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Malinda Mitchell is married to her husband Alton, has four grown children, a fifteen-year-old son, and eight grandchildren. She has been writing fiction for all ages for more than forty years. Among her books and Amazon Shorts, Malinda was also published in the summer issue 2008 and spring and summer 2009 issues of Once Upon A Time Magazine, before they closed their doors. She also has stories published on www.more.com http://64.151.118.227/user/profile/7840. Malinda's most recent book is, Miss Sugar Crumb's Magic Kitchen. Watch for Miss Sugar Crumb's Cooking Lesson, with beautiful hand painted, color illustrations by Nora Tapp Franzese, soon to be released. Also watch for, Starville, a World of Magic, Love and Friendship, illustrated by Corey Colombin.

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The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon. One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, Learning to Breathe Fire 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. 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. 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.

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Book: Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen Author: Malinda Mitchell Publisher: Tex Ware, 2009 Illustrator: Nora Tapp Franzese ISBN-13: 978-1-935500-06-3 Related website: <a href="http://www.authorsden.com/MalindaMitchell">www.authorsden.com/MalindaMitchell</a> (author), <a href="http://www.tex-ware.com/">www.tex-ware.com</a> (publisher) Language level: 1 (nothing objectionable) Reading Level: ages 8-12 Rating: 5 stars (EXCELLENT) Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker Mitchell, Malinda. Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen (published in 2009 by Tex Ware, Everett, WA). Most fairy tales are set in some undetermined place and time, but what would it be like if a fairy tale was put in a modern setting? Miss Sugar Crumb lives in a little yellow house surrounded by a white picket fence out in the country. She likes to plant flowers, bake pies, feed the animals that live in the woods near her house, and visit her neighbors, Jake and Emma Colworth, who are childless but very much want a baby. But why was a rabbit able to talk with Miss Sugar Crumb and tell her that hunters were trespassing on her property and the Colworth’s property? And when she went to ask the Colworths to put up more “No Trespassing” signs on their property, why did the green and pink tea cup which she took with her and accidentally left suddenly have the faces of a little boy and a little girl on it? Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen is a charming, fairy-tale like story, that children will adore, but the characters are pictured by the striking illustrations from Nora Tapp Franzese in as modern a fashion as you or I would be, perhaps making it appear more relevant or applicable to our time. Miss Sugar Crumb seems initially to be unaware of the magic in her kitchen, but she likes helping the animals and doing good deeds for others. Maybe there is a metaphor here about how we may not always realize the sort of “magic” that we can work in the lives of people by our pleasant attitudes and acts of kindness. Miss Sugar Crumb certainly provides a positive role model for youngsters, and I can’t think of a better reason to read a book. Author Malinda Mitchell has given us a pearl.

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