Books with author Steven Burchik

With a compass to direct him in his job as a forward observer and a personal camera to document his experiences—and keep him connected to his creative side—Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was lucky enough to make it home and years later decided to write about the most challenging year of his life. Like any experience, his year spent with the First Infantry Division stationed in the rice paddies near Saigon included good times as well as bad. He candidly recalls how, although he believed communism to be a serious threat in the world, he soon learned that a guerilla war is a difficult one to fight, and survival rather than victory quickly became his focus. But he also remembers the exhilaration of helicopter rides over serpentine rivers and the time he introduced village kids to a gumball machine. A unique memoir of the war, Compass and a Camera pulls not only from Burchik’s memories, but also from the daily letters he wrote to his fiancée (she kept every single one) and includes numerous photographs from his collection of over four thousand. The images alone make this book a must-have for any history buff or fellow veteran.

With a compass to direct him in his job as a forward observer and a personal camera to document his experiences—and keep him connected to his creative side—Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was lucky enough to make it home and years later decided to write about the most challenging year of his life. Like any experience, his year spent with the First Infantry Division stationed in the rice paddies near Saigon included good times as well as bad. He candidly recalls how, although he believed communism to be a serious threat in the world, he soon learned that a guerilla war is a difficult one to fight, and survival rather than victory quickly became his focus. But he also remembers the exhilaration of helicopter rides over serpentine rivers and the time he introduced village kids to a gumball machine. A unique memoir of the war, Compass and a Camera pulls not only from Burchik’s memories, but also from the daily letters he wrote to his fiancée (she kept every single one) and includes numerous photographs from his collection of over four thousand. The images alone make this book a must-have for any history buff or fellow veteran.

Grand Prize Winner, 2019 New York Book Festival Awards2019 Mom's Choice Awards gold medalistFrom Bram Stoker Award-winning author Steve Burt comes a new novel for adults and teens.Could Things Get Any Weirder in Wells, Maine?Working at Annie's Book Stop, 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 local bookstore, Toil & Trouble, stealing an obscure book of little interest except possibly to a collector.It gets stranger when someone appearing to be a hunchbacked nun comes to Annie's Book Stop to order a reprint of the same book—and 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?

A Guardian's duty is to guide their human through life's twists and turns and lead them down the path to righteousness. Hector had fulfilled his duty for the past twenty years. All of that was about to change with one chance encounter with Mia, an Earthwalker that had lost her way. With the gift of free will, Hector had a choice; continue his duty, or change paths and explore the possibility of True Love.

What do you do when life is going great, but you just need a change? You go on an adventure of course! Sure, Konrad's life was everything a Tailor could want, great thread, sharp needles and an endless supply of items in need of mending. But, for some reason this was just not enough. And so he sets about on the adventure of a lifetime as he encounter a pack of vicious dogs, takes refuge in a home which turns out is filled with the undead, and finally, helps save a kingdom from absolute ruin. Join Konrad and his new friend the Scarecrow as they travel the countryside in search of each of their destinies!