The Life and Times of Chester L. Simmons

The Life and Times of Chester L. Simmons PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
Let Chester take you on a journey through Spain in his search to find himself—and write about it. He hooks up with “El Encanto”, a star-crossed matador. Then back to the States, where he meets and marries the love of his life. A honeymoon in West Africa leaves them yearning for a place they’ve never known, but feel is their home . . .

The Life and Times of Chester L. Simmons

The Life and Times of Chester L. Simmons PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
Let Chester take you on a journey through Spain in his search to find himself—and write about it. He hooks up with “El Encanto”, a star-crossed matador. Then back to the States, where he meets and marries the love of his life. A honeymoon in West Africa leaves them yearning for a place they’ve never known, but feel is their home . . .

The Life and Times of Chester L. Simmons

The Life and Times of Chester L. Simmons PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Holloway House Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780870673412
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Chester L. Simmons

Chester L. Simmons PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed “The Great Lawd Buddha” by his hip constituents because of his almond shaped eyes and his generous tummy, is one of those delightfully free spirits that life gives the world now and then. With his storytelling he sometimes fuses reality and creativity into a seamless possibility; or seamless possibilities. He has been known to bend the truth, if the truth was not creating the right kind of life-vibe for him.

A History of the African American Novel

A History of the African American Novel PDF Author: Valerie Babb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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Book Description
This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

Midnight

Midnight PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Book Description
Midnight offers us a sensitive view inside the soul of a young African American gangster who is influenced by an older man, a convict, to look into his African side. “You may not be what they’ve told you that you are, over here. When you check out where we came from.”

Lost Angeles

Lost Angeles PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
In the post–Watts Rebellion 1970s, Chester L. Simmons takes up the study of martial arts—Hapkido and Tae Kwon Do. Author Odie Hawkins, using his special blend of wry humor, incisiveness, and sensitivity, takes alter ego Simmons through that experience, as well as a series of misadventures writing movie and television scripts for Hollyweird studios.

Conspiracy

Conspiracy PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
Henrik Malan was the South African secret agent who devised the plan to have the Black American ghettos destroy themselves by supplying them with a cheap but highly addictive drug known on the streets as “Ghetto Blaster.”

Brazilian Nights

Brazilian Nights PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Book Description
Valonga Price takes a three-year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to discover her true self. Armed with questions that have been whirling around in her head, she travels to places like Brazil, San Salvador, Bahia, Nigeria, Cuba, and Japan.

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters—Elizabeth, “Queen of the Projects”; the girl “Billie” who sings like Lady Day; young Randolph who, to his family’s embarrassment, grows a second head for a while; Dean Dale Jackson, talented writer, sculptor, auto mechanic, and dedicated to the underbelly of a bottle; the Vernon family upwardly mobile but required by a will to grow cotton in their suburban backyard; and Marlene and James, who find happiness in an unexpected way, in marriage.

Shackles Across Time

Shackles Across Time PDF Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468568086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Shackles Across Time traces the history of a curse, of a spiritual fatwa, in a sense, on an African slave traders family in West Africa, and the subsequent effect of that curse on the family, over the course of three centuries. Modern technology helps the descendants to realize that something is not cool with their spiritual DNA, but they must use olfashioned means to cope with the problem. They engage the services of a well-known writer (a case of serendipity, he has written about their family in his book about the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade). The mediator is called an okyeame. The okyeame meets with the descendants of the man who pronounced the curse and unfortunately, must undergo the spiritual cleansing necessary for him to be taken seriously. His life is changed by his ordeal. It is also instrumental in having the curse lifted from the African slave traders descendants.