<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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"Times New Roman"">In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate
Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee
for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a
unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From the author of Before
the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new
customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of the cafe^s time-traveling offer.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Sitka Heading";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Sitka Heading";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Toshikazu
Kawaguchi </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
"Sitka Heading";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He 
formerly produced,
directed, and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a 
playwright, his
works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the
 Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from an 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi,
 which won the
10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.</span></p>

