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2014., New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: SC Fic Ken Edition: 1st U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A. L. Kennedy's latest collection of stories is an investigation of "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things"--another intense and luscious feast of language from the author of The Blue Book and Paradise. "I want to describe my genuine circumstances on the occasion in question, but I can't," confesses the narrator of "Baby Blue," who finds herself "somewhere like a very big grocers. a supermarket full of sex." Kennedy hilariously explores the comic possibilities of fake genitalia before landing on a heartbreaking note.In "Takes You Home," a man tries to sell his apartment, the emptiness of the rooms. It's a journey to the interior that is both harrowing and humorous, as he considers the benefit of showing off the old kitchen rather than renovating--it "only quietly asks to be replaced and will shrug when it's knocked to pieces and hauled away and not take it personally one bit." Swarming with memory and moments of grace, All the Rage is Kennedy at her inimitable best"--
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2014., Freight Books Call No: SC Fic Mack Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A viciously funny and heart-breaking collection of semi-autobiographical short stories from of one the UK's most exciting new voices. 'Any Other Mouth' is a gut-wrenching and shockingly frank account of sexual misadventure, familial disintegration, bereavement and self-discovery, in the vein of David Vann's 'Legend of a Suicide', Susanna Kaysen's 'Girl, Interrupted', and Miranda July's 'Nobody Belongs Here More Than You'. In this highly personal work, Anneliese Mackintosh has taken the most intense episodes of her life so far, and reimagined them in these profound, playful and poignant tales.
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By Rankin, Ianc2014., Adult, Orion Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Ran Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Rebus Volume: short storiesSummary Note: There is no detective like DI Rebus. Brilliant, irascible and endlessly frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, he has made the dark places of Edinburgh his comfort and his home for over two decades. From his beginnings as a young Detective Constable in 'Dead and Buried', right up to his dramatic - but as it turns out, not quite final - retirement in 'The Very Last Drop'.
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2018., Pegasus Crime Call No: SC MYS Fic Cra Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of crime stories set in iconic Scottish structures. Lin Anderson, Christopher Brookmyre, Ann Cleeves, Doug Johnstone, Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, Gordon Brown, Denise Mina, Craig Robertson, Sara Sheridan, E.S. Thomson, Louise Welsh.
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2015., Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: SC Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While gathering material for a photography book about Edinburgh, Alexander McCall Smith found himself inspired to create stories about the people captured in a number of particularly striking photos. A smiling girl leading a younger girl astride a pony, and a boy in a kilt on a tricycle beside them, gives rise to a story of a lifelong romance between the two riders. A dapper, roguish-looking man perching on a lady's knee sparks the story of a ventriloquist and an animal handler who work in a circus, and who, under the most delightfully unexpected circumstances, fall in love. The image of a woman haloed by light in a train station becomes the lighthearted tale of a nun's decision to leave the sisterhood and discover what the big city has to offer.
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2003., Canongate Books : [Distributed in North America by Publishers Group West] Call No: SC BLK Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Freight Books Call No: SC Fic Gal Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Janice Galloway redefined contemporary Scottish fiction with the extraordinary The Trick is to Keep Breathing, first published in 1989, going on to become a towering presence in British literature, winning the McVitieœs Prize, the EM Forster Award, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the SMIT Non-fiction Book of the Year. She is a novelist, short story writer, memoiriere, librettist, essayist, and poet. Following on from her most recent award-winning creative non-fiction, This is Not About Me and All Made Up, comes her fourth short story collection, the outstanding Jellyfish, confirming her position as one of the most elegant, unflinching, masterful chroniclers of contemporary life and love.
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-- Normal rules do not apply.2023., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: NEW SC Fic Atk Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, which offer the gimlet eye and delightful social critique that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time. In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may--or may not--have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here--the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling and funny feast for the imagination, stories with the depth and bite to create their own fully-formed worlds.
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c2012., General, Penguin Group (Canada) Call No: SC Fic Moc Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Colin Mochrie, a man known worldwide for working without a script, has penned a collection of stories destined to make its own mark in the literary community. Borrowing from a well-known improv game, Mochrie takes the first and last lines from familiar classics and re-imagines everything in between. With the same engaging humour he exhibits on stage, television, and film, he takes the reader in bizarre and hilarious new directions, using the original writer's words as a launch and landing point.
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c2002., Little, Brown Call No: SC Fic Atk Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Queen's Ferry Press Call No: SC Fic McC Edition: First ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In On the Edges of Vision, unease sounds itself in the language of legend. Images call on memory, on the monstrous self. Throughout Helen McCloryœs daring debut collection, the skin prickles against sweeps of light or darkness, the fantastic or the frightful; deep water, dark woods, or scattered flesh in desert sand. Whether telling of a boy cyclops or a pretty dead girl, drowned sailors or the devil himself, each story draws the reader towards not bleakness but a tale half-told, a truth half-true: that the monster is human, and only wants to reach out and take you by the hand.
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c2009., Adult, Vintage Books Call No: SC Fic Wel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister's boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in "The Rosewell Incident", how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the local casuals as the new governors of Planet Earth. You will not be surprised to read that a televised Hibs v. Hearts game might matter more to one character than the life of his wife, or that two guys fighting over a beautiful girl might agree - on reflection, and after a few pills and many pints of lager - that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis, retired schoolmaster Albert Black, under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub. Most of the stories in "Reheated Cabbage" originally appeared in fugitive form in magazines and long-out-of-print anthologies."--Back cover.
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2014., General, McClelland & Stewart Call No: SC Fic MacL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the internationally celebrated author of 'No Great Mischief' comes a moving short story of three generations of men from a single family whose lives are forever altered by the long shadow of war. In the early morning hours of November 11, David MacDonald, a veteran of the Second World War, stands outside his Cape Breton home, preparing to attend what will likely be his last Remembrance Day parade. As he waits for the arrival of his son and grandson, he remembers his decision to go to war in desperation to support his young family. He remembers the horrors of life at the frontlines in Ortona, Italy, and then what happened in Holland when the Canadians arrived as liberators. He remembers how the war devastated his own family, but gave him other reasons to live. As the story unfolds, other generations enter the scene. What emerges is an elegant, life-affirming meditation on the bond between fathers and sons, "how the present always comes out of the past," and how even in the midst of tragedy and misfortune there exists the possibility for salvation. His first new short story in over a decade, Remembrance is a powerful reminder of why Alistair MacLeod is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time."--Publisher.
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[2017], Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: SC Fic Gab Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Outlander seriesSummary Note: "A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories. This riveting, romantic collection includes: 'Besieged' (original novella), 'Survival' (original novella), 'Virgins,' 'The Space Between,' 'Lord John and the Plague of Zombies,' 'A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows' and 'The Custom of the Army.'"--From publisher.
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1993, 1991, Adult, Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks' staggering talent.
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2017., Canongate Call No: SC Fic Kel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman, bringing 'alive a human consciousness like no other writer can'. A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father. Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories reveal profound human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.
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2019., Adult, Harvill Secker Call No: SC Fic Log Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "So here we go, into the dark. Some things can't be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not. The characters in this collection find their aspirations for happy homes, happy families and happy memories dissected and imbued with shimmering menace. Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation; another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an abandoned swimming pool. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children; a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum; and a cheery account of child's day out is undercut by chilling footnotes. These dark tales explore women's fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence. From a talented writer who has been compared to Angela Carter, Things We Say in the Dark is a powerful contemporary collection of feminist stories, ranging from vicious fairy tales to disturbing horror and tender ghost stories."--Publisher.
