Credit that turn of events to "Four Seasons at the Shore" (Down the Shore Publishing, $48), a compelling coffee-table book that offers more than 300 calendar-spanning photographs and four essays by Shore lovers.
If the 2010 version proves as compelling as 2009, coffee aficionados will be satisfied far beyond the brew.
It's not as if coffee baristas have a compelling need to join a network of other coffee baristas.
This is a coffee-table book, and compelling images are enough to sell such a volume, but "The Unfeathered Bird" delivers on the other promise of such books, not always fulfilled, that there should be something to read.
Burroughs's negative charisma was so compelling that he was able to close down a coffee bar in Soho whose Greek owners "gave him sass" and served him toxic cheesecake.
But he does find several intriguing personal stories, the most compelling involving a 12-year-old boy who sells coffee and tea to patients and staff members to help his family get by.
There followed a compelling if ramshackle mixture of speeches, nyabinghi drumming, adverts for a new line of Bob Marley coffee beans and the Lord's Prayer in Ethiopian.
The staff know them well in this coffee shop - this is where they wrote much of Identical Strangers, a compelling and moving account - part detective story, part memoir - which, in alternate voices, reveals their astonishing family history.
"Seeing that a friend has checked in at Starbucks is a much more compelling reason to visit than a standard advertisement telling a user to go get a coffee," Inside Facebook writes.
These tableaux have proved so compelling that Abrams plans to publish an all-new collection of images and interviews in coffee-table book form in spring 2014.
The cast of soloists was completed by Benjamin Millepied as a compelling clean-lined lead Candy Cane, Henry Seth as a mighty Mouse King, Ashley Bouder and Lindy Mandradjieff (Harlequin and Columbine), Aaron Severini (Soldier, Rachel Rutherford and Stephen Hannaa (Hot Chocolate), Dana Hanson (Coffee), Adam Hendrickson (Tea) and Jennifer Tinsley (Marzipan Shepherdess).
