Beginning today, you can pick up Starbucks' latest book suggestion -- a divorce memoir called "Happens Every Day" by actress Isabel Gillies -- at more than 7,000 stores nationwide.

Or you can wait for the April 10 publication of a more coffee-centric read with pictures, "Tall Skinny Bitter: Notes from the Center of Coffee Culture," by Dani Cone, who owns Fuel Coffee and High 5 Pie, and Seattle graphic designer Chris Munson. (Sasquatch Books, $16.95)

"Tall Skinny Bitter" features some of the best-known names in Seattle coffee, from All City to Zoka, and several big Portland names.

Before she started working crazy hours, beginning with pie baking at 4:30 a.m., Cone spent a lot of time hanging out in coffeehouses. "I don't have one favorite," she says. "It depends on my mood and what part of town I feel like going to."

I wondered about the book's title, because I don't think of Dani as bitter. But it's there if you dig. Take this list from the book:

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Dani Cone: Coffee shop owner, pie baker, author.

Top 5 Things Customers Say That Make Baristas Want to Punch Them in the Face

1. Happy Friday!!!
2. Why are you yawning? Don't you know you work in a coffee shop?
3. Barista: How's it going?
Customer: Tall mocha.
4. Can I have a caramel macchiato?
5. Really? This is all you do? I assumed you did something else with your free time.

(I know. I still have to do that post on the Italian versus Starbucks macchiato.)

Here's where you can find Fuel Coffee and High 5 Pies (the book will also be in bookstores):

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