Nina Romano's debut collection celebrates the enchantment of love, life, family, and food. Reading Romano's poetry is like taking a voyage through an exotic landscape, accompanied by the most adventurous and insightful of guides.
Nina Romano's debut collection celebrates the enchantment of love, life, family, and food. Reading Romano's poetry is like taking a voyage through an ...
Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Gold Medal, Romance)
Set in China in the late 1800's, The Secret Language of Women tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Zhou Bin Lian, a Eurasian healer, and Giacomo Scimenti, an Italian sailor, driven apart by the Boxer Rebellion.
When Lian is seventeen years old, she accompanies her Swiss father, Dr. Gianluca Brasolin, fluent in Italian, to tend the Italian ambassador, at the Summer Palace of Empress Dowager, where she meets and falls in love with Giacomo.
Through voyage and adventure, their love...
Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Gold Medal, Romance)
Set in China in the late 1800's, The Secret Language of Wome...
Angelica Domenico is born in a blossoming lemon grove, a prophetic fusion of sweet bloom and bitter fruit on an island governed by volcanoes and earthquakes.
In the continuation of Nina Romano's epic Wayfarer Trilogy, an early childhood accident propels Angelica to battle trials in a world where proof of virginity is paramount. She suff ers the trauma of her aunt's death in childbirth and is catapulted on a voyage towards the nunnery to seek refuge from a fear of intimacy. Fate intervenes on the Feast of Crucifixion...
2016 Finalist for Romance, Foreword INDIE
Angelica Domenico is born in a blossoming lemon grove, a prophetic fusion of sweet bloom and...
2016 Chanticleer Media's Chatelaine Book Awards Finalist
Beautiful, headstrong Marcella Scimenti has the affection of a handsome neighborhood boy, the love of her large Italian family, and serious dreams of singing in Hollywood. But the course of true love--nor the journey to finding one's true self--never did run smooth. In America follows the story of Marcella, the daughter of the characters at the center of Nina Romano's continent-spanning Wayfarer Trilogy, as she comes of age in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in the late 1920s. In the trilogy's heartwarming conclusion,...
2016 Chanticleer Media's Chatelaine Book Awards Finalist
Beautiful, headstrong Marcella Scimenti has the affection of a handsome neig...
This remarkable book began as series of poems the writer sent to her brother during the last year of his life. It is a meditation on the eternal fascination of the west, often through the eyes of a series of personae. Romano sets the theme in this book of poetry with so many lines...
This remarkable book began as series of poems the writer sent to her brother during the last year of his life. It is a meditation on the eternal fasci...
2016 Chanticleer Media's Chatelaine Book Awards Finalist
Beautiful, headstrong Marcella Scimenti has the affection of a handsome neighborhood boy, the love of her large Italian family, and serious dreams of singing in Hollywood. But the course of true love--nor the journey to finding one's true self--never did run smooth. In America follows the story of Marcella, the daughter of the characters at the center of Nina Romano's continent-spanning Wayfarer Trilogy, as she comes of age in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in the late 1920s. In the trilogy's heartwarming conclusion,...
2016 Chanticleer Media's Chatelaine Book Awards Finalist
Beautiful, headstrong Marcella Scimenti has the affection of a handsome neigh...
