Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that . . . in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.' Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one....
65) Call me Adnan
Author
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal.
66) Angus is here
Author
Formats
Description
"After losing Angus, his beloved dog, a young child journeys through grief and learns how to keep memories of Angus close forever"--
Author
Series
Code of honor novels volume 1
Formats
Description
"Detective Colin Flynn investigates a tragic death that's been linked to a grieving woman with apparent memory loss, but it quickly becomes clear there's more to the case--and the woman--than meets the eye"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Formats
Description
In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a debut novel, set in Barbados, about four people confronting violence and love in a beachfront "paradise" In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. When she's grown-up, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless...
74) Cape
Author
Description
A child wears a cape as protection from grief after the loss of a loved one, using it at first to avoid memories that keep bubbling up, and then later for comfort and strength.
75) Hidden
Author
Formats
Description
When Jeff Manning is struck and killed in a car accident walking home the two women in his life are devastated: his wife, Claire and his co-worker, Trish. Both have to learn to deal with their grief in different ways.
77) Safe and sound
Author
Formats
Description
Single mother Jenn has been suffering from anxiety issues in regard to her son Charlie, and struggling with life in general. When, in her job as a housing manager, she finds the body of a young woman who has lain undiscovered for months, it hits her understandably hard. Jenn just can't understand how Sarah's life can have ended in this way, with apparently no one to miss her or even notice her absence. Jenn sets out to unearth what happened but the...
Author
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented
One of The Atlantic’s Great...
The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented
One of The Atlantic’s Great...
Author
Formats
Description
Eva's dad is dead. Her mother isn't, but ought to be, says Aunt Maddie. Time to move on ... Moving from Nova Scotia, Eva tries not to care. She's already dropped out of school and is washing dishes for a living. Despite her aunt's encouragement, she can't speak French, the mother tongue of her Acadian family, but Maddie insists they have to go to Montreal -- now. Maddie has provided reluctant care for her niece for more than a decade, despite the...
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