Catalog Search Results
1001) Lesser islands
Author
Description
"An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio--a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways."--
1002) Some people's children
Author
Description
Raised by her grandmother, Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and only sees her mother sporadically. As she grows older, she learns that many people believe her father is a local drug dealer, a man both feared and ridiculed.
1003) Fiercombe Manor
Author
Description
"A haunting and richly imagined dual-narrative historical novel tells the story of two women from very different eras who are united by the secrets hidden within the walls of an English manor house"--Provided by publisher.
1004) Recipe for disaster
Author
Description
When Hannah Malfa decides she wants to have an awesome Bat mitzvah, just like her best friend, Shira, her Grandma Mimi and Aunt Yael offer to help her prepare, even though Hannah's mom and her aunt aren't on speaking terms. As family secrets burst out into the open, Hannah must decide what's more important--her family, or her bat mitzvah--in this bittersweet story about food, family, and finding yourself.
Author
Description
Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family-fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.
Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father's stories about...
1006) Anne of Windy Poplars
Author
Series
Description
"Anne Shirley has left Redmond College and Green Gables behind to begin a new chapter of her life in Summerside. She's soon facing an unexpected challenge, however, in the form of the Pringles--also known as the royal family of Summerside. They quickly let Anne know that she's not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into her cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she also has great allies in...
1007) P.S. be eleven
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 2
Description
The Gaither sisters are at it again! A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, this novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dreaming and As Brave as You. After spending the summer in Oakland, California, with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern arrive home with a newfound streak of independence. That doesn't sit well with Big Ma, who doesn't like the way things are changing. Neither...
1008) Home fires
Author
Description
"At Casie Carmichael's dude ranch in Hope Springs, she and her guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, family is determined by far more than DNA, and being independent isn't the same as being alone"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Description
A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert.
1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge.
2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel...
Author
Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 1
Appears on these lists
Canada Reads 2023 -- Longlist
Indigenous Arts and Culture September Display
Indigenous History: Adults
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Adult
Indigenous Arts and Culture September Display
Indigenous History: Adults
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Adult
Description
"A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its...
Author
Description
Tricked into marrying a stranger and running a ramshackle hotel with him, Amelia agrees to stay for the summer so not to cause the economic downfall of this Greek island's quirky but well-meaning residents, but when the hotel is threatened by a developer, she finally finds something worth fighting for.
1012) Island
Author
Description
Seventeen-year-old Konrad arrives home to find his father's broken body at the bottom of a ravine, and learns his brother watched him fall. Konrad doesn't know if his brother pushed his father, or if he jumped or fell. Desperate for answers before calling the police, he confronts his brother and tries to reconstruct their past to figure out when and why their family disintegrated.
Author
Series
Histoires de femmes volume tome 3
Description
La suite de la bouleversante saga mettant en vedette trois familles québécoises à la fin des années 1920
Un an après le retour de Marion au manoir, la vie semble reprendre son cours normal. Mais la période d'accalmie sera brève puisque survient le krach boursier de 1929, un événement qui secouera l'Amérique entière. Fulgurante et inattendue, la catastrophe n'épargne personne... Les membres des familles O'Gallagher, Couturier et Lafrance...
Author
Description
Lillian Miller hopes the Plain life will offer her the peace of mind her heart desperately seeks.
LillianÆs first twenty-seven years have been challenging at best. Her decision to get reacquainted with her Amish grandparents in Lancaster County, PA, is an attempt at finding peace in a complicated world. But her plan has a flaw . . . Lillian is practicing the Amish lifestyle with no real understanding or relationship with God. And despite her best...
1015) New animal
Author
Description
"New Animal is a poignant, darkly comedic look at human connection from a biting and original new voice in Ella Baxter. Amelia Aurelia is approaching thirty and her closest relationships -- other than her mother -- are through her dating apps. She works at the family mortuary business as a cosmetic mortician with her eccentric step-father and older brother, whose throuple's current preoccupation is with what type of snake to adopt. When Amelia's affectionate...
Author
Series
Description
"When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28 year old widow with a baby in the 1800s, without any means...
1017) The country guesthouse
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 5
Description
When her best friend dies unexpectedly, Hannah finds herself left with the task of raising her five-year-old son.
Author
Series
Histoires de femmes volume tome 4
Description
La conclusion d'une saga bouleversante qui met en vedette des femmes inspirantes et des plus attachantes!
Après Marion, Félicité et Éléonore, l'une des plus populaires séries de Louise Tremblay d'Essiambre met cette fois en scène Agnès, une femme tout aussi inoubliable que les précédentes. Alors qu'elle s'approche doucement de son rêve de devenir institutrice, la jeune femme se coupe mystérieusement du monde et se fait de moins en moins...
1019) Martyr!
Author
Description
"Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past ... toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...
1020) Gone crazy in Alabama
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 3
Description
"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible" --From...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Ajax Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request