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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
- Accidental Billionaires / Ben Mezrich
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man / Steve Harvey
- Alex Cross' "Trial" / James Patterson
- Always Looking Up / Michael J. Fox
- Angel's Game / Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Apostle / Brad Thor
- Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day / Jeff Hertzberg
- Bad Moon Rising / Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Best Friends Forever / Jennifer Weiner
- Big Little Life / Dean Koontz
- Black Hills / Nora Roberts
- The Blue Notebook / James A. Levine
- Bobby and Jackie / C. David Heymann
- The Bolter / Frances Osborne
- Born to Run / Christopher McDougall
- Catastrophe / Dick Morris
- A Colossal Failure of Common Sense / Lawrence G. McDonald
- Commencement / J. Courtney Sullivan
- The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder / Rebecca Wells
- Culture of Corruption / Michelle Malkin
- Dark Slayer / Christine Feehan
- Dead and Gone / Charlaine Harris
- Defector / Daniel Silva
- The Devil's Punchbowl / Greg Iles
- The Doomsday Key / James Rollins
- Eclipse / Stephanie Meyer
- The Eleventh Victim / Nancy Grace
- The End of Overeating / David A. Kessler
- Even Money / Dick Francis
- The Evolution of God / Robert Wright
- Finger Lickin' Fifteen / Janet Evanovich
- Fire and Ice / J.A. Jance
- First Family / David Baldacci
- A Gate at the Stairs / Lorrie Moore
- Girl Who Played with Fire / Stieg Larsson
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson
- The Girls From Ames / Jeffrey Zaslow
- Gone Tomorrow / Lee Child
- Handle with Care / Jodi Picoult
- The Healing of America / T.R. Reid
- Heaven's Keep / William Kent Krueger
- The Help / Kathryn Stockett
- Homer & Langley / E.L. Doctorow
- Homer's Odyssey / Gwen Cooper
- The Housing Boom and Bust / Thomas Sowell
- I Drink for a Reason / David Cross
- In the President's Secret Service / Ronald Kessler
- Inherent Vice / Thomas Pynchon
- The Last Lion / Peter S. Canellos
- Last Song / Nicholas Sparks
- Liberty and Tyranny / Mark R. Levin
- Losing Mum and Pup / Christopher Buckley
- The Lost Symbol / Dan Brown
- Malice / Lisa Jackson
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking / Julia Child
- Methland / Nick Reding
- Mommywood / Tori Spelling
- Munson / Marty Appel
- New Moon / Stephanie Meyer
- Nutureshock / Po Bronson
- Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir / Kathy Griffin
- Our Lady of Guadalupe / Carl A. Anderson
- Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell
- Perfection / Julie Metz
- The physick book of Deliverance Dane / Katherine Howe
- A Plague of Secrets / John Lescroart
- Power Ambition Glory / John Preva
- Prairie Tale / Melissa Gilbert
- Renegade / Richard Wolffe
- The Scarecrow / Michael Connelly
- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe / J. Randy Taraborrelli
- The Shack: a novel / William Young
- Shanghai Girls / Lisa See
- South of Broad / Pat Conroy
- Spartan Gold / Clive Cussler
- Strength in What Remains / Tracy Kidder
- Swimsuit / James Patterson
- Sworn to Silence / Linda Castillo
- That Old Cape Magic / Richard Russo
- Twenties Girl / Sophie Kinsella
- The White Queen / Philippa Gregory
- Wicked Prey / John Sandford
- Wilderness Warrior / Douglas Brinkley
- 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
- Bedtime Stories
- Blue Thunder
- Bolt
- Bride Wars
- Crank 2
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Duplicity
- Food, Inc.
- Frost/Nixon
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- Gran Torino
- I Love You, Man
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Knowing
- Monsters vs. Aliens
- Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian
- The Proposal
- Quantum of Solace
- Slumdog Millionaire
- State of Play
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Twilight
- Up
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- 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