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10,000 Miles of Miracles

How two middle-aged 'Dames Gone Wild' found purpose during a cross-country road trip

After her marriage collapsed and her son suffered a severe head injury, Carol Hasbrouck thought she met her quota on hard times. Then came the 2008 Great Recession. In her new book, Hasbrouck chronicles her travels with her friend/roommate Joyce Claflin. Known as "The Dames," they traverse the country during a "summer service adventure" to get their mojo back.

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Kim Whiting
May 16, 2024
15 Years on The Road Book ReviewsHomelessnessTravel

15 Years on The Road

Author witnesses, documents families experiencing homelessness across the U.S. 

In her memoir Dismazed and Drive: My Look at Family Homelessness in America, author Diane Nilan chronicles the lives of several families experiencing homelessness in the United States. She spent 15 years living on the road and visited 49 states to document the "unheralded survival of courageous parents and kids whose homes have vanished for countless reasons." (more)
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December 16, 2020
Jungles and Deserts Book ReviewsInternationalPoliticsTravelWar

Jungles and Deserts

American foreign policy scrutinized in new novel

Robert Ritzenthaler was born on a U.S. Marine Corps base in Hawaii four months before his father was sent to Vietnam in 1965. Recently, he began to explore and write about his father's war experiences and their impact on his family. Since the late '80s, he's traveled across the world, documenting the effects of U.S. intervention and civil war on indigenous ethnic groups. Jungles and Deserts is his first novel, weaving historical events with riveting fiction. The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present exclusive excerpts.

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April 10, 2020
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