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Call Number | Title | Author | Publication Date | |
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N7349.A5 A2 2021 | 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir / | Ai, Weiwei, (author) | 2021 | |
F L5122c | A clash of steel : a Treasure Island remix / | Lee, C. B., (author) | 2021 | |
PR9639.4.M43 S77 2022 | A strange and stubborn endurance / | Meadows, Foz, (author) | 2022 | |
RC394.A85 C35 2022 | A thousand ways to pay attention : a memoir of coming home to my neurodivergent mind / | Schiller, Rebecca, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3603.H45 A64 2022 | Activities of daily living : a novel / | Chen, Lisa, (author) | 2022 | |
F R334a | Ain't burned all the bright / | Reynolds, Jason, (author) | 2022 | |
F T13a | All my rage / | Tahir, Sabaa, (author) | 2022 | |
PL872.5.A89 S834 2022 | All the lovers in the night / | Kawakami, Mieko, 1976- (author) | 2022 | |
PQ7798.417.O59 A8413 2021 | American delirium / | Gonzalez, Betina, 1972- (author) | 2021 | |
E99.Y25 Z57 2019 | American Indian stories / | Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938, (author) | 2019 | |
QP431 .Y66 2022 | An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us / | Yong, Ed, (author) | 2022 | |
PR9369.4.J48 I85 2022 | An island : a novel / | Jennings, Karen, 1982- (author) | 2022 | |
PR6057.A319 A85 2021 | Anansi boys : a novel / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2021 | |
BF637.S4 B8117 2021 | Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2021 | |
HG179 .D85874 2019 | Bad with money : the imperfect art of getting your financial sh*t together / | Dunn, Gabe, (author) | 2019 | |
PS3573.I53165 B44 2019 | Before we were yours : a novel / | Wingate, Lisa, (author) | 2019 | |
BF511 .N67 2021 | Big Panda and Tiny Dragon / | Norbury, James, (author, illustrator) | 2021 | |
PS3613.E83 B86 2022 | Bindle punk bruja : a novel / | Mesa, Desideria, (author) | 2022 | |
F704.T92 J64 1998 | Black Wall Street : from riot to renaissance in Tulsa's historic Greenwood District / | Johnson, Hannibal B., (author) | 1998 | |
PS3620.O45 .B56 2022 | Blood mountain / | Tolian, Brenda S., (author) | 2022 | |
HM753 .B765 2017 | Braving the wilderness : the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2017 | |
PS3611.U639 B85 2021 | Build your house around my body : a novel / | Kupersmith, Violet, (author) | 2021 | |
PL871.5.S25 M3713 2021 | Bullet train : a novel / | Isaka, Kotaro, 1971- (author) | 2021 | |
PQ8098.36.A43 P6413 2022 | Chilean poet : a novel / | Zambra, Alejandro, 1975- (author) | 2022 | |
F G127c | Chivalry / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2022 | |
PQ8220.41.M68 A2 2020 | Cockfight / | Ampuero, Maria Fernanda, (author) | 2020 | |
TX714 K5553 2022 | Cook what you have / | Kimball, Christopher, (author) | 2022 | |
TX837 .B8754 2022 | Cooking from the spirit : easy, delicious, and joyful plant-based inspirations / | Brown, Tabitha, (author) | 2022 | |
F G127co | Coraline / | Gaiman, Neil. | 2002 | |
PS3609.G647 C69 2018 | Coyote songs : a barrio noir / | Iglesias, Gabino, (author) | 2018 | |
P G127cr | Crazy hair / | Gaiman, Neil. | 2009 | |
P301.5.P75 M66 2021 | Cultish : the language of fanaticism / | Montell, Amanda, (author) | 2021 | |
F N811d | Danger and other unknown risks / | North, Ryan, 1980- (author) | 2023 | |
BF575.A85 B76 2012 | Daring greatly : how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2012 | |
PR9450.9.T37 D38 2022 | Daughter of the moon goddess : a novel / | Tan, Sue Lynn, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3561.I496 D46 2022 | Demon Copperhead : a novel / | Kingsolver, Barbara, (author) | 2022 | |
PN1997.2.B5815 D74 2022 | Dreams of Wakanda : creators, writers, and comics legends on the impact of Marvel Studios' Black Panther / | 2022 | ||
PN6733.B42 Z46 2022 | Ducks : two years in the oil sands / | Beaton, Kate, 1983- (author, illustrator) | 2022 | |
CT3262.I2 W47 2018 | Educated : a memoir / | Westover, Tara (author) | 2018 | |
E158 .B354 2022 | Epic road trips of the Americas : explore Americas' most thrilling driving adventures / | Balfour, Amy C., (author) | 2022 | |
P F193e | Everything is Mama / | Fallon, Jimmy, (author) | 2019 | |
PQ7798.29.C5388 N8313 2017 | Fever dream : a novel / | Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- (author) | 2017 | |
PR6107.I457 F54 2018 | Fierce fairytales : poems & stories to stir your soul / | Gill, Nikita, (author) | 2018 | |
PR9199.3.T6113 F54 2021 | Fight night / | Toews, Miriam, 1964- (author) | 2021 | |
PN6727.E98 F56 2022 | Fine : a comic about gender / | Ewing, Rhea, (author, artist) | 2022 | |
E185 .F625 2021 | Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 / | 2021 | ||
PS3626.H36 F68 2022 | Four treasures of the sky / | Zhang, Jenny Tinghui, (author) | 2022 | |
PR6057.A319 F73 2018 | Fragile things : short fictions and wonders / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2018 | |
PS3619.M5918 A6 2021 | Goldenrod : poems / | Smith, Maggie, 1977- (author) | 2021 | |
PR6069.M59 A6 2019 | Grand union : stories / | Smith, Zadie, (author) | 2019 | |
TH4817 .F36 2021 | Handy hints. | 2021 | ||
F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, illustrator) | 2021 | |
F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) | 2021 | |
F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) | 2020 | |
F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) | 2020 | |
PS3618.E57275 H53 2022 | Hidden pictures / | Rekulak, Jason, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3604.E5866 H6 2023 | Homebodies : a novel / | Denton-Hurst, Tembe, (author) | 2023 | |
E185.86 .K46 2021 | Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot / | Kendall, Mikki, (author) | 2021 | |
PR9619.3.B7153 H67 2022 | Horse / | Brooks, Geraldine, (author) | 2022 | |
QC903 .G378 2021 | How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / | Gates, Bill, 1955- (author) | 2021 | |
PS3603.A774235 I5 2022 | In the blood : a thriller / | Carr, Jack (Joint pseudonym), (author) | 2022 | |
E78.O45 C575 2020 | Indian tribes of Oklahoma : a guide / | Clark, Blue, 1946- (author) | 2020 | |
F B8152i | Into the heartlands : a Black Panther graphic novel / | Brown, Roseanne A., (author) | 2022 | |
PS3608.O623 I84 2016 | It ends with us / | Hoover, Colleen, (author) | 2016 | |
PQ8220.425.J433 M3613 2022 | Jawbone / | Ojeda, Monica, 1988- (author) | 2022 | |
GV783 .J253 2017 | Kayaking with Eric Jackson : strokes and concepts / | Jackson, Eric, 1964- (author) | 2017 | |
HM651 .W46 2023 | Knowing what we know : the transmission of knowledge, from ancient wisdom to modern magic / | Winchester, Simon, (author) | 2023 | |
PL862.A42295 R4313 2021 | Lady Joker / | Takamura, Kaoru, 1953- (author) | 2021 | |
PL862.A42295 R4313 2021 | Lady Joker / | Takamura, Kaoru, 1953- (author) | 2021 | |
PS3613.O77936 L37 2022 | Lapvona / | Moshfegh, Ottessa, (author) | 2022 | |
F T15L | Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me / | Tamaki, Mariko, (author) | 2019 | |
GV1785.C635 C66 2014 | Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina / | Copeland, Misty. | 2014 | |
HQ1075 .B37 2019 | Life isn't binary : on being both, beyond, and in-between / | Barker, Meg-John, 1974- (author) | 2019 | |
NC1429.B83 A67 2022 | Living & dying in America : a daily chronicle, 2020-2022 / | Brodner, Steve, (author, illustrator) | 2022 | |
PN2287.V336 A3 2022 | Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life / | Van Ness, Jonathan, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3569.T736 L83 2022 | Lucy by the sea : a novel / | Strout, Elizabeth, (author) | 2022 | |
F G127m | M is for magic / | Gaiman, Neil. | 2008 | |
TT720 .B36 2022 | Make, sew and mend : traditional techniques to sustainably maintain and refashion your clothes / | Banner, Bernadette, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3618.U3225 A6 2022 | Maria, Maria : and other stories / | Rubio, Marytza K., (author) | 2022 | |
PS3613.O77936 M34 2019 | McGlue / | Moshfegh, Ottessa, (author) | 2019 | |
P P412m | Meesha makes friends / | Percival, Tom, 1977- (author, illustrator) | 2021 | |
PS508 .M4 C37 2022 | Mestiza blood / | Castro, V., (author) | 2022 | |
ML3477 .Q84 2021 | Music is history / | Questlove, (author) | 2021 | |
HQ1206 .M925 2022 | My moment : 106 women on fighting for themselves / | 2022 | ||
P F193n | Nana loves you more / | Fallon, Jimmy, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3613.O8455 N54 2022 | Nightcrawling / | Mottley, Leila, 2002- (author) | 2022 | |
PS3568.O243 N568 2022 | Nightwork / | Roberts, Nora, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3612.O27 N6 2021 | No one is talking about this / | Lockwood, Patricia, (author) | 2021 | |
PG1619.26.E683 P6413 2020 | No signal area / | Perisic, Robert, 1969- (author) | 2020 | |
PS3602.A9357 N6 2023 | No two persons / | Bauermeister, Erica, (author) | 2023 | |
P D626o | Oona / | DiPucchio, Kelly, (author) | 2021 | |
PS3614.G83 O97 2022 | Our missing hearts : a novel / | Ng, Celeste, (author) | 2022 | |
F M5232o | Our shadows have claws : 15 Latin American monster stories / | 2022 | ||
PQ7298.423.E3795 P3713 2022 | Paradais / | Melchor, Fernanda, 1982- (author) | 2022 | |
TT820.L96 P38 2022 | Patty Lyons' knitting bag of tricks : over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting / | Lyons, Patty, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3619.L6273 P54 2023 | Pieces of blue / | Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958- (author) | 2023 | |
PN2287.R2225 A3 2022 | Playing with myself / | Rainbow, Randy, 1981- (author) | 2022 | |
HC110.P6 D46 2023 | Poverty, by America / | Desmond, Matthew, (author) | 2023 | |
F M955p | Puddin' / | Murphy, Julie, 1985- (author) | 2018 | |
PR6113.E54 R35 2020 | Rainbow milk : a novel / | Mendez, Paul, 1982- (author) | 2020 | |
PS3558.I217 R39 2017 | Razor girl / | Hiaasen, Carl, (author) | 2017 | |
PE1460 .J68 2022 | Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian / | Jovin, Ellen, (author) | 2022 | |
E99.S21 L36 2022 | Red paint : the ancestral autobiography of a Coast Salish punk / | LaPointe, Sasha taqwseblu, (author) | 2022 | |
BJ1499.R4 H47 2022 | Rest is resistance : a manifesto / | Hersey, Tricia, (author) | 2022 | |
BF637.S4 B8118 2015 | Rising strong / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2015 | |
PS3607.I94 R58 2022 | River woman, river demon : a novel / | Givhan, Jennifer, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3601.B746 R85 2022 | Rules of engagement / | Montgomery, Selena, (author) | 2022 | |
328.73 L58r no.1 | Run. | Lewis, John, 1940-2020 (author) | 2021 | |
PR6103.H76 S53 2022 | Shadow of the Sith / | Christopher, Adam, 1978- (author) | 2022 | |
F L65s | She gets the girl / | Lippincott, Rachael, (author) | 2022 | |
PR6057.A319 S66 2021 | Smoke and mirrors : short fictions and illusions / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2021 | |
PN2287.W4568 A3 2022 | Still just a geek : an annotated memoir / | Wheaton, Wil, (author) | 2022 | |
E745 .O26 2022 | Team America : Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the world they forged / | O'Connell, Robert L., (author) | 2022 | |
PS3557.R46 S54 2018 | The adventure of the neural psychoses / | Gresh, Lois H. (author) | 2018 | |
HM621 .G735 2021 | The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet / | Green, John, 1977- (author) | 2021 | |
PN4874.S24 A3 2023 | The best strangers in the world : stories from a life spent listening / | Shapiro, Ari, 1978- (author) | 2023 | |
TX741 .B84 2022 | The blue zones American kitchen : 100 recipes to live to 100 / | Buettner, Dan, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3604.A9459 B63 2020 | The boatman's daughter / | Davidson, Andy, 1978- (author) | 2020 | |
PR9199.4.S726 B66 2022 | The book of cold cases / | St. James, Simone, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3612.I16 B66 2022 | The book of goose / | Li, Yiyun, 1972- (author) | 2022 | |
PS3606.I88483 C35 2022 | The call-out : a novel in rhyme / | Fitzpatrick, Cat, (author) | 2022 | |
DC65 .P84 2022 | The dark queens : the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world / | Puhak, Shelley, (author) | 2022 | |
PN6728.D94 B434 2020 | The essential dykes to watch out for / | Bechdel, Alison, 1960- (cartoonist, copyright holder) | 2020 | |
HM742 .D474 2022 | The Facebook narcissist : how to identify and protect yourself and your loved ones from social media narcissism / | Derhally, Lena, (author) | 2022 | |
BF575.S37 B76 2020 | The gifts of imperfection / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2020 | |
F J199h | The henna wars / | Jaigirdar, Adiba, (author) | 2020 | |
TX652 .H86 2019 | The hungry college student cookbook : 200+ quick and simple recipes. | 2019 | ||
PN6727.D84 K44 2022 | The keeper / | Due, Tananarive, 1966- (author) | 2022 | |
RA644.C67 P747 2022 | The long haul : solving the puzzle of the pandemic's long haulers and how they are changing healthcare forever / | Prior, Ryan, (author) | 2022 | |
D810.S7 M427 2023 | The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill / | Meltzer, Brad, (author) | 2023 | |
PN6727.L58 N54 2022 | The night eaters. | Liu, Marjorie M., (author) | 2022 | |
PR6057.A319 O28 2013 | The ocean at the end of the lane / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2013 | |
P P9685ot | The old truck / | Pumphrey, Jarrett, (author) | 2020 | |
BF1708.1 .W68 2006 | The only astrology book you'll ever need / | Woolfolk, Joanna Martine, (author) | 2006 | |
PQ2702.E725 C37 2023 | The postcard / | Berest, Anne, 1979- (author) | 2023 | |
PS3558.I366 P7 2004 | The price of salt or Carol / | Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995, (author) | 2004 | |
PS3612.O8348 A6 2017 | The princess saves herself in this one / | Lovelace, Amanda, (author) | 2017 | |
PS3603.A8885 Q84 2021 | The queen of the cicadas = la reina de las chicharras / | Castro, V., (author) | 2021 | |
PS3608.I4384 S23 2022 | The sacred bridge : a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel / | Hillerman, Anne, 1949- (author) | 2022 | |
PR9530.9.K49 S35 2023 | The salt grows heavy / | Khaw, Cassandra, (author) | 2023 | |
F G127s | The sleeper and the spindle / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2015 | |
F D752s | The sound of stars / | Dow, Alechia, (author) | 2020 | |
PS3603.A73526 S76 2022 | The storyteller's death : a novel / | Cardinal, Ann Davila, (author) | 2022 | |
PR9639.4.M668 T38 2018 | The tattooist of Auschwitz : a novel / | Morris, Heather (Screenwriter), (author) | 2018 | |
LB1775.2 .R63 2023 | The teachers : a year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession / | Robbins, Alexandra, 1976- (author) | 2023 | |
TX652 .G746713 2022 | The unofficial Lord of the rings cookbook / | Grimm, Tom, (author, photographer) | 2022 | |
PS3618.Y33465 W43 2022 | The wedding dress sewing circle : a novel / | Ryan, Jennifer (author) (Jennifer L.), | 2022 | |
HG176.63.U6 F55 2022 | The white wall : how big finance bankrupts black America / | Flitter, Emily, (author) | 2022 | |
PR9199.4.E424 T48 2019 | This is how you lose the time war / | El-Mohtar, Amal, (author) | 2019 | |
617.4 T868h | Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas / | Hooks, Gwendolyn, (author) | 2016 | |
PS3554.U47 T63 2022 | Toad / | Dunn, Katherine, 1945-2016, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3603.A4477 T615 2021 | Tom Clancy : Chain of command / | Cameron, Marc, (author) | 2021 | |
PS3626.E95 T66 2022 | Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / | Zevin, Gabrielle, (author) | 2022 | |
PN1992.8.R43 L56 2022 | True story : what reality TV says about us / | Lindemann, Danielle J., (author) | 2022 | |
PS3618.U55 V35 2022 | Valley of shadows : a novel / | Ruiz, Rudy. | 2022 | |
PS3606.R43747 V53 2021 | Victory's price / | Freed, Alexander, (author) | 2021 | |
G635.F73 M58 2023 | Wanderlust : an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age / | Mitenbuler, Reid, (author) | 2023 | |
RC628 .D597 2022 | Weightless : making space for my resilient body and soul / | Dionne, Evette, (author) | 2022 | |
F Sz12w | What big teeth / | Szabo, Rose, (author) | 2021 | |
Q173 .M966 2022 | What if? additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / | Munroe, Randall, (author) | 2022 | |
QL676 .S57 2020 | What it's like to be a bird : from flying to nesting, eating to singing -- what birds are doing, and why / | Sibley, David, 1961- (author, illustrator) | 2020 | |
PR9272.9.L56 W48 2022 | When we were birds : a novel / | Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd, (author) | 2022 | |
HV6535.C63 T74 2022 | When women kill : four crimes retold / | Trabucco ZeraÌn, Alia, (author) | 2022 | |
PQ7298.425.S665 W4413 2022 | When you get to the other side / | Osorio Guma, Mariana, 1967- (author) | 2022 | |
F594 .B614 2021 | Wildcat : the untold story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's most notorious woman bandit / | Boessenecker, John, 1953- (author) | 2021 | |
PQ7298.422.O95 B7813 2022 | Witches : a novel / | Lozano, Brenda, 1981- (author) | 2022 | |
PS3611.U17 Y45 2023 | Yellowface : a novel / | Kuang, R. F. (author) (Rebecca F.), | 2023 | |
F J1353y | Yesterday is history / | Jackson, Kosoko, (author) | 2021 |