Ahoy, me hearties! September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day—Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! Here is your chance to be a real buccaneer, or, at least pretend to be. Even a landlubber like me can talk like an old salt as long as I have a wee bit of pirate vocabulary under me pirate hat. Shiver me timbers!
I suppose a little pirate talk goes a long way, so let me move on to this week’s recommended reads. You’ll find a handful of pirate-themed titles for kids and adults, because interest in pirates has no age limit. What I know about pirates comes mostly from the movies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Peter Pan in particular. But reading books about real pirates has been quite enlightening (and just so you know, there was a lot more danger and death than “Yo, Ho, Hos!” and bottles of rum). If it’s a spoiler to say that pirate life was hard, my apologies.
Adults:
- Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin.
- Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood.
- The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos.
Children:
- Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas written by Leigh Lewis, illustrated by Sara Gomez Woolley.
- Pirate Ship Adventure Crafts by Anna Llimos Plomer.
- Pirates and Shipwrecks: Real Tales of Terror on the High Seas by Tom McCarthy.
New at the Library
Fiction
- The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff.
- Rock Bottom by Fern Michaels.
- Star Wars, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade by Delilah S. Dawson.
Nonfiction
- Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul.
- Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front by Serhiy Zhadan.
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners: A Guide to Living and Dying by Rinpoche Lama Lhanang.
Children
- Children’s Quick & Easy Cookbook by Angela Wilkes.
- The Duck Never Blinks written and illustrated by Alex Latimer.
- The Secret Explorers and the Sunken Treasure by S.J. King.
This is just a small sampling of the many new titles added each week to the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries collection. Find more in our catalog, or call 360-906-5000 to reserve titles or find additional listings.
Jan Johnston, Collection Manager
Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries
You can email Jan at readingforfun@fvrl.org.
