A Girl Named Zippy

Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
When Quaker Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet. Nicknamed "Zippy," she possessed big eyes and even bigger ears. In this loving memoir, Kimmel takes readers back in time to when small-town America was still in the innocent postwar period and treats readers to an appealing, and knowing, heroine.

Broadway Books 2002 304 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Iodine

A Novel

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
This is Quaker author Haven Kimmel's fourth novel. "Kimmel offers a beautifully wrought portrait of the brilliant and psychotic Trace Pennington, a runaway now scraping by in an Indiana farmhouse while completing her final year of college.... Trace is haunted by a disturbing personal history, hinted at via dreams, startling recollections and entries in her journal.... Kimmel skillfully weaves together Trace's lucid moments and her diminishing sanity, providing a full picture of a troubled woman whose identity, past and present are repeatedly called into question." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Free Press 2009 223 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Third grader Kaline Klattermaster's Dad has 'gones omewhere…his mum is findings things difficult and he needs the support of 2 brothers, 100 dogs in a tree house - but it is all imaginary. He does have a real, but eccentric neighbor Oscar Putnaminski to help with his fathers absence, his mothers problems and some bullies. Quaker author of a Girl named Zippy.

Atheneum 2009 152 PP. Cloth

$15.99 (low stock)

Orville

A Dog Story

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
A big, ugly dog is happy to meet a farmer and his wife who decide to give him a name and a home, but not so happy when they chain him to the barn. All Orville can do is bark to tell the world how unhappy he is, and the more he barks, the more he is left alone. But everything changes when Sally MacIntosh moves into the little house across the road and Orville falls in love. The beautifully crafted text by Quaker author Kimmel blends wry humor with the poignant twang of a country-and-western song and is accompanied by dreamy, spare watercolor-and-ink illustrations for a fresh, original picture book that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt lonely or misunderstood.

Clarion 2003 32 PP. Paper

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She Got Up Off The Couch

And Other Heroic Acts From Mooreland, Indiana

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Sequel to the best-seller "A Girl Named Zippy". Zippy heads towards being 13, and many things happen, described in her usual accurate amusing yet penetrating style. Her mother goes to college, she becomes a devoted aunt twice. She survives (just) a fractured arm, a very cross cow, Quaker Haven Camp and the worst blizzard in living memory. Sustained by her friends and her lack of faith as her father moves towards a silent epiphany that has hung over her childhood and signals its end.

Free Press 2007 336 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

The Solace Of Leaving Early

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult-if not impossible-people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston's childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other.

Anchor 2003 288 PP. Paper

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The Used World

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
"It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead." Haven Kimmel opens a world where big hearts are frequently broken and sometimes repaired; where the newfangled and the old-fashioned battle it out in daily encounters both large and small; where wondrous things unfold just beneath the surface of everyday life; and where the weather is certainly biblical and might just be prophetic. Astonishing for what it reveals about the human capacity for both grace and mischief, "The Used World" forms a trilogy with Kimmel's two previous novels, "The Solace of Leaving Early" and "Something Rising (Light and Swift)".

Simon & Schuster 2008 352 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)