Books with author Steve Burt

Award-winning short horror story, one of 13 excerpted from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt's collection, Wicked Strange, which was named Best Anthology at the 2015 New England Book Festival. Burt's FreeKs series about psychic teen detectives won 30 awards and includes FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, and FreeK Week (Florida Book Festival grand prize winner).

This 18-page horror short story from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt is excerpted from his collection, Wicked Strange, which was named Best Anthology at the 2015 New England Book Festival. A one-eyed man receives a message along with his father's ashes and glass eye, motivating him to travel to a bizarre Maine backwater in search of his roots and his future. The collection, Wicked Strange, is available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook, read by Michael Piotrasch. Burt is also the author of the award-winning FreeKs psychic teen detectives series (print, ebook, and audio), which won the 2015 Florida Book Festival grand prize.

First in the FreeKs series (FreeK Show is second). For adults and teens--An Adventure That's Out of This World. And In It. Free Camp, which somehow became known as FreeK Camp, is for special kids. But just how special most people will never know. Two vans are on their way to the camp in rustic New England, their passengers just starting to get acquainted. One van makes it. The other mysteriously disappears. Now each group of kids must bond together to discover and use their paranormal and psychic powers. The lives of one group literally depend on it. Part mystery thriller, part detective story, part sci-fi, FreeK Camp is all hold-your-breath-I-didn't-see-that-coming adventure. Awards: NY, San Francisco, New England, Paris, London, and Hollywood Book Festival Awards; 2010 and 2011 Beach Book of the Year; 2 Mom's Choice golds, Moonbeam Award, Next Generation Indie. The second in the series, FreeK Show, hit the shelves May 15, 2012 and has won the Mom's Choice gold, the Halloween, Hollywood, NY, and Beach Book Festival.

From America's #1 horror author for young adults (9-18). 4th in Stories to Chill the Heart series. Oddest Yet won horror's highest prize, the 2004 Bram Stoker Award (tie with Clive Barker's Abarat), Even Odder was 2003 Bram Stoker Nominee (runner-up to JK Rowling's Harry Potter), Odd Lot won silver Ben Franklin for y.a. horror/mystery/suspense and ForeWord's Honorable Mention for Best Horror Book 2001.Popular school author-visitor.

Large Print Edition. Oddest Yet won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers, the horror genre's most coveted award. Nine weird tales from Steve Burt, who also writes the FreeKs paranormal teen detectives series that has won 4 Mom's Choice golds, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for teens, the Florida Book Festival Grand Prize, the Florida Authors & Publishers President's Award silver, and the New England Book Award.

From Bram Stoker Award winner Steve BurtCould Things Get Any Weirder in Wells, Maine?Working at her mother's hole-in-the-wall bookstore, Annie's Book Stop, 17-year-old Keegan has read plenty of mysteries. But she's never been part of one. Until now.It starts when someone--or some THING--burglarizes a different business in Wells, Toil & Trouble. It specializes in occult, magic, and rare books. The thief steals an obscure book of little interest except possibly to a collector.Things get stranger when a visitor appearing to be a hunchbacked nun comes into Annie's Book Stop and asks Keegan to order a reprint of the same book--plus two books on local graveyards! But before they can be picked up, a robed and hooded figure breaks into Annie's after hours and rifles through the special-orders shelf. Is there more to this book than meets the eye?More questions come up, but the most important one is: Can Keegan survive long enough to unravel the big secrets of her small town?

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No i-deer. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still, no i-deer.Over 150 dumb jokes for kids from retired minister Steve Burt, who is the author of dozens of award-winning teen mysteries and ghost story collections, a 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner. The sequel, Second Worst Joke Book, is due out in October 2016.

It is a classic tale of David vs. Goliath, where a hardy band of activists and everyday citizens opposed efforts by Big Oil to transport hundreds of proposed shipments of equipment the size of submarines along some of the most scenic stretches of highway in Idaho and Montana — a story told well by author Steve Bunk in an upcoming release from New West Books, Goliath Staggered: How the People of Highway 12 Conquered Big Oil.The so-called “megaloads” controversy mesmerized citizens of the Northwest states from 2010 to 2013. Before the XL Pipeline debate came to public attention, several of the world’s biggest oil companies were determined to ship hundreds of gigantic loads of mining equipment to the tar sands of Canada via wild lands in northern Idaho that were protected by federal law from such industrial traffic. Big Oil had politicians in its pocket, but grassroots opposition arose, and after three years of confrontations in meeting rooms, the media, the streets and the courts, the citizens won.In Goliath Staggered: How the People of Highway 12 Conquered Big Oil, Idaho writer Steve Bunk chronicles this successful grassroots campaign. In so doing, he presents a template for how everyday people, sufficiently motivated and brilliantly led, can protect their environment against seemingly insurmountable forces.The book, which will be released in April by New West Books, an imprint of August Publications, follows the exploits of Linwood Laughy and Karen “Borg” Hendrickson. In late-middle age, this couple became alarmed by the prospect of what Borg dubbed the “megaloads,” and fostered a resistance movement that captured regional, national, and even international attention. Their efforts were mirrored by a grassroots campaign centered in Missoula, Mont., whose origins and development also are depicted in Goliath Staggered.Goliath Staggered recounts a drama that unfolded week by week over the years, including relentless sleuthing by citizen activists, the discovery of collusion between politicians and businessmen, broken laws, media revelations, disinformation campaigns, nonviolent protests, shipping accidents on the road, and legal battles in Idaho and Montana that pitted the people against the massed forces of government and big industry.“This is a major contribution to conservation literature, and tonic for anyone who needs reminding that in America, against all odds, caring people still make a difference,” says Rick Johnson, executive director of the Idaho Conservation League.Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, the international movement to combat climate change and the leading opponent of the proposed XL Pipeline, calls Goliath Staggered “an inspiring story of resistance and nonviolent power.”Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, adds that “Steve Bunk’s deft reporting captures the creative, chaotic energy of a true grassroots campaign.”