Great news! Operation Bite Back was featured on the Very Short List for today, August 20, 2009. The VSL is an emailed list of highly-curated selections from the influential NYC newspaper, The Observer. I don’t know how many people receive the VSL, but it’s many, many eyeballs all over the country, and those eyeballs are in the heads of smart, in-the-know people. I am totally rejoicing at the fact that some of those people will read the book and some of them may be moved to take a look at these terrorism charges. Plus, I like the fact that people are simply reading the book, for Rod’s sake and mine.

Check out the VSL Page here.

or here’s the link:

http://www.veryshortlist.com/vsl/daily.cfm/review/1330/Book/operation-bite-back/?tp

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My Latest Book

THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them

Some families have to dig hard to find the love that holds them together. Some have to grow it out of the ground. THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them is the true story of the author’s family and the power of nature.

Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting, fishing and working, but not at much else that makes a real father or husband. Conflicted, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife, Nancy, and alienated his three sons—journalist Dean, woodsman Brett, and troubled yet brilliant fisherman Joe. He distrusted people and clung to rural America as a place to hide.

So when Bruce purchased a 100-acre hunting property as a way to reconnect with his sons, they resisted. The land was the perfect bait, but none of them knew how to be together as a family. Conflicts arose over whether the land – an old farm that had been degraded and reduced to a few stands of pine and blowing sand – should be left alone or be actively restored. After a decade-long impasse, Bruce acquiesced, and his sons proceeded with their restoration plan. What happened next was a miracle of nature.

Dean Kuipers weaves a beautiful and surprising story about the restorative power of land and of his own family, which so desperately needed healing. Heartwarming and profound, THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them is the perfect story of fathers, sons, and the beauty and magic of the natural world.

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