What are you reading for Shark Week?

[Amanda]

Shark Week begins Sunday, July 5. When you're not watching Discovery's sharkfest, celebrate by reading a book.

Nonfiction
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
With a reporter’s instinct for a good story and a scientist’s curiosity, Eilperin offers us an up-close understanding of these extraordinary, mysterious creatures in the most entertaining and illuminating shark encounter you’re likely to find outside a steel cage.

Raising a Soul Surfer: One Family's Epic Tale
Read about Bethany Hamilton's amazing survival of a shark attack.

Super Shark Encyclopedia by DK Publishing
Obviously the cover picture is lacking, but this book is filled with great photographs and information about these scary sea fish. If you click on the book title our library catalog will open and you can view the cover.

Fiction
Shark Fin Soup by Susan Klaus
Christian Roberts, a handsome, young Floridian, has retired from horse racing and sets off with his wife, Allie, to cruise the Caribbean on his new sloop. Tragedy strikes, ending the dream vacation, and Christian becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Shattered and guilt ridden, Christian believes his actions caused the death, and suicide lurks in his thoughts, a way to end his pain, but he can't act on the impulse, at least not yet. He must honor a dying request, Save the sharks. Do it for me. Every year, one-hundred million sharks are killed for their fins that are used in a Chinese soup, a symbol of wealth in Asia.

Shark Skin Suite by Tim Dorsey
This book isn't technically about the animal, but instead represents a different kind of shark. But hey, it has a shark on the cover and in the title. Plus, Tim Dorsey represents Florida in his books, and we have plenty of sharks here.

The Trench by Steve Alten
Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth scalpel-sharp. Its power unstoppable as it smashes the steel doors holding it in a Monterey Aquarium. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more. Paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor once dared to enter this perilous cavern. Using himself as bait, Jonas will enter the ultimate battle--a fight to he death between man and beast in the darkest recesses of the ocean, and a fight for sanity from the depths of this own tormented soul.