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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 architectural collegiate career. There, Ken struggled to keep up with the hard-edged modernism being taught in school and longed to design beautiful houses with soul.

Meg Summers is one of America’s premier architects, designing some of most exquisite estates across the country, but ever since her sister Dawn had an affair with her former husband, Mick Drewford, a year ago, she has felt utterly and desperately alone. She is also bored with her job. She would much rather sketch fantasy drawings all day in her journal than be managing projects.

Nightmares have him gasping for air. Frequently dreaming of being a sailor on a sinking Spanish galleon La Gracia, in the 17th century, he’s searched for the wreck and its priceless cargo off the Northeast Floridian coast for the last six years. Facing financial ruin from a massive tax bill, Teddy fears he’ll lose his beloved historic estate, Isabella, before he can dredge up the treasure.

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 vintage Funny Meal toys. On the heels of his girlfriend Sophia leaving him over his passion and his mom threatening to send him to a shrink, he finally has a choice to make.

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 legendary Dollarhide treasure, but the bounty isn’t enough to settle his debts, and his property tax deadline creeps closer and closer every day.

In book two 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.

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 away 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 later that same day. Unable to pay rent, his wife left him with their two kids after they were served an eviction notice to be out of their Harlem apartment in just two weeks.

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 been searching around the waters of Latchawatchee, Florida, for the last six years.

Big John Hoover and his wife Angela have just moved to Key West 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 in his sleep by a shadow being, which sends him and his wife running to a Voodoo Queen for help. Meanwhile, Maggie May flies down from Vermont for a dose of sunshine, staying with her friend Hank Thomas. Everyone is seeing ghosts and John must figure out how to protect himself and his wife before it's too late. Will they see the light before Halloween eve?

A 258-pound teenager named Big John from Los Angeles has a ravenous appetite for bad food. Eating it is the only thing that stops the warmth and tingling in his hands. The only problem is his dream girl, Maggie May likes dream guys. One day, John and his crew, The Zoo Crew, wander into a Madame Bernadette’s Fortune Telling shop in Venice and the psychic gives John the key to winning Maggie’s heart, but when he starts to get what he wants, he finds he no longer wants it.

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 Teacher Ali Dede, while being a student in Instituto Alef over a period of seven years from 2005 to 2012.

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 LA with a mysterious companion he picked up outside Key Largo, Florida.

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