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Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

The antics of a group of women in a small town where they were expected to raise babies, not Cain. The story is recounted by a mother to a daughter, the daughter thinking she is so much better because she got out of that town and is now a theater producer. The moral: mothers too were once rebels.

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  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood"@it
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"@pl
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
  • "Secrets of Ya-Ya Sisterhood"@en
  • "Aḥṿat ha-Ya-Ya"
  • "Ya-Ya Sisterhood"@en
  • "Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
  • "Ya-Ya sisterhood"
  • "Ya-Ya Sisters"
  • "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
  • "Sodot ha-elohiyim shel Aḥaṿat ha-Ya-Ya"
  • "YA-Ya Sisterhood"
  • "Ya Ya Sisterhood"@en

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  • "The antics of a group of women in a small town where they were expected to raise babies, not Cain. The story is recounted by a mother to a daughter, the daughter thinking she is so much better because she got out of that town and is now a theater producer. The moral: mothers too were once rebels."@en
  • "The antics of a group of women in a small town where they were expected to raise babies, not Cain. The story is recounted by a mother to a daughter, the daughter thinking she is so much better because she got out of that town and is now a theater producer. The moral: mothers too were once rebels."
  • "The Ya-Yas, an inseparable foursome who grew up together in Louisiana, come to save the relationship between a mother and daughter."@en
  • "At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood."@en
  • "A BIG, ORIGINAL, INCANDESCENT NOVEL WHOSE LOUISIANA LANDSCAPE AND ENDELIBLE CHARACTERS RADIATE WITH GRACE, WIT, AND LOVE."@en
  • "Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again."
  • "A scrapbook of her mother's girlhood momentos entitled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" helps Siddalee Walker sort through her conflicting emotions about her mother."@en
  • "Via het plakboek over de ontstuimige jeugd van haar moeder leert een vrouw om te gaan met haar relatie tot haar."
  • "When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser," the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back toge."
  • "SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play, she yearns to revisit her childhood and mend her relationship with her mother."@en
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  • "Friends, family, depression."
  • "SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood."@en
  • "SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood."
  • "Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, is thrown into a void of uncertainty when she has a falling out with her mother over a New York Times article in which Vivi is characterized as an abusive parent, and the Ya-Yas, Vivi's gang of lifelong girlfriends, conspire to restore the mother-daughter relationship."@en
  • "When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'. Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. As Sidda struggles to analyse her mother, she comes face to face with the tangled beauty of imperfect love, and the fact that forgiveness, more than understanding, is often what the heart longs for."@en
  • "A NOVEL ABOUT THE COMPLEX BONDS BETWEEN A MOTHER AND A DAUGHTER."@en
  • "When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'. Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. As Sidda struggles to analyse her mother, she comes face to face with the tangled beauty of imperfect love, and the fact that forgiveness, more than understanding, is often what the heart longs for."
  • "Ther. In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. Sixty years later, they're "bucking seventy" and still making waves. They persuade Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of girlhood mementos entitled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.""
  • "When theatre director Siddalee Walker inadvertently reveals some of the less-savoury facts of her Louisiana childhood to the New York Times, the article brands her mother, Vivi, a "tap-dancing child abuser." Vivi virtually disowns Sidda, but Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong friends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everybody back together. The Ya-Yas persuade Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos entitled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.""@en
  • "Like mother, like daughter: it will take the Sisterhood to mend a long-time rift between a mother in Louisiana and a daughter in New York."@en
  • "The 1996 national bestseller brimming with unforgettable characters, family secrets, and incisive humor is now a major motion picture from Warner Brothers. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Ellen Burstyn, and Maggie Smith, and is directed by Callie Khouri (Academy Award-winning writer of "Thelma and Louise"). When Sidda inadvertently divulges some revealing things about her Southern childhood in a newspaper interview, her mother, Vivi, virtually disowns her. Vivi's lifelong friends, the Ya-Ya's, set in motion a plan to bring the mother and daughter back together using a scrapbook of childhood memories that they ask Vivi to put together."
  • "The 1996 national bestseller brimming with unforgettable characters, family secrets, and incisive humor is now a major motion picture from Warner Brothers. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Ellen Burstyn, and Maggie Smith, and is directed by Callie Khouri (Academy Award-winning writer of "Thelma and Louise"). When Sidda inadvertently divulges some revealing things about her Southern childhood in a newspaper interview, her mother, Vivi, virtually disowns her. Vivi's lifelong friends, the Ya-Ya's, set in motion a plan to bring the mother and daughter back together using a scrapbook of childhood memories that they ask Vivi to put together."@en
  • "When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser," the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together. In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. Sixty years later, they're "bucking seventy" and still making waves. They persuade Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of girlhood mementos entitled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.""@en
  • ""Une danseuse de claquettes maltraite ses enfants." Quand Vivi Walker lit dans le New York Times le portrait que brosse d'elle sa fille Siddy, metteur en scène à succès, elle la renie sur-le-champ. Afin de renouer le dialogue entre la mère et la fille, Necie, Teensy et Caro, les amies intimes de Vivi, finissent par la persuader d'envoyer à Siddy son album souvenir."
  • "Un tres agreable recit qui raconte bien l'amitie entre jeunes filles et entre femmes et surtout la relation mere-fille. Fantaisiste et enleve. [SDM]."
  • "When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." As Sidda struggles to analyze her mother, she comes face to face with the tangled beauty of imperfect love, and the fact that forgiveness, more than understanding, is often what the heart longs for. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood may call to mind Prince of Tides in its unearthing of family darkness; in its unforgettable heroines and irrepressible humor and female loyalty, it echoes Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe."@en
  • "When theatre director Siddalee Walker inadvertently reveals some of the less-savory facts of her Louisiana childhood to the New York Times, the article brands her mother, Vivi, a "tap-dancing child abuser." Vivi virtually disowns Sidda, but the Ya-Yas sashay in and conspire to bring everybody back together."@en
  • "When theatre director Siddalee Walker inadvertently reveals some of the less-savory facts of her Louisiana childhood to the New York Times, the article brands her mother, Vivi, a "tap-dancing child abuser." Vivi virtually disowns Sidda, but the Ya-Yas sashay in and conspire to bring everybody back together."
  • "A quarante ans, Siddalee Walker voit enfin son travail de metteur en scène couronné de succès et s'apprête à épouser le séduisant Connor. Travaillant à une nouvelle pièce de théâtre, elle a demandé à sa mère Vivi de lui prêter son album, Les divins secrets des petites ya-ya, dans lequel sont consignés les souvenirs de jeunesse de sa mère et de ses amies."
  • "When Siddalee Walker, eldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, is interviewed about a hit play she has directed, her mother is described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'. Enraged, Vivi disowns Siddalee- devastating her daughter, who postpones her wedding and puts her life on hold until she is granted forgiveness. Trying to repair the relationship, the Ya-Yas, Vivi's intrepid tribe of Louisiana girlfriends, sashay in. Expected to raise babies, not Cain, the Ya-Yas are bonded for life in an unforgettable exploration of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships and the power of female friendship."

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  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"@en
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
  • "Boskie sekrety Siostrzanego Stowarzyszenia Ya-Ya"@pl
  • "Boskie sekrety Siostrzanego Stowarzyszenia Ya-Ya"
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood : [screenplay]"@en
  • "Ya-ya sisŭto ui sinsŏnghan pimil"
  • "Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood"
  • "Divine secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood : [screenplay]"@en
  • "Ya-Ya Sisterhood"@en
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood a novel"@en
  • "Les divins secrets des petites ya-ya"
  • "Divine Secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood"
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisters"
  • "DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA"@en
  • "ha-Sodot ha-elohiyim shel Aḥṿat ha-Ya-Ya"
  • "Bozhestvennye taĭny sestrichek I︠A︡-I︠A︡"
  • "Les divins secrets des petites Ya-Ya"
  • "ha-Sodot shel Ya-Ya"
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood a novel"
  • "Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood"@en
  • "DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD"
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood"@en
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood"
  • "Božanstvene tajne"
  • "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Novel, A"@en
  • "I sublimi segreti delle Ya-Ya-Sisters"
  • "Les divins secrets des petits ya-ya"
  • "Jumalaiset jajasiskot"@fi
  • "Božská tajemství Jajanek"
  • "Divine secrets of the YA-YA Sisterhood : a novel"
  • "I sublimi segreti delle Ya-Ya Sisters"
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood : a novel"@en
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood : a novel"
  • "Божественные тайны сестричек Я-Я"
  • "Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
  • "Clan Ya-Ya"
  • "Clan Ya-yá"@es
  • "Clan Ya-yá"
  • "Boskie sekrety siostrzanego stowarzyszenia Ya-Ya"@pl
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : a novel"@en
  • "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : a novel"
  • "Ya-Ya søstrenes guddommelige hemmeligheder"@da
  • "Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood. (Accelerated Reader)"@en
  • "De goddelijke geheimen van de Ya-Ya-zusters"
  • "I sublimi segreti delle Ya-Ya sisters"@it
  • "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"@en
  • "Ya-ya sisterhood"@en

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