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Kelly Hashway

Kelly Hashway

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Kelly Hashway fully admits to being one of the most accident-prone people on the planet, but luckily she gets to write about female sleuths who are much more coordinated than she is. Maybe it was growing up watching Murder, She Wrote that instilled a love of mystery, but she spends her days writing cozy mysteries. Kelly’s also a sucker for first love, which is why she writes romance under the pen name Ashelyn Drake. When she’s not writing, Kelly works as an editor and also as Mom, which she believes is a job title that deserves to be capitalized.

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

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<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that  cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>

Story Behind The Book

I wrote this book after watching my own dog's strange response to the vacuum cleaner. I thought maybe she saw the vacuum as a new breed of dog.

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<span style="line-height:normal;font-size:12px;color:#7d633b;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">&quot;This is a fun story young children will love to read.&quot;--V.S. Grenier, Editor-in-Chief of </span></span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><em><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Stories for Children Magazine</span></em></span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">.</span></span></span><div><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:12px;color:#7d633b;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12px;"><span style="line-height:20px;font-size:16px;color:#2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">&quot;Help! Dash thinks he's being replaced by the brand-new Sweeper. With an extra long leash, and a closet-bed all his own, Sweeper seems to be taking over the house. </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height:20px;color:#2a2a2a;font-size:13px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">What dog hasn't felt threatened by a new vacuum? </span></span><span style="line-height:20px;font-size:16px;color:#2a2a2a;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Dog lovers of all ages will smile all the way through this dog's eye view of the dog-sweeper conflict in </span></span><em style="line-height:20px;font-style:italic;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">May the Best Dog Win, </span></span></em><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">a delightful new picture book by Kelly Hashway.&quot;--Rebecca Fjelland Davis, author of </span></span><em><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Chasing Alliecat</span></span></em><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">.</span></span></span></div>