Toni Allen: 4 books

He isn’t lonely, but being immortal has its downfalls. The recurrence of loss, the memories, and the continual need for a new identity before everyone questions why he looks so young.  From the start he knew that Richard Ridley didn’t feel safe; dying in infancy, and apparently unloved....

A celebration of the voices of women of color in prayer Women of color pray and have prayed out of necessity for survival, out of love for the Divine and because we believe in the power of prayer. Prayer has been the prevailing force behind the education of our children, protection and courage...

This “uniquely valuable reference” filled with over five hundred quotations is a bibliophile’s delight (Library Journal).   A room without books is like a body without a soul. —Cicero   This collection of quotations about books captures the wisdom and wit of such legendary figures as: Aeschylus,...

Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have...