title: Garden of Dreams
author: Simon, Laura
description: Both arriving in America as immigrants -- she an Italian from a large loving family and he a man alone in the world -- Nina Colangelo and Wim Pieter de Groot cross boundaries to be together.
  
  Two young immigrants, they arrived the same day in the land of dreams...  --  Nina Colangelo came from Italy, part of a large, loving family struggling to survive and find their way in a new world. Wim Pieter de Groot arrived alone -- an ambitious man in search of new challenges and new successes. But even in a young country full of promise, there were boundaries that divided them -- boundaries only the bold would dare to cross...
  
  They journeyed from separate worlds. But together, they discovered America - planting new roots in a place of hope, a garden of dreams -- and believing through all obstacles that it was a place big enough to hold the uniting of their two hearts...