Anne Ipsen's Blog: Books by Anne Ipsen

The i-book version of Green Valley: a Climate Change Novel is now available from i-Tunes joining the kindle and paperback versions.

My next book, Green Valley, a climate change novel will be released in May, 2017.

From the back cover: In 2022, Abby leaves husband and promising medical career to become a country doctor and seek a better future for herself and her son, nine-year-old Bill in the Massachusetts village of Williams Hill.
Following a series of weather disasters, the New England Carbon Rebellion has resulted in severe restrictions on the use of fossil fuels. Everything changes as transportation, education, and agriculture adapt to alternative sources of energy. Under the leadership of Tom, an innovative architect, the village community evolve into a valley-wide farm collective, known as the Green Valley Co-Com. Tom challenges Abigail to accept his friendship and share his vision. With his encouragement, Abby starts a local clinic and works with NewECare, the single-payer that provides universal health care to New England. Bill, at first resistant to change, blooms under the village school’s emphasis on self-reliant learning and shared community responsibility.
Green Valley is a novel about the near-future that treads a narrow path along the precipice of climate change into a viable future. Envisioning a new society, Ipsen avoids the cliché of a utopia, but describes the dramatic steps that must be taken very soon if we are to avoid the dystopian end of civilization predicted by the typical cli-fi novel.
Green Valley and Anne’s earlier historical novels, At the Concord of the Rivers and Abigail’s Legacy, span 350 years of Massachusetts history in a series that envisions some extraordinary fictional characters living in the thoroughly researched context of the past and the future.

When Abigail, an accused witch, disappears, she leaves sixteen-year-old Bess and her lover half-Indian Paul behind. Her short presence with them in seventeenth-century Concord inspires Bess to become a healer and Paul to seek a new life that balances his English and Indian natures with a legacy that comes full circle.

Abigail's Legacy is the sequel to At the Concord of the Rivers, the story of the relationship between mid-twentieth-century Abigail and seventeenth-century, half-Indian Paul and her difficult adjustment to the demands of her strange new life. They may be read independently.

In both novels, I have endeavored to evoke a sense of place that will transport the reader to seventeenth-century Massachusetts and the early years of the town whose enduring spirit was to be heard around the world.

In observance of the 70th anniversary of the escape of 7000 Jewish Danes during WWII, I am giving a talk:

“The Three Miracles of the Jewish Danes”
Illustrated talk by Anne Ipsen, PhD.
Wednesday, February 13, 12:30pm
Women’s Studies Research Center, Epstein Building, Brandeis University, 515 South St., Waltham http://www.Brandeis.edu/WSRC/about/di...

Price of "At the Concord of the Rivers" e-book by Anne Ipsen REDUCED: now only $5.99-- available for all e-readers and internationally.

When isn't a book just to be read? When it is also an interactive game. My friends Mike and Muffy Berlyn just announced their new mystery-game-book, an app available at i-Tunes--check out this new idea: http://www.tappabletales.com

http://peartreepublishing.net/events/...
On Wednesday July 18 my books and I will be at the 2012 NE Authors' Expo in Danversport Yacht Club (161 Elliott St., Danvers, MA, 4-9pm). Please come and say hello.

I highly recommend "Pilgrimage" a photographic project by Annie Leibovitz. The photo exhibit entitled "Pilgrimage" started yesterday at the Concord Museum (MA) and will run all summer. There is also an interview with Leibovitz by PBS The News Hour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entert...

I am proud to say that I was one of the volunteers that gave away 20 copies of "Because of Win-Dixie" on World Book Night last April. I had such fun that I will do it again.

http://youtu.be/DTfoEUaybNQ

I will have a busy November with the following upcoming events (in the Boston area):

November 12, 10am-3pm, Special Christmas Sale and book signing of Ipsen books at the Scandinavian Fair, Concord High School.

November 17, 7:30pm, talk: "Envisioning Nashoba Village after King Philip's War" at Littleton Congregational Church, sponsored by the Littleton Historical Society. After the talk, I will sign copies of my latest historical novel.

November 19, 11am-1pm, Panel discussion: Self-publishing, Speaking from Experience at Brookline Library, co-sponsored by Womens’ National Book Association and National Writers' Union. Sale and book signing after the discussion.