Showing results by narrator "Michael Piotrasch" in All Categories

After successfully breaking the Confederate siege at Chattanooga near the end of 1863, William Tecumseh Sherman united several Union armies in the Western theater for the Atlanta Campaign, forming one of the biggest armies in American history. After detaching troops for essential garrisons and minor operations, Sherman assembled his nearly 100,000 men. In May 1864, he began his invasion of Georgia from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his forces spanned a line roughly 500 miles wide.

This is a revised edition (2015) of the 2003 collection of 15 weird tales that was named one of five Bram Stoker Award finalists in the Young Readers category. This version costs less because it doesn't have the Jessica Hagerman pen-and-ink cover and illustrations, just the stories.

From Bram Stoker Award-winner Steve Burt, this nine-story collection won a silver Benjamin Franklin Award for Mystery/Suspense. Don't listen to this book after sundown! In any storytelling, but especially in fantasy/horror, there is one thing that is critically important if you want to have your toenails curl and leave holes in your bedspread from gripping it convulsively when you listen before sleep. It is that you have to care about the characters, or else who cares what happens to them?

From 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner Steve Burt and veteran middle-school teacher Jolyn Joslin comes this exciting book for kids that's also a fabulous tool for parents, grandparents, and teachers: 13 ghost stories and weird tales to help kids read, learn, and write their own stuff. These are the thought-provoking stories young readers love. A boy approaches an old woman tending a grave garden. On a dare a brother and sister enter a bone yard on Halloween to free a sea captain's earthbound spirit.

Thirteen weird tales and ghost stories of New England from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt. Excerpted from the author's Stories to Chill the Heart series of 39 stories: "Odd Lot" (Benjamin Franklin Award winner), "Even Odder" (Bram Stoker Nominee), "Oddest Yet" (Bram Stoker winner), "Wicked Odd" (Ippy Award).

Most visitors arriving from the hustle and crowds of busy Florence cannot help but fall under the charm of Siena's gracefully winding (and pedestrianized) medieval streets. Laid out on the slopes of three steep hills (the historical terzi or "thirds" of the city), the center of town, geographically and emotionally, is the fan-shaped and gently sloping, redbrick Piazza del Campo, a wonderfully preserved monument to Siena's medieval heyday when merchants, bankers, and artists flocked here and some of the city's greatest monuments were constructed.