Ruby Canton Collection

New titles of this collection are selected by library staff and focus on high-quality current leisure reading. This list is updated once each month.

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
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 Zerán, 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