Welcome!

The SCC Library Book Club and Phi Theta Kappa invites you to join us for an in-person discussion for Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from 11:45am - 1pm in the SCC Library for International Education Week!

A virtual option at a later date and time will be available with enough interest. RSVP below to receive more details.

About the Book

What would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

In a cozy back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which 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.

Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’s time-travelling offer in order to:

confront the man who left them
receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer's
see their sister one last time, and
meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks…

Interested in participating?:

Check out a library copy at the SCC Library front desk.
Check out an eBook or audiobook through Libby with your local library.
RSVP to the discussion.
Join us for an in-person discussion on November 19, 2025 from 11:45am-1pm at the SCC Library!
Can't make an in-person discussion and want to meet virtually? Fill out the RSVP form above for a virtual option (available with enough interest).

Have any questions? Contact Librarian Robin Amado at robin.amado@scottsdalecc.edu.