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FROM: GW Reference Staff <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 6:15 PM

Hi all,
Patron is looking for a (possibly) YA book, maybe from the
fifties, with a title of something like 'Others' or 'Outsiders'. The
main characters are about twelve or teenage and all have special talents
and abilities. For instance one can heal, one can fly, one is a
telepath etc. She feels certain the book is by a woman author, with
perhaps a Scottish name, beginning with an 'M'. We looked through
through the McCaffrey titles, but none seemed right to her. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your collective efforts.

FROM: "Alison Hendon" <[removed]@vabish.com>
REC'D: 2/19/02, 7:09 PM

This sounds like the "People" series by Zenna Henderson. There
was a fairly recent omnibus volume printed "The People: The
Gathering" (I believe). Book one was The People" No Different
Flesh.

Alison Hendon

> Hi all,
> Patron is looking for a (possibly) YA book, maybe from the
> fifties, with a title of something like 'Others' or 'Outsiders'. The
> main characters are about twelve or teenage and all have special talents
> and abilities. For instance one can heal, one can fly, one is a
> telepath etc. She feels certain the book is by a woman author, with
> perhaps a Scottish name, beginning with an 'M'. We looked through
> through the McCaffrey titles, but none seemed right to her. Any ideas?
> Thanks in advance for your collective efforts.
>
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Alison Hendon
[removed]@vabish.com
"Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
"Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
"Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
"I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned."
(Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay)
9-11-01

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/20/02, 12:50 AM

I believe that you are thinking of To Ride Pegasus, the first of several
works by Anne McCaffrey about a group of people who had "wild" or psi
talents. Telepathy, telekinesis, etc. I'm sure Dennis has details.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Sarah Stein" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 2/20/02, 9:25 AM

The People books/stories were first published in the 50s (as stories in
magazines first I think, then collected in 2 books, Pilgrimage and The
People: no different flesh.

The recent republication in one volume is
Ingathering : bthe complete People stories of Zenna Henderson /
cedited by Mark and Priscilla Olson.
Framingham, Mass. : bNESFA Press, c1995.
ISBN 0915368587
ocm32812145

It actually managed to include one story I had missed!

Hope this is it,

Sarah

Sarah Stein
Senior Special Collections Librarian
Denver Public Library
Denver, Colorado, USA
[removed]@denver.lib.co.us

>>> [removed]@vabish.com 02/19/02 06:00PM >>>
This sounds like the "People" series by Zenna Henderson. There
was a fairly recent omnibus volume printed "The People: The
Gathering" (I believe). Book one was The People" No Different
Flesh.

Alison Hendon

> Hi all,
> Patron is looking for a (possibly) YA book, maybe from the
> fifties, with a title of something like 'Others' or 'Outsiders'.
The
> main characters are about twelve or teenage and all have special
talents
> and abilities. For instance one can heal, one can fly, one is a
> telepath etc. She feels certain the book is by a woman author, with
> perhaps a Scottish name, beginning with an 'M'. We looked through
> through the McCaffrey titles, but none seemed right to her. Any
ideas?
> Thanks in advance for your collective efforts.
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>


Alison Hendon
[removed]@vabish.com
"Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
"Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
"Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
"I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned."
(Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay)
9-11-01

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