Haven Kimmel

A Girl Named Zippy

A continuation of the memoir "A Girl Named Zippy" follows the story of her mother, Delonda, who reinvents her life by returning to college and losing fifty pounds, while Zippy continues to work out the dynamic of their nuclear family.

And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana

She Got Up Off the Couch

Langston Braverman abandons her academic career to retreat to her parents' attic, until the murder of her childhood friend Alice and an encounter with Amos Townsend, a local preacher, transforms her life.

The Solace of Leaving Early

From the bestselling author of "A Girl Named Zippy" comes her astonishing breakout novel about family, history, spirituality, and love--and the many meanings of the place called home.

A Novel

The Used World

Something Rising (Light and Swift)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Haven Kimmel makes an exhilarating foray into psychological gothic territory with the electrifying story of a young woman emerging from layers of delusion, fantasy, and lies. With her astounding intelligence, fierce independence, and otherworldly lavender eyes, college senior Trace Pennington makes an indelible impression even as questions about her past and her true identity hover over every page. From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Within the twisty logic of abuse, her desperate love for him took on a romantic cast that persists to this day, though she’s had no contact with her family since she ran away from home years ago. She’s eked out an impoverished but functional existence, living in an abandoned house, putting herself through college—and leading a double life: at school she is Ianthe Covington, a young woman with no past. Trace’s solitary life is upended when she and her literature professor fall in love. As it becomes apparent that he has his own dark secrets, she’s forced to face herself and her past. After recovering a horrific, long-suppressed memory, Trace finally copes with the fallout from her brutal childhood. This unique portrait of the psychological effects of trauma is tantalizing, shocking, and ultimately hopeful.

Iodine

Third-grader Kaline Klattermaster's father has gone somewhere and his mother cannot seem to keep everything straight the way he did, but the two brothers and one hundred dogs that live in his imaginary tree house--and his strange neighbor Mr. Osiris Putnaminski--help him cope with his father's absence, his mother's forgetfulness, and the bullies that torment him in school. 50,000 first printing.

Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House

From the bestselling author of 'The Solace of Leaving Early', a funny, heartwrenching and unforgettable novel following the fortunes of a particulary feisty young female pool hustler.

Light and Swift

Something Rising

There is a darkness so great, it obliterates everything. Even the heart. It started the day the first horse died. That was the day things began to spin apart, the moment a shadow passed over the farm and would not leave. The Foley family were in trouble long before that - their land plunged into debt, each of them struggling in their own way to stay afloat: Asa, the good-hearted father, Maeve, the tough but loving mother, Larkin the perfect, loyal son - and sweet little Morgayna, the joy in all their lives. And then, set apart from the rest of the family is sixteen-year-old Kerry, a strange, reclusive girl - ever distant, watchful. The horse was only the first - one by one, the animals on the farm start to die. Then strange things begin to happen in the house, as though a dark thing has stirred and will not rest. Meanwhile, Kerry is drawn to an attic room where secrets await - they lead her back to a past she has fought to forget, to the origins of her family and the genesis of something terrible. What Kerry discovers there is more shocking than anything she could ever have imagined...

The Farm

When her rakish, gambling father abandons the family, pool hustler Cassie Claiborne must abandon her own dreams to take care of her distant mother and fragile older sister, until she comes up with a way to redeem her life.

Something Rising (light and Swift)

Kimmel's powerful storytelling is in evidence in this riveting continuation of Zippy's childhood--a story of risk-taking, motherly love, and small-town heroism.

Chained alone in a barn by the couple he thought might give him a good home, a very ugly stray dog is miserable until a new neighbor, Sally MacIntosh, moves into the little house across the road and he falls in love. 20,000 first printing.

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