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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E160 .P43 2022 | 100 great American parks / | Pearson, Stephanie, 1970- (author) | 2022 |
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N7349.A5 A2 2021 | 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir / | Ai, Weiwei, (author) | 2021 |
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ML421.B4 M243 2023 | 1964 : eyes of the storm / | McCartney, Paul, (author, photographer) | 2023 |
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PR6115.N64 O56 2022 | A dance for the dead / | Onoh, Nuzo, (author) | 2022 |
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F R278d | A door in the dark / | Reintgen, Scott, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3606.O774 F6 2023 | A footnote to Plato : a novel / | Forsee, Tina Lee, (author) | 2023 |
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PR9639.4.M43 S77 2022 | A strange and stubborn endurance / | Meadows, Foz, (author) | 2022 |
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F L562w | A work in progress / | Lerner, Jarrett, (author) | 2023 |
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F T13a | All my rage / | Tahir, Sabaa, (author) | 2022 |
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PR6057.A319 A85 2021 | Anansi boys : a novel / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2021 |
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BF637.S4 B8117 2021 | Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2021 |
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BF335 .C525 2018 | Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones / | Clear, James, (author) | 2018 |
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PR6118.O59 B43 2021 | Beautiful world, where are you / | Rooney, Sally, (author) | 2021 |
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PS3573.I53165 B44 2019 | Before we were yours : a novel / | Wingate, Lisa, (author) | 2019 |
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BF511 .N67 2021 | Big Panda and Tiny Dragon / | Norbury, James, (author, illustrator) | 2021 |
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PS3613.E83 B86 2022 | Bindle punk bruja : a novel / | Mesa, Desideria, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3603.O8728 B87 2022 | Birds of California : a novel / | Cotugno, Katie, (author) | 2022 |
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HM753 .B765 2017 | Braving the wilderness : the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2017 |
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PL871.5.S25 M3713 2021 | Bullet train : a novel / | Isaka, Kotaro, 1971- (author) | 2021 |
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PS3619.T47754 C36 2023 | Camp zero : a novel / | Sterling, Michelle Min, 1982- (author) | 2023 |
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TX714 K5553 2022 | Cook what you have / | Kimball, Christopher, (author) | 2022 |
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TX837 .B8754 2022 | Cooking from the spirit : easy, delicious, and joyful plant-based inspirations / | Brown, Tabitha, (author) | 2022 |
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F G127co | Coraline / | Gaiman, Neil. | 2002 |
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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 |
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P G127cr | Crazy hair / | Gaiman, Neil. | 2009 |
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PS3573.H4768 C76 2023 | Crook manifesto : a novel / | Whitehead, Colson, 1969- (author) | 2023 |
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PS3566.A822 C773 2023 | Cross down / | Patterson, James, 1947- (author) | 2023 |
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ML420.Z3913 A3 2023 | Crying in H Mart : a memoir / | Zauner, Michelle, (author) | 2023 |
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F N811d | Danger and other unknown risks / | North, Ryan, 1980- (author) | 2023 |
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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 |
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PR9450.9.T37 D38 2022 | Daughter of the moon goddess : a novel / | Tan, Sue Lynn, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3612.A543285 D73 2023 | Dragonfall / | Lam, Laura, 1988- (author) | 2023 |
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CT3262.I2 W47 2018 | Educated : a memoir / | Westover, Tara (author) | 2018 |
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QL737.C27 D537 2023 | Eight bears : mythic past and imperiled future / | Dickie, Gloria, (author) | 2023 |
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E76.2 .J64 2022 | Encyclopedia of Native tribes of North America / | Johnson, Michael, 1937-2019, (author) | 2022 |
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E158 .B354 2022 | Epic road trips of the Americas : explore Americas' most thrilling driving adventures / | Balfour, Amy C., (author) | 2022 |
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PS3611.A368 A6 2023 | Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories / | Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei, (author) | 2023 |
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P F193e | Everything is Mama / | Fallon, Jimmy, (author) | 2019 |
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PS3613.A284327 C56 2023 | Fire strike / | Maden, Mike, (author) | 2023 |
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E185 .F625 2021 | Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 / | 2021 | |
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PR6057.A319 F73 2018 | Fragile things : short fictions and wonders / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2018 |
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PS3619.M5918 A6 2021 | Goldenrod : poems / | Smith, Maggie, 1977- (author) | 2021 |
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E185.93.M8 W38 2023 | Great Falls, MT : fast times, post-punk weirdos, and a tale of coming home again / | Watts, Reggie, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3608.E5715 H36 2023 | Happy place / | Henry, Emily, (author) | 2023 |
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F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) | 2020 |
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F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) | 2020 |
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F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, illustrator) | 2021 |
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F Os22h | Heartstopper. | Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) | 2021 |
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ML3470 .R48 2023 | Holding the note : profiles in popular music / | Remnick, David, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3604.E5866 H6 2023 | Homebodies : a novel / | Denton-Hurst, Tembe, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3602.R3855 H68 2023 | House of cotton / | Brashears, Monica, (author) | 2023 |
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QC903 .G378 2021 | How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / | Gates, Bill, 1955- (author) | 2021 |
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F L778h | Hummingbird / | Lloyd, Natalie, (author) | 2022 |
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HQ76.98.K55 A3 2006 | I am not myself these days : a memoir / | Kilmer-Purcell, Josh, 1969- | 2006 |
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F Sh31i | I feed her to the beast and the beast is me / | Shea, Jamison, (author) | 2023 |
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PN2287.M54547 A3 2022 | I'm glad my mom died / | McCurdy, Jennette, 1992- (author) | 2022 |
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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 |
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PS3608.O623 I84 2016 | It ends with us / | Hoover, Colleen, (author) | 2016 |
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HM651 .W46 2023 | Knowing what we know : the transmission of knowledge, from ancient wisdom to modern magic / | Winchester, Simon, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3626.H35 L36 2023 | Land of milk and honey / | Zhang, C Pam, (author) | 2023 |
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PN2287.J593 A3 2023 | Leslie f*cking Jones : a memoir / | Jones, Leslie, 1967- (author) | 2023 |
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PS3607.A756 L47 2022 | Lessons in chemistry / | Garmus, Bonnie, (author) | 2022 |
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GV1785.C635 C66 2014 | Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina / | Copeland, Misty. | 2014 |
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HV7436 .D86 2018 | Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment / | Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- (author) | 2018 |
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PS3562.A8458 L66 2023 | Lone women : a novel / | LaValle, Victor, 1972- (author) | 2023 |
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PS3610.A458 L66 2023 | Loot / | James, Tania, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3616.E439 L68 2023 | LoteriÌa / | Pelayo, Cynthia, (author) | 2023 |
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F G127m | M is for magic / | Gaiman, Neil. | 2008 |
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PN2598.S747 A3 2023 | Making it so : a memoir / | Stewart, Patrick, 1940- (author) | 2023 |
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TX763 .B455 2022 | Mary Berry's baking bible : fully updated with over 250 new and classic recipes / | Berry, Mary, 1935- (author) | 2022 |
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PR9200.9.S16 M66 2023 | Monstrilio / | Samano Cordova, Gerardo, (author) | 2023 |
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ML3477 .Q84 2021 | Music is history / | Questlove, (author) | 2021 |
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PL870.J56 T7813 2023 | Nails and eyes / | Fujino, Kaori, 1980- (author) | 2023 |
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P F193n | Nana loves you more / | Fallon, Jimmy, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3608.U22483 N38 2023 | Natural beauty : a novel / | Huang, Ling Ling, 1989- (author) | 2023 |
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PS647.I5 N48 2023 | Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology / | 2023 | |
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PS3623.E4223 N54 2023 | Night angel nemesis / | Weeks, Brent, (author) | 2023 |
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TX360.U6 K46 2023 | No meat required : the cultural history and culinary future of plant-based eating / | Kennedy, Alicia (author) (Food writer), | 2023 |
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BQ9800.T5392 N454617 2014 | No mud, no lotus : the art of transforming suffering / | Nhat Hanh, Thich, (author) | 2014 |
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PS3612.O27 N6 2021 | No one is talking about this / | Lockwood, Patricia, (author) | 2021 |
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PS3602.A9357 N6 2023 | No two persons / | Bauermeister, Erica, (author) | 2023 |
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PR6106.L37 N68 2023 | Nothing special : a novel / | Flattery, Nicole, (author) | 2023 |
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F704.041 D633 2018 | Oklahoma City. historical photographs from the collection of The Oklahoman / | 2018 | |
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QK181 .O45 2019 | Oklahoma native plants : a guide to designing landscapes to attract birds and butterflies / | Scothorn, Connie, (author) | 2019 |
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F P442o | On the edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness / | Peterson, Andrew, 1974- (author) | 2020 |
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P D626o | Oona / | DiPucchio, Kelly, (author) | 2021 |
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RA776.75 .A885 2023 | Outlive : the science & art of longevity / | Attia, Peter, (author) | 2023 |
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F869.P2 H37 2023 | Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world / | Harris, Malcolm, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3619.L6273 P54 2023 | Pieces of blue / | Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958- (author) | 2023 |
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PS3607.O895 P56 2023 | Piñata / | Gout, Leopoldo, (author) | 2023 |
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HC110.P6 D46 2023 | Poverty, by America / | Desmond, Matthew, (author) | 2023 |
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PE1460 .J68 2022 | Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian / | Jovin, Ellen, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3622.A58572 R46 2022 | Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / | Van Pelt, Shelby, (author) | 2022 |
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BF637.S4 B8118 2015 | Rising strong / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2015 |
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PS3601.B746 R85 2022 | Rules of engagement / | Montgomery, Selena, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3616.A7846 R86 2023 | Run, Rose, run / | Parton, Dolly, (author) | 2022 |
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328.73 L58r no.1 | Run. | Lewis, John, 1940-2020 (author) | 2021 |
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F Sa21s | Secrets so deep / | Sain, Ginny Myers, (author) | 2022 |
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PQ7798.29.C5388 S5413 2022 | Seven empty houses / | Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- (author) | 2022 |
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PS3552.A244 A6 2016 | Slow days, fast company : the world, the flesh, and L.A. / | Babitz, Eve, (author) | 2016 |
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TR715 .P74 2017 | Smoke over Oklahoma : the railroad photographs of Preston George / | George, Preston, (photographer) | 2017 |
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PR9199.3.H3676 S66 2023 | Snow Road Station : a novel / | Hay, Elizabeth, 1951- (author) | 2023 |
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PN2287.W4568 A3 2022 | Still just a geek : an annotated memoir / | Wheaton, Wil, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3545.I5286 S7 2003 | Stoner / | Williams, John, 1922-1994, (author) | 2003 |
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QL782 .B37 2020 | Supernavigators : exploring the wonders of how animals find their way / | Barrie, David, 1953- (author) | 2020 |
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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 |
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ML420.E88 A3 2023 | Talking to my angels / | Etheridge, Melissa, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3557.R46 S54 2018 | The adventure of the neural psychoses / | Gresh, Lois H. (author) | 2018 |
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HM621 .G735 2021 | The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet / | Green, John, 1977- (author) | 2021 |
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N8795.5.B74 F56 2023 | The art thief : a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession / | Finkel, Michael, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3610.E5574 B35 2022 | The ballad of perilous graves / | Jennings, Alex, 1979- (author) | 2022 |
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F C696b | The ballad of songbirds and snakes / | Collins, Suzanne, (author) | 2020 |
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PS3570.O22 B37 2012 | The barbarian nurseries / | Tobar, Hector, 1963- | 2012 |
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PN4874.S24 A3 2023 | The best strangers in the world : stories from a life spent listening / | Shapiro, Ari, 1978- (author) | 2023 |
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TX741 .B84 2022 | The blue zones American kitchen : 100 recipes to live to 100 / | Buettner, Dan, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3604.A9459 B63 2020 | The boatman's daughter / | Davidson, Andy, 1978- (author) | 2020 |
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PR9199.4.S726 B66 2022 | The book of cold cases / | St. James, Simone, (author) | 2022 |
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PR6113.A486 C46 2023 | The Centre / | Manazir Siddiqi, Ayesha, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3622.E744 C68 2023 | The covenant of water : a novel / | Verghese, Abraham, 1955- (author) | 2023 |
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BF408 .R7368 2023 | The creative act : a way of being / | Rubin, Rick, (author) | 2023 |
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DC65 .P84 2022 | The dark queens : the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world / | Puhak, Shelley, (author) | 2022 |
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F L629d | The dragon's promise / | Lim, Elizabeth, (author) | 2022 |
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D805.5.A96 F754 2023 | The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / | Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- (author) | 2023 |
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PS3553.R542 F47 2023 | The ferryman : a novel / | Cronin, Justin, (author) | 2023 |
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F B262f no.3 | The final gambit / | Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) | 2022 |
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PR6037.H513 F67 2021 | The fortnight in September : a novel / | Sherriff, R. C. 1896-1975, (author) (Robert Cedric), | 2021 |
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PR6069.M59 F73 2023 | The fraud / | Smith, Zadie, (author) | 2023 |
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BF575.S37 B76 2020 | The gifts of imperfection / | Brown, Brene, (author) | 2020 |
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PS3608.O48437 G63 2023 | The god of endings / | Holland, Jacqueline, 1983- (author) | 2023 |
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F B262h no.2 | The Hawthorne legacy / | Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) | 2021 |
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QH75 .Q38 2023 | The heartbeat of the wild : dispatches from landscapes of wonder, peril, and hope / | Quammen, David, 1948- (author) | 2023 |
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F B262i no.1 | The inheritance games / | Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) | 2020 |
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PS3604.A938 L37 2021 | The last thing he told me : a novel / | Dave, Laura, (author) | 2021 |
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D810.S7 M427 2023 | The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill / | Meltzer, Brad, (author) | 2023 |
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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 |
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PR6057.A319 O28 2013 | The ocean at the end of the lane / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2013 |
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S555.02 B87 2021 | The Oklahoma State Fair : a history / | Burke, Bob, 1948- (author) | 2021 |
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F694 .D89 2016 | The Oklahomans. the story of Oklahoma and its people / | Dwyer, John, 1956- (author) | 2016 |
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F694 .D89 2021 | The Oklahomans. the story of Oklahoma and its people / | Dwyer, John, 1956- | 2022 |
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F M699o | The ones we burn / | Mix, Rebecca, (author) | 2022 |
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BF1708.1 .W68 2006 | The only astrology book you'll ever need / | Woolfolk, Joanna Martine, (author) | 2006 |
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PS3608.A783293 O85 2021 | The other Black girl : a novel / | Harris, Zakiya Dalila, (author) | 2021 |
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PQ2702.E725 C37 2023 | The postcard / | Berest, Anne, 1979- (author) | 2023 |
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F R278p | The problem with prophecies / | Reintgen, Scott, (author) | 2022 |
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PS3608.I4384 S23 2022 | The sacred bridge : a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel / | Hillerman, Anne, 1949- (author) | 2022 |
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PR9530.9.K49 S35 2023 | The salt grows heavy / | Khaw, Cassandra, (author) | 2023 |
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F G127s | The sleeper and the spindle / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2015 |
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PS3603.O4865 S65 2023 | The spite house / | Compton, Johnny, (author) | 2023 |
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LB1775.2 .R63 2023 | The teachers : a year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession / | Robbins, Alexandra, 1976- (author) | 2023 |
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TX652 .G746713 2022 | The unofficial Lord of the rings cookbook / | Grimm, Tom, (author, photographer) | 2022 |
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G530.W25 G73 2023 | The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder / | Grann, David, (author) | 2023 |
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TR721 .H868 2016 | The Wichita Mountains : an Oklahoma treasure / | Hunter, Steven. | 2016 |
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PQ8098.1.L54 W5613 2023 | The wind knows my name : a novel / | Allende, Isabel, (author) | 2023 |
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ML420.S714 A3 2023 | The woman in me / | Spears, Britney, (author) | 2023 |
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F Sp83t | There's no way I'd die first / | Springer, Lisa, (author) | 2023 |
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PN2287.W356 A3 2023 | Thicker than water : a memoir / | Washington, Kerry, 1977- (author) | 2023 |
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617.4 T868h | Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas / | Hooks, Gwendolyn, (author) | 2016 |
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PS3566.A7756 T66 2023 | Tom Lake : a novel / | Patchett, Ann, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3626.E95 T66 2022 | Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / | Zevin, Gabrielle, (author) | 2022 |
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F M587t | Touching Spirit Bear / | Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952- | 2002 |
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PS3619.A533 T74 2023 | Tress of the emerald sea / | Sanderson, Brandon, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3503.R2736 T76 2010 | Trout fishing in America / | Brautigan, Richard, (author) | 2010 |
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PS3604.I17 T78 2023 | Trust / | DiÌaz, HernaÌn, 1973- (author) | 2023 |
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TP370 .T88 2023 | Ultra-processed people : the science behind food that isn't food / | Tulleken, Chris van, 1978- (author) | 2023 |
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PS3603.A533 V36 2023 | Vampires of El Norte / | Cañas, Isabel, (author) | 2023 |
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G635.F73 M58 2023 | Wanderlust : an eccentric explorer, an epic journey, a lost age / | Mitenbuler, Reid, (author) | 2023 |
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PS3619.U476726 W47 2021 | West with giraffes : a novel / | Rutledge, Lynda, 1950- (author) | 2021 |
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PS3611.R3757 W53 2023 | Whalefall : a novel / | Kraus, Daniel, 1975- (author) | 2023 |
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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 |
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PS3613.A7778 W47 2006 | When crickets cry / | Martin, Charles, 1969- (author) | 2006 |
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F F772w | Where you see yourself / | Forrest, Claire (Young adult author), (author) | 2023 |
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PN2287.S59 A3 2023 | Worthy / | Smith, Jada Pinkett, 1971- (author) | 2023 |
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PS3611.U17 Y45 2023 | Yellowface : a novel / | Kuang, R. F. (author) (Rebecca F.), | 2023 |
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PN171.P83 S47 2023 | You : the story : a writer's guide to craft through memory / | Sepetys, Ruta, (author) | 2023 |
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BH301.P45 M34 2023 | Your brain on art : how the arts transform us / | Magsamen, Susan, (author) | 2023 |
