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Call Number | Title | Author | Publication Date | |
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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 | |
F R278d | A door in the dark / | Reintgen, Scott, (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 | |
PS3603.H45 A64 2022 | Activities of daily living : a novel / | Chen, Lisa, (author) | 2022 | |
F T13a | All my rage / | Tahir, Sabaa, (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
PQ8098.36.A43 P6413 2022 | Chilean poet : a novel / | Zambra, Alejandro, 1975- (author) | 2022 | |
F G127c | Chivalry / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
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 | |
PS3561.I496 D46 2022 | Demon Copperhead : a novel / | Kingsolver, Barbara, (author) | 2022 | |
PS3612.A543285 D73 2023 | Dragonfall / | Lam, Laura, 1988- (author) | 2023 | |
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 | |
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 | |
P F193e | Everything is Mama / | Fallon, Jimmy, (author) | 2019 | |
PR6107.I457 F54 2018 | Fierce fairytales : poems & stories to stir your soul / | Gill, Nikita, (author) | 2018 | |
PN6727.E98 F56 2022 | Fine : a comic about gender / | Ewing, Rhea, (author, artist) | 2022 | |
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 | ||
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 | |
TH4817 .F36 2021 | Handy hints. | 2021 | ||
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 | |
E185.86 .K46 2021 | Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot / | Kendall, Mikki, (author) | 2021 | |
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 | |
PN2287.M54547 A3 2022 | I'm glad my mom died / | McCurdy, Jennette, 1992- (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
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 | |
PS3607.A756 L47 2022 | Lessons in chemistry / | Garmus, Bonnie, (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
PS3610.A458 L66 2023 | Loot / | James, Tania, (author) | 2023 | |
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 | |
TX763 .B455 2022 | Mary Berry's baking bible : fully updated with over 250 new and classic recipes / | Berry, Mary, 1935- (author) | 2022 | |
PS3613.O77936 M34 2019 | McGlue / | Moshfegh, Ottessa, (author) | 2019 | |
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 | |
PS3623.E4223 N54 2023 | Night angel nemesis / | Weeks, Brent, (author) | 2023 | |
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 | ||
F694.6 .F73 2010 | Oklahoma courthouse legends / | Frates, Kent F. | 2010 | |
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 | |
PS3614.G83 O97 2022 | Our missing hearts : a novel / | Ng, Celeste, (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
PS3622.A58572 R46 2022 | Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / | Van Pelt, Shelby, (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 | |
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 | |
PR6057.A319 S66 2021 | Smoke and mirrors : short fictions and illusions / | Gaiman, Neil, (author) | 2021 | |
TR715 .P74 2017 | Smoke over Oklahoma : the railroad photographs of Preston George / | George, Preston, (photographer) | 2017 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
PS3553.R542 F47 2023 | The ferryman : a novel / | Cronin, Justin, (author) | 2023 | |
F B262f no.3 | The final gambit / | Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
TX652 .H86 2019 | The hungry college student cookbook : 200+ quick and simple recipes. | 2019 | ||
F B262i no.1 | The inheritance games / | Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, (author) | 2020 | |
PN6727.D84 K44 2022 | The keeper / | Due, Tananarive, 1966- (author) | 2022 | |
PS3604.A938 L37 2021 | The last thing he told me : a novel / | Dave, Laura, (author) | 2021 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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.A73526 S76 2022 | The storyteller's death : a novel / | Cardinal, Ann Davila, (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
HG176.63.U6 F55 2022 | The white wall : how big finance bankrupts black America / | Flitter, Emily, (author) | 2022 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
PN1992.8.R43 L56 2022 | True story : what reality TV says about us / | Lindemann, Danielle J., (author) | 2022 | |
TP370 .T88 2023 | Ultra-processed people : the science behind food that isn't food / | Tulleken, Chris van, 1978- (author) | 2023 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
PS3613.A7778 W47 2006 | When crickets cry / | Martin, Charles, 1969- (author) | 2006 | |
PR9272.9.L56 W48 2022 | When we were birds : a novel / | Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd, (author) | 2022 | |
F F772w | Where you see yourself / | Forrest, Claire (Young adult author), (author) | 2023 | |
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 | |
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 |