Duke: 399 books

One a Sicilian Hell's Kitchen gang leader, the other a sickly but brilliant Orthodox Jewish boy who lives next door, Vinny Vesta and Sidney Butcher meet on a fire escape during the blistering New York City summer of 1950. Their friendship develops over the course of a summer that will change Vinny's...

Iowa, 1988. An unidentified severed head is found rotting in a corn field. Confronted with this gruesome discovery, Gerry Stokes – an arrogant and obnoxious newspaper reporter – agrees to cover up the affair. But the truth can't be concealed forever.More than twenty years later, Stokes...

Sentinels (Farewell Bakassi: Selected Poems and Articles), denotes and connotes knowledge, powered by fervent passions, a lodestone of ideas, ideals and values. It is a confectionary of treasured experiences, going down memory lanes; replete with bitter -sweet recollections; of retrievable and irretrievable...

We all have regrets. Lani has more than her share including the biggest one, shooting somebody. Unable to face the consequences she hides from the truth, seeks solace in alcohol, and contemplates turning the gun on herself. Her mother will have none of that. Although dead for many years she visits Lani in spirit to help sort out her life and come to grips with her past, present, and future.

Payback.  Karma.  Just deserts...When Keith Cochoran runs away from his hometown of Halifax in the mid-sixties, he hopes he'll be leaving the fierce gales of the North Atlantic behind forever.  But the brash young Maritimer, a scrapper, is soon weathering storms of another kind.  Too...

Have you ever spoken the words “I will pray for you” only to shortly forget that you have been entrusted with a crucial request from a friend or loved one? Have you ever wondered if prayer even works? Statistics from a Christianity Today survey found that 48 percent of the Christians surveyed...

Frank Ross has had his fill of the big city and bright lights. On his way to the Colorado, he catches sight of a diner in a small high-desert town he’s passing through. His decision to stop in for pie and coffee is rewarded when the friendly waitress tells him about the job posting next door. He...

The Bible is filled with stories just as outrageous and ridiculous as those silly tales found in children’s books of the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and, of course, Ole Saint Nick. Stories the kids really believe, right! Have you ever wondered at the difference between those children's tales and...

This book examines a basic assumption behind most of the critical, progressive thinking of our times: that trade unions are necessarily tools for solidarity and are integral to a more equal and just society. Shaul A. Duke assesses the trade union's potential to promote equality in ethnically and racially...

AS SEEN ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIALS AND THE SCIENCE DISCOVERY CHANNEL! Colonel Derek Duke, USAF (retired), leads the official search expedition to find #47782, a 3 megaton hydrogen bomb lost 40 years ago in shallow waters near Savannah, Georgia. In all, there are upwards of 60 lost Doomsday Devices...

Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes both lived in the same Victorian age, and the same city,  London. Jack the Ripper was never caught, Sherlock Holmes never failed. It was inevitable that these two characters, one real and the other literary, would meet as they do in this book, historically...

The Moon is by far the most attractive location for an off-Earth colony. Its nearness and one-sixth earth gravity make it much more easily accessible than for example the closest planet, Mars. This book follows MOON Base Colony from the Apollo 11 pre-history to its founding in early 2100 AD, and...

Enjoy some of the Hot Moist Summer Antics of a Collage Boy and his Seductive Neighbor as they begin their exploriation of fun in the sun.

A beautiful young lady of high station asks Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson  to investigate the case of  a man who, according to his sworn statement, was very strangely abducted and treated, and then released. Holmes wants to question him, but he dies before being contacted. The man was...