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FRAMED IN DEATH

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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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Fresh Pick of the Day

Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1
Hanover Square Press
November 2020
On Sale: November 17, 2020
240 pages
ISBN: 1335430997
EAN: 9781335430991
Kindle: B084B6VFHG
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BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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What would you change if you could travel back in time?

Down a small alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there’s an underground café that’s been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers its customers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

The rules, however, are far from simple: you must sit in one particular seat, and you can’t venture outside the café, nor can you change the present. And, most important, you only have the time it takes to drink a hot cup of coffee—or risk getting stuck forever.

Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of traveling to another time: a heartbroken lover looking for closure, a nurse with a mysterious letter from her husband, a waitress hoping to say one last goodbye and a mother whose child she may never get the chance to know.

Heartwarming, wistful and delightfully quirky, Before the Coffee Gets Cold explores the intersecting lives of four women who come together in one extraordinary café, where the service may not be quick, but the opportunities are endless.

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD

#1.0 • November 2020

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Tales from the Cafe

TALES FROM THE CAFE

#2.0 • October 2021

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Before Your Memory Fades

BEFORE YOUR MEMORY FADES

#3.0 • November 2022

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Before We Say Goodbye

BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE

#4.0 • November 2023

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Before We Forget Kindness

BEFORE WE FORGET KINDNESS

#5.0 • November 2024

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Before I Knew I Loved You

BEFORE I KNEW I LOVED YOU

#6.0 • June 2026

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