Books like Blood water paint by Joy McCullough

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

In 1941 Lithuania, fifteen‑year‑old Lina and her family are deported by the Soviets to a Siberian labor camp; through art and resilience they endure brutal conditions and strive to survive the long journey ahead.

In World War II, four refugees—descendants of a Royalist, a German Jesuit, a Jewish family, and a Polish munitions factory worker—board the doomed MV Wilhelm Gustloff in a desperate bid for survival.

A 1943 British fighter pilot crash-lands in Nazi‑occupied France and recounts her daring escape, espionage, and friendship to a young French woman while concealing her true mission.

Miri returns to her childhood kingdom and learns the power of friendship and self-confidence in an epic fantasy adventure of self-discovery and the quest for a new charter.

A San Francisco-based florist with a gift for interpreting flowers transforms the lives of those around her while confronting her own painful past.

A concise historical exploration of Mary Boleyn, the lesser-known sister of Anne, set within the Tudor court of 1508–1543.

Chris Carves for Kwanzaa During Father's Layoff

In seventeenth‑century Rome, seventeen‑year‑old Angelica Voglia sings with an angelic voice, yet the papal ban on women in public forces her to flee to Queen Christina’s Swedish court to pursue her dream of singing.

A Hong Kong immigrant teenager in Brooklyn balances school, a night shift in a Chinatown sweatshop, and family expectations, while learning to translate both language and identity across cultural divides.

Dominic Hall navigates adolescence in northern England’s shipyards, torn between the tender world of artist Holly Stroud and the fierce pull of bully Vincent McAlinden, exploring love, identity and the harsh realities of working‑class youth.

In 1909 London, seventeen‑year‑old Victoria Navigates debutante balls and high‑society expectations while striving to become an artist.

Seventeen‑year‑old artist Cathy Harlow’s life turns upside down when she meets lead guitarist Paul Devlin of the rock band Easy Connection, sparking a turbulent romance set in art school and the rock‑star world.

Artemisia Gentileschi, apprenticed by her painter father Orazio, rises from scandal after being raped by a close associate to win a landmark courtroom battle, gaining acclaim among Rome’s elite.

In Mexico, a little girl disguised as a boy, sets out for Monterrey determined to master the art of glassblowing, and in the process, experiences self-discovery along the way.

A young boy becomes friends with the artist in the apartment upstairs and tries hard to understand when his friend commits suicide.

The Passion of Artemisia follows the life of the 17th‑century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi as she confronts sexual violence, societal judgment, and the struggle to balance artistic ambition with motherhood.

"Mary D. Garrard, author of the acclaimed Artemisia Gentileschi, furthers her study of the seventeenth-century artist in this groundbreaking investigation of two little-known paintings. Taking as case studies the Seville Mary Magdalene and the Burghley House Susanna and the Elders, paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, Garrard examines the ways that identity, gender, and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and connoisseurship that have surrounded it. Garrard explains differences in the artist's presentation of women in the two paintings as motivated by the same thing: Artemisia's intense ambition to excel as an artist in a culture that insisted upon sexualizing her identity. She describes the complex interaction between the artist and her audience as a reactive dynamic of creation and reception that continues into the present era."--BOOK JACKET.

Set in wartime East Texas, The Water and the Blood follows Philadelphia "Frosty" Summers, a young woman whose life spirals through family fear, racial tension and wartime escape to California, before she must confront a tragic past upon her return.

A mystery about an artist colony in England where murder takes place and a young American girl tries to solve the crime while uncovering her past.