Books with author Michael Thomas Ford

“I’m pretty sure I’m the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye.”The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations—if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies.Sam doesn’t plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. He’ll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad; cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands); and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club.But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that.As Sam’s birthday approaches and he still hasn’t quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets.A mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he’s only seen in a dream might have the answers he’s been looking for—but time is running out to save the people he cares about.

Are you tired of drifting? Have you lost the belief in your work? Do you feel uncertain about your future?God is Waiting to Discuss Your Career!God said “Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life” (Isaiah 55:3a NLT). God works with anyone who comes to Him with their ears wide open and builds their career on what He says. When you change career with God, you:Work on God-given assignmentsCreate world-changing products and servicesWalk in faith instead of fearMake an impact instead of simply making a profitWork in the unique way God designedBased on the parable of the sower, this book shows you how God's Word can grow from tiny seeds into highly productive careers. To bear fruit, you need to hear, understand, and then cling to His message. This book is a forty-day plan to help you convert God's Word into products and services. Every Christian has a Higher Call, a Higher Cause for Living. For the first fourteen days, you will engage the most powerful person by asking Him specific questions about your career. God knows what He made you to do. His provision, protection, and promotion follow those who seek His Kingdom first. His thoughts are revealed as you listen to Him speak.God's Word is the Ultimate Power to Lift Careers out of Aimlessness! The next nine days help root out weeds from your life. Fear, anxiety, money, temptation, and pleasure can keep you rushing in circles. With the weeds removed, your career can level-up. You are designed to do far more than you could ever imagine. Fear of Changing Career is the Result of Conflicting Priorities.In the final seventeen days, a picture of your future career emerges as you ask God for understanding. Then you seek products and services that bring His Word to life. Finally, you knock on doors in a business of your own or in someone else's. Success is Walking with God into His Promises. What is the alternative to working on God-given assignments? Secular careers are built on shaky foundations. Gaining more possessions, status or power does not lead to a significant career in God’s Kingdom. As a result, Christians who follow the secular career approach tend to feel like something is permanently wrong. They may even jump from one meaningless endeavor to the next. When you change the world with God, you discover meaning and significance in your work.The way to break out of the secular system starts by asking God for an assignment. Christians Changing Career are on an Adventure with God! What if you don't enjoy the work God gives you? In a business calling God uses products and services to change the world. These products and services deliver His life to help people. For example, He may call you to start a restaurant that changes the world with His joy, a website that changes the world with His love, or a secular job that changes the world with His peace. There is nothing more rewarding than working in God's perfect plan. God is Calling Christians to Change the World with Products and Services!Whether you are finishing school, in a midlife crisis, or simply need a career change, this book will help you find a career you believe in. It will open your eyes to work in God's Kingdom. You will be captivated by an extraordinary career working for the Creator. Build Your Next Career on God's Word!

“I’m pretty sure I’m the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye.”The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations—if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies.Sam doesn’t plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. He’ll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad; cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands); and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club.But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that.As Sam’s birthday approaches and he still hasn’t quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets.A mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he’s only seen in a dream might have the answers he’s been looking for—but time is running out to save the people he cares about.

“I’m pretty sure I’m the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye.”The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations—if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies.Sam doesn’t plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. He’ll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad; cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands); and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club.But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that.As Sam’s birthday approaches and he still hasn’t quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets.A mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he’s only seen in a dream might have the answers he’s been looking for—but time is running out to save the people he cares about.

This gripping sequel to Forgotten City is a twist-filled survival adventure that’s Mad Max for tweens. Everything Kobi once believed was a lie. Not only are there other survivors of the Waste that devastated the world thirteen years ago, but beyond the wasteland of Old Seattle lies a gleaming new city where thousands are desperate for a cure. To put an end to the Waste—and bring justice to those responsible–Kobi and his new friends will have to return to the heart of Old Seattle, where the outbreak began. It’s a dangerous journey. But Kobi knows what lies ahead. And he’s ready to fight. Nail-biting suspense and nonstop thrills make this action-packed adventure perfect for young readers who love survival adventures like Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet or dystopian series like Jeanne DuPrau’s City of Ember.

Is your career adrift? God is waiting to discuss it with you. God said "Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life." (Isaiah 55:3a NLT) God works with anyone who comes to Him with their ears wide open and builds their career on what He says. Change Business Career with God is a book for people who can't seem to stop drifting. Years of making quick fixes hasn't worked. Secular, self-serving approaches to your career have left you despondent. You have nearly lost hope of ever find a meaningful career and are looking for a deeper reality. Change Business Career with God will help anyone who wants to work in a business that belongs to someone else or build a business of their own. This book contains 40 daily exercises. The first part of the book will help you ask God specific questions about your career. As you listen to what He says, a picture of your future emerges. The next part of the book helps you change beliefs that keep you drifting. Fear, anxiety, money, temptation, and pleasure can keep you rushing around in circles. In the final 14 days of the book, God's Word is converted into products and services. The products and services that you seek need to be sustainable and in line with your unique gifts. Then you knock on doors to change the world in your new career. This book is not just a spiritual journey. Michael Dean Thomas BComm Hons CA(SA) CFA has experience in investment banks, a Big 4 audit firm, and in a startup. He has worked in London, Singapore, and South Africa. In this book, he integrates what God says with practical advice for changing careers. Working with God is the only long-term solution to a career that means anything. You won't worry whether there is something else you should be doing. You won't spend time comparing yourself to peers. God's goal is not to merely help you get better at working in the secular way, but to change every part of your career with His creative life!

The First Rule of Torching: Cleanse with fire. Josh is by far the best zombie Torcher around—at least, he is in his virtual-reality zombie-hunting game. Josh has quickly risen through the player ranks, relying on the skill, cunning, and agility of a real Torcher.The Second Rule of Torching: Save all humans.But luckily for Josh, zombies exist only in the virtual world. The real zombie war is now more than fifteen years in the past, and the battle to defeat the deadly epidemic that devastated his family—and millions of others—is the stuff of history lessons.The Third Rule of Torching: You can't bring them back.Charlie is the top-ranked player in the game. Since all the players are shrouded in anonymity, Josh never expects Charlie to be a girl—and he never expects the offer she makes him: to join the underground gaming league that takes the virtual-reality game off the screen and into the streets. Josh is thrilled. But the more involved he gets, the more he realizes that not everything is what it seems. Real blood is spilling, members of the team are disappearing, and the zombies in the game are acting strange. And then there's the matter of a mysterious drug called Z. . . .

Nate and his fellow pilots have become renegades in a galaxy turned upside down. Part of a scattered band of rebels being hunted down whenever they’re found.The Alliance is broken, and the new and powerful Terran Union rises from its ashes. Offering a future of prosperity and conquest that will make the Union the dominant power in the galaxy. But first it needs to crush the last vestiges of the old regime. Rumours soon reach the renegade forces of something terrible taking place in the Prometheus system, and they must respond before it is too late.The Knighthawks are sent to learn more, only to uncover a much darker secret, one with the legendary General Rivers at the centre of it. An old enemy returns from the dead to command the Union’s armada. He will purge every human world of the taint of the Alliance, no matter the cost.But there is another reason, a personal grudge against the young pilot that cost him his command, reputation and his life. He wants vengeance against the one known as the Star Crusader.

Survival is just the beginning in this action-packed middle grade adventure that’s Mad Max for kids. Thirteen years ago, the world ended. A deadly chemical called Waste began to spread across the globe, leaving devastation in its wake. Millions died. Cities fell into chaos. Anything the Waste didn’t kill, it mutated into threatening new forms.Kobi has always believed he and his dad were the only survivors. But when his dad goes missing, Kobi follows his trail—and discovers a conspiracy even deadlier than the Waste itself.Nonstop action, chilling dangers, and edge-of-your-seat twists make this gripping, fast-paced read perfect for young readers who love survival adventures like Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet and dystopian series like Jeanne DuPrau’s City of Ember.

The invasion of the Centauri Rim has begun, and Knighthawk Squadron leads the way. They fight in both the real and virtual worlds, where they use their unique skills to throw the enemy off balance. This last battle will be fought against the mighty stronghold of the separatists, an impregnable fortress hidden inside the Rim known simply as The Rock. And in their path lies a vast array of warships, pirate vessels, thousands of soldiers and a secretive leader who promises a future freed of alien influence. A grim future where Humanity can realise its destiny as masters of the known universe.What should be the final battle of the war threatens to spread the conflict to encompass every corner of the Alliance. As the crisis reaches its inevitable climax, the Knighthawks discover a dark secret. A secret that could bring the Alliance to its knees, even in its moment of ultimate victory.

Nate and his videogamer friends are given the chance of a lifetime, a six-month tour aboard the Alliance’s newest battleship, ANS Dreadnought. She’s the first in her class, and is the most powerful ship in the sector. Bigger and better protected than any ship before her, Dreadnought carries an arsenal of deadly weapons that can annihilate a small armada and can travel between the stars in a matter of days. There is no deadlier vessel in existence.Two years at the Academy has tested Nate’s flying, combat and technical skills to the limit. But nothing will come close to his greatest test. Captain Gaunt, one of the Alliance’s most decorated officers plans to use Dreadnought to start a war, one that will engulf the region and cost many lives. As Dreadnought rolls out her guns to engage the very people Nate calls his friends, he has to make a decision. Does he stand by and let war spread through the sector, or will he lead the cadets in a mutiny against a beloved hero of the Alliance?

Nate and his friends are expert gamers, and now veteran combat pilots. They have proven their skills by inflicting defeat on the enemy and saving their ship in the process. The passengers and crew regard them as heroes, yet after their violent escape, they are to be sent home to a life of study and boredom. Their ship, ANS Relentless, sets off to join the fleet to embark on a secret operation. A new battle is about to begin, and Nate and his gamers are unwilling to be pushed aside so easily. The dangerous assignment for Relentless is one that will require every pilot onboard to join the fight.The Orion Battlegroup assembles under the command of the war hero, Admiral Churchill. Desperate for pilots for the coming fight, Churchill gives Nate's unit their chance. They will reform the defunct Knighthawk Squadron, and join with their comrades in the battle to help their Byotai allies. Churchill's fleet is heads into hostile territory, a place where the enemy will outnumber them ten to one. As Nate climbs into the cockpit of his Bullnose Gunship, he still has no idea of the suicidal risks they are about to take. The Empire has already fallen, and the flames of revolution are spreading fast.Books in the Star Crusader series:Hero of the AllianceKnighthawk Squadron