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Betty Bard MacDonald
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Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 4
Language
English
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Everybody calls Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle for her cures, some of which have comical consequences.
Author
Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 1
Language
English
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle knows how to solve any problem, some with comical results.
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[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 3
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1954.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle uses her cures with the help of her exceptional animals.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1973
Language
English
Description
When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfallthrough...
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Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As the children plan her birthday party, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle offers cures for such common conditions as watching too much television and the fear of trying new things.
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Series
[Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle] volume 2
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1949.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's helpful, hilarious magic is irresistible and effective.
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You cant even remember where you were going. Thus begins Betty MacDonalds memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the White Plague. MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium making...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry-ride from Seattle. "Onions in the Stew" describes Betty MacDonald's years on beautiful Vashon Island in Puget Sound in happy times with her second husband and two daughters. During this time, fame as a writer finally knocked on her door. The book covers...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After surviving the failed chicken farm-and marriage-immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. Anybody Can Do Anything recounts Betty's hilarious attempts to find work during the Great Depression, all with the help of her older sister Mary"--Cover page 4.,
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
No time for love (1943): A working class man falls for a sophisticated fashion photographer, but the picture is not pretty when he loses his job and she hires him to be her assistant.
The egg and I (1947): A new bride reluctantly says "I do" to her husband's plan to leave their life in the city and raise chickens on a dilapidated farm located miles from civilization.