Items in Constant Demand
Last Updated: May 15, 2012
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.
- 1Q84 / Haruki Murakami
- 11/22/63 / Stephen King
- American Sniper / Chris Kyle
- Ameritopia / Mark R. Levin
- The Art of Fielding / Chad Harbach
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers / Katherine Boo
- Believing the Lie / Elizabeth George
- The Best of Me / Nicholas Sparks
- Betrayal / Danielle Steel
- The Big Miss / Hank Haney
- Bringing up Bebe / Pamela Druckerman
- Calico Joe / John Grisham
- Catherine the Great / Robert K. Massie
- Caleb's Crossing / Geraldine Brooks
- Catch Me / Lisa Gardner
- Come Home / Lisa Scottoline
- Coming Apart / Charles Murray
- Copper Beach / Jayne Ann Krentz
- Crystal Gardens / Amanda Quick
- A Dance with Dragons / George R.R. Martin
- Death Comes to Pemberley / P.D. James
- Defending Jacob / William Landay
- Drift / Rachel Maddow
- The Drop / Michael Connelly
- Elizabeth the Queen / Sally Bedell Smith
- Fairy Tale Interrupted / RoseMarie Terenzio
- Greedy Bastards / Dylan Ratigan
- Guilty Wives / James Patterson
- Hilarity Ensues / Tucker Max
- Home Front / Kristin Hannah
- Imagine / Jonah Lehrer
- In the Garden of Beasts / Erik Larson
- The Innocent / David Baldacci
- Kill Shot / Vince Flynn
- Left for Dead / J.A. Jance
- Let's Pretend this Never Happened / Jenny Lawson
- The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection / Alexander McCall Smith
- The Litigators / John Grisham
- The Lost Years / Mary Higgins Clark
- Lot's of Candles, Plenty of Cake / Anna Quindlen
- The Marriage Plot / Jeffrey Eugenides
- Mockingjay / Suzanne Collins
- Mrs. Kennedy and Me / Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin
- A Natural Woman / Carole King
- The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
- The Obamas / Jodi Kantor
- Once Upon a Secret / Mimi Alford
- The Paris Wife / Paula McLain
- The Power of Habit / Charles Duhigg
- Prague Winter / Madeleine Albright
- The President's Club / Nancy Gibbs
- Quiet / Susan Cain
- The Raylan / Elmore Leonard
- Sacre Bleu / Christopher Moore
- Seriously ... I'm Kidding / Ellen DeGeneres
- The Shoemaker's Wife / Adriana Trigiani
- Stay Close / Harlan Coben
- Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson
- Then Again / Diane Keaton
- Thinking, Fast and Slow / Daniel Kahneman
- Through My Eyes / Tim Tebow
- Trickle Down Tyranny / Michael Savage
- Unbroken: a World War II Story of Survival / Laura Hillenbrand
- Unnatural Acts / Stuart Woods
- V is for Vengeance / Sue Grafton
- The Warmth of Other Suns / Isabel Wilkerson
- Wild / Cheryl Strayed
- The Wind Through the Keyhole / Stephen King
- The Witness / Nora Roberts
In addition, we are unable to fill requests for items published in 2011-2012 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, 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.
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Audio Visual
Most new release entertainment videos released in the past 2 years 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:
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Arrietty
- Circumstance
- Columbiana
- Contraband
- The Descendants
- Dolphin Tale
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- Fright Night
- Glee: The Concert Movie
- The Grey
- Haywire
- Hugo
- The Incredible Hulk
- J. Edgar
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Margin Call
- Midnight in Paris
- Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
- Mr Popper's Penguins
- One for the Money
- Puss In Boots
- Red Tails
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Rum Diary
- Safe House
- Shame
- Shrek Forever After
- The Smurfs
- The Social Network
- Straw Dogs (2011)
- The Tempest
- Underworld: Awakening
- The Vow
- Warrior
- The Way
- We Bought a Zoo
- The Woman in Black
AV materials in the following categories, released in 2010-2012, 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
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