The Used World

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Author: 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.” So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World — a world where big hearts are frequently broken and sometimes repaired; where the newfangled and the old-fashioned battle it out in daily encounters b….Read More

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