Ruby Canton Collection

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The Ruby Canton Collection is named in honor of a beloved Librarian who worked in the library from 1908-1928 when UCO was Central State Teachers' College. Ruby Canton's private library comprised the first titles in this collection.

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  Call Number Title Author Publication Date
E160 .P43 2022 100 great American parks / Pearson, Stephanie, 1970- (author) 2022
N7349.A5 A2 2021 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir / Ai, Weiwei, (author) 2021
ML421.B4 M243 2023 1964 : eyes of the storm / McCartney, Paul, (author, photographer) 2023
PR6115.N64 O56 2022 A dance for the dead / Onoh, Nuzo, (author) 2022
F R278d A door in the dark / Reintgen, Scott, (author) 2023
PS3606.O774 F6 2023 A footnote to Plato : a novel / Forsee, Tina Lee, (author) 2023
PR9639.4.M43 S77 2022 A strange and stubborn endurance / Meadows, Foz, (author) 2022
F L562w A work in progress / Lerner, Jarrett, (author) 2023
F T13a All my rage / Tahir, Sabaa, (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
BF335 .C525 2018 Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones / Clear, James, (author) 2018
PR6118.O59 B43 2021 Beautiful world, where are you / Rooney, Sally, (author) 2021
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
PS3603.O8728 B87 2022 Birds of California : a novel / Cotugno, Katie, (author) 2022
HM753 .B765 2017 Braving the wilderness : the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone / Brown, Brene, (author) 2017
PL871.5.S25 M3713 2021 Bullet train : a novel / Isaka, Kotaro, 1971- (author) 2021
PS3619.T47754 C36 2023 Camp zero : a novel / Sterling, Michelle Min, 1982- (author) 2023
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
QB982 .T964 2021 Cosmic queries : StarTalk's guide to who we are, how we got here, and where we're going / Tyson, Neil deGrasse, (author) 2021
P G127cr Crazy hair / Gaiman, Neil. 2009
PS3573.H4768 C76 2023 Crook manifesto : a novel / Whitehead, Colson, 1969- (author) 2023
PS3566.A822 C773 2023 Cross down / Patterson, James, 1947- (author) 2023
ML420.Z3913 A3 2023 Crying in H Mart : a memoir / Zauner, Michelle, (author) 2023
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
PS3612.A543285 D73 2023 Dragonfall / Lam, Laura, 1988- (author) 2023
CT3262.I2 W47 2018 Educated : a memoir / Westover, Tara (author) 2018
QL737.C27 D537 2023 Eight bears : mythic past and imperiled future / Dickie, Gloria, (author) 2023
E76.2 .J64 2022 Encyclopedia of Native tribes of North America / Johnson, Michael, 1937-2019, (author) 2022
E158 .B354 2022 Epic road trips of the Americas : explore Americas' most thrilling driving adventures / Balfour, Amy C., (author) 2022
PS3611.A368 A6 2023 Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories / Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei, (author) 2023
P F193e Everything is Mama / Fallon, Jimmy, (author) 2019
PS3613.A284327 C56 2023 Fire strike / Maden, Mike, (author) 2023
E185 .F625 2021 Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 / 2021
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
E185.93.M8 W38 2023 Great Falls, MT : fast times, post-punk weirdos, and a tale of coming home again / Watts, Reggie, (author) 2023
PS3608.E5715 H36 2023 Happy place / Henry, Emily, (author) 2023
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) 2020
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) 2020
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, illustrator) 2021
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) 2021
ML3470 .R48 2023 Holding the note : profiles in popular music / Remnick, David, (author) 2023
PS3604.E5866 H6 2023 Homebodies : a novel / Denton-Hurst, Tembe, (author) 2023
PS3602.R3855 H68 2023 House of cotton / Brashears, Monica, (author) 2023
QC903 .G378 2021 How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Gates, Bill, 1955- (author) 2021
F L778h Hummingbird / Lloyd, Natalie, (author) 2022
HQ76.98.K55 A3 2006 I am not myself these days : a memoir / Kilmer-Purcell, Josh, 1969- 2006
F Sh31i I feed her to the beast and the beast is me / Shea, Jamison, (author) 2023
PN2287.M54547 A3 2022 I'm glad my mom died / McCurdy, Jennette, 1992- (author) 2022
PN2287.C532 A3 2023 I'm no philosopher, but I got thoughts : mini-meditations for saints, sinners, and the rest of us / Chenoweth, Kristin, (author) 2023
PS3608.O623 I84 2016 It ends with us / Hoover, Colleen, (author) 2016
HM651 .W46 2023 Knowing what we know : the transmission of knowledge, from ancient wisdom to modern magic / Winchester, Simon, (author) 2023
PS3626.H35 L36 2023 Land of milk and honey / Zhang, C Pam, (author) 2023
PN2287.J593 A3 2023 Leslie f*cking Jones : a memoir / Jones, Leslie, 1967- (author) 2023
PS3607.A756 L47 2022 Lessons in chemistry / Garmus, Bonnie, (author) 2022
GV1785.C635 C66 2014 Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina / Copeland, Misty. 2014
HV7436 .D86 2018 Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment / Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- (author) 2018
PS3562.A8458 L66 2023 Lone women : a novel / LaValle, Victor, 1972- (author) 2023
PS3610.A458 L66 2023 Loot / James, Tania, (author) 2023
PS3616.E439 L68 2023 Lotería / Pelayo, Cynthia, (author) 2023
F G127m M is for magic / Gaiman, Neil. 2008
PN2598.S747 A3 2023 Making it so : a memoir / Stewart, Patrick, 1940- (author) 2023
TX763 .B455 2022 Mary Berry's baking bible : fully updated with over 250 new and classic recipes / Berry, Mary, 1935- (author) 2022
PR9200.9.S16 M66 2023 Monstrilio / Samano Cordova, Gerardo, (author) 2023
ML3477 .Q84 2021 Music is history / Questlove, (author) 2021
PL870.J56 T7813 2023 Nails and eyes / Fujino, Kaori, 1980- (author) 2023
P F193n Nana loves you more / Fallon, Jimmy, (author) 2022
PS3608.U22483 N38 2023 Natural beauty : a novel / Huang, Ling Ling, 1989- (author) 2023
PS647.I5 N48 2023 Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology / 2023
PS3623.E4223 N54 2023 Night angel nemesis / Weeks, Brent, (author) 2023
TX360.U6 K46 2023 No meat required : the cultural history and culinary future of plant-based eating / Kennedy, Alicia (author) (Food writer), 2023
BQ9800.T5392 N454617 2014 No mud, no lotus : the art of transforming suffering / Nhat Hanh, Thich, (author) 2014
PS3612.O27 N6 2021 No one is talking about this / Lockwood, Patricia, (author) 2021
PS3602.A9357 N6 2023 No two persons / Bauermeister, Erica, (author) 2023
PR6106.L37 N68 2023 Nothing special : a novel / Flattery, Nicole, (author) 2023
F704.041 D633 2018 Oklahoma City. historical photographs from the collection of The Oklahoman / 2018
QK181 .O45 2019 Oklahoma native plants : a guide to designing landscapes to attract birds and butterflies / Scothorn, Connie, (author) 2019
F P442o On the edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness / Peterson, Andrew, 1974- (author) 2020
P D626o Oona / DiPucchio, Kelly, (author) 2021
RA776.75 .A885 2023 Outlive : the science & art of longevity / Attia, Peter, (author) 2023
F869.P2 H37 2023 Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world / Harris, Malcolm, (author) 2023
PS3619.L6273 P54 2023 Pieces of blue / Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958- (author) 2023
PS3607.O895 P56 2023 Piñata / Gout, Leopoldo, (author) 2023
HC110.P6 D46 2023 Poverty, by America / Desmond, Matthew, (author) 2023
PE1460 .J68 2022 Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian / Jovin, Ellen, (author) 2022
PS3622.A58572 R46 2022 Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Van Pelt, Shelby, (author) 2022
BF637.S4 B8118 2015 Rising strong / Brown, Brene, (author) 2015
PS3601.B746 R85 2022 Rules of engagement / Montgomery, Selena, (author) 2022
PS3616.A7846 R86 2023 Run, Rose, run / Parton, Dolly, (author) 2022
328.73 L58r no.1 Run. Lewis, John, 1940-2020 (author) 2021
F Sa21s Secrets so deep / Sain, Ginny Myers, (author) 2022
PQ7798.29.C5388 S5413 2022 Seven empty houses / Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- (author) 2022
PS3552.A244 A6 2016 Slow days, fast company : the world, the flesh, and L.A. / Babitz, Eve, (author) 2016
TR715 .P74 2017 Smoke over Oklahoma : the railroad photographs of Preston George / George, Preston, (photographer) 2017
PR9199.3.H3676 S66 2023 Snow Road Station : a novel / Hay, Elizabeth, 1951- (author) 2023
PN2287.W4568 A3 2022 Still just a geek : an annotated memoir / Wheaton, Wil, (author) 2022
PS3545.I5286 S7 2003 Stoner / Williams, John, 1922-1994, (author) 2003
QL782 .B37 2020 Supernavigators : exploring the wonders of how animals find their way / Barrie, David, 1953- (author) 2020
PN2287.B16355 A3 2023 Sure, I'll join your cult : a memoir of mental illness and the quest to belong anywhere / Bamford, Maria, 1970- (author) 2023
ML420.E88 A3 2023 Talking to my angels / Etheridge, Melissa, (author) 2023
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
N8795.5.B74 F56 2023 The art thief : a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession / Finkel, Michael, (author) 2023
PS3610.E5574 B35 2022 The ballad of perilous graves / Jennings, Alex, 1979- (author) 2022
F C696b The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Collins, Suzanne, (author) 2020
PS3570.O22 B37 2012 The barbarian nurseries / Tobar, Hector, 1963- 2012
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
PR6113.A486 C46 2023 The Centre / Manazir Siddiqi, Ayesha, (author) 2023
PS3622.E744 C68 2023 The covenant of water : a novel / Verghese, Abraham, 1955- (author) 2023
BF408 .R7368 2023 The creative act : a way of being / Rubin, Rick, (author) 2023
DC65 .P84 2022 The dark queens : the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world / Puhak, Shelley, (author) 2022
F L629d The dragon's promise / Lim, Elizabeth, (author) 2022
D805.5.A96 F754 2023 The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- (author) 2023
PS3553.R542 F47 2023 The ferryman : a novel / Cronin, Justin, (author) 2023
F B262f no.3 The final gambit / Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) 2022
PR6037.H513 F67 2021 The fortnight in September : a novel / Sherriff, R. C. 1896-1975, (author) (Robert Cedric), 2021
PR6069.M59 F73 2023 The fraud / Smith, Zadie, (author) 2023
BF575.S37 B76 2020 The gifts of imperfection / Brown, Brene, (author) 2020
PS3608.O48437 G63 2023 The god of endings / Holland, Jacqueline, 1983- (author) 2023
F B262h no.2 The Hawthorne legacy / Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) 2021
QH75 .Q38 2023 The heartbeat of the wild : dispatches from landscapes of wonder, peril, and hope / Quammen, David, 1948- (author) 2023
F B262i no.1 The inheritance games / Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) 2020
PS3604.A938 L37 2021 The last thing he told me : a novel / Dave, Laura, (author) 2021
D810.S7 M427 2023 The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill / Meltzer, Brad, (author) 2023
PS3553.O42434 N48 2021 The Netanyahus : an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family / Cohen, Joshua, 1980- (author) 2021
PR6057.A319 O28 2013 The ocean at the end of the lane / Gaiman, Neil, (author) 2013
S555.02 B87 2021 The Oklahoma State Fair : a history / Burke, Bob, 1948- (author) 2021
F694 .D89 2016 The Oklahomans. the story of Oklahoma and its people / Dwyer, John, 1956- (author) 2016
F694 .D89 2021 The Oklahomans. the story of Oklahoma and its people / Dwyer, John, 1956- 2022
F M699o The ones we burn / Mix, Rebecca, (author) 2022
BF1708.1 .W68 2006 The only astrology book you'll ever need / Woolfolk, Joanna Martine, (author) 2006
PS3608.A783293 O85 2021 The other Black girl : a novel / Harris, Zakiya Dalila, (author) 2021
PQ2702.E725 C37 2023 The postcard / Berest, Anne, 1979- (author) 2023
F R278p The problem with prophecies / Reintgen, Scott, (author) 2022
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
PS3603.O4865 S65 2023 The spite house / Compton, Johnny, (author) 2023
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
G530.W25 G73 2023 The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder / Grann, David, (author) 2023
TR721 .H868 2016 The Wichita Mountains : an Oklahoma treasure / Hunter, Steven. 2016
PQ8098.1.L54 W5613 2023 The wind knows my name : a novel / Allende, Isabel, (author) 2023
ML420.S714 A3 2023 The woman in me / Spears, Britney, (author) 2023
F Sp83t There's no way I'd die first / Springer, Lisa, (author) 2023
PN2287.W356 A3 2023 Thicker than water : a memoir / Washington, Kerry, 1977- (author) 2023
617.4 T868h Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas / Hooks, Gwendolyn, (author) 2016
PS3566.A7756 T66 2023 Tom Lake : a novel / Patchett, Ann, (author) 2023
PS3626.E95 T66 2022 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Zevin, Gabrielle, (author) 2022
F M587t Touching Spirit Bear / Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952- 2002
PS3619.A533 T74 2023 Tress of the emerald sea / Sanderson, Brandon, (author) 2023
PS3503.R2736 T76 2010 Trout fishing in America / Brautigan, Richard, (author) 2010
PS3604.I17 T78 2023 Trust / Díaz, Hernán, 1973- (author) 2023
TP370 .T88 2023 Ultra-processed people : the science behind food that isn't food / Tulleken, Chris van, 1978- (author) 2023
PS3603.A533 V36 2023 Vampires of El Norte / Cañas, Isabel, (author) 2023
G635.F73 M58 2023 Wanderlust : an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age / Mitenbuler, Reid, (author) 2023
PS3619.U476726 W47 2021 West with giraffes : a novel / Rutledge, Lynda, 1950- (author) 2021
PS3611.R3757 W53 2023 Whalefall : a novel / Kraus, Daniel, 1975- (author) 2023
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
PS3613.A7778 W47 2006 When crickets cry / Martin, Charles, 1969- (author) 2006
F F772w Where you see yourself / Forrest, Claire (Young adult author), (author) 2023
PN2287.S59 A3 2023 Worthy / Smith, Jada Pinkett, 1971- (author) 2023
PS3611.U17 Y45 2023 Yellowface : a novel / Kuang, R. F. (author) (Rebecca F.), 2023
PN171.P83 S47 2023 You : the story : a writer's guide to craft through memory / Sepetys, Ruta, (author) 2023
BH301.P45 M34 2023 Your brain on art : how the arts transform us / Magsamen, Susan, (author) 2023