There was something different about the young carpenter who came to build a door for Master Eli. Jeshua bar Joseph of Nazareth was a simple, devout man who required little for himself. He worked diligently and was always fair with the price he asked for his labor. He respected all whom he encountered and spoke with a wisdom well beyond his years and station. With each passing day, this young man who had little formal education came to teach many. His words made people look to the heavens with fresh eyes and to their own actions with greater clarity. What did the people of Galilee make of this enigmatic character? Could they have known that this unassuming, soft-spoken carpenter would one day change the world? The parables are some of the most influential and well-known stories in history, and in The Welcoming Door Kenny Kemp illuminates these timeless tales with an entirely new approach. With a style as simple and elegant as the parables themselves, Kenny Kemp reintroduces these celebrated stories, setting them as the formative experiences of the young man Jeshua bar Joseph, whom we know today as Jesus of Nazareth.
Jeshua, an unassuming young carpenter from Nazareth, lives his life like everyone else. He learns from his own experiences, the traditions of his people, and by inspiration of God. He soon proves to be a man of courage and integrity, a hard worker, a devoted son. And so with each story, each life-altering moment, we watch Jeshua become a leader of men. With rich and subtle detail, The Welcoming Door takes us inside the hearts and minds of the people of Galilee as we witness the Gospel in action.

The Welcoming Door: Parables of the Carpenter

Kemp, Kenny

Literature & Fiction

HarperSanFrancisco

Presents a new approach to understanding the parables of Jesus, placing them in the context that they reflect the formative and often challenging experiences of Jesus as a young man developing in the period in which he lived. By the author of Dad Was a Carpenter. 20,000 first printing.

City on a Hill: Parables of the Carpenter (Parables of the Carpenter Series)

Contemporary

The author describes how, several months after his father's death from Lou Gehrig's disease, he began sorting through years of accumulated belongings and materials that gave him a new understanding of his relationship with his late father, his father's love and courage, and his own loss. 40,000 first printing.

Dad Was a Carpenter: A Father, a Son, and the Blueprints for a Meaningful Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Barbara Cassani set up the no-frills airline GO for British Airways. She was a rare breed. A female airline chief executive who believed in doing things differently. Her European low-cost operation was launched in May 1998 with GBP25 million backing and within three years she took it into profit. Riding high, she led a management buy-out from BA, supported by the venture capitalist outfit 3i. They paid GBP110 million for the airline. Yet, less than a year later the venture capital group - battered by a falling stock market - had a chance to cash in their chips. GO was sold to arch-rival easyJet for an astonishing GBP374 million. At at time when the airline industry is of great interest to the public as well as being in flux, this fast-paced read gives a fascinating insight into how to create a successful company with limited resources in such a short space of time. THE GO STORY is filled with real characters overcoming the odds to achieve great things and shows the remarkable vision and talent of the author, Barbara Cassani.

Go: An Airline Adventure

Cassani, Barbara

Reference

SPHERE

In the Super Bowl of the airline industry, there are two opposing sides: Airbus of Europe versus Boeing of America. Both sides have only one goal—to become the world's leading aircraft maker. This is the remarkable account of Airbus' launch of the largest passenger plane ever to fly, and how they risked everything in a heavyweight contest where the money is staggering and the political stakes are high. The Airbus A380 will be a monster above the clouds with gyms, a nightclub in the sky, and a 550 passenger capacity, versus Boeing's super-efficient long distance Dreamliner's 200-350. Will the A380 super-jumbo succeed when it is launched in 2006? With Boeing determined that it will fail, the stakes are high. This amazing story of rivalry and risk is a fascinating insight to both Airbus and Boeing, as they take their steps to take off.

Flight of the Titans: Boeing, Airbus and the Battle for the Future of Air Travel

Business & Money

Industries

Virgin Books

The human impulse is to explore, and now there is an unexplored territory open for the traveler. The arrival of a revolutionary, safe, and environmentally friendly flying machine called SpaceShipTwo makes suborbital space travel a reality. For the first time, passenger astronauts are able to pay for a ride into space on a commercial space flight. They will be able to experience weightlessness, witness the curvature of the Earth, and have a unique view of the Universe seen only by very few. The thrilling history of the race for space is described and the men and women who will make history on the inaugural missions are sought out. Detailing their arduous training, how their bodies will be affected in space, and the technological breakthroughs of SpaceShipTwo, Destination Space is the real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Destination Space: How Space Tourism Is Making Science Fiction a Reality

Professionals & Academics

In the airline industry, there are two opposing sides: Airbus versus Boeing. Both have only one goal - to become the world's leading aircraft maker. This account tells about the Airbus' launch of the largest passenger plane, with onboard gyms and a nightclub, and how they risked everything in a heavyweight contest.

Flight of the Titans

Virgin Paperbacks

Destination Space: Making Science Fiction a Reality

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Tom and April Waring have a great life, a successful business, and a healthy, happy little boy. Best of all, they are deeply in love. But the good times come to a screeching halt when Tom is diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Though Tom's faith gives him peace as he faces death's dark doorway, April, an agnostic, is distraught. So at Tom's deathbed, she surprises them both when she takes his hand, tears in her eyes, and whispers, "When you get to the other side - if there is another side - and there is a God, promise me you'll come back and tell me!" Tom squeezes her hand weakly and nods. "I promise." Thus begins Tom Waring's adventure in Heaven, a place totally unlike the harps-and-halos scenario he had always imagined - more like graduate school than Sunday School. When his request to return to Earth is routinely denied, Tom must make a fateful decision: Does he have the courage to risk eveything -even his very soul - to keep his promise to April?

I Hated Heaven

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

ALTA Films Press

Dad Was a Carpenter

Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.: Alta Films Press, 1999

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