Free and bargain romances in August 2013

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by library addict

I have no clue what I am doing. I can't even remember which plugins I manually installed and which come with the program.

It's not the obvious one as I totally uninstalled it, restarted my computer and got the same error.

Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall for a moment.

No don't hurt yourself! What error is it?

I have to ask how old is your hard drive? What O/S are you using?

You can sort by plugins you installed just click the box that says show only user installed plugins.

[ScalyFreak]

Free pre-order from Samhain Publishing (DRM-free multi-format):

The Bounty

What happens when a bounty hunter finds his prey only to discover she’s his mate?

The Malloy Family, Book 1

Nicky Malloy is on the run—from guilt, fear, and a murder charge. After three years, the notorious bounty hunter Tyler Calhoun catches up with the elusive lady outlaw. The intensity of their dislike for each other is only matched by the growing passion they cannot seem to control.

A loner by nature, a cold hard hunter by choice, Tyler fights his feelings for his prisoner the only way he knows how—by denying them. He’s not prepared for how deeply his feelings will run, or how hard it will be to hold her life in his hands.

Pursued by two hapless cowboys bent on taking Nicky in themselves, Nicky and Tyler are forced to turn to each other for aid, trust, and comfort as their journey progresses on its rocky road. Caught in a web of lies and murder, they hold on to each other as they travel to Wyoming to confront the man that brought them together. Tyler has to decide if his love for her is worth more than the bounty he was sent to find.

This book has been previously published, but substantially revised and repackaged.
Product Warnings

Warning: This title contains explicit sex, graphic language, some violence.

[library addict]

Originally Posted by Blossom

No don't hurt yourself! What error is it?

I have to ask how old is your hard drive? What O/S are you using?

You can sort by plugins you installed just click the box that says show only user installed plugins.

It's an unresolved Propsys error (I posted about in the Calibre forum).

I thought it might be a plug-in issue based on something Kovid said. But I am thinking now having the library sync in Copy may be the issue. That's the only thing I have done different lately and I have been using Calibre since 2008. I had paused the sync, deselected the folders from syncing then deleted the shortcuts. But was still getting the error.

I uninstalled Calibre and deleted the library and configuration folders. I then resinstalled and copied the folders over from my most recent backup. I am going to see if the error recreates and hold off doing any major library changes for a day or so. I am screwed if my database files themselves are messed up though.

I have been making double backups to USB, but that's overriding the existing files. The last backup I know is absolutely a clean version I have is from December. And I have added a gazillion books since then. Unless I can somehow get the original version I uploaded to Copy, but I do not think they keep multiple versions. My current USB version is from 8-17, but I can't remember if that is before or after I started getting the error.

This will teach me. I am going to go back to backing up my Calibre library on DVD-Rom once a month like I used to before I started using USBs more.

Fingers crossed for me that simply reinstalling and not making the shortcut for the sync folder works. Calibre did seem to be working the other day when I first reinstalled it, so we'll see...<pleaseworkpleaseworkpleasework>

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by library addict

It's an unresolved Propsys error (I posted about in the Calibre forum).

I thought it might be a plug-in issue based on something Kovid said. But I am thinking now having the library sync in Copy may be the issue. That's the only thing I have done different lately and I have been using Calibre since 2008. I had paused the sync, deselected the folders from syncing then deleted the shortcuts. But was still getting the error.

Fingers crossed for me that simply reinstalling and not making the shortcut for the sync folder works. Calibre did seem to be working the other day when I first reinstalled it, so we'll see...<pleaseworkpleaseworkpleasework>

That is a python error not related to Calibre or your library so relax on that part.

It's curious why it's popping up in Calibre though. Do you have Python installed or something like it? I wonder if Copy uses Python?

It does seem like a plugin could be the issue if not Copy or another software you are using.


When does it pop up what are you exactly doing when it happens?

If you want to move this to PM that is fine.

[library addict]

Originally Posted by Blossom

If you want to move this to PM that is fine.

Okay. I don't want to bore everyone with my tech challenges

[Amy_k]

Weekly Deals from Google Play store


There might be repeat deals and may (or may not be) price matched for the Kindle.

Some books that caught my eye that I don't think has been discounted before:

Destiny's Embrace - Beverly Jenkins (I think this was a Smart Bitch Sarah's Book Club pick a while back). It's even cheaper at $0.99.

$3.79
Mystical Warrior by Janet Chapman

Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran

Velvet Promise by Jude Deveraux

[Venus]

Originally Posted by library addict

Okay. I don't want to bore everyone with my tech challenges

Keep asking questions everywhere until your issue is solved. Ultimately, it helps us all.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Venus

Keep asking questions everywhere until your issue is solved. Ultimately, it helps us all.

We think we fixed it. Not uncrossing my fingers till we know for sure.

[Blossom]

Good morning! I'm a zombie. No Really it's 9AM and no sleep but I came across this on Facebook.

$0.99 @ Amazon

Dangerous Desires (A Boxed Set)
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Dirty by Debra Webb
Mind Reader by Vicki Hinze
The Informant by Vr Marks
Witch Dance by Peggy Webb

With BONUS novellas!

In the Interest of Security by Regan Black
My Favorite Corpse by Kathy Carmichael

Chasing Shadows by CJ Lyons
Going undercover, playing the part of a disgraced former Marine, is easy for Chase Westin--until a Christmas Eve mission takes him back to his hometown and face to face with his estranged brother. When KC, an undercover FBI agent, flies into Chase's life with her Doc Martens, purple, punk-rock hair, and Hollywood-hype leather and chains, Chase realizes that falling in love is more dangerous than catching bullets.

Dirty by Debra Webb
Jackie Mercer can't abide deception. A woman who single-handedly built the Mercer Detective Agency from the ground up has a right to expect honesty in a relationship. Tell that to the creep who, only this morning, she thought might be Mr. Right. Wrong! Her day only gets worse when an ominous message arrives accompanied by the photo of a man she hasn't seen in ten years: You were the last one to see him alive. She's in real trouble when a second message, this one including a dead body, drops into the mix. Jackie does what any smart Texas woman would do: she kicks butt and takes names, while the mystery spiraling around her long lost lover and her attraction to Derrick Dawson plunge her into a tangled web of shocking secrets and deadly deceptions.

Mind Reader by Vicki Hinze
Caron Chalmers is an empath. A mind reader cursed with imaging only victims. She sees what they see, feels what they feel, endures what they endure. But even with all the sensory perception and insights, sometimes she fails to save victims in time. Sometimes she interprets the signs wrong--and a year ago, she did exactly that. She messed up and a victim died. Caron nearly died with her. Her "gift" shut down. Now it's back. There's another victim--this time a child--and because of the shut-down, her police contact, though aware of her many successes, isn't willing to stake his career on her. Yet he can't dismiss her and calls in help from a private investigator, Parker Simms: a man with a past as bleak as Caron's and a specific agenda of his own: proving Caron Chalmers is the fraud he believes her to be. In a hostile alliance, Caron and Parker seek the truth . . . and discover a labyrinth of lies and deceptions...

Witch Dance by Peggy Webb
Kate came to Witch Dance to practice medicine. She expected to fall in love with the tribal lands of Oklahoma and its people. She never expected resistance and hostility to her clinic. And she certainly never expected death threats. But something evil is stalking Kate and the Chickasaw children. Only one man can stop the deadly enemy - Eagle Mingo, son of the Chickasaw governor, destined by blood to follow in his father's footsteps and by fate to fall in love with a forbidden woman. Eagle will do anything to save Kate except shun the traditions that hold him fast to duty. But can he stop the evil spreading through his land and find a killer who calls himself the Avenger? Can he find a way to have the woman of his heart without breaking the heart of a Chickasaw nation?

The Informant by Vr Marks
A dead body is no way to start the day... a fake marriage makes it a special brand of hell.

When her witness is murdered, DEA Agent Hannah Thalberg knows she's the next target. The only way she can stay close to the case is to lie about getting married and hope her one-time lover goes along with the deception.

Now I'm off for a nap at least!

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by gabby98

3. Does the Alf plug-in work for the liberation of Kobo books?

Depends. Most books from Kobo can be downloaded as an ePub with "standard" Adobe DRM or a few as DRM'd PDF (plug-in works fine), but there are some books that are only in Kobo's proprietary format and those can't be de-DRM'd nor can they be read on anything but Kobo devices/apps.

Also watch out for anything published by Harlequin or one of their labels from July(?) 2010 or before. There are formatting problems with those books when coming from Kobo.

[Blue2u]

libraryaddict, I hope everything works out and soon!*hugs you*


Couple of $.99 deals today both from authors we've discussed before IIRC.

This one is not rated as highly as 'Painted Faces' was, but I took a chance, also at Kobo & couponable
The Nature of Cruelty by L.H. Cosway
blurb:
This is a standalone contemporary romance novel about love, hate, cruelty and forgiveness.

Her name is Lana. She wasn’t dealt the easiest cards in life. She wasn’t dealt the hardest. She has an illness, but she doesn’t let it rule her. The first time she laid eyes on her best friend’s twin brother she fell in love at first sight. It didn’t last very long. He was a hateful boy who made her miserable. The happiest day of her life was when he moved away to London six years ago.

His name is Robert. He breaks the ones who love him. He’s always liked to play games with Lana, see how far he could push her. He once thrived on her pain, but no more. Now she’s coming to London to live with his sister for the summer and this time he plans on being her friend instead of her tormentor. But Lana is scarred by his past bullying. She doesn’t trust him, nor does she have any reason to.

When the two find themselves living under the same roof, they call a truce. This summer will change both of their lives, as they put their history aside and learn one another from scratch.

When fear takes over, we use cruelty as a mask. Robert and Lana’s story will see their masks slip away as the love they felt on the inside shows its true face. **Not suitable for younger readers. Contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature.** **This is a full-length standalone novel.**



Four Summers by Nyrae Dawn [I think this may fall under her YA category more than NA like Charade [which I loved]] but still grabbed it because I loved her writing in that, rated well.

blurb:
A moment can change everything...

Charlotte Gates is tired of being Charlie Rae. She loves the lake she was raised on, their rental cabins, and spending her nights under the stars…but inside she yearns for more.

After his freshman year, Nathaniel Chase’s family spends their first summer at The Village. From the beginning Charlotte intrigues him. She’s the girl who always says what’s on her mind, wins at night games, and gets lost in the sky, each time she looks through her telescope.

Over the course of four summers together, Charlotte and Nathaniel become best friends, share firsts, mend broken hearts, protect each other’s secrets, overcome tragedies…fall in love. And say goodbye…

Charlotte wants out of The Village. Nate wants her to have her stars. And they dream of being able to do it all together. But life isn’t as easy as their summers.

Each summer is told in alternating points of view between Charlotte and Nate. Journey with the pair, and their friends, as they share their story about growing up, discovering who they are, making tough choices, and falling in love again and again.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Depends. Most books from Kobo can be downloaded as an ePub with "standard" Adobe DRM or a few as DRM'd PDF (plug-in works fine), but there are some books that are only in Kobo's proprietary format and those can't be de-DRM'd nor can they be read on anything but Kobo devices/apps.

Also watch out for anything published by Harlequin or one of their labels from July(?) 2010 or before. There are formatting problems with those books when coming from Kobo.

[Blue2u]

It's quiet in here today, is everybody shopping at Kobo? I'm heading there now, but I have a question. There's a couple of books I'd like to save codes for that release Sep 2 + 3, is that pushing my luck do you think?

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

It's quiet in here today, is everybody shopping at Kobo? I'm heading there now, but I have a question. There's a couple of books I'd like to save codes for that release Sep 2 + 3, is that pushing my luck do you think?

I've used the codes up to 7 days past the end of the contest so I'm thinking you should be good for up to the 3rd. On a totally rubbing-it-in note, I scored my first ever 75% coupon this morning - good times

[Blue2u]

Originally Posted by Loosheesh

I've used the codes up to 7 days past the end of the contest so I'm thinking you should be good for up to the 3rd. On a totally rubbing-it-in note, I scored my first ever 75% coupon this morning - good times

Ok, thanks, I kind of figured I'd be ok. And congrats on your 75%! Hope you have a good bundle in mind?! [knowing us, probably!? ]