Books published by publisher Jackdaw

Nick Drake is back! A contemporary western thriller.It's 1969 and spring finally comes to the lonesome Oregon high desert after an especially bitter winter, but for every new beginning, something old must give way. Someone is poisoning wild horses and a vicious killer escapes from prison. A murder thrusts Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake into a desperate manhunt that turns into a fight for survival to protect those he holds dear. Spring quickly turns into a season of dying and life in Harney County will never be the same.Read as a standalone or as part of the series.Award-winning author Dwight Holing draws on his deep roots to the American West and understanding of the natural world to create a masterful story. With memorable characters and prose that crackles like the unforgiving setting, the suspense builds and drives The Shaming Eyes to a climax as powerful as a force of nature.Here's what readers are saying:★★★★★ Wow! Simply, wow!★★★★★ A touching, terrifying fast-moving thriller.★★★★★ A real page-turner.★★★★★ Characters you can believe in.★★★★★ Holing has put together another masterful story.★★★★★ Enjoyed the Native American mysticism and folklore.

For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly. A contemporary western thriller.Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.What readers are saying:★★★★★ Fits right alongside Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, and Nevada Barr.★★★★★ I'm a huge fan of contemporary westerns married with a mystery. This nails it.★★★★★ Nick Drake is wonderfully complex. His backstory in Vietnam is beautifully (and horrifically) described.★★★★★ The supporting characters feel so real. The old lawman, Deputy Pudge Warbler, is as flinty and resolute as his pitiless territory.★★★★★ I absolutely loved the Native American character, her language and myths.★★★★★ Got it on Friday and finished it on Saturday. An amazing read.★★★★★ Smart, thrilling, and action-packed.★★★★★ The prose crackles like the high desert setting.★★★★★ The descriptions of the natural surroundings put me right there. I could touch, smell, and hear it.

Nick Drake is back! A contemporary western thriller.It's 1969 and spring finally comes to the lonesome Oregon high desert after an especially bitter winter, but for every new beginning, something old must give way. Someone is poisoning wild horses and a vicious killer escapes from prison. A murder thrusts Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake into a desperate manhunt that turns into a fight for survival to protect those he holds dear. Spring quickly turns into a season of dying and life in Harney County will never be the same.Read as a standalone or as part of the series.Award-winning author Dwight Holing draws on his deep roots to the American West and understanding of the natural world to create a masterful story. With memorable characters and prose that crackles like the unforgiving setting, the suspense builds and drives The Shaming Eyes to a climax as powerful as a force of nature.Here's what readers are saying:★★★★★ Wow! Simply, wow!★★★★★ A touching, terrifying fast-moving thriller.★★★★★ A real page-turner.★★★★★ Characters you can believe in.★★★★★ Holing has put together another masterful story.★★★★★ Enjoyed the Native American mysticism and folklore.

For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly. A contemporary western thriller.Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.What readers are saying:★★★★★ Fits right alongside Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, and Nevada Barr.★★★★★ I'm a huge fan of contemporary westerns married with a mystery. This nails it.★★★★★ Nick Drake is wonderfully complex. His backstory in Vietnam is beautifully (and horrifically) described.★★★★★ The supporting characters feel so real. The old lawman, Deputy Pudge Warbler, is as flinty and resolute as his pitiless territory.★★★★★ I absolutely loved the Native American character, her language and myths.★★★★★ Got it on Friday and finished it on Saturday. An amazing read.★★★★★ Smart, thrilling, and action-packed.★★★★★ The prose crackles like the high desert setting.★★★★★ The descriptions of the natural surroundings put me right there. I could touch, smell, and hear it.

This teacher's resource is the perfect tool for an in-depth introduction to the architecture and sculpture of the Greeks and Romans. It supplies ready-to-use teaching units essential to understanding architecture. A twenty page unit covering architectural terms and features is easily reproducible for whole-class instruction. Ground plans, reconstructions, sculptural anatomical terminology, tools, and methods of production are comprehensively explained. Units include mythology stories and artistic commentary for each deity. Students will enjoy quotes from Homer, detailed illustrations, Did you know? Fact lists, and imaginative activity sheets.

Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Ares, Aphrodite, Hera, Athena, Artemis, Hestia, Hermes, Hephaestus, Hebe, Demeter, Dionysus, and Hades--this teacher resource focuses on the twelve Olympians, who were the major gods and goddesses of the Greeks and Romans. Listed in alphabetical order, each Olympian receives a brief historical and factual account, and an overview of the deity's place in both Greek and Roman society. Each chapter includes "Story Telling Time," which is a retelling based directly on a primary ancient source, either Homer, Homeric Hymns, Ovid, or Vergil. The stories closely follow the ancient text, preserving the similes, metaphors, and imagery. Lesson units can be used together or individually. Student Activities augment the learning experience. Among the striking infographics are an Olympian family tree and a chart that organizes each God or Goddesses' Roman and Greek name, personality attributes, realm, symbol, and city. Materials in this resource are fully reproducible.

This thought-provoking anthology allows students to improve their awareness of others and themselves. It is ideal material for Social Studies and Literature Curriculum. It is also ideal for a supplementary text in American Studies, for use as a primary text in American Literature, and as a resource for character and moral education. The study of diverse American lives, presented first-hand by those who lived them, is an excellent way to become more thoughtful about life as an American citizen. This anthology-reader is comprised of substantial excerpts from eleven deeply moving autobiographies, written by distinguished men and women from diverse ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds: Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Jacob Riis, Mary Antin, Booker T. Washington, Dick Gregory, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Richard Rodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Theodore Roosevelt, and Malcolm X. The excerpted lives are presented in pairs, which at first glance seem vastly different, however they illustrate similar themes, such as the internal requirements for freedom, the meaning of active citizenship, or living between two cultures. For each life, the excerpts present the author’s parochial beginnings, his or her coming to individual self-consciousness, and the distinctive life he or she subsequently lived in the light of such self-awareness. An introductory essay opens up the question of American identity, shows why it is important, and tells why studying American lives through autobiography is well-suited to the inquiry. An introduction to each narrative provides an overview of the autobiographer and his or her life story, and presents a set of questions that the autobiography invites us to consider. Along with the overall introduction, these questions guide teachers and students in examining the meaning of living an American life, including their own.Table Of Contents:* Preface, Introduction, and Beginning the Inquire: Suggestions and Questions* The Model American: Self-made Man* Joining America: Out from Under* Schools for Freedom: Competence and Literacy* Growing Up in America: The Making of a Citizen* Between Two Worlds: Negotiating the Difference* Home of the Brave: From Self-Command to Leadership* Appendix, Bibliography