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Items in Constant Demand

Last Updated: 06/20/2008

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.

  • 7th Heaven / James Patterson
  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle / Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Appeal / John Grisham
  • Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea / Chelsea Handler
  • Armageddon in Retrospect / Kurt Vonnegut
  • Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day / Jeff Hertzberg
  • Audition / Barbara Walters
  • Bad Money / Kevin Phillips
  • Beautiful Boy / David Sheff
  • Born Standing Up / Steve Martin
  • Bright Shiny Morning / James Frey
  • Careless in Red / Elizabeth George
  • Certain Girls / Jennifer Weiner
  • Change of Heart: a novel / Jodi Picoult
  • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life / Daniel Amen
  • Courting Emma / Sharlene MacLaren
  • Dead Heat / Joel C. Rosenberg
  • The Dog Says How / Kevin Kling
  • Downhill Lie / Carl Hiaasen
  • Duma Key / Stephen King
  • Eat, Pray, Love / Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Escape / Carolyn Jessop
  • The Florist's Daughter / Patricia Hampl
  • Forbidden / Suzanne Brockman
  • Free Lunch / David Cay Johnston
  • Ghosts Among Us / James Van Praagh
  • Hold Tight / Harlan Coben
  • Home / Julie Andrews
  • The Host / Stephenie Meyer
  • In Defense of Food / Michael Pollan
  • Invincible / Troy Denning
  • Ladies of Liberty / Cokie Roberts
  • Lady Killer / Lisa Scottoline
  • Last Lecture / Randy Pausch
  • Love the One You're With / Emily Griffin
  • Miracle at Speedy Motors / Alexander McCall Smith
  • Mistaken Identity: two families... / Mark Tabb
  • My Stroke of Insight / Jill Bolte Taylor
  • A New Earth / Eckhart Tolle
  • The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court / Jeffrey Toobin
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions.../ Richard Thaler
  • Other Boleyn Girl / Philippa Gregory
  • Out Stealing Horses / Per Petterson
  • Outlander / Gil Adamson
  • Pandora's Daughter / Iris Johansen
  • People of the Book / Geraldine Brooks
  • Phantom Prey / John Sandford
  • Plague of Doves / Louise Erdrich
  • Post-American World / Fareed Zakaria
  • Predictably Irrational / Dan Ariely
  • Quicksand / Iris Johansen
  • Real Change / Newt Gingrich
  • Reconciliation / Benazir Bhutto
  • Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella
  • Revolution / Ron Paul
  • Riding Shotgun / Kathryn Kysar
  • Run / Ann Patchett
  • Santa Fe Dead / Stuart Woods
  • Senator's Wife / Sue Miller
  • Shack: a novel / William Young
  • Skinny Bitch in the Kitch / Rory Freedman
  • So Brave, Young, and Handsome / Leif Enger
  • Soloist / Steve Lopez
  • Sundays at Tiffany's / James Patterson
  • Swine Note? / Jimmy Buffett
  • T is for Trespass / Sue Grafton
  • This Republic of Suffering / Drew Gilpin Faust
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
  • Twenty Wishes / Debbie Macomber
  • Unaccustomed Earth / Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Up Till Now / William Shatner
  • Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen
  • Where are You Now? / Mary Higgins Clark
  • Whole Truth / David Baldacci
  • A Wolf at the Table / Augusten Burroughs
  • World Without End / Ken Follett

In addition, we are unable to fill requests for items published in 2007-2008 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, Cookbooks (especially celebrity-authored), Diet, Disease 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:

  • 10,000 B.C.
  • 3:10 to Yuma
  • 28 Weeks Later
  • Air I Breathe
  • Amazing Grace
  • American Gangster
  • Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Atonement
  • Away from Her
  • Becoming Jane
  • Bee Movie
  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Bucket List
  • Dan in Real Life
  • Disturbia
  • Eastern Promises
  • Elizabeth—The Golden Age
  • Enchanted
  • Fool's Gold
  • Gone Baby Gone
  • Good Luck Chuck
  • Great Debaters
  • Hairspray
  • High School Musical 2
  • I am Legend
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • Into the Wild
  • John Adams (HBO miniseries)
  • Jumper
  • Juno
  • Knocked Up
  • Live Free or Die Hard
  • Love's Unfolding Dream
  • Michael Clayton
  • National Treasure 2
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Ocean's 13
  • P.S. I Love You
  • Pirates of the Caribbean—at World's End
  • Ratatouille
  • Rush Hour 3
  • Semi-Pro
  • Stardust
  • Superbad
  • Sweeney Todd
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Things We Lost in the Fire
  • Untraceable
  • Waitress

AV materials in the following categories, released in 2007-2008, 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