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Nina Romano
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The Secret Language of Women (Wayfarer Trilogy #1)
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2015
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The Girl Who Loved Cayo Bradley
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2019
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Dark Eyes
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2023
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Lemon Blossoms (Wayfarer Trilogy #2)
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2016
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In America (Wayfarer Trilogy, 3)
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Star on a Summer Morning (Darby's Quest Book 2)
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Coffeehouse Meditations
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2010
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The Other side of the Gates
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2014
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A Risky Christmas Affair (Nina Romano's Christmas Book 1)
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She Wouldn't Sing at My Wedding
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2013
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Review of The Lifeline by Deborah Swift
Reading WWII fiction is only enjoyable when there’s a brilliantly-conceived plot with believable yet perilous and disconcerting events. There have to be realistic elements of danger, bravery, and most importantly, great risk for the characters. Deborah Swift’s novel, The Lifeline, is a marvelous adventure and example of historical narrative writing. The book encompasses all of the literary techniq
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Christmas in Dillford: A Cozy Small Town Mystery:
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When Ann Cramer receives word of her mother’s stroke, she, leaves her life (and her fiancé) in New York City, returning to her hometown, Dillford. Once there, so many facets of Ann’s life come into consideration … or r" Read more of this review » |
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| I just finished reading The Many Faces of Grief by Maryann Miller. Although the stories of love and loss were interesting, the part of the book that resonated most with me was the section entitled “My Own Grief Journey” about the author's life and m ...more | |
"Star on a Summer Morning steeps the reader in the culture of the old American West as it follows the moving, romantic story of a compelling young woman on a quest to be reunited with her lost love. Historical though it may be, the challenges and obst"
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"Ms. Romano’s Star on a Summer Morning is a delightful journey into the late 1800s. Her vivid descriptions and memorable characters, particularly the protagonist, Darby, who sets out on a quest for a lost love in the Old West, stayed with me throughou"
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"Nina Romano’s "Star on a Summer Morning" is a deeply felt novel that transcends its multiple genres. It’s a western story without stereotypes, offering fascinating portraits of early settlers and native peoples. It’s a romance that avoids the usual t"
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Gorgeous review—heartfelt thanks. 🙏 This means a great deal especially coming from a poet I so very much admire!
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| A Boundary of Stones isn’t a book for the faint of heart, but it is a marvelous historical fiction of the devastation wrought by Plague in England during the 1600’s. The breadth and scope of Mille Thom’s execution of this sorrowful tale is nothing sh ...more | |
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I don’t feel I’m able to write an unbiased review of this memoir, Quiet Quarters by Afarin Rava. This is simply because with the first words, I immediately surrender to Rava’s insights and her compellingly distinctive, authorial voice. I’ve read seve ...more |
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“How could I say I felt uneasy for no apparent reason along the dusty road where ancient umbrella pines stretched across the shadowy path as if a handshake were being offered? I felt fear for no cause. But somehow I knew that somewhere close, peril awaited us. Looking at the arbor of trees overhead—joined limbs in prayerful attitude—I was wary, yet excited at the unknown.”
― Lemon Blossoms
― Lemon Blossoms
“Ma, no—please.” “Stand tall, boy, and remember the important things of life: you’re from strong stock, you have an angel beside you, and everything in this world can be righted with love and forgiveness.” She took his face in her hands and kissed his forehead and each of his wet cheeks. “Now, go.”
― The Girl Who Loved Cayo Bradley
― The Girl Who Loved Cayo Bradley
“My hand trailed in the cold water and I inhaled deeply of the sea-censed air. I licked my fingertips free of salt and observed the sun-soft dusk ignite the argentine water as it extended from sea to shore in an erupting cone of froth.”
― Lemon Blossoms
― Lemon Blossoms
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“Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.”
― Love Warps the Mind a Little
― Love Warps the Mind a Little
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Nina Romano’s The Secret Language of Women is a fascinating saga that takes place at the turn of the 20th century, just as the boxer rebellion gets underway in China. This historical novel is a love story, a cross-cultural feast including recipes from a sea-faring Italian chef, Chinese herbal medicine and beautiful descriptions of China’s flora, the clash between classes and religions of the time, and the challenges faced by a strong, young, Eurasian woman attempting to determine her own fate. Romano is a poet, and her skill is evident in the imagery of the characters’ interior lives, their spiritual quests, and the every day world through which they travel. The secret language of the title is not only the language that Zhou Bin Lian, the main character records her diary in and shares with the few women who work to save her, but also a metaphor for the timeless things that women of heart share. Nina Romano is such a woman. The Secret Language of Womenis a complex, broad-reaching and memorable read.Barbara Stark-Nemon, author of Even in Darkness
Thanks, Nina.I'm a retired FIU prof (University Park Campus from 1990-2012, too. have a recommendation of a book that may be quite interesting for you. It's my translation Antal Szerb's "Traveler and the Moonlight." The novel is set in Italy, and it's about a 36-year-old man who escapes his wife on their honeymoon, and wanders from Umbria to Rome searching for the "gate of the dead" and obsessing about his adolescent sex games that become all too real and fatally erotic as he nears is abyss. Last year, the New York Times Review of Books designated the British version of the book "Journey by Moonlight" as a "Classic." I am stunned. The British version is offensive to women and the language could not be any more stilted. I'd love to have your take on it. Best Wishes, Peter
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