Breakfast with Sharks

Breakfast with Sharks

Author: Michael Lent

Publisher: Crown Archetype

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0307419967

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What They Didn’t Teach You in Your Screenwriting Course Screenwriters, listen up! Breakfast with Sharks is not a book about the craft of screenwriting. This is a book about the business of managing your screenwriting career, from advice on choosing an agent to tips on juggling three deal-making breakfasts a day. Prescriptive and useful, Breakfast with Sharks is a real guide to navigating the murky waters of the Hollywood system. Unlike most of the screenwriting books available, here’s one that tells you what to do after you’ve finished your surefire-hit screenplay. Written from the perspective of Michael Lent, an in-the-trenches working screenwriter in Hollywood, this is a real-world look into the script-to-screen business as it is practiced today. Breakfast with Sharks is filled with useful advice on everything from the ins and outs of moving to Los Angeles to understanding terms like “spec,” “option,” and “assignment.” Here you’ll learn what to expect from agents and managers and who does what in the studio hierarchy. And most important, Breakfast with Sharks will help you nail your pitch so the studio exec can’t say no. Rounded out with a Q&A section and resource lists of script competitions, film festivals, trade associations, industry publications, and more, Breakfast with Sharks is chock-full of “take this and use it right now” information for screenwriters at any stage of their careers.


Neighborhood Sharks

Neighborhood Sharks

Author: Katherine Roy

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 146688083X

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Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge! A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals. In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons—a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals.


Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie

Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie

Author: Bill Doyle

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0375866752

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New to the Random House list is author Bill Doyle with a tale of monsters, magic, and mayhem. After Keats and Henry lose their bikes, they need money—fast. So the help-wanted ad at the supermarket seems ideal for them. All they have to do is weed Hallway House's garden, find some lightbulbs in the attic, sweep the garage . . . and battle a shark-headed zombie. But no one told them about the giant bookworms in the library, the toe-biting carpet in the halls, and the kitchen sinkhole!


Shark Week

Shark Week

Author: Discovery

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-05-17

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1250097770

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Tie-in to the Discovery Channel's popular program Shark Week.


Sharks in the Time of Saviours

Sharks in the Time of Saviours

Author: Kawai Strong Washburn

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1786896508

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'As vivid as it is splendid' New York Times 'Beautifully written and completely absorbing' Sarah Moss, Guardian A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in the NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OPRAH MAGAZINE and BBC CULTURE At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents. For the next thirty years Noa and his siblings struggle with life in the shadow of this miracle. Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliantly original and inventive novel, the sweeping story of a family living in poverty among the remnants of Hawai‘i’s mythic past and the wreckage of the American dream.


So Help Me God

So Help Me God

Author: Larry D. Thompson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780765357533

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A Texas trial turns into a global debate after Rev. Thomas Jeremiah Luther brings a lawsuit over abortion, attempting to gain control of the country's political right wing.


Great White

Great White

Author: Chris Fallows

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2009-10-21

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0811871037

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For most people, sharks and fear go hand in hand. Renowned photographer and conservationist Chris Fallows maintains a more nuanced relationship with the superpredator. Gasp-inducing in their immediacy and surprise, Fallows's brilliant photographs present these mighty creatures in a different light. Great Whitethe first publication to collect Fallows's workreveals the sublime beauty of sharks and provides a rare glimpse into the largely unseen world of great whites, hammerheads, and other breeds. Fallows captures these fearsome creatures both above water, as they intersect with humanity, and below, in their mysterious underwater domain. A one-of-a-kind portrait of the shark and a superlative study of the nature photographer's art, this book is bound to turn heads and elicit a deep appreciation for the creatures that inhabit our oceans.


Close to Shore

Close to Shore

Author: Mike Capuzzo

Publisher: Broadway

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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Describes how, in the summer of 1916, a lone great white shark headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people and igniting the most extensive shark hunt in history.


The Great White Shark Scientist

The Great White Shark Scientist

Author: Sy Montgomery

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0544829344

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Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, is investigating a controversial possibility: Might Cape Cod’s waters serve as a breeding ground for the great white shark, the largest and most feared predatory fish on Earth? Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen report on this thrilling turning point in marine research and travel to Guadeloupe, Mexico, to get up close and personal with the sharks. This daring expedition into the realm of great whites shows readers that in order to save the planet and its creatures, we must embrace our humanity and face our greatest fears. This is an ideal read for Shark Week or anytime!


The Ultimate Book of Sharks

The Ultimate Book of Sharks

Author: Brian Skerry

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1426330715

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An illustration-heavy exploration of the types and characteristics of sharks.