Audiobooks by Duke Tate

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: Give up his burgers for the people he loves, or fall deeper into the clutches of his growing obsession. Will Skip give up the Flip? Find out in this short story by Duke Tate.

Duke Tate (Author), Andrew Rowe (Narrator)

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Big John's Hair-Raising Misadventures: The Trilogy

Duke Tate (Author), Andy Rowe (Narrator)

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The Architect: The Origin

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 follow the note’s instructions to the island of Kauai where she is swept into a tantalizing world that is both mysterious and strange. The eccentric man who leads her there asks her to do the impossible: design an enormous dream building for the ages on his property. As time passes, she becomes entranced by her new surroundings and the wealthy man who brought her there, but she also longs for her old life, her home and her family. Will she find herself? Will love find her? Or will she get lost in a new life that is too overwhelming to bear?

Duke Tate, Ken Tate (Author), Leslie Howard (Narrator)

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The Bottom of the Ninth

t’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 later that same day. Unable to make 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. Descended from a line of die-hard Yankees’ fans, Max realizes there is more to life than just baseball and needs money soon, but how? After attending a series of Get Rich Seminars and coming up empty, he wonders if he will ever get the score he needs to get out of his slump. Can he save his life before the bottom of the ninth? Find out in this short read by Duke Tate.

Duke Tate (Author), Andrew Rowe (Narrator)

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The Pearlmakers Trilogy

Greedy developers want Teddy Dollarhide’s land. His only hope for salvation lies under the sea. Nightmares have him gasping for air. Frequently dreaming of being a sailor on a sinking Spanish galleon, La Gracia, in the seventeenth 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. However, his luck changes when an antique pistol covered in barnacles surfaces in a new location, and he and his four man crew, The Pearlmakers, shift their search hoping to make the score of a lifetime. But with a brutal hurricane assaulting his little town, Teddy’s renewed fortunes may drown in a mountain of debt deeper than the lost ship’s deepwater secret. Meanwhile, Teddy falls in love with a beautiful riveting stranger that oddly resembles a Spanish woman from his dreams and his older boys go off in search of a long forgotten family treasure buried in the California mountains. Nothing is what it seems as time slips away and everyone’s dreams are on the line. The Pearlmakers Trilogy contains all three books in a riveting mystery serial. If you like Southern gothic, magical realism, funny characters, and seafaring legends, then you’ll love Duke Tate’s atmospheric adventure.

Duke Tate (Author), Paul Winter (Narrator)

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The Pearlmakers: The Hunt for La Gracia

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. They have only found scraps from the vessel and time is running out as Teddy owes back taxes on his massive historic estate, Isabella, that he can no longer afford to pay. A pair of aggressive real estate developers keep pressuring Teddy to sell off his land for an enormous sum so they can turn the parcel into a cheesy condominium called Casablanca. As the tax deadline closes in, Teddy’s son Cosby, a curly-headed high school senior, finds an antique pistol in the ocean while surfing, suggesting to Teddy that the bounty must be in another location. Meanwhile, Teddy’s other son, Joey, returns home from California for his brother’s graduation and ends up tangled in love with a quirky, beautiful southern belle named Annabelle Burns with an overbearing, rich father. A deadly hurricane hits the town and Teddy’s sons and their girlfriends end up hunkering down in Isabella with Teddy and a host of other characters full of southern charm and wit. Teddy spins yarns about his family quests for gold in the Sierras, inspiring his sons to consider heading out on their own adventure. This first installment in The Pearlmakers saga promises a rich, lively tale full of adventure, romance, and passion.

Duke Tate (Author), Paul Winter (Narrator)

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The Pearlmakers: Gold Is in the Air

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. The Pearlmakers continue to hunt the legendary waters for the full treasure of La Gracia, but another brutal hurricane stirs off the coast of Latchawatchee. Alicia and Teddy’s love grows wild like kudzu, even though she finds his lack of interest in selling his land to be disturbing. Will the crew find the ship’s hidden treasure before the tax deadline, or will their plans be derailed by a pair of vindictive real estate giants who want to destroy the essence of the place the Dollarhides call home? This third installment in The Pearlmakers saga contains an astounding finale just waiting to be discovered.

Duke Tate (Author), Paul Winter (Narrator)

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The Pearlmakers: The Dollarhide Mystery

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. Hunting in a new location, his team finds a hefty quantity of antique gold at the bottom of the ocean. After celebrating, Alicia reluctantly informs Teddy that she has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Utterly devastated, Teddy begins to help her with a special concoction he brought up from La Gracia that helped cure his cat, Bear, of feline AIDS. Meanwhile, a stealthy gun hired by some aggressive property developers, Bateman and Banks, is now after Teddy’s finds, putting more pressure on him to sell off his historic estate, Isabella. The boys and their girlfriends take a road trip to the Sierras in search of the long-lost treasure that their great relative Luke Dollarhide never found with the various clues he left behind in his journals. Stopping at their old summer camp, Camp Big Bear in California, which rests on the land where Luke's treasure is rumored to be, they meet the current owner, strike a deal, and sign a contract. Back in Florida, Alicia starts to make her unique pearl necklaces and sell them as the strange elixir seems to be improving her health. Out west, the boys find something special in the most unusual place, but people are ready to steal it from them at every turn. This second installment in The Pearlmakers saga weaves a tale about hope, family treasure, and awakening love in a lost heart.

Duke Tate (Author), Paul Winter (Narrator)

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Big John and the Island of Bones

It’s October in the Florida keys, Fantasy Fest, the legendary Halloween carnival, is underway in Key West and Big John Hoover and his wife Angela have just moved to the artist enclave from Big Sur, California for John to pen a book. John has traded his bad food addiction for a liberal island diet of Cuban coffee, rum and Cohiba Habanos cigars. Out of the blue, he gets attacked in his sleep by a shadow being and a ghost appears at their cottage, which sends John and Angela running to Miss Anne, the Voodoo Queen of Duval Street who gives them some poignant advice she sees in her cards. No longer interested in John, Maggie May had a spiritual rebirth a few years back and now works at a psychic shop in Applebury, Vermont. She just so happens to fly down to Key West for a dose of sunshine, staying with her friend from Santa Monica High, Hank Judge, who is now a cop on the island. Meanwhile, an old enemy of John's tries to send him to his grave and John must figure out how to protect himself before it's too late. Maggie and John run into each other by accident and everything is ghosts and phantoms for the group. Will they see the light before Halloween eve on the key that never sleeps?

Duke Tate (Author), Andrew Rowe (Narrator)

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Big John and the Fortune Teller

Los Angeles. 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 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 wake the next day ripped and drop-dead handsome. Despite his hunky new form snagging him high-paying modeling gigs and the most popular chick in school, he’s certain there must be more to life than being impossibly buff. And when the fortune teller returns to reveal why he feels so weird inside, he discovers he possesses a unique healing destiny that paints a deadly target on his back. Can this remade beefcake survive unwanted lethal attention? Big John and the Fortune Teller is the first book in the extraordinary Big John magical realism occult fiction series. If you like found families, exciting twists, and great responsibility with a supernatural spin, then you’ll love Duke Tate’s fun adventure.

Duke Tate (Author), Andrew Rowe (Narrator)

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Gifts from a Guide: Life Hacks from a Spiritual Teacher

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. Covering a variety of subjects such as: The Law of Attraction, Energy Therapies, Diet and Nutrition, Travel, Nature, Color Therapy, Relationships, Aromatherapy and Financial Know-How to name a few, it is a remarkable mine full of gems.

Duke Tate (Author), John Willian Cantees (Narrator)

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The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate

Selected by The Times Literary Supplement as a 2020 book of the year, The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate by Ken and Duke Tate 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. His quest led him on to Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, where he found what he was looking for in two creative professors, Jim Jones and Lewis Lanter, who mentored him. That tutelage led him to write his architectural thesis Architecture in Search of a Soul. Following graduation from Auburn, Ken journeyed to work for eccentric talent Bruce Goff in Texas and afterwards for Sambo Mockbee in Jackson, Mississippi. He established his own firm, Ken Tate Architect, in 1984 in Jackson, Mississippi, which began a lifelong career of designing houses in an alchemical way where an inner essence was breathed into them. Full of rich detail and texture, the book follows Ken’s 35-year career from Jackson to New Orleans and on to Palm Beach where the firm has opened their second office. Covering his approach to design, how architecture relates to cinema and photography, advice, reflections and even epiphanies, the book is a must read for any fan of the profession.

Duke Tate, Ken Tate (Author), Andrew Rowe (Narrator)

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