Iced coffee/CAO Brazilia Gol… IT’S ALL RIVER: A NOVEL @ScribnerBooks by Carla Madeira Introducing one of Brazil’s most daring and best-selling authors to English-language readers, taut, provocative allegory of lust violence forgiveness grips and stuns, shocks and seduces.

Iced coffee/RyJ… NOT BUILT IN A DAY: HOW SLAVERY MADE THE ROMAN EMPIRE @simonschuster Title says it all. Soup to nuts. Millions. Every single aspect. With wit, expertise, Emma Southon (emmasouthon.com/) recounts the absurdity of Roman life, upends our ideas of the empire.

Iced coffee/Arturo Fuente… TIME OF SILENCE @nyrbclassics by Luis Martín-Santos ('24–'64), a novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of the first decade of Franco’s dictatorship. Haunting tableaux of a society at rock-bottom beyond hope after years of authoritarian rule.

Iced coffee/Arturo Fuente…THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE @VikingBooks Cal Flyn @calflyn Beautiful blend: science lyricism humanity the world’s remote forbidding wildest places. The ever expanding possibilities and demands of creative non-fiction. Read experience study its architecture.

Iced coffee/Arturo Fuente… ONE-WAY TICKET, EDDA GREEN, BAD COP expat Peter Sarda's "Hamburg Noir," crime series set in Hamburg, Germany, a rugged harbor town with lots of old trading money, sin, scandal, riots, revolutionary cells, a robust and colorful criminal underworld.

Iced decaf/Arturo Fuente… FIRES IN THE NIGHT: THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT, THE FBI, AND A SECRET HISTORY OF ECO-SABOTAGE @VikingBooks by Matthew Wolfe @MatthewMWolfe 30 yrs ago and finally the story. Immersive, scrupulously researched. Why the fear and suppression of resistance.

CRY REVENGE and SWAMP MAN @KensingtonBooks by Donald Goines. Literary fiction that artfully says nothing or Donald Goines, the legendary OG Master of Urban Lit? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald…

Iced tea/Perdomo…THE ZORG: A TALE OF GREED AND MURDER THAT INSPIRED THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY @StMartinsPress by Siddharth Kara @siddharthkara primary-sources gripping painstaking investigation the lives and fates of the slaves on board, the abolitionist who revealed the truth.

Iced coffee/Perdomo… THE PREDICAMENT: A GABRIEL DAX NOVEL @groveatlantic by William Boyd @Williamboyd29 travel writer-turned-reluctant spy 1963 Guatemala global CIA MI6 skullduggery. Twists turns and craft in the best spirit of Graham Greene ever solid smart agile and stylish.

Iced coffee/AF…YOUR NAME HERE @Dalkey_Archive by the inimitable Helen DeWitt @helendewitt and mysterious Ilya Gridneff @IlyaGridneff 1st as a PDF in ’08 now 600 pp of madness mischief and delight, recursive excoriating and ascorbic, a honeycombed work of art becoming itself.

Iced coffee/Perdomo… THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE @RedHenPress by Helen Benedict @helenbenedict War vet saves the lives of his assassinated Iraqi interpreter’s family bringing them to his upstate NY home. Are redemption and forgiveness possible? Hearts and minds. Hard truth. Unflinching.

Iced coffee/Nica Rustica… THE MONK @groveatlantic by Tim Sullivan @TimJRSullivan When a beloved yet mysterious monk is brutally murdered, Detective Sergeant Cross faces a case with no leads, while his personal life is thrown into disarray. Why would someone want to harm a monk?

Iced coffee/Perdomo… CRAZY GENIE @nyrbclassics by Inès Cagnati (1937–2007). A young girl clings fiercely to the damaged love of her mother—a taciturn farmworker cast out by her family and scorned by her village after giving birth out of wedlock. Devastating, lyrical, ingenuous.

Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo…WE LOVED TO RUN: A NOVEL @penguinrandom by Stephanie Reents about a women's cross country team how far girls will push themselves to control their bodies friendships futures. Told w fidelity honesty boundless empathy. Powerful, beautiful, heart-breaking.

Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo… Lázár: A Novel by Nelio Biedermann. Dreamlike beautiful sad haunting story the benighted Hungarian aristocracy backs the wrong horse untold death and terror and the consequent suffering of generations to come.

Iced coffee/RyJ… TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES: THE IMPROBABLE RETURN OF GREAT CATS TO THE FORESTS OF RUSSIA AND CHINA by Jonathan C. Slaght Riveting account of this great sentient charismatic being, the scientists/people who live with, the forest, the life force. Extraordinary.

Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo… A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE @mulhollandbooks by Jordan Harper @jordan_harper. Outstanding. Courageous. In a time of monsters you write about monsters. Ripped from the headlines. The New Noir.

Iced coffee/Le Bijou 1922… DIRTY METAL: A NOVEL @Flatironbooks debut by Allison LaMothe. Tenacious reporter w a habit of too many pills to erase bad memory, mafia turf wars, a murdered woman, bad cops, NYC in chaos. Gritty, fast-paced mystery. A good reminder to trust no one.

Iced coffee/Cuban Parejo… TAILBONE @BloomsburyPub debut Che Yeun. Seoul 2008, an unnamed teenage girl runs away... a poignant tale about survival, the impact of colonial and familial violence, class, privilege, and womanhood, a powerful thrilling fascinating novel, a new talent.

Iced coffee/San Lotano…THE HOUNDING @HenryHolt wonderful debut gem of a novel by Xenobe Purvis about five sisters in a small village in 18th century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs. Richly atmospheric. The pleasures and perils of female defiance.