Nora Lourie Percival: 3 books
Weather of the Heart
A Child's Journey Out of Revolutionary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
All through her long busy life in America, Nora Percival felt impelled to learn about the family she’d left behind in Samara, the city on the Volga where she was born. After glasnost she was finally able to go there and find the places, though not the people, of her youth.
Her search resurrected...
Silver Pages on the Lawn
A Student Love Story of the Depression Years of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Silver Pages on the Lawn is the true story of student lovers and their star-crossed romance that endures parental disapproval as well as the want of time, money, and privacy. To bridge long separations, they make love by words alone. Their passionate, eloquent letters, poignant and poetic, are the...
The Whirligig of Time
A Memoir of Civilian Life in America During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Nora Percival's third memoir completes a trilogy about a woman's life during three significant spans of her long lifetime. It recaptures the arduous days of World War II, when civilians in America were focused on defending our way of life against the brutal tyranny of Nazism. As she delineates her...