Can't you ask the library to order it from another library? It will take another extra week or so but it will arrive. Or doesn't librararies do that for free in the US? Here, if the local library doesn't have it, they order it for you from somewhere else in the country. What is called a long distance loan.Aghast that our local library system isn't carrying Gaiman's newest (and doesn't plan to carry it). The only answer I got when I asked why was, "Maybe because of the title?" (Trigger Warning). I'm floored! They carry multiple copies that ghastly pseudo-bondage book by a hack writer, but not a book of short stories by a well known and respected writer? Maybe this should be in the "I'm angry today because..." thread