Somerville: 281 books

Despite the good intentions of match-making friends, family, and neighbors, Rachel Springer, a tough Washington, D.C. lawyer, has spent a lifetime protecting her heart from the dangerous possibilities of love. When she finds a ragged stray dog on the streets of Georgetown and brings him home with...

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...

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,...

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,...

In this dark work, perhaps the finest Irish novel of the nineteenth century, two mismatched cousins fight it out over love and fortune. Love comes easily to beautiful Francie. She weds the man loved by the ungainly, practical Charlotte—who then sets out to ruin her cousin’s marriage.

WIND ECHOES. Like the falling leaf, speaks to all manner of men. In Spring, lifes spark became a flame. Then Summer winds fanned fire into an all-consuming inferno. The Autumn glows bravely on, spasmodically fed by fallen leaf and broken twig. And Now, midst deciduous starkness, a gloomy ember simmers its hissing last, beneath falling snow. Listen to the wind echoes. Feel my touch.

Everyone loves a good bedtime story... Even better would be twenty-six diverse bedtime stories, in eighteen different genres, written by twenty very different, fantastic, Award-winning  and Five-star authors.  These stories truly bring something for everyone, from the terrifying to...

Worn out after her first three terms at the Nocturnal Academy, Alice Dibble finds she needs help to sleep and concentrate. 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....

Alice Dibble returns to the Nocturnal Academy for her second year to find that the ghost Baron Falkenstein has been made Vice Principal. He has all sorts of nasty plans lined up the school, which he believes is suffering such a bad reputation because of a serious decline in discipline.A new...

One day at school thirteen year-old Tala Somerset discovers that she can read minds. Mutants of any kind are feared in the Oasis, her futuristic society, and she struggles to hide her new talents. But a cruel gang of youths discover the truth and force her to steal for them. Then she meets...

Alice Dibble is about to finish primary school and wants to attend the Nocturnal Academy, located near her home. She has no idea that it is actually a school for supernatural youngsters until she is accepted and attends a meeting with the principal, Madam Elliana Nocturna. At enrolment she finds out...

Nocturnal Academy students Alice, Toby and Carla have just finished their first hectic year at the exclusive school for Supernaturals, and just want to enjoy their summer holidays like normal thirteen year-olds. They decide to visit an exciting new circus that has just set up in their home town of...

Alice 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,...

A supposedly routine visit to the Nocturnal Academy by a Department of Education public servant was actually instigated by the mysterious Church of the Stigmata, who have set up in Appleton. They are actively recruiting new followers, including the mother of Alice Dibble's friend Nick and her...