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Big John and the Island of Bones

Book #2 from the series: Big John

Big John Hoover and his wife Angela have just moved to Florida from Big Sur, California for John to pen a book.

But John has traded his bad food addiction for Cuban coffee, rum, and cigars.

Out of the blue, he gets attacked by a shadow being, which sends him and his wife running to a Voodoo Queen for help.

Meanwhile, Maggie May flies down to the...

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Jericho Walker: Mississippi Lizard Slayer

In Duke Tate’s first-ever short story collection, join Jericho Walker on the adventure of a lifetime hunting green slime in the Mississippi outback or hunker down in a bunker loaded full of books with wordsmith Will Williamson or crisscross the country with a savage Bigfoot.

The choice is yours.

The adventure is not to be missed.

Thrive

Book #4 from the series: My Big Journey

17 years ago, Duke Tate first met Ali Dede, while he was an undergraduate student at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi.

Shortly afterwards, he became a student in his Sufi school, Instituto Alef, in Mexico.

In the Sufi tradition, it is commonplace for the guide or murshid to teach the student how to progress inwardly by prescribing him or her Inner...

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Praise

He makes sure they know, though, that they are getting his creations and not necessarily something “authentic.” As Duke Tate writes in Alchemy, “Authenticity can be the kiss of death when trying to achieve a soulful habitat.”

– Nuvo Magazine

The Alchemy of Architecture by father/son duo Ken Tate and Duke Tate (Pearl) is a short quirky book about one American architect's struggle against the prevailing Modernist tide, as he seeks out meaning and "soul" in house design.

– Diana Darke, The London Times Literary Supplement

In Gifts from a Guide, there is an abundance of good advice to absorb. Life-affirming health tips for both body and soul and gathered in a handy book. Perfect as a reference book and equipped with a recommended reading list. After 105 easy-to-read pages in 20 chapters, I finished Gifts from a Guide very eager to try several of them. I warmly recommend this book, as well as the author's Return to Freedom: Breaking the Bonds of Chemical Sensitivities and Lyme Disease.

– Amazon Reader