Arrrrrgh, Mateys!

Bein’ as today is National Talk like a Pirate Day, me thinks you should check out some of these piratey activities on the great sea of the interweb.  Arrr, this website will turn any text int' pirate talk, argh!  Ahoy, har’s a link t' what our public webpage would look like.  Ahoy, har be some links t' some pirate name makers: har, har, and har.  And, here be a link t' t' original Talk Like a Pirate Day website.  And don’t ye forget to point your mouse here for some good advice in order t' celebrate t' best day o' t' year.

Arrr, also, in celebration o' National Talk like a Pirate Day, we have a fine display o' pirate related books at the New Books desk this week.  Aye, be sure t' stop in and check out some o' these titles.

Pirattitude!: So, you wanna be a pirate? Here’s How! by John Baur

A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe

Jolly Roger with an Uzi by Jack Gottschalk

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks

The End of Barbary Terror: America’s 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa by Frederick C. Leiner

Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 by Kris E. Lane

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe

Pirate by Fabio