This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, local history librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This ...

From the lost worlds of old Shanghai to the very modern concerns of everyday anxiety, here are eight new books to get you ...

Japan's popular book series "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" began as a play before a publisher asked author Toshikazu Kawaguchi to adapt it into a novel, which went on to become an international success ...

According to meteorologists, the continental high-pressure system (cold air mass) over Vietnam will remain stable before gradually weakening and shifting eastward. By February 2-3, another surge of ...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” explores loss by allowing patrons to return to significant moments in their past, with the caveat that the future won’t change—and if ...

The trend gained popularity in Japan and South Korea, with titles like Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series selling millions of copies and getting translated into dozens of ...

The five books in Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series are set in an old, below-ground café called Funiculi Funicula that offers patrons the chance to travel back in time. The series ...

Japanese writer Toshikazu Kawaguchi poses during a photo session in Paris in October 2023. His series, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, has sold more than six million copies. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ...

But now translations of popular titles — like Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum — have ...