Author: Betty MacDonald Narrator: Heather Henderson Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press⎮2016 Genre: Humor, Memoir "The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty." After surviving both 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. With the help of her older sister Mary, Anybody Can Do Anything recounts her failed, and often hilarious, attempts to find work during the Great Depression. Buy on Audible/ Amazon Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of T he Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bri...

Author: Betty MacDonald Narrator: Heather Henderson Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press⎮2016 Genre: Humor, Memoir "The Plague and I" recounts MacDonald's experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. "Anybody Can Do Anything" is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how "the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family" brightened their weathering of the Great Depression. 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. Buy on Audible ⎮ Amazon Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the b...