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
PR6051.D3352 A3 2023 42 : the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams / Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001, (author) 2023
PS3566.O83578 C68 2023 A council of dolls : a novel / Power, Mona Susan, 1961- (author) 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
F L562w A work in progress / Lerner, Jarrett, (author) 2023
G156 .H33 2023 Airplane mode : an irreverent history of travel / Habib, Shahnaz, (author) 2023
F T13a All my rage / Tahir, Sabaa, (author) 2022
BF335 .C525 2018 Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones / Clear, James, (author) 2018
PG7178.A65 C4813 2022 Baptism of fire / Sapkowski, Andrzej, (author) 2022
PS3573.I53165 B44 2019 Before we were yours : a novel / Wingate, Lisa, (author) 2019
PN2287.W497 A3 2023 Being Henry : the Fonz . . . and beyond / Winkler, Henry, 1945- (author) 2023
PS3603.O8728 B87 2022 Birds of California : a novel / Cotugno, Katie, (author) 2022
ML3534.3 .B523 2023 Black punk now : fiction, nonfiction, and comics / 2023
PG7178.A65 K7413 2022 Blood of elves / Sapkowski, Andrzej, (author) 2022
PS3611.N64 B75 2023 Bright young women / Knoll, Jessica, (author) 2023
PL871.5.S25 M3713 2021 Bullet train : a novel / Isaka, Kotaro, 1971- (author) 2021
QL950.39 .R33 2022 Butts : a backstory / Radke, Heather, (author) 2022
PS3620.I534 C36 2023 Camp Damascus / Tingle, Chuck, (author) 2023
PS3619.T47754 C36 2023 Camp zero : a novel / Sterling, Michelle Min, 1982- (author) 2023
PS3601.D49 C48 2023 Chain-gang all-stars / Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame, (author) 2023
F G127co Coraline / Gaiman, Neil. 2002
F SL5c Counting by 7s / Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958- (author) 2021
P G127cr Crazy hair / Gaiman, Neil. 2009
PS3573.H4768 C76 2023 Crook manifesto : a novel / Whitehead, Colson, 1969- (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
PR9450.9.T37 D38 2022 Daughter of the moon goddess : a novel / Tan, Sue Lynn, (author) 2022
PS3561.O55 D48 2020 Devoted / Koontz, Dean R. 1945- (author) (Dean Ray), 2020
BL795.G63 H39 2024 Divine might : goddesses in Greek myth / Haynes, Natalie, (author) 2024
PS3612.A543285 D73 2023 Dragonfall / Lam, Laura, 1988- (author) 2023
CT3262.I2 W47 2018 Educated : a memoir / Westover, Tara (author) 2018
E76.2 .J64 2022 Encyclopedia of Native tribes of North America / Johnson, Michael, 1937-2019, (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
PN6071.D58 F68 2024 Fourteen days : a literary project of the Authors Guild of America / 2024
PS3625.A7384 F68 2023 Fourth wing / Yarros, Rebecca, (author) 2023
F Sp23f Fox Point's own Gemma Hopper / Spangler, Brie, (author, illustrator) 2023
UB270 .H275 2023 Ghosts of Honolulu : a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor / Harmon, Mark, 1951- (author) 2023
ML421.T762 W55 2019 Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest / Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- (author) 2019
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
PN6790.J34 M364 2023 Haruki Murakami manga stories / Deveney, Jean-Christophe, 1977- (adapter) 2023
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) 2020
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, illustrator) 2021
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) 2021
F Os22h Heartstopper. Oseman, Alice, (author, artist) 2020
ML3470 .R48 2023 Holding the note : profiles in popular music / Remnick, David, (author) 2023
PS3561.I483 H56 2023 Holly : a novel / King, Stephen, 1947- (author) 2023
PS3602.R3855 H68 2023 House of cotton / Brashears, Monica, (author) 2023
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
PS3625.A7384 I76 2023 Iron flame / Yarros, Rebecca, (author) 2023
PS3608.O623 I84 2016 It ends with us / Hoover, Colleen, (author) 2016
PS3626.H35 L36 2023 Land of milk and honey / Zhang, C Pam, (author) 2023
PS3607.A756 L47 2022 Lessons in chemistry / Garmus, Bonnie, (author) 2022
PN6120.95.S33 L54 2023 Life beyond us : an original anthology of SF stories and science essays / 2023
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
PS3612.E35554 L65 2023 Loki's Ring / Leicht, Stina, (author) 2023
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
PS647.I5 N48 2023 Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology / 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
PS3613.A816 N67 2023 North woods : a novel / Mason, Daniel (author) (Daniel Philippe), 2023
E175 .D86 2021 Not "a nation of immigrants" : settler colonialism, white supremacy, and a history of erasure and exclusion / Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- (author) 2021
ML420.M34125 A3 2023 Not that fancy : simple lessons on living, loving, eating, and dusting off your boots / McEntire, Reba, (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
PS3613.C587545 O54 2023 One last stop / McQuiston, Casey, (author) 2023
P D626o Oona / DiPucchio, Kelly, (author) 2021
PS3808.E5527 O84 2023 Other people's clothes : a novel / Henkel, Calla, 1988- (author) 2023
PR6115.Y49 P37 2021 Parasol against the axe / Oyeyemi, Helen, (author) 2024
PS3619.L6273 P54 2023 Pieces of blue / Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958- (author) 2023
PS3607.O895 P56 2023 Piñata / Gout, Leopoldo, (author) 2023
JK468.A8 P35 2023 Recoding America : why government is failing in the digital age and how we can do better / Pahlka, Jennifer, (author) 2023
PS3622.A58572 R46 2022 Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Van Pelt, Shelby, (author) 2022
PS3616.A7846 R86 2023 Run, Rose, run / Parton, Dolly, (author) 2022
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
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
RC88.9.S94 F858 2023 Survive and thrive : how to prepare for any disaster without ammo, camo, or eating your neighbor / Fulton, Bill (Undercover operative), (author) 2023
PG7178.A65 M5413 2022 Sword of destiny / Sapkowski, Andrzej, (author) 2022
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
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
PR9199.4.S726 B66 2022 The book of cold cases / St. James, Simone, (author) 2022
PS3557.R5355 B69 2023 The boys from Biloxi / Grisham, John, (author) 2023
GV796 .B76 2013 The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics / Brown, Daniel James, 1951- (author) 2013
PR6113.A486 C46 2023 The Centre / Manazir Siddiqi, Ayesha, (author) 2023
BF408 .R7368 2023 The creative act : a way of being / Rubin, Rick, (author) 2023
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
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
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
PG7178.A65 P3613 2022 The lady of the lake / Sapkowski, Andrzej, (author) 2022
PS3604.A938 L37 2021 The last thing he told me : a novel / Dave, Laura, (author) 2021
PG7178.A65 O8613 2021 The last wish : introducing The witcher / Sapkowski, Andrzej, (author) 2021
PS3605.A765 L68 2023 The lost journals of Sacajewea : a novel / Earling, Debra Magpie, (author) 2023
PS3604.E5355 M7 2023 The missing morningstar : and other stories / Denetsosie, Stacie Shannon, (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
F M699o The ones we burn / Mix, Rebecca, (author) 2022
PS3608.A783293 O85 2021 The other Black girl : a novel / Harris, Zakiya Dalila, (author) 2021
F R278p The problem with prophecies / Reintgen, Scott, (author) 2022
SF422.86 .G635 2023 The purest bond : understanding the human-canine connection / Golbeck, Jen, (author) 2023
PS3607.U54827 R33 2022 The rabbit hutch / Gunty, Tess, (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
PG7178.A65 C9713 2022 The time of contempt / Sapkowski, Andrzej, (author) 2022
PG7178.A65 W5413 2022 The tower of swallows / Sapkowski, Andrzej, (author) 2022
ND646 .M78 2023 The upside-down world : meetings with the Dutch masters / Moser, Benjamin, (author) 2023
PS3607.R6344 V37 2023 The vaster wilds / Groff, Lauren, (author) 2023
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
PS3558.A4763 W66 2024 The women / Hannah, Kristin, (author) 2024
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
TR727 .S6584 2023 This book is literally just pictures of tiny animals that will make you smile / 2023
PS3604.O554 T46 2023 Those empty eyes / Donlea, Charlie, (author) 2023
617.4 T868h Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas / Hooks, Gwendolyn, (author) 2016
PR6108.A737 T58 2023 Titanium noir : a novel / Harkaway, Nick, 1972- (author) 2023
PS3566.A7756 T66 2023 Tom Lake : a novel / Patchett, Ann, (author) 2023
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 / Diaz, Hernan, 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 / Canas, Isabel, (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.S612 A3 2021 Will / Smith, Will, 1968- (author) 2021
PN2287.S59 A3 2023 Worthy / Smith, Jada Pinkett, 1971- (author) 2023
PN6728.X2 W539 2023 X-Terminators / Williams, Leah, (author) 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