Well Laugh

Communication Skills Training is a collection of seven books that are designed to help you with every aspect of improving your communication skills, interpersonal relationships, becoming more charismatic and influential, and building confidence. The combination of the following seven books will help you achieve success and happiness in life.

Goat yoga guru(ish), Luna Parker, longs to punch her grumpy neighbor, Mitch Johnson, in the nose. Not that she would. The law frowns upon that when you’re on probation and an ex-felon. Not to mention Karma has been all up in her business ever since she took refuge in the cranky small town of Rocky Mountain Springs. To be fair, the town isn’t cranky with everyone…just her. It seems the residents are all disgustingly loyal to their local pot guy. Get on his bad side, and you’re shunned. And considering she no longer has buckets of money to instantly attract friends, she’s having to ...

In Second Firsts, Rasmussen walks you through her Life Reentry process to help you break grief's spiral of pain, so you can stop simply surviving and begin to live again. She shows you that loss can actually be a powerful catalyst to creating a life that is in alignment with your true passions and values. The resilience, strength, and determination that have gotten you through this difficult time are the same characteristics that will help you craft your wonderful new life.

Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funnyand why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what’s happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically think of humor in terms of jokes or comic timing, in Ha! Weems proposes a provocative new model.

You know what they say about Prince Charming—he’s all charisma and arrogance until he falls head over heels right into the arms of his sworn arch-nemesis. Psychologist Dr. Lux Stone is book brilliant, men clueless. Due to a massive glitch in a dating app’s data collection, she’s got the ego-bruising statistics to prove it. Unfortunately, when she vents by criticizing the advice given in a popular column on dating, it goes viral. Her boss demands she prove the author’s advice is faulty or lose her dream job. Scott Landshire, a prince by birth and a rake by design, has ditched the ...

Webster founder and CEO Grayson Davis has been misdiagnosed so many times that he trusts only himself to know what's wrong with him. And after 30-something years so far, he's got no leads-- only symptoms. Once he became a successful and handsome billionaire, the ghosts of his bullied, tortured childhood got locked away, and sex with exotic women became his self-soothing method of choice. Enter Amara Riley who's Grayson's lowly employee, not-so-secret stan, and inexperienced in more ways than one. Seeking his sexual expertise, Amara works up the confidence to brazenly proposition her playboy...

THE ULTIMATE 60th BIRTHDAY or RETIREMENT GIFT! Now available in a Large Print Edition—easier on the eyes, just as hard on the funny bone. Life after 60 isn’t a slow fade—it’s a full-volume encore… with better punchlines. Hilarious Survival Guide for Women Over 60 is the witty, warm, no-nonsense companion for women who refuse to “act their age” (mostly because nobody can agree what that even means). Packed with laugh-out-loud observations, relatable stories, and practical *why-didn’t-anyone-tell-me-this?* tips, this book turns the everyday surprises of aging into a comedy you...

Follow along with me as I fumble through the first few years of fatherhood in real time. A father to two young boys, I've been documenting the transformations, the stumbles, the minor successes that resonate like world-changing victories and the hysterical fails that remind me that children are literally made to survive our shortcomings. Hell, they can even thrive in the face of them.

There’s more zaniness ahead as prim-and-proper psychologist Dr. Greg Chambers and his uninhibited assistant Carol Cramer offer patients, friends, and strangers spirited assistance in life. In this volume of ten short stories laugh along as Greg and Carol encounter wacky things middle-age men do to their marriages, the rich and famous at a fund-raiser, an always-on Compulsive Exercise Disorder patient, a weirdly constrained courtship, a sketchy expert in church rejuvenation, and much more!

Enjoy a good dose of therapeutic laughter with Anna's heartfelt stories that proclaim life is still beautiful (and ridiculously funny) is even when is difficult. Popular humor writer Anna Lind Thomas had an epiphany after her essay about a humiliating fart went mega-viral: Everything's funny...

This funny, moving and inspirational one of a kind mental health book is simultaneously a memoir, an advocacy document, and a deeply human collection of stories about people who chose laughter when their mental illness gave them every reason not to, and how that choice transformed their lives. The book's heart is its six portraits. Lorayne, who survived six stays at the notorious Oregon State Hospital and tells her story with unflinching wit. Martin, who lives with autism and discovered that timing is everything — in music and in comedy.

"Laugh out loud funny and witty. A heartwarming romance with lively intellectual confrontations and sizzling attractions." Psychotherapist and feminist author Allison Connors has built a name around teaching women by example they can be happy without a man. If her clients find out she’s captivated by fitness life coach Jay Johnson, her professional credibility will be in danger. It’s bad enough that his ridiculous muscles make him an eye-rolling cliché—but the man insists on stretching her definition of sanity. Why does he have to make it so difficult to stay away from him? When Jay ...

Forty-seven. Divorced. Redundant. Filed by his own solicitor under "miscellaneous". Wayne Lawson decided there was only one sensible response: spend the settlement following the entire MotoGP world championship around the planet. Every round. All twenty-two of them. From the heat and noodle stalls of Thailand to the drum-thumping grandstands of Argentina, then home to collect Brenda — his ageing, temperamental Triumph, named after the ex-mother-in-law — and ride her across Europe and beyond: Jerez, Le Mans, Mugello, Assen, the Sachsenring, and all points south, east and considerably ...

This self-help book will give you a strong mental edge so you can break through stagnant, confining barriers that often make you feel like you cannot reach your full potential.

The self-described "typical Jewish girl from Long Island" and the most popular speaker at the world-renowned Canyon Ranch Spa presents a laughter-filled guidebook to help readers withstand life's hard knocks. Richman--the basis of the Saturday Night Live "Coffee Talk" character developed by her...

Alexander Biden dreamed of new beginnings that only leaving for college could deliver. But when an unexpected visitor shows up the weekend he moves to Augustine University, he becomes uncontrollably anchored to a haunting past. While new friendships, one-night stands, and pharmaceuticals help him regain fleeting moments of normalcy, it's in a dangerous love affair that his fate lies.

Sandi Kahn Shelton's hilarious tales from the frontlines of parenthood connect with parents, grandparents, and parents-to-be.

You are about to become one with the antics and life of a man named Maximillian Fetterbrush. Max, as we call him, is a person that has a little bit of all of us in him, and a person that we all desire to be a little more like, well, sometimes. At first thought, nobody really wants to be like Max, but it happens! As you get to know Max, you may find the secret to a happy life, if you look for it. For normal people, Max is the other side of the coin. For abnormal people, Max is probably their kinfolk. He might even be their daddy. Teenagers love Max! Grandma’s love Max! Most men “get” ...

What if the best medicine you ever took was completely free? Scientists at Oxford, Loma Linda University, and the University of Maryland have confirmed what your body already knew: laughter is not a luxury. It is biology. A single genuine laugh drops your stress hormone by up to 37 percent, opens your blood vessels, wakes up your immune system, and releases the same brain chemicals that painkillers try to imitate. But somewhere between childhood and adulthood, most of us forgot how to do it. Children laugh 300 to 400 times a day. Adults average 15 to 20. That gap is not funny. It is costing...

The Sunday Times bestseller is back, with his biggest adventure yet. The perfect read for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob. As the residents of Edgar Road know, Alfie is no ordinary cat. Since his arrival in the street, he's made every house his home, helping this group of neighbours to become...