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Laugh Lines:
The Deluxe Edition
Edited by Ruth Hamilton
Illustrated by Ethan Wenberg |
Laugh Lines: The Deluxe Edition is
edited by Ruth Hamilton and illustrated by Ethan Wenberg. With a full
color cover, this gift book offers over 50 cartoons about the healing
power of humor. Your support of the book, priced at $7.95,
helps Carolina Ha Ha place it in cancer treatment waiting rooms across
America. Victor Williams, humorist and Carolina Ha Ha volunteer, originally
published this book with the dream of bringing joy to those going through
challenging times. To order, click here,
or on the cover picture. |
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Affairs of Two Ageless
Hearts:
Cruising Into the Senior Years
by Ellen Johnston-Hale
illustrated by Ethan Wenberg |
If you're not yet a senior, you'll
gain a new perspective and appreciation of the aging process: "It's not
as bad as it looks!" If you are a senior, you already know that age is
only a number and "You don't stop playing because you grow old; you grow
old because you stop playing," and you'll love sharing the romance, fun,
and truths found here. Seventy-two-year-young Ellen Johnston-Hale plays
through 108 pages of prose and verse, enhanced by hysterical cartoons
by Ethan Wenbergher, celebrating an adventurous life and romance with
her "Boy Toy," seventy-six-year-young Ira Robbins. "It's never too late," she
reminds us, "to fall in love," ride an elephant, lead a marching band,
, roller blade in Christmas parades, and go with the flow, whatever that
might be. Be inspired. Be reassured. Be entertained. To order, click
here, or on the cover picture. |
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How to Be Funnier
: Happier, Healthier, and More Successful Too!
by Roger Bates |
"HOW TO BE FUNNIER gets a five star
rating. For speakers and entertainers this guide is a must read. For
everyone else it's a fun read . . .with much to be gained. The material
is mostly inside tricks and techniques used by professional comedians
and humorists. It's presented in a very funny and very easy to understand
and easy to use manner. It's something that anybody can put to use since
everybody can benefit from a stronger sense of humor." |
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Compassionate Laughter
: Jest for Your Health!
by Patty Wooten |
an essential book on healing explaining
the effects of psychological feelings of well-being on the immune system.
Patty Wooten explains the purpose of clowns and jesters throughout history,
then provides tips for caregivers (at home and in hospital settings)
on how to keep a sense of humor while caring for others. Peppered with
hilarious anecdotes and conversations with Wooten's clown characters,
Nancy Nurse and Nurse Kindheart, Compassionate Laughter will delight
the reader who wants to learn, laugh, and heal!" 204 pages (August 1996) |
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The Healing Power
of Humor : Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets,
Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All That
by Allen Klein |
The ability to laugh at annoyances,
crises, and even outright disasters can literally save your life. The
author presents a series of proven techniques for overcoming the negative
effects of loss, setbacks, upsets, disappointments, trials, and tribulations.
(April 1989)
The Author, ALLENKLEIN, June 24,
1996:
"I wrote this book after my wife died. Her humor helped me and others get through
the difficult three years of her terminal illness. Others have told me that this
book has helped them tremendously. It must have... the book is now in its 15th
printing as of 06/96" |
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Gesundheit! : Bringing
Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society Through Physician
Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
by Patch Adams, Maureen Mylander |
Part manifesto, part autobiography
and part jeremiad, this rambling, repetitive volume indicts our system
of medical care and offers an alternative of humor and love. The author,
subject of the Robin Williams film Patch Adams, comes off as egotistical
and fanatically cocksure of his opinions. That the founder of the free
Gesundheit Medical Institute was once a mental patient is not surprising.
As narrator, comedian Arte Johnson is faced with representing a comic
therapist who has written a humorless book. |
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House Calls : How
We Can All Heal the World One Visit at a Time
by Patch Adams
introduction by Robin Williams
illustration by Jerry Van Amerongen |
With a foreword by Robin Williams,
this primer on wellness includes tips for visiting loved ones, tips that
are essential to the healing process, how to be a good doctor and how
to be a good hospital patient. 120 cartoons. |
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Duck Soup for the
Soul : The Way of Living Louder and Laughing Longer
by Swami Beyondananda, Steve Bhaerman |
Life is "Duck Soup" - fun, easy, a
piece of cake-when you can laugh at yourself and everything else. Swami
Beyondananda, does away with all earnestness and doctrine of whatever
stripe as he elaborates on his punny theories. The self-proclaimed leader
of a FUNdamentalist Revival (accent on FUN), the Swami advocates putting
levity over gravity, and offers seven ways to prevent Truth Decay. According
to the Swami, the reason we are put in the material world is to get more
material, and Nonjudgment Day is at hand. |
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Driving Your Own
Karma : Swami Beyondananda's Tour Guide to Enlightenment
by Swami Beyondananda, Steve Bhaerman. Paperback |
Swami Beyondananda, whose syndicated
column, hilarious tapes, and live performances have delighted millions,
has collected his crazy wisdom in book form. Readers will learn about
FUNdamentalism, Non-Judgment Day, groups like Feels on Wheels and Oms
for the Omless. |
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Super-Duper Good
Clean Jokes for Kids
by Bob Phillips |
A whole book of jokes that are clean
for kids |
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Laughter the Best
Medicine : The Healing Powers of Happiness, Humour and Joy!
by Robert Holden |
"Laughter is one of our most valuable
and basic human needs. This book presents over 50 simple techniques to
help you build confidence, feel good about yourself and learn to have
fun again." |
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Humorous
movies that we recommend:
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Description of movie |
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Patch Adams (1998)
with Robin Williams |
Staving off suicidal thoughts, Hunter
Adams commits himself into a psychiatric ward, where he not only garners
the nickname "Patch," but learns the joy in helping others. To this
end, he decides to go to medical school, where he clashes with the
staid conventions of the establishment as he attempts to inject humor
and humanity into his treatment of the patients ("We need to start
treating
the patient as well as the disease," he declares throughout the film). Rated
PG |
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Smoke Signals
(1998)
Starring: Adam Beach, Evan Adams |
A coming of age story that focuses
on the friendship of two distinctly different young Native American
teenagers with vastly different views about the now deceased father
of one of the boys. Rated: PG-13 |
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Parenthood
Starring: Steve Martin |
About being
a father Rated: PG-13 |
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The Full
Monty
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy |
about men dealing with unemployment
in a creative way. Rated: R |
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If you have other suggestions, please send them to: ruth@carolinahaha.org
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