Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
Critically acclaimed author Silas House's A Parchment of Leaves was named Kentucky Novel of the Year and won a special achievement award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 1917 rural Kentucky, Saul Sullivan marries a beautiful Cherokee woman named Vine. They weather the storm of prejudice, but when Saul temporarily moves away to work a better job, his younger brother makes advances on Vine that are not welcome and ultimately lead to tragedy....
2) Othello
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Othello" by William Shakespeare is a captivating tale of love, jealousy, and the destructive power of deceit. Set against the backdrop of Venice, this timeless tragedy follows the noble Moorish general Othello as he falls deeply in love with the beautiful Desdemona. However, their happiness is short-lived as the ensign Iago, consumed by jealousy and ambition, begins to manipulate Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful.
What unfolds...
Author
Description
In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives.
Author
Formats
Description
The Chandaria family-emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi-have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their son, Sunil, after quitting the pre-med track, has gotten accepted to a PhD program in philosophy at Harvard. But the parents have kept a very important secret...
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.
One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey into an unknown world. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds
8) Loving
Description
"The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court"--From www.imdb.com.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
In 1967 Toronto, Selena, a school teacher from Wales emigrates to Canada and meets Aidan, a man who emigrated with his family from Sri Lanka in 1956 when he was sixteen. Salena is not conscious of their racial differences until they return to Wales to be married. Here she experiences her mother's response to Aidan's colour. She is shocked by the racism of her mother and of the teachers in the school where she starts to teach. She encourages Aidan...
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor–winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs.
Cover may vary.
Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves...
Cover may vary.
Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves...
Author
Formats
Description
Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut. 'You Can't Stay Here Forever' explores the slippery nature of marriage, the push and pull between friends, and the interplay of race and privilege, seen through the eyes of a young Asian American woman. Goodreads Giveaway.#diversity.
Author
Formats
Description
In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Description
"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 2
Description
Follows the story of a young family trying to survive an interstellar conflict.
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 4
Description
As Hazel becomes a toddler, her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet.
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 5
Description
As Hazel becomes a toddler, her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet.
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
Description
"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
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