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FROM: Mary Knapp <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:23 AM

Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html

Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
interest. Mary

-----------
Mary C. Knapp
Librarian, Madison Public Library

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:29 AM

Ron McLarty's MEMORY OF RUNNING is a definite tearjerker. Bad news is
that at this time it's only available in audio format (Recorded Books);
good news is that it will eventually be in print.

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library

>>> [removed]@scls.lib.wi.us 01/16/04 08:18AM >>>
Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on
tearjerkers.
We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now

looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html

Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is

interest. Mary

-----------
Mary C. Knapp
Librarian, Madison Public Library

FROM: "Hogan, Jean E." <[removed]@nvcc.edu>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:35 AM

My selections:
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
by Carole Bellacera
Ray, Francis Someone's Knocking on My Door
Cole, Dorianne ONCE IN A BLUE MOON
Clark, Beverly TWIST OF FATE, A
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Knapp [[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:19 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Tearjerkers

Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html

Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
interest. Mary

-----------
Mary C. Knapp
Librarian, Madison Public Library

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:41 AM

Hand in Hand by Tauno Yliruusi

Kathleen Stipek, Alachua County Library District (FMG), 401 East University
Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601 (352-334-3939; fax 352-334-3948)

"Non, merci."
--Cyrano de Bergerac

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Knapp [[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:19 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Tearjerkers

Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html

Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
interest. Mary

-----------
Mary C. Knapp
Librarian, Madison Public Library

FROM: "Victoria Kemp" <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:46 AM

Any Oprah book.

Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!
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From: "Mary Knapp" <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: Tearjerkers

> Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
> We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
> looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
> appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
> is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html
>
> Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
> interest. Mary
>
> -----------
> Mary C. Knapp
> Librarian, Madison Public Library
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org

FROM: "Rosemarie Herrera" <[removed]@mdpls.org>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:52 AM

It's an oldie, but it still makes me cry:

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

I also found All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve rather heartbreaking, and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison haunting and sad.

And I don't know if your library buys graphic novels, but I had to put down Blankets by Craig Thompson because I was crying so hard.

Great topic for a list, by the way!

Rose

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From: Mary Knapp <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:18:48 -0600

>Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
>We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
>looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
>appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
>is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html
>
>Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
>interest. Mary
>
>-----------
>Mary C. Knapp
>Librarian, Madison Public Library
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
>

--
Rosemarie Herrera
Librarian 1, Reference/Adult Programming
South Miami Branch Library
6000 Sunset Drive
South Miami, FL 33143
305-667-6121
305-661-6558 (fax)

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FROM: "C. L. Quillen" <[removed]@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:52 AM

It's not out yet, but PS I love you by Celia Ahern is definitely a
tearjerker.

C. L.

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 10:58 AM

I don't know if a children's book would count, but Anna Sewell's Black
Beauty can wring a tear out of all but the hardest soul. And for readers of
YA series, Pullman's The Amber Spyglass, the finale of the His Dark
Materials series. There were three places towards the end of the book that
just demolished me.

Kathleen Stipek, Alachua County Library District (FMG), 401 East University
Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601 (352-334-3939; fax 352-334-3948)

"Non, merci."
--Cyrano de Bergerac

-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemarie Herrera [[removed]@mdpls.org]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:54 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Tearjerkers

It's an oldie, but it still makes me cry:

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

I also found All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve rather heartbreaking, and
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison haunting and sad.

And I don't know if your library buys graphic novels, but I had to put down
Blankets by Craig Thompson because I was crying so hard.

Great topic for a list, by the way!

Rose

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mary Knapp <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:18:48 -0600

>Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
>We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
>looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
>appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
>is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html
>
>Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
>interest. Mary
>
>-----------
>Mary C. Knapp
>Librarian, Madison Public Library
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
>

--
Rosemarie Herrera
Librarian 1, Reference/Adult Programming
South Miami Branch Library
6000 Sunset Drive
South Miami, FL 33143
305-667-6121
305-661-6558 (fax)

Miami-Dade County is a public entity subject to Chapter 119 of the Florida
Statutes concerning public records. E-mail messages are covered under such
laws and thus subject to disclosure.
--

FROM: "Johnson, Micaela" <[removed]@arls.org>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 11:09 AM

I can't say why it affected me so - but the book the Sunday Wife by Cassandra King
not only made me cry out loud - but also infuriated me enough that I put the book
down for a couple of days before I could finish it.

Have a GREAT weekend everyone!

Micaela Johnson
www.arls.org

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/16/04, 11:09 AM

Oy, what a topic!

Old Yeller (Gipson)

Bambi

The movie Turner and Hooch (some of us have never forgiven Tom Hanks for
letting the dog be killed!)

The Yearling (Rawlings)

Tanith Lee. The Silver Metal Lover (woman loves android; Android gets it in
the neck, so to speak)

The third in Asimov's robot/detective series (The Naked Sun, The Caves of
Steel...in the 3rd book- the human detective gets ax.)

Questor Tapes

This is just the tip of the iceberg, of course.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 11:21 AM

And Mister Roberts--the book by Thomas Heggen. I have managed to re-read
that. I haven't been able to watch the part of the movie where Jack Lemmon
crumples the letter and says "Mister Roberts is dead." for years.

Kathleen Stipek, Alachua County Library District (FMG), 401 East University
Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601 (352-334-3939; fax 352-334-3948)

"Non, merci."
--Cyrano de Bergerac

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@aol.com [[removed]@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:02 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Tearjerkers

Oy, what a topic!

Old Yeller (Gipson)

Bambi

The movie Turner and Hooch (some of us have never forgiven Tom Hanks for
letting the dog be killed!)

The Yearling (Rawlings)

Tanith Lee. The Silver Metal Lover (woman loves android; Android gets it
in
the neck, so to speak)

The third in Asimov's robot/detective series (The Naked Sun, The Caves of
Steel...in the 3rd book- the human detective gets ax.)

Questor Tapes

This is just the tip of the iceberg, of course.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/16/04, 11:21 AM

An all time tearjerker: Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Mendy Gunter <[removed]@mail.pratt.lib.md.us>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 11:32 AM

You might not think of Stephen King in this category but Bag of Bones
got me.

Mendy Gunter
EPFL

[removed]@aol.com wrote:

>Oy, what a topic!
>
>Old Yeller (Gipson)
>
>Bambi
>
>The movie Turner and Hooch (some of us have never forgiven Tom Hanks for
>letting the dog be killed!)
>
>The Yearling (Rawlings)
>
>Tanith Lee. The Silver Metal Lover (woman loves android; Android gets it in
>the neck, so to speak)
>
>The third in Asimov's robot/detective series (The Naked Sun, The Caves of
>Steel...in the 3rd book- the human detective gets ax.)
>
>Questor Tapes
>
>This is just the tip of the iceberg, of course.
>
>
>Binnie Syril Braunstein
>Romance novelist/former librarian
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
>
>

FROM: "Karen Traynor, Chittenango" <[removed]@midyork.org>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 11:50 AM

I always cry when I read:

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
The Christmas Day Kitten by James Herriot (J)

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 1:22 PM

Two places I always fog up:

The happy ending of Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs."
The death of the King in "The King & I."

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FROM: "Marcy Doyle" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 1:28 PM

After looking at your list two I think you might want to include in the
update are:

Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones and

Mitchard, Jacqueline The Deep End of the Ocean

Marcy Doyle
Part-time Reference Librarian
Moline Public Library

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FROM: "Evansdale Public Library" <[removed]@mchsi.com>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 1:34 PM

PAY IT FORWARD by Catherine Ryan Hyde made me sob. I knew that I had
hit 30 when I read this book. It was the first book I ever read to ever
make me hitch with tears (and I've read a lot of books...)

Shannon Surly
Library Director

Evansdale Public Library
123 North Evans Road
Evansdale, Iowa 50707
(319) 232-5367

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-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of Mary Knapp
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:19 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Tearjerkers

Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on
tearjerkers.
We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html

Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
interest. Mary

-----------
Mary C. Knapp
Librarian, Madison Public Library

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@glendaleaz.com>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 1:56 PM

Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert!

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 01/16/04 12:16PM >>>
After looking at your list two I think you might want to include in the
update are:

Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones and

Mitchard, Jacqueline The Deep End of the Ocean

Marcy Doyle
Part-time Reference Librarian
Moline Public Library

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FROM: "Patty Timmens" <[removed]@clan.lib.nv.us>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 3:04 PM

I love the tearjerker list but I am amazed it does not include On the
Beach by Nevil Shute. This book will break your heart. I am a newcomer
and really really enjoying this. Thanks to all of you for taking the
time.
Patty

FROM: "marlo verrilla" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 3:09 PM

Did anyone mention Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. I can't even
read the back cover without falling apart.

Marlo Verrilla
Reference Librarian
Ligonier Valley Library
[removed]@ligonierlibrary.org

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FROM: "Sarah Springer" <[removed]@oplin.org>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 3:44 PM

Bridge to Terabithia was the first one I remember.

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of marlo verrilla
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 4:06 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Tearjerkers

Did anyone mention Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. I can't even
read the back cover without falling apart.

Marlo Verrilla
Reference Librarian
Ligonier Valley Library
[removed]@ligonierlibrary.org

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/16/04, 4:12 PM

In a message dated 1/16/2004 3:59:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@clan.lib.nv.us writes:

I love the tearjerker list but I am amazed it does not include On the
Beach by Nevil Shute. This book will break your heart. I am a newcomer
and really really enjoying this. Thanks to all of you for taking the
time.
Patty

Dare we include Shute's A TOWN LIKE ALICE on this list? And how about
"Goodbye Mr. Chips?" by Hilton?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/16/04, 4:17 PM

In a message dated 1/16/2004 2:16:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@hotmail.com writes:

Two places I always fog up:

The happy ending of Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs."
The death of the King in "The King & I."

Oh, right. And how about "The Star-Spangled Banner," "The Lou Gherig Story"
("today I'm the luckiest man on the face of the Earth"), and the ice skating,
gymnastics and diving segments of the Olympics? They always make me reach for
my box of puffs.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Jamie Anderson <[removed]@ericandjamie.com>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 5:38 PM

I tend to read a lot of sad books. Here are some of my favorites.
1) Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
2) Saul by Rosemary Kay
3) the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4)Clara Callen by Richard Bruce Wright

Jamie Anderson

Quoting Mary Knapp <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>:

> Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
> We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
> looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
> appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
> is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html
>
> Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
> interest. Mary
>
> -----------
> Mary C. Knapp
> Librarian, Madison Public Library
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
>

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FROM: "Carolyn O'Donnell" <[removed]@ahml.info>
REC'D: 1/16/04, 8:33 PM

Two books by K.C. McKinnon - Dancing at the Harvest Moon and Candles on Bay Street.

Carolyn O'Donnell
Advisory Services Department
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
500 N. Dunton
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
847.870.4117

FROM: celmore <[removed]@westga.edu>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 9:17 AM

My stepfather, something of a curmudgeon and in his 70s,
cried reading Nora Robert's "Inner Harbor."
Whatever one may think of her as an author, she touched
his heart!
Carole Elmore

Carole Elmore
Public Services Librarian
Newnan-Coweta Public Library

FROM: Ellen Olson <[removed]@rockford.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 9:39 AM

Here's an old one I didn't see on your original list...
Captains courageous - Rudyard Kipling
I cried more during the movie than reading the book...you know the scene.
When in college, I tried to tell my roommate about the book and started
crying just recounting it.
Ellen Olson
Rockford Public Library

FROM: "Bergstrom, Jennifer" <[removed]@sdcounty.ca.gov>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 11:09 AM

Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card is one--it completely took me by surprise, too. One minute I was happily reading along, and the next minute I suddenly burst into tears. My roommate was concerned.

Also Rilla of Ingleside, when a certain character dies, and Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass when all the souls are set free.

Another that never fails is the picture book Love You Forever, by Robert N. Munsch. When the son picks up his mother and starts singing to her, snif! Just typing this is making me want to cry.

Jenne Bergstrom
Reference and Young Adult Librarian
San Diego County Library, El Cajon Branch
(619) 588-3703

"She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn."
--Harriet the Spy

FROM: "Jeannine Cook" <[removed]@co.douglas.or.us>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 11:53 AM

A Tale of Two Cities - "It is a far far better thing I do today...."

"Bergstrom, Jennifer" wrote:

> Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card is one--it completely took me by surprise, too. One minute I was happily reading along, and the next minute I suddenly burst into tears. My roommate was concerned.
>
> Also Rilla of Ingleside, when a certain character dies, and Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass when all the souls are set free.
>
> Another that never fails is the picture book Love You Forever, by Robert N. Munsch. When the son picks up his mother and starts singing to her, snif! Just typing this is making me want to cry.
>
> Jenne Bergstrom
> Reference and Young Adult Librarian
> San Diego County Library, El Cajon Branch
> (619) 588-3703
>
> "She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn."
> --Harriet the Spy
>
> ......................................................................
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Douglas County Library
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Roseburg OR 97470
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fax: (541)440-6011

FROM: JCURTIN <[removed]@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 11:58 AM

Books I remember cying over:

A Little Princess
Lassie, Come Home
The Return of the King (probably because I was so sad to see the story end).
Night Shall Overtake Us (Kate Saunders) -- WWI and its effect on a group of
friends.
The Long Afternoon -- (Ursula Zelinski)Again, WWI and its effect on a group
of friends.
Come September -- Rosamund Pilcher
Second Coming of Lucy Hatch (I laughed, I cried, one of my very favorite
books)

And even a few non-fiction titles:

And the Band Played On -- Randy Shilts
Middletown, America -- Gail Sheehy
A Stillness at Appomattox -- Bruce Catton

FROM: Kristen Gettys <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 3:58 PM

Tearjerkers

Flagg, Fannie. “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café”

Niffenegger, Audrey. “The Time Traveler's Wife”

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FROM: "Sarah Hughes - NATR" <[removed]@will.state.wy.us>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 4:03 PM

Gone With the Wind - when Scarlett's mother died
Ben Hur - at the Crucifixion
it's been mentioned already, but I must second the Return of the King -
especially at the Grey Havens. That chapter is so SAD!

Sarah Hughes
Reference Librarian
Natrona County Public Library

"...Sam came on. He was reeling like a drunken man, but he came on. And
Shelob cowed at last, shrunken in defeat, jerked and quivered as she
tried to hasten from him."
~ The Choices of Master Samwise, The Two Towers

FROM: "Baird, Jane H." <[removed]@ci.anchorage.ak.us>
REC'D: 1/17/04, 5:15 PM

Pink and Say by Patricia Polocco
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer

Jane Baird
Anchorage Municipal Libraries

FROM: [removed]@uiuc.edu
REC'D: 1/17/04, 8:18 PM

My father in his sixties, who also could be described as something of a curmudgeon, and who hardly ever reads fiction read "The Yearling" recently and was moved by it.

I have always found myself sniffing reading animal books. "Love That Dog" by Sharon Creech had my whole family in tears (including the boys who want to appear tough) and "Old Yeller" had my whole class in tears when I was 11. "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford is another one that will have me weeping even though it has a happy ending.

Jan Pye
MLIS Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reference Librarian
Grand Forks Air Force Base

<Subject: RE: Tear Jerkers
<From: "celmore" <[removed]@westga.edu>
<Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:28:53 +0000

<My stepfather, something of a curmudgeon and in his 70s,
<cried reading Nora Robert's "Inner Harbor."
<Whatever one may think of her as an author, she touched
<his heart!
<Carole Elmore

<Carole Elmore
<Public Services Librarian
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FROM: Mary K Chelton <[removed]@optonline.net>
REC'D: 1/18/04, 3:01 PM

My favorite is Always to Remember by Lorraine Heath. It's her first
romance about the sole survivor of a Texas unit sent to the Civil War
who is asked by the embittered widow of his best friend to design a
memorial for all his dead comrades. She wants to punish him for being
alive when the others are dead, and punish him she does until she
can't help loving him. It's a 6-tissue book at least.

Along with Shards of Honor by Lois Bujold and Nora Roberts' novel
about the magician (This Magic Moment?), it's my favorite romance.
Just drips torment.

Mary K.
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FROM: "Deborah T. Walsh" <[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/18/04, 3:24 PM

M.K. Chelton said:

>My favorite is Always to Remember by Lorraine Heath. It's her first
>romance about the sole survivor of a Texas unit sent to the Civil War
>
>who is asked by the embittered widow of his best friend to design a
>memorial for all his dead comrades. She wants to punish him for being
>
>alive when the others are dead, and punish him she does until she
>can't help loving him. It's a 6-tissue book at least.

Oh I second this emotion - when this thread began, I intended to
mention this book, and got distracted. I wept buckets when I read it
the first time, and I've gone back to it twice to test its
durability, and it got me on the second AND third go round. I hope
it's still in print.

Deborah T. Walsh
Geneva Public Library District
127 James Street
Geneva, IL 60134
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/18/04, 3:40 PM

In a message dated 1/18/2004 3:59:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@optonline.net writes:

Along with Shards of Honor by Lois Bujold and Nora Roberts' novel
about the magician (This Magic Moment?), it's my favorite romance.
Just drips torment.

Mary Kay -

Nora also did another book with a magic background, HONEST ILLUSIONS.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Katie Dunneback <[removed]@dunneback.com>
REC'D: 1/18/04, 4:04 PM

CRY NO MORE by Linda Howard has to be on the list. I just read it and was
crying from page 3 to the end.

--
Katie Dunneback
The Young Librarian
http://www.younglibrarian.net

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/18/04, 4:59 PM

I remember getting choked up by THE TIGER'S WOMAN by Celeste DeBlassis. She
did character development so beautifully..I remember the boy who was the
albino, and the rabbit, and the murder of the ship's captain, and his wife.

Get out the Puffs...

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Donna Jo Atwood" <[removed]@olatheks.org>
REC'D: 1/19/04, 9:15 AM

I just finished Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and cried. (of course, I also
cried years ago reading Don't Cry Little Girl by Janet Lambert.)

Donna Jo Atwood
Reference Librarian
Olathe (KS) Public Library

FROM: [removed]@SLS.LIB.IL.US
REC'D: 1/19/04, 10:32 AM

And that reminded me of Sarah's Child by Linda Howard which always requires
some Kleenex for me.
Chris
Quoting Katie Dunneback <[removed]@dunneback.com>:

> CRY NO MORE by Linda Howard has to be on the list. I just read it and
> was
> crying from page 3 to the end.
>
> --
> Katie Dunneback
> The Young Librarian
> http://www.younglibrarian.net
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/19/04, 10:44 AM

I have two!

Three Wishes - Barbara Delinsky (a few years old)

Betrayed - Brendan DuBois (new) --the tears don't start flowing till the end
of the story - well, close to the end. I don't want to give away any of the
story, just will say I really got puffy eyes and a sniffily nose from this one!

Grace Samis
Plumsted Library, NJ

FROM: "Barb Borg-Jenkins, South Haven Public Library" <[removed]@pcpls.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/19/04, 7:08 PM

I cry for Kodak commercials.
"Turn around and she's a young girl going out of the door."
(sniff)

Barbara Borg-Jenkins
South Haven Public Library
Valparaiso, In 46385

[removed]@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 1/16/2004 2:16:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@hotmail.com writes:
>
>
>Two places I always fog up:
>
>The happy ending of Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs."
>The death of the King in "The King & I."
>
>
>Oh, right. And how about "The Star-Spangled Banner," "The Lou Gherig Story"
>("today I'm the luckiest man on the face of the Earth"), and the ice skating,
>gymnastics and diving segments of the Olympics? They always make me reach for
>my box of puffs.
>
>
>
>Binnie Syril Braunstein
>Romance novelist/former librarian
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/19/04, 7:13 PM

In a message dated 1/19/2004 8:07:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@pcpls.lib.in.us writes:
I cry for Kodak commercials.
"Turn around and she's a young girl going out of the door."
(sniff)
I cry at Hallmark commercials. The one that gets me is where the family is
celebrating Christmas, waiting for the older son, who's hasn't made it home.
They concede to starting to sing without him. The little boy starts singing "O
Holy Night." The older brother comes in, shushes everyone, and begins to join
in. Makes me cry just writing this email.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Anna Berkes <[removed]@uiuc.edu>
REC'D: 1/19/04, 10:08 PM

I'm afraid neither of these books were written after 1998, but they're not on your current list and are *definitely* tearjerkers:

_Birdsong_, by Sebastian Faulks
_Red Branch_, by Morgan Llywelyn

And as long as we're all throwing in other things that make us cry - speaking of Lou Gehrig, the movie "Pride of the Yankees" also made me bawl uncontrollably!

Anna Berkes
Grainger Engineering Library
Urbana, IL

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 7:00 AM

How about the coffee commercial that has been around a while where the young
man (student?) gets dropped off at the house, shushes the younger sibling,
and rouses his Mother with the smell of a pot of coffee?

Kathleen Stipek, Alachua County Library District (FMG), 401 East University
Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601 (352-334-3939; fax 352-334-3948)

"Non, merci."
--Cyrano de Bergerac

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From: [removed]@aol.com [[removed]@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:09 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Tearjerkers

In a message dated 1/19/2004 8:07:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@pcpls.lib.in.us writes:
I cry for Kodak commercials.
"Turn around and she's a young girl going out of the door."
(sniff)
I cry at Hallmark commercials. The one that gets me is where the family is
celebrating Christmas, waiting for the older son, who's hasn't made it home.

They concede to starting to sing without him. The little boy starts singing
"O
Holy Night." The older brother comes in, shushes everyone, and begins to
join
in. Makes me cry just writing this email.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/20/04, 8:07 AM

In a message dated 1/20/2004 7:55:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us writes:

How about the coffee commercial that has been around a while where the young
man (student?) gets dropped off at the house, shushes the younger sibling,
and rouses his Mother with the smell of a pot of coffee?

Could I have missed this? Yikes!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 8:12 AM

>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Tearjerkers
>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:02:18 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/20/2004 7:55:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us writes:
>
>
>
>How about the coffee commercial that has been around a while where the
>young
>man (student?) gets dropped off at the house, shushes the younger sibling,
>and rouses his Mother with the smell of a pot of coffee?
>
>
>Could I have missed this? Yikes!
>

It's an old one, Binnie. Hills Bros., I think.

_________________________________________________________________
Learn how to choose, serve, and enjoy wine at Wine [removed]@ MSN.
http://wine.msn.com/

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 8:12 AM

I've seen it on cable channels the last couple of Christmases. The boy gets
out of a classic VW Beetle, so it ages decently.

Kathleen Stipek, Alachua County Library District (FMG), 401 East University
Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601 (352-334-3939; fax 352-334-3948)

"Non, merci."
--Cyrano de Bergerac

-----Original Message-----
From: christine jeffords [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:08 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Tearjerkers

>From: [removed]@aol.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Tearjerkers
>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:02:18 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/20/2004 7:55:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us writes:
>
>
>
>How about the coffee commercial that has been around a while where the
>young
>man (student?) gets dropped off at the house, shushes the younger sibling,
>and rouses his Mother with the smell of a pot of coffee?
>
>
>Could I have missed this? Yikes!
>

It's an old one, Binnie. Hills Bros., I think.

_________________________________________________________________
Learn how to choose, serve, and enjoy wine at Wine [removed]@ MSN.
http://wine.msn.com/

FROM: "Lynn K. Silence" <[removed]@slcl.org>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 9:21 AM

I'm coming into this late, so forgive me if I repeat, but TO KILL A
MOCKINGBIRD makes me cry--any version, print, recorded book or movie.

And at risk of irritating any curmudgeons out there, all those commercials
make me cry too--what about the one where all the great grandchildren make
the album for their great grandfather's birthday celebration?

lks

Lynn K. Silence, Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road
Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: (636) 227-1138 Fax: (636) 227-9632
"Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle
us, but at least in the library we have them properly
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FROM: [removed]@tulsalibrary.org
REC'D: 1/20/04, 1:07 PM

On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks was a wonderful book that made
me cry buckets!

Cindy Hulsey
Training & Development Coordinator
Tulsa City-County Library
400 Civic Center
Tulsa, OK 74103
918 596-7896

FROM: Barb Hulseberg <[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 2:27 PM

Swimming in the Starry River by P.C. Reid

Barbara Hulseberg
Geneva Public Library
Geneva, Il
[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us

FROM: Amy Watts <[removed]@uga.edu>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 3:24 PM

The George R.R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire series have made
me cry. And laugh, and gasp.

The first one, A Game of Thrones, came out prior to your
list, but the other two, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of
Swords were published after 1998. And the fourth one, A
Feast of Crows, in what is supposed to be a six book series
is supposedly coming out this April. (I'm not holding my
breath - Amazon's promised me a ship date before and it
didn't happen.)

A warning - these books are not for the faint of heart,
swearing, violence, sex, oh my! But I found myself really
invested in the characters - hence the tears at certain plot
developments.

Also in the fantasy tearjerker category - an older series
from Weis and Hickman, the first three in the Dragonlance
series, always makes me tear up, especially the second and
third volumes.

And I think someone else has already mentioned it, but The
Time Traveler's Wife made me cry as I read it this last
weekend.

Amy Watts

FROM: "Val Stark" <[removed]@quincylibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 3:56 PM

I just finished "Halos" by Kristen Heitzmann this weekend. It made me cry!

Val Stark
Quincy Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Knapp [[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:19 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Tearjerkers

Madison Public Library staff wants to update our book list on tearjerkers.
We assembled it in 1998 after a discussion on this listserv and are now
looking for titles written after 1998. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated. If you want to see our list here it
is: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/tearjerkers.html

Thanks for you help. I can compile a list of newer titles if there is
interest. Mary

-----------
Mary C. Knapp
Librarian, Madison Public Library

FROM: JCURTIN <[removed]@cuyahoga.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/20/04, 4:46 PM

Another one to add to the list. I'm sure this is out of print, but it is
absolutely heart-rending. "The Storms of Fate" by Patricia Wright.
Historical novel of 17th C. London.

Joan Curtin

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