David Todd

Elia’s Worldmaker Clan Sets Out Into the Wild Blue “Yander” of a New World

From the free-wheeling, fantastic imagination of Andri E. Elia comes a further installment of the adventures of the amorous, polygamous, winged warriors of Yand with Worldmaker of Yand – Polaris. If you haven’t been following along at home, here’s what you’ve been missing: The Worldmaker of Yand series follows the…

David ToddFebruary 14, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

Ayahuasca-Fueled Odyssey Transforms Into a Narrative of Spiritual Healing

Dozens of books have been published in the last 20 years on the subject of ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew made in part from DMT-containing plants indigenous to the Amazon. Most look from the “outside-in” at the chemistry and ethnobiology of its ingredients or the psychology and anthropology of its use.…

David ToddNovember 30, 2021

BooksToScreen Fiction Thrillers

Journalist Recruited to Stop Hitler’s A-Bomb in “The Armageddon Secret”

“He needed time to clear his mind, to fight through. He’d just looked in the face of the anti-Nazi underground, seen mental images of H.G. Wells’s super bombs, grasped the truth about his father’s murder, received a summons to help defeat Nazism — all simultaneously mind-boggling. Was this Black Orchestra…

David ToddNovember 15, 2021

Fiction

A Mighty Wizard Defends Her Planet From Genocide While Raising Unconventional Family

This is Andri E. Elia’s Worldmaker of Yand-Yildun, a quirky mix of ancient sorcery, astrophysics, interstellar war, and sexually charged, leather-clad, sword-swinging aliens. Yanara, the number-one spellcaster, has powers that would put her right alongside a Marvel Comics superhero. (She is impervious to heat — “I can walk through lava,”…

David ToddOctober 13, 2021

Fiction

A Journey Into Inner and Outer Space Awaits in “New Moons: The Seed Songs, Book One”

Background art: Lotus Life by Nancy Ashmead, acrylic on canvas; used with permission of the artist It’s 800 years in the future, and an interstellar odyssey is underway. Earth had become too toxic for habitation 700 years prior, triggering a mass migration known as the Ascendency. A group of indigenous…

David ToddJuly 1, 2021

Fiction Young Adult

Shape-Shifting Rites of Passage Take a Boy “Beyond Dark Waters”

Nine-year-old Ben isn’t necessarily a bad kid. He just does things that aren’t very good. He torments his younger sister Sophie, has no regard for the property of others, and is otherwise willful and inconsiderate. His mother sends him to his grandfather’s house one day as punishment, and Ben isn’t…

David ToddMay 19, 2021

Children's Books

“A Teeny-Tiny History of Philosophy” Shares Some Big Ideas With Small Children

“Teacher Socrates Goat had a problem: he wanted to live the good life, but didn’t know what the good life was.” So begins Francisco Mejia Uribe’s A Teeny-Tiny History of Philosophy: A Children's Introduction to the Great Thinkers of the Philosophical Tradition, a book for children ages 5 and up. It’s…

David ToddMarch 11, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Artist’s “Visual History of American Hypocrisy” Both Provokes and Enlightens

Looking at the works of John A. O’Connor in his recent art book, White Lies Matter: Decoding American Deceptionalism, the reader might easily be misled into believing that they are photographs of assemblages. Each is built on a “canvas” of an old-fashioned slate — the kind that kids in schoolhouses…

David ToddFebruary 26, 2021

Better Self Book Club Network Nonfiction

Much to Ponder About Self and Social Norms in “For Deep Thinkers Only”

Do you carry guilt, shame or embarrassment for things you've done (or haven't done) or for who you are as a person? Do you feel you don't "measure up" to certain standards or you don't "fit in"? If so, John J. Ivers, professor of International Studies at Brigham Young University-Idaho,…

David ToddFebruary 5, 2021

Fiction

When Climate Change Spirals Out of Control, It’s “So Long Earth”

Every year, we hear ever more dire news about the effects of climate change on our environment and the dwindling chances we are squandering to alter the planet’s collision course with disaster. What will we do when those chances run out? asks author Michael Bienenstock in his sci-fi adventure, So…

David ToddNovember 27, 2020

Nonfiction

Scholar Unpacks His 1995 Wager of Global Disaster in “The Collapse of 2020”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TheCollapseOf2020_1.jpg Way back in 1995, Kirkpatrick Sale, secessionist, environmentalist author and Neo-Luddite, bet Kevin Kelly (editor of Wired magazine) that by the year 2020, three disasters would occur: global currency collapse, significant warfare between rich and poor and environmental disasters of some significant size. Now in The Collapse of 2020…

David ToddOctober 8, 2020

Fiction

“The Beast And Other Tales” Mourns the Passing of a Vanishing Enchanted World

The Beast, and Other Tales (Northwestern University Press) is a skillful English-language rendering of four stories by the Provençal author Jóusè (Joseph) d’Arbaud including, most notably, his 1926 classic, "La Bête du Vacarès" (“The Beast of Vacarés”) — a haunting fantasy tale that takes place in a desolate landscape of…

David ToddSeptember 16, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

Learn to Stop Dieting and Start Living with “Live Healthy With Laura”

“Diets and deprivation do not work and they are not maintainable,” states Laura Heflin in her recent release, Live Healthy With Laura (Gatekeeper Press). In it, Heflin relates her own experience with the strict, traditional style of dieting, the anxiety and depression that it caused for her, and how she…

David ToddSeptember 8, 2020

Thrillers

“One Fatal Night” Offers Psychological Suspense with Nordic Noir Flavor

Ten years ago in Bergen, Norway, Astrid's mother, Ingrid, was murdered in a double homicide — a crime that was never solved. Now a young woman, Astrid begins a quest to uncover the past and discover her mother’s murderer, though her only clues are a few emotionally charged childhood images:…

David ToddJune 29, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

Take Mindfulness to the Next Level with “Making Love to Your Moments”

“Love is my life theme,” states Shari Butler, Ph.D.; she “felt called” to it, even at an early age. Her insightful and compassionate book Making Love to Your Moments: How To Love Yourself And Your Life is the result of many decades of personal reflection and professional experience related to…

David ToddJune 18, 2020

Fiction

“Malicroix” in Translation: A Hypnotic Account of Solitary Life

Drawn to an isolated property he has inherited from a mysterious relative, Martial Mégremut sets off into the center of his self, walking through darkness, traveling toward an unknown, as in a dream quest: this is the basic form of Henri Bosco's novel Malicroix. First published in 1948, it is…

David ToddApril 6, 2020

David Todd

Elia’s Worldmaker Clan Sets Out Into the Wild Blue “Yander” of a New World

Ayahuasca-Fueled Odyssey Transforms Into a Narrative of Spiritual Healing

Journalist Recruited to Stop Hitler’s A-Bomb in “The Armageddon Secret”

A Mighty Wizard Defends Her Planet From Genocide While Raising Unconventional Family

A Journey Into Inner and Outer Space Awaits in “New Moons: The Seed Songs, Book One”

Shape-Shifting Rites of Passage Take a Boy “Beyond Dark Waters”

“A Teeny-Tiny History of Philosophy” Shares Some Big Ideas With Small Children

Artist’s “Visual History of American Hypocrisy” Both Provokes and Enlightens

Much to Ponder About Self and Social Norms in “For Deep Thinkers Only”

When Climate Change Spirals Out of Control, It’s “So Long Earth”

Scholar Unpacks His 1995 Wager of Global Disaster in “The Collapse of 2020”

“The Beast And Other Tales” Mourns the Passing of a Vanishing Enchanted World

Learn to Stop Dieting and Start Living with “Live Healthy With Laura”

“One Fatal Night” Offers Psychological Suspense with Nordic Noir Flavor

Take Mindfulness to the Next Level with “Making Love to Your Moments”

“Malicroix” in Translation: A Hypnotic Account of Solitary Life

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