Salt to the Sea (technically YA but will emotionally wreck you)
Saltblood
James by Percival Everett
Usual-Biscotti-8266 on
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
Lindela on
[The war that saved my life](https://www.goodreads.com/series/202974-the-war-that-saved-my-life)
Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?
[Someone named Eve](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1328363.Someone_Named_Eva?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=xb32SDPsaS&rank=2)
In 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, along with other blond, blue-eyed children to a Lebensborn center in Poland. There she is trained to be a “proper German” for adoption by a German family, and all the while she struggles to remember her true identity.
[Daddy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/601828.Daddy?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10)
Who has the key to a $350 million fortune the Nazis have sent their most brilliant operative to find? Thomas, an 11-year old boy with the mind of a genius, the cunning of a fox, and the chance of a snowball in Hell to escape…unless he is helped by one man. An American who doesn’t even know he exists. A man he calls Daddy.
[Feast of all Saints](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43798.The_Feast_of_All_Saints?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19)
In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre – copper-skinned half-castes, liberated by their owners, but confined by their color to a life of political nonexistence and social subordination. Still, an aristocracy would emerge in this society: artist, poets, and musicians, plantation owners, scientists and craftsmen whose talents and reputations would extend far beyond the limits of their small world.
Mega-selling author Anne Rice’s probing, lyrical style sweeps us into their midst as she introduces Marcel, the sensitive, blue-eyed scholar, Marie, his breathtakingly beautiful sister, whose curse is to pass for white; Christophe, novelist and teacher, the idol of all young gens and stunning Anna Bella, whose allure for the well-to-do white man would become legend.
Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.
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Salt to the Sea (technically YA but will emotionally wreck you)
Saltblood
James by Percival Everett
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
[The war that saved my life](https://www.goodreads.com/series/202974-the-war-that-saved-my-life)
Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?
[Someone named Eve](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1328363.Someone_Named_Eva?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=xb32SDPsaS&rank=2)
In 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, along with other blond, blue-eyed children to a Lebensborn center in Poland. There she is trained to be a “proper German” for adoption by a German family, and all the while she struggles to remember her true identity.
[Daddy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/601828.Daddy?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10)
Who has the key to a $350 million fortune the Nazis have sent their most brilliant operative to find? Thomas, an 11-year old boy with the mind of a genius, the cunning of a fox, and the chance of a snowball in Hell to escape…unless he is helped by one man. An American who doesn’t even know he exists. A man he calls Daddy.
[Feast of all Saints](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43798.The_Feast_of_All_Saints?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19)
In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre – copper-skinned half-castes, liberated by their owners, but confined by their color to a life of political nonexistence and social subordination. Still, an aristocracy would emerge in this society: artist, poets, and musicians, plantation owners, scientists and craftsmen whose talents and reputations would extend far beyond the limits of their small world.
Mega-selling author Anne Rice’s probing, lyrical style sweeps us into their midst as she introduces Marcel, the sensitive, blue-eyed scholar, Marie, his breathtakingly beautiful sister, whose curse is to pass for white; Christophe, novelist and teacher, the idol of all young gens and stunning Anna Bella, whose allure for the well-to-do white man would become legend.
Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.