Rebecca Wells

“A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch The incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a classic of Southern women’s fiction to be read and reread over and over again. A poignant, funny, outrageous, and wise novel about a lifetime friendship between four Southern women, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood brilliantly explores the bonds of female friendship, the often-rocky relationship between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of humor and love, in a story as fresh and uplifting as when it was first published a decade and a half ago. If you haven’t yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Little Altars Everywhere & Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Calla Lily Ponder bursts into life--guided by Moon Lady, a protective feminine force--where she thrives in her small Louisiana town until the end of her first love pushes her to Cresent City, where she discovers she has the power of "healing hands" to change lives and end pain, including her own. From the best-selling author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. 250,000 first printing.

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The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' bestselling and much loved previous novels, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets. the chain of events that lead Teensy, Caro, Vivi and Necie to become true sister-friends. Told in alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, Ya-Yas in Bloom shows is the Ya-Yas in love, and at war with convention. with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style and Cajun sass shine through. their children about the Mysteries: the wonder of snow in the Deep South, the possibility that humans are made of stars, and the belief that miracles do happen.And they need a miracle when old grudges and wounded psyches lead to a heartbreaking crime - and the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to endure.

Ya-Yas in Bloom

Don't miss Little Altars Everywhere, the New York Times bestselling companion novel that introduces the Ya-Yas and is also a basis for the film.

Little Altars Everywhere

"My name is Calla Lily Ponder. I was born in 1953, in La Luna, Louisiana." And so begins Calla Lily's journey through her magical childhood in La Luna, a small town named after the sparkling river from which Calla draws her strength time and time again. It's in La Luna where Calla Lily discovers her talent for fixing people's hair - learned at the side of her talented and loving mother - but also the transformative gift of first love. But a series of tragic events leads Calla to search for a fresh start in a beauty school in New Orleans, the wild and colorful city that allows Calla to flourish into adulthood, and to realize her "healing hands" can do much more than fix damaged hair.

Divine Secrets/Ya Ya Sisterhood Pos

Callie Khouri

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.

Screenplay

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

"Nach einem erbitterten Streit scheinen sich Vivi un ihre Tochter Siddalee nichts mehr zu sagen zu haben. Da schickt Vivi iher Tochter ein Album bit Erinnerungen aus ihrer eigenen Jugend: 'Die göttlichen Geheimnisse der Ya-Ya-Schwestern.' Siddalee taucht ein in die hinreißende Freudschaft zwischen Vivi und den lebenslustigen Ya-Ya-Schwestern, denen ihr überschäumendes Temperament so manches Abenteuer beschert hat. Und Siddalee lernt, ihre Mutter so zu lieben, wie sie ist ..."--Page 4. of cover.

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Die göttlichen Geheimnisse der Ya-Ya-Schwestern

A special Mother's Day boxed set of Rebecca Wells's two New York Times-bestselling novels of the Ya-Yas and the Walker Clan, including a new Note to the Reader. Both Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, chronicling the touching, funny, beguiling Walker family of Thornton, Louisiana, have been phenomenal critical and popular hits. Little Altars Everywhere, the first book, began life as a small-press, word-of-mouth cult classic in 1992, went on to win the Western States Book Award, and was included in the anthology Five Hundred Great Books by Women (Penguin, 1994). It followed Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood onto the New York Times bestseller list in 1998. The 1996 sequel, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, sparked the creation of Ya-Ya clubs around the country, and inspired Terry McMillan (San Francisco Chronicle) to exclaim, "I read the first two pages and I said, 'I haven't heard a white woman talk like this in literature before.'"

The Ya-Ya Boxed Set

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Ya-Ya flickornas gudomliga hemligheter

The companion to the beloved bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, here is the funny, heartbreaking, and powerfully insightful tale that first introduced Siddalee, Vivi, their spirited Walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas.

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