Newly Published, From ‘Star Trek’ to Ferdinand Magellan

DESSERT CAN SAVE THE WORLD: Tales, Secrets and techniques, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence, by Christina Tosi, learn by the writer. (Random Home Audio.) From cutthroat competitors to “compost cookies,” the pastry chef and Milk Bar founder follows the bread crumbs again by her life within the ruthless male-dominated world of meals.

TEN STEPS TO NANETTE: A Memoir State of affairs, by Hannah Gadsby, learn by the writer. (Random Home Audio.) A comic’s memoir of rising up queer in ’80s and ’90s Tasmania, the place homosexuality was unlawful; her later diagnoses of autism and A.D.H.D.; and her lifelong defiance of norms and expectations.

STAR TREK: PICARD: No Man’s Land, by Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson, learn by Michelle Hurd and Jeri Ryan with a full solid. (Simon & Schuster Audio.) An authentic audio drama, accompanied by sound results from the Picard universe, sees Raffi Musiker and Seven of 9 develop a brand new relationship as they land on the planet Ebla.

THE BOOK OF BARAKA, by Ras Baraka with Jelani Cobb, learn by the authors. (Audible.) In a mix of prose and poetry, the mayor of Newark recounts his coming-of-age in that metropolis beneath the highly effective affect of his father, the poet Amiri Baraka.

AFRICA’S STRUGGLE FOR ITS ART: Historical past of a Postcolonial Defeat, by Bénédicte Savoy. (Princeton College, $29.95.) This account paperwork African nations’ combat for the return of artwork stolen in the course of the colonial period and the way these efforts have been met by fierce resistance and racism from Western museums, a wrestle that Savoy chronicles between the early Sixties and mid-Nineteen Eighties.

STRAITS: Past the Fable of Magellan, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. (College of California, $29.95.) A historian unravels the enduring delusion of Ferdinand Magellan, the Sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer who was motivated extra by the prospect to use Filipino gold than a want to circumnavigate the globe.

YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED: Chosen Works 2011-2021, by Alaa Abd el-Fattah. (Seven Tales, paper, $18.95.) This assortment gathers the Egyptian activist’s essays, social media posts and interviews, which have been largely composed whereas he was incarcerated as a political prisoner, and supply reflections on state violence, Egypt’s structure and know-how.

LESSONS FROM THE EDGE: A Memoir, by Marie Yovanovitch. (Mariner, $30.) The previous United States ambassador to Ukraine recounts being recalled from her submit after a smear marketing campaign by Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s private legal professional, and particulars her involvement in Trump’s impeachment inquiry on this well timed memoir.