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In The End of Reality (PublicAffairs, Sept.), USC digital studies professor Taplin argues that Big Tech billionaires are selling people a false future.

Bilal’s debut collection, Temple Folk (Simon & Schuster, July) depicts African American Muslims exploring their faith and seeking liberation in the 1970s.

Siddiqi’s The Centre (Zando/Flynn, Aug) sees Pakistani translator Anisa Ellahi attending a shadowy language institute in London, where promises of quick instruction come at a gruesome, darkly comic cost.

The Sookie StackHouse creator discusses some of her influences.

Hendricks, a former Army intelligence officer, introduces Derek Harrington, a retired Marine, in The Instructor (Forge).

An indie author shares her strategy for reaching readers.

Physician Godfrey draws on her experience treating severe neurological injuries in Imposter (Blackstone), her first solo novel.

In screenwriter Yamashita’s whodunit, City Under One Roof (Berkley), the entire population of an Alaska community lives in one building.

Faust, the former president of Harvard University and the first woman to hold that position, traces her political awakening in her coming-of-age memoir, Necessary Trouble (FSG, Aug).

Heroines Eva and Reina work together to foil the plans of a powerful sorceress in Romero Lacruz’s Latin American folklore–infused debut, The Sun and the Void (Orbit, July).