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Before We Forget Kindness

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Before We Forget Kindness

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
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In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:
  • The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
  • A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
  • A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents
  • A wife holding a child with no name . . .
They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before We Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)
  • Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)
  • Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)
  • Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)
  • Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
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book was beautiful. the narrator’s vocal tones ruin for female and children was annoying. Perhaps multi- cast would be better.

annoying vocal tones ruin great book

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The amount of times I was like 😭😭😭😭 was a lot I loved it and I want to listen to the others in the series

Cried my eyes out

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Beautifully performed and heartrending the real. This series is always a good reminder of how frail and yet strong humanity is.

Excellent reminders of how both strong and weak we as humans are

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Every story is amazing, brings out so many emotions. Thank you so much for these wonderful books.

The best series

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I really love this series. I enjoy the characters that are in all the books, in addition to all the new people we meet at the shop. The stories are always heart grabbing and emotional. This one was definitely emotional. I look forward to another book soon.

Great series

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