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While Alice and her father are visiting the newly reopened Appleton Museum, Alice notices a dedication plaque on the wall from something called the Lonely House Foundation. She remembers the Lonely House from her run with Andre and the Nocturnal Academy teachers through the Astral Plane, where they helped to close a rift to the Immaterium.But what is the Lonely House Foundation doing in Appleton? What are its intentions? Is it a good or evil organisation?Alice and her friends are now in year 9, and apart from the occasional fight between Toby and Carla, and Professor Longenfang’s drunkenness, things have been uneasily quiet at the Nocturnal Academy.Then Longenfang realises he needs help because he has lost his Beast, and is sent on a spirit quest into the depths of the Sub-Astral Plane. He is accompanied by Toby and Carla, who each had their own issues to deal with.Alice stays behind, overjoyed that she is not the centre of attention for once. But then she receives a call from a near-hysterical Janice Cooper, who claims she saw demons roaming the grounds at a party hosted by the Lonely House Foundation. Now Janice possesses the ability to see through glamours and Magick, Alice believes her and goes with her to see what’s going on.They discover that the Lonely House is actually a conduit to a realm even darker than the Immaterium, containing a trapped demon-god from before the dawn of time itself, a monstrous creature who wants to destroy the entire universe.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 9 - Mirror MirrorNocturnal Academy 10 - The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 11 - TunguskaNocturnal Academy 12 – Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 13 – When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 14 – Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 – The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal Academy Omnibus – Books 1-3Nocturnal University 1 - Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 - Course of DestructionAlso by Ethan Somerville for younger readers:Lockout, an action-packed futuristic adventure about teenagers who discover they have psychic powers.Dicing with the Universe: an exciting cyberpunk action-adventure for teenagers and young adults spanning three different time periods.By Ethan Somerville and Emma Daniels for teenagers:Return to Atlantis, an exciting sci-fi romance about a girl who falls in love with a rock star who is really an exiled Atlantean rebel.

Professor Abbacus has come to the Nocturnal University, a gigantic floating college hidden within a cloud, to teach technomancy and investigate a series of mysterious explosions.With two students, a vampire boy named Malcolm and a tree-girl named Kim, Professor Abbacus learns that there are literally thousands of spirits bound within the machines that keep the school aloft, all in terrible agony and screaming for release. Each time one manages to escape a massive detonation ensues.They must all be replaced by more cooperative entities, a task only Professor Abbacus and his technomancers can perform.Meanwhile, Malcolm and Kim discover a mysterious cult of necromancers operating in the tunnels beneath the campus, practising human sacrifices. Could they be responsible for the trapped spirits?Professor Abbacus, Malcolm and Kim must stop these evil mages before they succeed in their diabolical plan – to send the entire Nocturnal University tumbling from the sky and crashing into a population centre below.Other books in this series:Nocturnal University 2 - Course of DestructionAlso related:The Nocturnal Academy Series.Also by Ethan Somerville for younger readers:Lockout; a futuristic action-packed adventure about teenagers who discover they have psychic powers.Dicing with the Universe: an exciting cyberpunk action-adventure for teenagers and young adults spanning three different time periods.By Ethan Somerville and Emma Daniels: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.

Finally, the Australian Nocturnal Academy has won the rights to host the 312th Nightmare Games – a gruelling series of contests designed to pit supernaturals against each other and test their abilities to the ultimate limit.Alice, Toby, Carla and Milly are competitors in the games, along with six other students from their school, and ten from each of the other Nocturnal Academies. They must work together as well as compete against each other to get through each event.But there’s a threat. According to the Professor Abbacus, the new technical assistant to the Nightmare Games Organising Committee, there’s always a threat. Every Nightmare Games in recorded history has been attacked, in some way or another, by demons from the Immaterium. Thus it’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose once more.Professor Abbacus warns everyone to be on their toes, to notify him the moment something unusual occurs. Unfortunately everything about the competition is unusual, from flying races, were triathlons and elemental displays to the bizarre medieval ball-game known as Kranquoix.Thus a mysterious increase in plant-growth across the area goes almost unnoticed.Can Alice, her friends, Professor Abbacus and his new assistant from Scotland, figure out what is going on before it's too late?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 11 - TunguskaNocturnal Academy 12 – Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 13 – When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 14 – Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 – The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal Academy Omnibus - Books 1-3Nocturnal University 1 - School of ThoughtNocturnal University 2 - Course of Destruction

Nocturnal Academy principal Madam Nocturna has tasked Quincy Darkchilde, the new Professor of Magick, and Marco Cazadora the half-elf Jesuit, to figure out how the mysterious Mirror of Albiroth really works.Meanwhile, Millicent Jorgenson sees something disturbing in the school library. Unfortunately she can’t bring herself to report it to Madam Nocturna. More strange events follow, breaking up the relationship between Toby and Carla and setting them against each other.The Mirror has been exhibiting some strange behaviour lately, and Marco concludes that someone has been tampering with it. He believes that someone - or something - might even have come through it into the Nocturnal Academy.But who - or what – can possibly be creeping around the school, without anyone noticing? It is Milly who finally figures out the awful truth – just before she is abducted in the middle of the new Oval Jungle.Can Professor Darkchilde and Marco get the Mirror working in time to rescue Milly?And more importantly, can Toby and Carla overcome their differences enough to help?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 10 - The Nightmare GamesNocturnal Academy 11 - TunguskaNocturnal Academy 12 – Wall of FireNocturnal Academy 13 – When Gods CollideNocturnal Academy 14 – Infinite TimesNocturnal Academy 15 – The Dark Magick Side of the MoonNocturnal Academy Omnibus – Books 1-3Nocturnal University 1 – Higher LearningNocturnal University 2 – Course of DestructionAlso by Ethan Somerville for younger readers:Lockout, an action-packed futuristic adventure about teenagers who discover they have psychic powers.Dicing with the Universe: an exciting cyberpunk action-adventure for teenagers and young adults spanning three different time periods.By Ethan Somerville and Emma Daniels for teenagers:Return to Atlantis, an exciting sci-fi romance about a girl who falls in love with a rock star who is really an exiled Atlantean rebel.

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.

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

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.

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

The Nocturnal University has drifted off course and no-one can figure out why. No matter what Dean Piskine does, the massive, floating cloud-covered island keeps shifting course, heading unerringly towards the Australian Nocturnal Academy.Meanwhile, Malcolm McAllister and Kim Long enjoy a meal at a new restaurant called the Gateway Café. At this small, rustic eatery, with its frilly curtains, checkered tablecloths and intimate lighting they eat probably the tastiest meal of their lives.And then, a few hours later, they both come down with a particularly nasty bout of food poisoning, which is extremely unusual because supernaturals don’t get food poisoning.They voice their concerns to Dr Nigel Ashe and Dr Muriel Primus, who decide to investigate. It doesn’t take long for them to discover the Gateway Café is no ordinary restaurant but the herald of something far darker and evil, a well-known entity that has managed to infiltrate the supernatural college.Something is brewing deep underground, something that has managed to spread its roots through the campus. Can Malcolm, Kim, Nigel and Muriel find stop what is happening before the Nocturnal University reaches its final destination?Other books in this series:Nocturnal University 1 - Higher LearningRelated:The Nocturnal Academy series

I know you think all counselors are perfect right? Well, truth be told, counselors keep secrets, too. These secrets will have you questioning why these people are even counseling. This book introduces readers to the world of counselors. It goes deep into the world of one counselor who has never had life easy. You will learn about her dark struggles, the kind of struggles most people will not reveal."Secrets of a Crazy Mental Health Counselor" is a guide, self-help, motivational and purely inspirational book. It tells a story about life issues and how to overcome all of the traps that have been set up to make you fail. It was written for mental health counselors, workers, women, teenagers, entrepreneurs, and anybody struggling with life each day. This book gives readers:Inspiration and insight on accepting issues, then balancing them.Behavior techniques that help you change your mindset as a working professional.Life plans that are actionable steps to becoming successful in your career.Facing all adversity, while still being motivated and motivating others.Patrice Brown, a mental health director and counselor at Restoring Bodies and Minds, has been the owner for Seven years. She credits her extensive 15-year mental health background to helping her write this book. Patrice tells all about the life struggles she faced, the years she fought opposition without ever giving up or having regrets.

Don't Be Scared - Be Prepared How will your family stay warm, fed, and sheltered during a power outage? Do you have an evacuation plan if you are forced to leave your home? Disaster can strike at any time. Be one of the prepared few by following Kathy Harrison's practical plan for emergency self-sufficiency. Learn how to evaluate, organize, and rotate your food supply; pack an evacuation kit; portect important documents from fire; develop a communications system; make nutritious soup with canned and dried pantry items; and entertain the kids for several television-fee days. Everything you need to know to survice when public services fail is covered in this essential guide to family preparedness.

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.