Bøker av Steve Burt

2017 Florida Book Festival Award, Best Holiday Book. THIS REPLACES THE OUT-OF-PRINT 2001 bestseller, A CHRISTMAS DOZEN. Yes, you've seen these Steve Burt stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul and Family Circle, and you've heard them on the radio. They're written by the man New Englanders call the Christmas Story Pastor.For decades Rev. Steve Burt wrote stories for Christmas Candlelight Services and magazines reprinted them. In 1999 he took the clippings and started a read-aloud program for nursing homes and senior centers. Audiences laughed and cried. They asked for a book they could both use and give. Thus, A Christmas Dozen was born. On release day, a Connecticut radio station had Dr. Burt read stories on-air for four hours. The phones lit up and listeners bought 5-10 at a time, selling out the first and second printings in 50 days. The stories' power to touch hearts and souls was undeniable. Over the next year, a national radio tour reached nearly a half million more listeners. A Christmas Dozen is available as a Kindle e-book and as an Audible audio-book, but the paperback just went out of print. Yet people keep seeking the print version for gift-giving and especially for read-aloud at holiday gatherings. They love the emotional responses the stories elicit from hearers. So here's the new paperback: Christmas Soup for the Soul, a collection of the Top 10 favorites according to readers. Enjoy. Savor. And most important, Share.

Winner of the 2015 New England Book Festival Award for Best Anthology. Regular print edition (There is also a Large Print Edition). You want strange? You got it. Wicked Strange, as they say in New England. Imagine looking out your window in Nashua, New Hampshire and seeing an other-worldly hearse cruising up and down the street in search of a soul. Heard about Plantation 13, the rural Maine backwater, where the males birth the babies through their eye sockets? Hey, don't pet that infected dog! It's been in that concrete wall over three decades. And what's up with those giant moths trapped in the tower of the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse? Be sure to cross the road when you go past the old witchy woman's place along the White River in Bethel, Vermont or you may run into the spirit-stealers. Spend a day with the new caretaker's apprentice at the old felons' bone yard in Augusta, Maine. You say you need your fix of New England weirdness? Well, you're guaranteed to find it here under the covers--the front and back covers--of Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt's latest collection: Wicked Strange.

This is a sermon preached by retired pastor/professor Rev. Dr. Steve Burt at the Tri-County Unitarian Universalists's service in Summerfield, Florida on April 22, 2018. There were so many requests for printed copies that it has been published in its entirety here.

2023 New England Book Festival Best Young Adult2023 Hollywood Book Festival Winner, Best Sequel2023 New York Book Festival runner-up, Best Adult Fiction>From Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt, sequel to The Bookseller's Daughter (2019 New York Book Festival Grand Prize Winner)>Protect the Queen is the exciting, long-awaited sequel to the 2019 regional bestseller, The Bookseller's Daughter, which won the New York Book Festival grand prize for adults and the 2019 Mom's Choice gold medal for teens

BEST SPIRITUAL BOOK, 2021 NEW ENGLAND BOOK FESTIVAL AWARDS.In 2001, during an interview on a Connecticut radio station, Steve Burt read "Tina's Tender Touch," a story he had published in Mature Living Magazine. The phones lit up, listeners begging for more. So he read "The Thumb Island Elephants," about a coastal community in a 1909 Christmas Eve snowstorm that had to come together to rescue an circus elephant and her baby who were trapped in an overturned circus wagon on the railroad tracks. Sales of the Rev. Dr. Burt's book, A Christmas Dozen, went through the roof, with Family Circle Magazine showcasing a Vermont story, "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish," about a young boy and his father clashing over how to respond to a dying great-grandmother's yearning for a Christmas Eve sleigh ride. Readers loved it and Dr. Burt was invited to do a 100+ radio station tour. Then Chicken Soup for the Soul reprinted "Tina's Tender Touch." Readers laughed, cried, and shared the stories with friends, clergy, and family.Now, 20 years later, with A Christmas Dozen out of print, we're bringing back 10 of the original 12 stories as the New England Christmas Sampler. Enjoy. And share.

BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION 2023 Halloween Book Festival AwardsBEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION, 2021 New England Book Festival Awards.BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION, 2021 Hollywood Book Festival Awards.>Includes 20 of Maine's master storyteller Steve Burt's 39 weird tales reprinted from his 4 earlier award-winning collections that recently went out-of-print:: Odd Lot (2001 Benjamin Franklin Award, mystery/suspense), Even Odder (2003 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers nominee/finalist), Oddest Yet, (2004 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers WINNER), Wicked Odd (2005 Independent Publisher Award honorable mention). Burt is also the author of the FreeKs teen detectives thrillers (FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, FreeK Week) that won 4 Mom's Choice Awards the 2015 Florida Book Festival Grand Prize, the New York and New England Book Festival Awards for Best Teen/YA, and the Halloween and Hollywood Book Festival Awards for Best Teen. His thriller, The Bookseller's Daughter, about an ancient race of gargouilles in present-day Maine, won the 2019 New York Book Festival Grand Prize for Adult Fiction and the New England Book Festival Award for Best Y.A.. The gargouilles sequel, Protect the Queen, came out on July 1, 2023.