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  • Nocturnal Academy 11 - Tunguska

    Ethan Somerville

    eBook (Storm Publishing, Sept. 3, 2014)
    For many years the old Siberian Nocturnal Academy was thought to have been destroyed during the great Tunguska explosion of 1908. However, recently the principal of the new Russian Academy, Professor Bukarev, discovered it was actually dragged into the Immaterium by the dark realm’s self-styled king, the Demon Lord Abraxas, and languishes there still.Bukarev wishes to undertake a mission to recover the school, its resources, and most importantly, the supernaturals who were taken with it. But in order to complete this mission, the Demon King must be confronted and destroyed.Professor Abbacus believes Bukarev’s mission is doomed to fail unless he accompanies him and his crew. He also decides to bring along his best students; Alice Dibble, Toby Thompson and Carla Hightower.The Siberian Academy lies in the grimmest depths of the Immaterium, and the journey to reach it is long and fraught with dangers. The school is very old and run-down, filled with defeated survivors who have grown old before their time, and one enormous, completely delusional Demon Lord lording over the squalor like it’s the grandest empire in the world.Defeating Abraxas will not be easy, even for experienced mages like Professor Bukarev and Professor Abbacus, and the dedicated students accompanying them. The Demon Lord has scores of followers, including one very familiar supernatural who will do anything to stop his master from being destroyed.For he alone has discovered the deadly secret that Abraxas is protecting.Also available:Nocturnal AcademyNocturnal Academy 2 – Teacher’s PetNocturnal Academy 3 – Immaterial GirlNocturnal Academy 4 – the Supernatural CircusNocturnal Academy 5 - Mage Against the MachineNocturnal Academy 6 – The Da Vinci CodexNocturnal Academy 7 – School of ThoughtNocturnal Academy 8 – The Lonely HouseNocturnal Academy 9 – Mirror MirrorNocturnal Academy 10 – The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 12 – Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 13 – When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 14 – Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 – The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal University 1 – Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 - Course of DestructionAlso by Ethan Somerville for children and young adults:Lockout; a futuristic action-packed adventure about teenagers who discover they have psychic powers.Dicing with the Universe: an exciting cyberpunk action-adventure spanning three different time periods.Mirrorworld Tales 1 - Necromantic Voyage: What would a group of gamers really do if they were somehow transported to a real fantasy world of myth and magic?Mirrorworld Tales 2 - Empire of the Undead: the gamers must journey into a truly unholy land to find their way home.By Ethan Somerville and Emma Daniels for young adults:Return to Atlantis; a sci-fi romance for teenagers about a schoolgirl who falls in love with a rock star who is really an exiled Atlantean rebel.
  • Nocturnal Academy 14 - Infinite Times

    Ethan Somerville

    eBook (Storm Publishing, March 2, 2016)
    All contact with the newest Nocturnal Academy, located on the moon, has been lost. A rescue team was sent in to find out what happened, but it disappeared as well. Nocturnal Councillor, Lord Harmon Eldritch, is at his wits’ end and calls the one person he genuinely believes can help.Unfortunately, Professor Abbacus has also vanished without trace.As a good friend of the Professor, Alice Dibble is recalled from her much-needed summer holiday to help locate him. But this time even she can’t bring him back.That is until she has what is quite possibly the craziest idea of her young life. An idea so utterly insane it just might work, and the dour Lord Eldritch actually agrees to let her try.And so Alice and her boyfriend Andre embark on a roller-coaster journey through time and space and the astral plane to track down the missing Professor.But Professor Abbacus doesn’t want to be found, and is not going to make it easy for them.Also available in this series:Nocturnal AcademyNocturnal Academy 2 – Teacher’s PetNocturnal Academy 3 – Immaterial GirlNocturnal Academy 4 – the Supernatural CircusNocturnal Academy 5 - Mage Against the MachineNocturnal Academy 6 – The Da Vinci CodexNocturnal Academy 7 – School of ThoughtNocturnal Academy 8 – The Lonely HouseNocturnal Academy 9 – Mirror MirrorNocturnal Academy 10 – The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 11 – TunguskaNocturnal Academy 12 – Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 13 – When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 15 - The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal University 1 – Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 – Course of Destruction
  • Nocturnal Academy 17 - Victoria Victorious

    Ethan Somerville

    eBook (Storm Publishing, Aug. 31, 2017)
    Dark things are massing from the remotest corners of the Immaterum, where the realm fractures and merges with other inhospitable regions. These are the lost and insane; demons, spirits and ancient gods without names or worshippers. Something is calling and uniting them with deadly purpose.Because of his close affinity with the Immaterium Professor Abbacus can hear the monsters coming. He has fought them before, back in 1895 when they were united by the Martians. But he can’t understand them or determine their new mission. At his wits’ end he is finally forced to seek help from an old enemy.Meanwhile another blast from his past finally reaches the Nocturnal Academy. This person has been hunting him for decades, following minute clues across the country, but for what purpose? To rekindle an old friendship? Or to kill him for leaving them behind?To fight the approaching evil everyone at the Nocturnal Academy must be on high alert for anything even slightly out of the ordinary. Because even the sweet old folks of the Appleton Seniors Meditation and Tai Chi Group might not be exactly who they appear.
  • Nocturnal University 3 - Killing by Degrees

    Ethan Somerville

    eBook (Storm Publishing, Nov. 30, 2017)
    Professor Icarus Abbacus returns to the Nocturnal University, in search of the late Victoria’s daughter, Vicky Hendrickson. Armed with a grainy, black-and-white photo, all he knows is that she is most definitely alive and now in possession of her mother’s cursed amulet.As he starts investigating, he uncovers sightings of strange creatures, unusual by even supernatural standards; a playful humanoid octopus, a half-wolf, half-bat being and a weird spider were. Could these be some of Vicky’s new forms?He also learns about a gruesome murder, in which a werewolf’s body was found dumped in an alley minus all of its internal organs. Could Vicky have committed the awful crime in an attempt to discover what had happened to her?Also looking into the crime is the Nocturnal University’s formidable chief of police, Captain Butterworth, and he absolutely will not tolerate any interference from dusty old academics.Can Icarus, with the help of his friends Nigel, Muriel, Malcolm and Kim, keep out of the police’s way while using all the skills at his disposal to track down Vicky and maybe catch a killer?Also available in this series:Nocturnal University 1 - Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 - Course of Destruction
  • Some Experiences Of An Irish R.M

    E. OE. Somerville

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 10, 2018)
    This book is one of the classic book of all time.
  • The Real Charlotte, Vol. 1 of 3

    E. Somerville

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, Aug. 5, 2012)
    An August Sunday afternoon in the north side of Dublin. Epitome of all that is hot, arid, and empty. Tall brick houses, browbeating each other in gloomy respectability across the white streets; broad pavements, promenaded mainly by the nomadic cat; stifling squares, wherein the infant of unfashionable parentage is taken for the daily baking that is its substitute for the breezes and the press of perambulators on the Bray Esplanade or the Kingstown pier. Few towns are duller out of the season than Dublin, but the dulness of its north side neither waxes nor wanes; it is immutable, unchangeable, fixed as the stars. So at least it appears to the observer whose VOL. i.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at
  • Nocturnal Academy Omnibus - Books 1-3

    Ethan Somerville

    language (Storm Publishing, June 1, 2011)
    Nocturnal Academy Omnibus Books 1-3Nocturnal AcademyAlice Dibble, about to start high-school, is accepted into the prestigious Nocturnal Academy, a school for supernatural creatures. Alice is both overjoyed and horrified to discover that she is a vampire.To make things even more interesting, her worst enemy, Toby Thompson, has also been selected. He is a werewolf.But before Alice can even start at the Nocturnal Academy she must come to terms with her new identity, defeat Toby’s old bully friends who have discovered the truth about her, and expose a local coven that wants to raise the Demon-Lord Vladrakov.Nocturnal Academy 2 – Teacher’s PetAlice Dibble has finally made it to the Nocturnal Academy, and is ready to start lessons at the exclusive private school. She believes she is about to be trained to become a nocturnal defender of the Earth against the chaotic hordes of the Immaterium, and is ready to face up to this noble challenge.Unfortunately, when she arrives she discovers that the Nocturnal Academy isn’t that different from her old school. Lessons are tedious, equipment is old and broken, bats roosting in the rafters keep dropping presents on her notebook - and then there is scullery duty, which involves taking rubbish out to the epic compost heap, known to swallow children whole.Alice’s new friend Toby, once a popular kid at her primary school, has become an outcast; her old enemy Carla needs help to learn how to change into her new animal form, and a little omniwere boy who can only change into tiny creatures has developed a crush on her.Alice must also learn how to use her new vampire powers responsibly without succumbing to the lure of the darkness.To make matters worse, Professor Abbacus, a teacher Alice thought liked her, now seems to want to kill her. It is all Alice can do to keep one step ahead of him and all of his devious, convoluted plans to punish her for the destruction of the Holloway Grimoire.Nocturnal Academy 3 – Immaterial GirlWorn out after her first three terms at the Nocturnal Academy, Alice Dibble finds she needs help to sleep. At a low ebb, she accidentally allows some Immaterial imps to influence her thought patterns, and uses her superior mental powers to push her unhealthy father into exercising. When he collapses from a heart-attack, Alice is overcome with guilt.At the same time, Alice and her vampire friend Milly become involved with a Magick group at the Rainbow Tiger store in Appleton Mall. They are trying to open a portal to the Magick Earth. Although Alice has second thoughts, Milly travels through with them.When Milly’s distraught parents arrive at the school, Alice is forced to reveal everything. Professor Abbacus proclaims that he and Alice will easily bring Milly back as he knows his way around the Magick Earth. Toby and Carla volunteer to come as well. However, only Alice, Toby and Carla make it through; the portal at the Rainbow Tiger contains a failsafe that prevents the Professor from following. The three children must track their classmate down on their own. They receive help from a wererat named Skittles, but discover that Milly has been captured and sentenced to die the very next morning!Also available in this series:Nocturnal Academy 1-20Nocturnal University 1-3Also available by Ethan Somerville for younger readers:Lockout: an action-packed futuristic adventure about teenagers who discover they have psychic powers.Return to Atlantis; a teenage romance about a young girl who falls in love with a rock star.
  • The Real Charlotte, Vol. 3 of 3

    E. Somerville

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, Aug. 14, 2012)
    The kitchen at Tally Ho generally looked its best at teno clock in the morning. I ts best is, in this case, a relative term, implying the temporary concealment of the plates, loaves of bread, dirty rubbers, and jampots full of congealed dripping that usually adorned the tables, and the sveeping of out-lying potato-skins and cinders into a chasm beneath the disused hot hearth. When these things had been done, and Bid Sal and her bare feet had been effaced into some outer purlieu, Norry felt that she was ready to receive the Queen of England if necessary, and awaited the ordering of dinner with her dress let down to its full length, a passably clean apron, and an expression of severe and exalted resignation. On the morning VOL. III.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at
  • The Real Charlotte, Vol. 2 of 3

    E. Somerville

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, July 25, 2012)
    Excerpt from The Real Charlotte, Vol. 2 of 3This courtesy-title, the expression of Norry's supremest contempt and triumph, was accompanied by a sudden onslaught with the hearth-brush, but long before it could reach them, the ladies referred to had left the room by the open window.The room was very quiet after Norry had gone away. Francie took the evicted holding of the cats, and fell speedily into a doze induced by the unwonted half glass of whisky. Her early dinner, an unappetising meal of boiled mutton and rice pudding, was but a short interlude in the dullness of the morning; and after it was eaten, a burning tract of afternoon extended itself between her and Mr. Dysart's promised visit. She looked out of the window at the sailing shreds of white cloud high up in the deep blue of the sky, at the fat bees swinging and droning in the purple blossoms of the columbine border, at two kittens playing furiously in the depths of the mignonette bed; and regardless of Charlotte's injunctions about the heat of the sun.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Cecil the Lion in the British media – the pride and prejudice of the press

    Keith Somerville

    The killing of the lion which had been named Cecil by researchers, in Zimbabwe by an American dentist in July 2015 led to media coverage of an unprecedented nature. As David Macdonald of WildCRU, which was studying the lion and his pride, the media hits on the story were greater than for any previous conservation story in living memory. But the tone and content of the stories was also as important as the scale. The use of language was hyperbolic, the attention to detail poor and the use of sources fell outside what is normally considered good journalistic practice. This study analyses the coverage of the story in the British media and the likely effects for the understanding of lion conservation and wildlife in general. The study looks at the way that the coverage of the killing of the lion represented a media feeding frenzy generating a burst of moral outrage. The silver lining is that it may have sparked a useful debate on the relationship between conservation, hunting and lion survival which could have constructive consequences for the future of the African lion.
  • Deck 13

    Ethan Somerville

    language (Storm Publishing, May 31, 2018)
    Seventeen year-old Carrie Garland wakes suddenly in her cabin aboard the famous cruise liner, the Queen of the Ocean. It is four thirty in the morning, and she is alone.As she searches for her family she starts to notice odd things, like new paintings in the gallery, an old-fashioned pub in the Atrium and for some reason all the decks are numbered “thirteen”.Why is the clock on her phone stuck? Why has the ship’s name suddenly changed to the Moon Princess? Why are so many passengers dressed in old-fashioned clothes? What are that battleship and pirate sloop doing, lurking on the horizon? When will the sun finally rise?And where are her family?Carrie soon finds herself at the centre of a mystery that is literally out of this world.
  • Coming Top: Alphabet and First Words Ages 3-4: Get A Head Start On Classroom Skills - With Stickers!

    Louisa Somerville

    Paperback (Armadillo, March 7, 2016)
    A bright and lively interactive workbook created with educational experts, with progress charts, 60 gold stars and fun reusable illustrations.
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