Books

Bugspray

Most people think art from the 1960’s is in the past.

But it is very much alive for one young man in New York City who has found something mysterious in a famous artist’s well-known work.

Something he can’t ignore.

Follow the maze he unravels as he tracks down the art’s origins and the hidden gem they may lead to.

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...

The Pearlmakers Trilogy

Book #4 from the series: The Pearlmakers

Frightened by vivid dreams of being a crew member on a Spanish galleon, La Gracia, which sank off the coast of a haunted, but charming oak lined town in Northeast Florida during the 17th century in a brutal hurricane, Teddy Dollarhide and his crew, The Pearlmakers, have been desperately searching the murky Atlantic waters around his home for the...

The Wordsmith

27-year-old Will Williamson lives alone.

Only he doesn’t live by himself in just any old place. He lives in South Fork, Indiana’s very own bunker community.

He’s not scared of the world ending. He just loves to read.

But all that is about to change when fate steps on his bunker front door one night.

And the terrifying event forces Will to face his...

The Venus 2.0

Sam Black’s life is about to get turned upside down when he unboxes his full-sized automaton robot – the Venus 2.0.

She can walk, talk, sing…….and even kill.

But that’s not all....

....Sam may even be framed by her for his best friend’s murder.

Sasquatch’s Cereal and Eccentrification

In Sasquatch’s Cereal....

Stellar Moon has one obsession, his Froot Loop cereal, until he discovers he doesn’t need it anymore.

Wandering through the woods when he was little, Stellar was separated from his Bigfoot family.

Raised by a wild Bigfoot conspiracy theorist named Spud Force in the mountains of Washington state, he must fend for himself...

The Biscuit and The Burger Flip Kid

In The Biscuit...

There is a cathead biscuit that contains within it all the magic that came before it for the reader to experience.

Go for it in this short read that tastes better with each bite.


In The Burger Flip Kid...

Skipper Matthews has an obsession. Burgers.

It’s all he ever eats. And not just any burgers, Burger Flip burgers.

For the last...

Santa’s Magic Bag & Bottom of the Ninth

Enjoy two of Duke Tate’s Christmas short reads, “Santa’s Magic Bag” and “Bottom of the Ninth,” in this fantastic Holiday bundle.

Santa’s Magic Bag

The relatives have gathered again in New York for their annual Christmas Eve dinner at eight.

The only problem is they are all a bunch of raving lunatics.
Unfortunately for Bubba, the family social...

Musings of an American Redhead in Thailand

Scorpions on a skewer.

Deadly black spiny sea urchins.

Sun so hot it could burn your eyeballs out.

That’s why you came here. To get out of that air-conditioned box in America or whatever orderly place you hail from.

Welcome to Thailand. An adventure so grinding, you won’t know what hit you until that motorbike with 15 people on it gets right in...

Big John’s Hair-Raising Misadventures: The Trilogy

Book #4 from the series: Big John

Join Big John Hoover for a wild and invigorating journey through the labyrinths of the mind in this trilogy written by Duke Tate.

This volume contains all three Big John novellas:

  1. Big John and the Fortune Teller
  2. Big John and the Island of Bones
  3. Big John and the Hitcher

Big John and the Hitcher

Book #3 from the series: Big John

The hitcher has a gift. Not only can she see into the future, she knows everything that is about to occur.

The third book in Tate’s Big John Series picks up where Big John and the Island of Bones left off, with Big John Hoover driving a hauling truck to L.A. with a mysterious companion he picked up outside Key Largo, Florida.

Along the way he...

The Architect: The Origin

Book #1 from the series: Books by Ken & Duke

She received a note in a rare out of print book addressed to her. Intrigued, she decides to follow it to a strange address in Hawaii.

Architect Meg Summers is about to land her dream job, but is she up for it?

On a cool fall day in East Hampton, Meg finds a mysterious note in elegant cursive addressed to her. After much debate, she decides to...

The Burger Flip Kid

Skipper Matthews has an obsession—burgers.

It’s all he ever eats. And not just any burgers, Burger Flip burgers—the most famous burger franchise in the world.

For the last 11 years, Skip has only eaten at Burger Flip.

He even has a life-sized figure of Harry B, the Burger Flip mascot in his living room, not to mention walls of memorabilia and...

My Big Journey: Returning to Freedom, Gifts from a Guide, Quantum Living & Thrive

Book #5 from the series: My Big Journey

My Big Journey is the tetralogy of Duke Tate’s three books: Returning to Freedom: Breaking the Bonds of Chemical Sensitivity and Lyme Disease, Gifts from a Guide: Life Hacks from a Spiritual Teacher and Quantum Living: A Life Full of Miracles and Thrive, which chronicle his over 15 years studying under teachers in The Great Tradition of the...

Quantum Living: A Life Full of Miracles (My Big Journey)

Book #3 from the series: My Big Journey

In this third book in Tate’s My Big Journey series, you will learn how the author undid much of his childhood conditioning by embarking on a spiritual journey.

Along the way, he even eliminated further physical ails using the groundbreaking techniques revealed in this book given to him by his first Teacher.

Many of these techniques are quantum in...

Bottom of the Ninth

It’s Christmas time in New York City and the bottom of the ninth in Maximilian Clark II’s life.

His father, Max senior, just passed from cancer. Meanwhile, Max lost his job selling pizza during Knicks’ games at Madison Square Garden and his fake watch collection he usually sells on the corner of Times Square was stolen from his beat up Chevy van...

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...

The Pearlmakers: Gold is in the Air

Book #3 from the series: The Pearlmakers

Gold Is in the Air, the third book in The Pearlmakers saga, starts in the mountains of the High Sierras of California where Cosby, Joey, and their girlfriends divide up a hefty find and make the trek back to Camp Big Bear.

Along the way, dangerous foes still lurk behind every bush. Meanwhile, Teddy Dollarhide is overjoyed by his sons’ finding of...

The Pearlmakers: The Dollarhide Mystery

Book #2 from the series: The Pearlmakers

In Book 2 of The Pearlmakers saga, The Dollarhide Mystery, Teddy Dollarhide is now in love with a riveting Spanish woman named Alicia whose eyes remind him of a woman from his dreams and hypnotism sessions about the elusive Spanish galleon he and his crew have been searching for.

Hunting in a new location, his team finds a hefty quantity of...

The Pearlmakers: The Hunt for La Gracia

Book #1 from the series: The Pearlmakers

Teddy Dollarhide, a rough man with ruddy skin and pearl-white hair whom everyone calls “Old Salt,” is plagued by reoccurring dreams in which he is a crew member on the Spanish galleon La Gracia that he believes went down in a violent hurricane in the 17th century with countless jewels and gold on board.

His four-man crew, The Pearlmakers, have...

Gifts from A Guide: Life Hacks from A Spiritual Teacher

Book #2 from the series: My Big Journey

Gifts from a Guide: Life Hacks from a Spiritual Teacher is the second book in Duke Tate’s My Big Journey series, expounding in detail many of the concepts and themes touched on in Duke’s first book Returning to Freedom: Breaking the Bonds of Chemical Sensitivity and Lyme Disease. It contains a wealth of knowledge the author learned from his Sufi...

Big John and the Fortune Teller

Book #1 from the series: Big John

L.A.

Fifteen-year-old Big John Hoover has strange tingly hands and an unstoppable appetite.

But when he learns his dream girl could never love a 258-pound teenager, he wanders into a psychic shop in Venice searching for the secret to her heart. And though he’s skeptical when the mystical madam has him draw the fit body he desires, he’s stunned to...

The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate

Book #2 from the series: Books by Ken & Duke

This is celebrated architect Ken Tate’s creative memoir about his life.

Beginning with his days growing up in Columbus, Mississippi where he was surrounded by beautiful Greek Revival houses, the book journeys through Ken’s upbringing as a creative adolescent to his early days at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he started his...

Returning to Freedom: Breaking the Bonds of Chemical Sensitivity and Lyme Disease

Book #1 from the series: My Big Journey

Lyme disease is a spiritual wakeup call.

This is a time of a great awakening and Lyme disease is a spiritual messenger from higher dimensional realms.

The author, Duke Tate, became bedridden and close to death’s door after being bitten by a wolf tick as he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut. He went through traditional treatments...

Dead Bones

Michael Miller loves to bird watch out his window in Big Sur, California.

But what he doesn't expect is to see something awful occurring in the cove down below.

Now, he only has a few days to solve the mystery before he and his rebellious son, Cody, are next.