LIBROS DEL AUTOR: odie hawkins

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  • Looking Back...Stories of Resilience
    Odie Hawkins / Ron L. Dowell / Rona S. Cook-White
    The Bilbrew Writers’ Workshop is a group of talented authors, writers, and poets who promote the art of writing and its power in telling a collection of stories from all walks of life.Here you will find the writers who make up the workshop sharing their experiences, their disappointments to triumphs. Their hardships lead to victory. From all walks of life, they seek to teach us...
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    12,03 €

  • Conversations with Likka Sto’ Rufus
    Odie Hawkins aka Willie West
    Beginning with the title - 'Conversations with Likka Sto’ Rufus'. Rufus is a complex African-American character. It would not be accurate to call him 'Liquor Store Rufus', because the cultural nuances would be muted. 'Likka Sto’ Rufus', at seventy something, is beautifully mellow and snarky, combined with all of the rip-roaring spices that go to make a fully developed lif...
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    16,20 €

  • Ghetto Sketches, 2021
    Odie Hawkins
    The 'Ghetto Sketches' was written in 1962, published in 1972. The ghettos in Chicago (North, South, Westside) provided the foundation for the novel. It is an impressionistic study of Washburne Avenue, a street on the Westside/ghetto in Chicago, filled with authentic people. As you read these pages, keep in mind, The 'Sketches' happened in a time frame when there were few com...
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    16,03 €

  • The Snake, 20/20
    Odie Hawkins
    Odie Hawkins created the Pan-African Occult genre and 'The Snake 20/20' is one of his finest examples of that genre. Hawkins seduces us from the Frankensteins, Werewolves and Vampires of Europe, to take a more profound look at the mythical-spiritual life of Ghana, West Africa. JuJu is an entrenched part of that experience. What is JuJu? Read 'The Snake 20/20' for more in...
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    33,13 €

  • Urban Nomads and Other Stories
    Odie Hawkins
    'Urban Nomads and Other Stories' offers the reader the possibility of being able to experience lifestyles, different people, circumstances that he/she might not ever experience during the normal course of their daily lives.In the era of 'Fake News' and attacks on journalists, you read about two journalists who immerse themselves with urban nomads to get the story their editors’...
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    47,10 €

  • Matador Negro, 'Azucar II'
    Odie Hawkins
    'I lit my fire, I greased my skillet with virgin pressed olive oil, and I cooked.' That’s one of the statements Chester L. Simmons, Jr. made about his career as a Novillero/Matador in the art of bullfighting. It’s really weird that it should be called bullfighting. No reasonable person would ever think of fighting a bull who has been bred to fight. Would any reasonable person t...
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    33,34 €

  • The Lil’ Urban Gourmet Cookbook
    Odie Hawkins
    The Lil’ Gourmet Cookbook focuses on food that is good for you. The best kind of food and exercise create a harmonious lifestyle. It’s not about a lot of running and kicking but about being sensible and consistent. There are foods we must forget about in order to have a healthier lifestyle. They fall into many categories, but basically, they are foods that may taste good but wi...
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    57,95 €

  • Lil’ Sweets
    Odie Hawkins
    “… Hawkins … delivers a novel that mixes the streetwise lingo of vintage pimp fiction together with scathing satirical commentary about the spread of global capitalism, the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the AIDS crisis in West Africa. A classic worthy of the “Sweets” series.” —Dr. Justin Gifford, Professor of English Literature, University of Nevada, Reno Peter Wright is cli...
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    39,14 €

  • Palm Wine Junction
    Odie Hawkins
    Palm Wine Junction has several stories reflecting the Pan-African Occult genre. I invite the perceptive reader to determine which stories come from that genre. I would also suggest that the prospective reader should not be led into thinking that the children, beautifully detailed by artist Suchin Lin, on the cover of Palm Wine Junction represent the unusual stories in Palm Wine...
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    30,47 €

  • Black, White & Brown On The Blue Line
    Odie Hawkins
    'Black, White & Brown On The Blue Line' is an invitation to join a collection of strangers on an emotionally adventurous trip, from Long Beach, California to Downtown Los Angeles, California -- and back. ...
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    19,53 €

  • Hollow Daze
    Odie Hawkins
    'Hollow Daze' is the fictional account of an imaginary publishing house and the shenanigans that occur between the publishers and the writers whose books have been published by this publishing house. The novel is written in a semi-documentary style, with excerpts from the works that each of the writers have had published, all of it covered by the dark umbrella called 'Urban Fic...
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    8,73 €

  • Kwanzaa for Conrad & the Survival Tango
    Odie Hawkins / Zola Salena-Hawkins
    'Kwanzaa for Conrad & The Survival Tango' offers a gritty, sometimes funny picture of a brilliant man who manages to swim out of schizophrenia into a 'normal' creative life as a writer. ...
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    23,18 €

  • The Snake Doctor
    Odie Hawkins
    ''Snake Doctor' is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he needed to make the break out film he yearned to make. The proper sacrifices were made, the money poured in and the filmmaker be...
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    22,84 €

  • The Black Matador, 'Sugar'
    Odie Hawkins
    The Matador Negro 'Azucar' (Black Matador, 'Sugar'), is the story of a young African-American man, born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, who is obsessed by the idea of becoming a matador. Chester Simmons is opposed by his parents. 'Bullfighting!? Get serious about yourself, Chester!' Dondisha Phillips, the kindergarten teacher who loves him, 'Chester, you could get hurt ...
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    22,95 €

  • Sweet Peter Deeder II A.K.A. ’Mr. Sweets’
    Odie Hawkins
    Sweet Peter Deeder a.k.a. ’Mr. Sweets’'First off I have to say this loud and make it very clear from the very beginning; I am a descendant of one of the royal houses of African-American pimping. Let me add, I am a proud descendant. I know what I’m about to tell you is going to rustle some feathers, make no mistake about that, but that’s the way it’s been with me all my ...
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    17,64 €

  • Shackles Across Time
    Odie Hawkins
    SHACKLES ACROSS TIME 'Shackles Across Time' traces the history of a curse, of a spiritual fatwa, in a sense, on an African slave trader’s 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 us...
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    17,73 €

  • Mr. Bonobo Bliss
    Odie Hawkins
    'Mr. Bonobo[1] Bliss aka ’Bo’' is a humanoid designed by the Dr. Maxwell Waters Group to accompany six female astronauts on a long duration mission. 'BO’s' presence must be kept a secret because of the sociopolitical climate of the time.Unfortunately, for the 'astranauettes,' the secret is leaked and their mission is scrubbed. They return to Earth with serious cases of post-t...
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    16,56 €

  • Lady Bliss
    Odie Hawkins / Ralph H. Vernon / Ralph HVernon
    The seven astronauts who are about to embark on a Long Duration Mission (LDM) have decided that they would like to have female companionship.'Lady Bliss', designed by the mad scientist Dr. Eveready, is cautiously welcomed by the astronauts. Fast forwarding back. The LDM has been successful, with help from 'Lady Bliss', but she has to remain a secret because of the sociopolitica...
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    17,74 €