How to use a library to fetch data in Ember

I am still very new to the world of Ember, and I'm still trying to understand EmberJS and Ember Data (latest version). In my previous (non-Ember) Node app, I included a library that handled all my REST calls to where my data was stored. It set up the connection to the server and handled all the error handling and parsing into a nice and tidy JSON object, and even handled multiple calls to the server in case the response was too big for one call. I can fetch individual records, but if I wanted to fetch a bunch of records, all I had to do was initialize the library object ('myObj') and call myObj.fetchAll(config) to initiate the fetch. Then I just have to wait on several events.

Example

myObj.on('record', function() { // Each record is an event }
myObj.on('error', function () { ...}
myObj.on('end', function () { // After the last record is retrieved }}

I would very much still like to use this library in Ember, but I have no idea how to go about setting it up. I haven't been able to find any examples of creating my own Adapter (is that the right terminology) that would allow me to do this.

Is this something I can do with Ember, or is it not recommended?