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The following items are "in constant demand" and therefore will not be available through
Minitex:
Books
These titles are unlikely to be available in any format, including spoken audiocassette
and CD.
- 206 Bones / Kathy Reichs
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man / Steve Harvey
- Alex Cross' "Trial" / James Patterson
- Angel's Game / Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Apostle / Brad Thor
- Arguing with Idiots / Glenn Beck
- Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day / Jeff Hertzberg
- Best Friends Forever / Jennifer Weiner
- Black Hills / Nora Roberts
- The Blue Notebook / James A. Levine
- The Bolter / Frances Osborne
- Commencement / J. Courtney Sullivan
- Dark Slayer / Christine Feehan
- Dead and Gone / Charlaine Harris
- Defector / Daniel Silva
- The Devil's Punchbowl / Greg Iles
- Dexter by Design / Jeff Lindsay
- The Doomsday Key / James Rollins
- Eating the Dinosaur / Chuck Klosterman
- An Echo in the Bone / Diana Gabaldon
- Eclipse / Stephanie Meyer
- The Eleventh Victim / Nancy Grace
- Even Money / Dick Francis
- The Evolution of God / Robert Wright
- Finger Lickin' Fifteen / Janet Evanovich
- First Family / David Baldacci
- Ford County / John Grisham
- A Gate at the Stairs / Lorrie Moore
- The Gathering Storm / Robert Jordan
- Girl Who Played with Fire / Stieg Larsson
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson
- Going Rogue: An American Life / Sarah Palin
- Grave Secret / Charlaine Harris
- Greatest Show on Earth / Richard Dawkins
- Half Broke Horses / Jeannette Walls
- Handle with Care / Jodi Picoult
- Have a Little Faith / Mitch Albom
- Healing of America / T.R. Reid
- Heaven's Keep / William Kent Krueger
- The Help / Kathryn Stockett
- High on Arrival / Mackenzie Phillips
- Highest Duty / Chesley B. Sullenberger
- Homer & Langley / E.L. Doctorow
- I Drink for a Reason / David Cross
- In the President's Secret Service / Ronald Kessler
- Kindred in Death / J.D. Robb
- The Lacuna / Barbara Kingsolver
- Last Night in Twisted River / John Irving
- Last Song / Nicholas Sparks
- The Lost Symbol / Dan Brown
- Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me / Sheryl Weinstein
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking / Julia Child
- Methland / Nick Reding
- Mommywood / Tori Spelling
- Moonwalk / Michael Jackson
- Murder of King Tut / James Patterson
- New Moon / Stephanie Meyer
- Nine Dragons / Michael Connelly
- Nutureshock / Po Bronson
- Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir / Kathy Griffin
- Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell
- Perfection / Julie Metz
- The physick book of Deliverance Dane / Katherine Howe
- A Plague of Secrets / John Lescroart
- Prairie Tale / Melissa Gilbert
- The Professional / Robert Parker
- Pursuit of Honor / Vince Flynn
- Push / Sapphire
- Rough Country / John Sandford
- The Scarecrow / Michael Connelly
- The Scarpetta Factor / Patricia Cornwell
- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe / J. Randy Taraborrelli
- The Shack: a novel / William Young
- Shanghai Girls / Lisa See
- South of Broad / Pat Conroy
- Strength in What Remains / Tracy Kidder
- Superfreakonomics / Steven D. Levitt
- Swimsuit / James Patterson
- Sworn to Silence / Linda Castillo
- That Old Cape Magic / Richard Russo
- The Time of My Life / Patrick Swayze
- Too Big to Fail / Andrew Ross
- A Touch of Dead / Charlaine Harris
- True Blue / David Baldacci
- True Compass / Edward M. Kennedy
- Twenties Girl / Sophie Kinsella
- What the Dog Saw / Malcolm Gladwell
- Where Hope Begins / Alysia Sofios
- Where Men Win Glory / Jon Krakauer
- The White Queen / Philippa Gregory
- Wicked Prey / John Sandford
- Zeitoun / Dave Eggers
In addition, we are unable to fill requests for items published in 2008-2009 for the
following categories:
Romance
Publishers: Aphrodisia, Avon, Bantam, Berkley, HQN books, Harlequin, Pocket Books, Silhouette
Anime, Graphic Novels, Manga
Publishers: DC Comics, Del Rey, Diamond Comic, Image Comics, Marvel, Net Comics, Tokyopop, VIZ
Books on the following topics:
Celebrity biography and autobiographies (or, recently deceased celebrity works from any year),
Cookbooks (especially celebrity-authored), Diet, Dsease cures, Health, How-to (investment, money,
real estate, and taxes; crafts such as carpentry, jewelry-making, knitting, quilting), Iraq and the
war, "Oprah" books (published in any year), Politics (by famous or celebrity politicians, journalists,
or TV personalities), Regional or local history by Minnesota authors, Religion and Spirituality (on
topics such as, but not limited to, apologetics, autobiography, and fiction titles), Video game
strategy guides.
Audio Visual: Movies
Most new release entertainment videos from the current year will not be available for loan through Minitex
due to high-demand at the local public libraries. The titles include, but are not limited to:
- 17 Again
- Adventureland
- Angels and Demons
- Blue Thunder
- Crank 2
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Duplicity
- Food, Inc.
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- Gran Torino
- The Hangover
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- I Love You, Man
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Julie and Julia
- Knowing
- Monsters vs. Aliens
- My Sister's Keeper
- Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian
- The Proposal
- State of Play
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Ugly Truth
- Up
- Watchmen
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
AV materials in the following categories, released in 2008-2009, are not available for
interlibrary loan through Minitex:
- Anime DVDs
- Exercise DVDs
- Television series—DVDs of entire seasons of television programs
- Television mini-series programs
- Popular music CDs
- Works by celebrities who are recently deceased