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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.
- The 8th Confession / James Patterson
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man / Steve Harvey
- Always Looking Up / Michael J. Fox
- Angel's Game / Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day / Jeff Hertzberg
- Below Zero / C.J. Box
- Born To Run / Christopher McDougall
- The Bourne Deception / Eric Van Lustbader
- Cemetery Dance / Douglas Preston
- Columbine / Dave Cullen
- Commencement / J. Courtney Sullivan
- Corsair / Clive Cussler
- Crazy for the Storm / Norman Ollestad
- Cream Puff Murder / Joann Fluke
- Dead and Gone / Charlaine Harris
- Dewey / Vicki Myron
- Driving Like Crazy / P.J. O'Rourke
- Dune Road / Jane Green
- Eclipse / Stephanie Meyer
- End of Overeating / David A. Kessler
- Extreme Measures / Vince Flynn
- First Family / David Baldacci
- Fool's Gold / Gillian Tett
- The Gate House / Nelson DeMille
- Girls From Ames / Jeffrey Zaslow
- Gone Tomorrow / Lee Child
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Marry Ann Shaffer
- Handle with Care / Jodi Picoult
- Heart and Soul / Maeve Binchy
- The Help / Kathryn Stockett
- Home Game / Michael Lewis
- Horse Soldiers / Doug Stanton
- The Host / Stephenie Meyer
- The Hour I First Believed / Wally Lamb
- How the Mighty Fall / Jim Collins
- How We Decide / Jonah Lehrer
- Jesus, Interrupted / Bart D. Ehrman
- Knockout / Catherine Coulter
- Last Best Hope / Joe Scarborough
- Lavender Morning / Jude Deveraux
- Liberty and Tyranny / Mark R. Levin
- Long Lost / Harlan Coben
- Losing Mum and Pup / Christopher Buckley
- The Lost City of Z / David Grann
- The Mad Ones / Tom Folsom
- Malice / Lisa Jackson
- Masters and Commanders / Andrew Roberts
- Matters of the Heart / Danielle Steel
- Medusa / Clive Cussler
- My Father's Tears and Other Stories / John Updike
- My Remarkable Journey / Larry King
- The Neighbor / Lisa Gardner
- New Moon / Stephanie Meyer
- One Day at a Time / Danielle Steel
- Outliers / Malcolm Gladwell
- Paul Newman / Shawn Levy
- Perfection / Julie Metz
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dan / Katherine Howe
- Prairie Tale / Melissa Gilbert
- Private Patient / P.D. James
- Pygmy / Chuck Palahniuk
- Queen Takes King / Gigi Levangie Grazer
- Red and Me / Bill Russell
- Relentless / Dean Koontz
- Renegade / Richard Wolffe
- Road Dogs / Elmore Leonard
- Roadside Crosses / Jeffery Deaver
- A Rogue of My Own / Johanna Lindsey
- Run for your Life / James Patterson
- Satchel / Larry Tye
- The Scarecrow / Michael Connelly
- The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet / Reif Larsen
- The Shack: a novel / William Young
- Shanghai Girls / Lisa See
- Shop Class as Soulcraft / Matthew B. Crawford
- A Short History of Women / Kate Walbert
- Skin Trade / Laurell K. Hamilton
- Smooth Talking Stranger / Lisa Kleypas
- Soul Survivor / Laurell K. Hamilton
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle / David Wroblewksi
- The Story Sisters / Alice Hoffman
- The Strain / Guillermo Del Toro
- Street Fighters / Kate Kelly
- Tears in the Darkness / Michael Norman
- True Detectives / Jonathan Kellerman
- We Who Are Alive and Remain / Marcus Brotherton
- Why We Suck / Denis Leary
- Wicked Prey / John Sandford
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:
- Appaloosa
- Australia
- Bedtime Stories
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua
- Bolt
- Bride Wars
- Changling
- Confessions of a Shopaholic
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Doubt
- Frost/Nixon
- Gran Torino
- Grey Gardens
- He's Just Not That Into You
- High School Musical 3
- Hotel for Dogs
- Knowing
- Kung Fu Panda
- Marley and Me
- Milk
- Pineapple Express
- Pink Panther 2
- Quantum of Solace
- Rachel Getting Married
- Reader
- Righteous Kill
- Role Models
- Seven Pounds
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Stepbrothers
- Taken
- Transporter 3
- Twilight
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Watchmen
- Wanted
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