About
Robert J. Pajer was born in Yonkers, New York. He has been a correspondent for Mini-World Magazine written in English for Japanese readers, and has written articles for American magazines that dealt with religious topics in American culture. A Handful of Dust is his first novel. He spent over 10 years researching the book while working a full-time job. A Handful of Dust is an incredible journey through the streets of 1930 depression-stricken New York City.
"People are again experiencing some of the difficulties our parents and grandparents went through during the thirties," Pajer said. "The past two years have been a humbling time financially for many people and identifying with the past can help us understand this isn't a new situation historically, others have gone through it and survived. My desire is that "A Handful of Dust" will not only entertain, but also remind us the most important things in life are family and relationships.
Mr. Pajer lives in Yonkers, New York is married and he and his wife have two daughters.
My Little Angel Coloring Book
Description
<p>Does your child have a Guardian Angel?</p><p>Share a day in the life of a little girl whose tiny guardian angel named Angela sits on her shoulder to keep the child safe and guide her through the day.</p><p>Her activities include getting the girl ready for school, crossing the street, being polite and kind to friends, learning her lessons, fastening her seatbelt while traveling, being aware of stranger-danger, praying for her pets, and reminding her constantly that she is loved.</p><p>Once again social values are emphasized in this latest illustrated children's coloring book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon. This is the author's third rhyming children's coloring book.</p><p>Meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books, as My Little Angel Angela guides this child throughout her day.</p><p>The author says, "This book is dedicated to our oldest son, who lost his battle with cancer in August 2021. He is my Special Angel."</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Sherrill S. Cannon is the author of 10 award-winning children's books that have won nearly 100 awards (and counting), including Santa's Birthday Gift, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys, The Magic Word, Gimme-Jimmy, Manner-Man, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, The Golden Rule, My Little Angel and David's ADHD, as well as two award-winning poetry books, A Penny for Your Thoughts, and A Dime is a Sign. Her other two coloring books are Peter and the Whimper-Whineys Coloring Book and The Golden Rule Coloring Book. She is also a playwright, with seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. A former teacher, the author's goal in each of her books is to teach good manners as well as caring for others.</p>
Story Behind The Book
Handful of Dust took eleven years to complete. There was an enormous amount of research involved because the novel takes place in the 21st Century and in 1930. It revolves around the strange disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater on August 6, 1930 and the corruption of New York City's Tammany Hall run government. While researching the book I was at 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan and viewing the Crater files. I had access to the files because of the wonderful Freedom of Information Act and one veteran detective standing in his office door frame said to his partner, in a low voice as I walked by, "I can't stand that new law. You never had civilians down here in our file rooms. Nothing is sacred anymore." I smiled at him and he rolled his eyes and walked back into his office. I've been thanking the legislators who passed the FOIA bill ever since.
Reviews
Robert Pajer's 'A Handful of Dust' is a great read--a gripping and historically accurate tour of New York in 1930 and the events surrounding the disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater. Anyone interested in the period should find it fascinating, as I did."--Richard J. Tofel, author, Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"> The single most amazing thing about Robert Pajer’s fast-paced, hugely enjoyable novel <em>A Handful of Dust </em>is the no-nonsense, whirlwind way he gets down to the business of his plot. That plot is, as we used to say, a hum-dinger: a rogue U.S. naval officer has used experimental technology to leap backwards in time, intent on stalking and killing Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt before he becomes president—and straight-shooting (we hope) FBI agent Matt Wells has been ordered to go back in time himself to kill the would-be assassin and preserve the timeline we all know and love.<br /> Most authors, facing such a corker of a premise, would bolt the thing out of the starting gate by spending too much time on the how of time travel (Michael Crichton’s <em>Timeline</em> makes this mistake for about 200 interminable pages). Pajer dispenses with this in basically one paragraph and a bit of dialogue—the explanation’s just as convincing as it needs to be in order to get us to the main meat of his plot: FDR, the past, the plot. <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"> That plot is wonderfully, almost dementedly, explosive. <br /></span>Steve Donoghue, Historical Book Society<br /><br /></span>
