with a storm! The Maid Molly the maid is all alone in the world. A nobody. She’s used to being invisible in her job at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows and wiping away the grime, dust and secrets of the guests passing through. She’s just a maid — why should anyone take notice? But Molly is thrown into the spotlight when she discovers an infamous guest, Mr Black, very dead in his bed. This isn’t a mess that can be easily cleaned up. And as Molly becomes embroiled in the hunt for the truth, following the clues whispering in the hallways of the Regency Grand, she discovers a power she never knew was there. She’s just a maid — but what can she see that others overlook? Escapist, charming and introducing a truly original heroine, The Maid is a story about how the truth isn’t always black and white — it’s found in the dirtier, grey areas in between. . .

This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis. The book features compelling stories of citizens and civic groups in their struggle against COVID-19. These snapshots from the lockdown capture China at a critical moment, revealing the intricacies of politics, citizenship, morality, community, and digital technology.

Documenting the Climate Crisis: Ellen Prager’s ‘Dangerous Earth’ In Dangerous Earth, marine scientist Ellen Prager explores the science of investigating volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, rip currents, and-maybe the most perilous hazard of all-climate change. Each chapter considers a specific hazard, begins with a game-changing historical event, and highlights what remains unknown about these dynamic phenomena. Along the way, we hear from scientists trying to read Earth’s warning signs, pass its messages along to the rest of us, and prevent catastrophic loss.

In a Rashomon-like retelling — a complex, constantly changing narrative of a murder that captures better than any sanitized account just why it is that slavery continues to exist in the 21st century, Laura T. Murphy narrates a gritty and inspiring real-life account in Azad Nagar. Azad Nagar’s enormous struggle to gain and maintain liberty shows why it is unrealistic to expect radical change without violent protest — and how a global construction boom is deepening and broadening the alienation of impoverished people around the world.

A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay.

What does it mean to be Muslim in India? What does it mean to look like one’s religion? Does one’s faith determine how one is perceived? Is there a secular ideal one is supposed to live up to? Can people of different faiths have a shared culture, a shared identity? Unfortunately, the contemporary political reality of India has become increasingly polarized; often at the cost of invisibilizing its rich history of syncretic cultural identities. At HarperBroadcast, we are spotlighting three books every thinking Indian should read, in order to understand about individual freedom in a purportedly democratic nation, and the place of minorities in a majoritarian state.

Shahwaz Ali Mirza, head of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, receives an anonymous email claiming it to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. He quickly puts together a crack team that includes his protege, IG Cybercrime Vikrant Singh, and gets to work trawling the dark web for more information on this mystery attack. However, a move to bring forward the hacker backfires, leading to a second, deadlier attack on Mumbai’s lifeline, the railway system. India’s №1 Crime writer, S. Hussain Zaidi is back with another to-be-bestseller. Read the first chapter from his gritty, latest thrillerZero Day!

The Best Quotes on Love by Cecelia Ahern to Warm Your Heart Cecelia Ahern’s words capture the warmth and radiance of the many shades of love. Read some beautiful quotes from her bestselling books here. We are sure these will warm your heart.

Liberty After Freedom explores the origins of what is today considered the most important fundamental right in the Indian Constitution — the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21. Written in lucid prose and drawing extensively on the Constituent Assembly debates as well as a wide array of scholarly literature, it questions long-held beliefs and sheds new and important light on the fraught history of due process and Article 21. Read an excerpt.