Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Run With the Wind, Secrets of WWII Galveston: The story begins in the summer of 1938 when a stranger crashes his car through Sarah Jacob's rusting wrought-iron picket fence and into her side yard as the young widow watches in a mixture of terror and concern. The man climbs from the wreck and staggers toward Sarah, holding his hand in an awkward closed-fist greeting. But before he can go more than two or three steps, he collapses to his knees and dies, leaving behind only the vaguest of clues about the secret he failed to deliver. Sarah's 10-year old son, crippled with polio, has a secret about the man who died, and lives in fear, unable to tell anyone, and unsure where he can find help. Sarah's Great-Uncle Levi Weismann, Galveston pioneer, family patriarch, and head of Galveston's premier bank has a secret that he intends to carry to his grave. A handsome stranger, claiming to be an author doing research, arrives in Galveston with a secret and initiates a friendship with Sarah's banker uncle. And this stranger, an avid surf fisherman whose long surf rods oddly resemble short-wave radio antenna, begins a program of worming his way into Sarah's and her son's life. Then, the blanket of a world war descends upon the Gulf of Mexico and Galveston.Sarah, secretary and assistant manager of Galveston Pilots' Guild is responsible for shipping schedules for oil tankers carrying Texas crude through the Gulf to the New Jersey refineries. As such, she finds herself the target of German spies and saboteurs as they seek information to feed enemy submarines lurking offshore. And Sarah's secret is that she longs for the day when her crippled son can put aside his leg braces and crutches, go to the beach, and Run With the Wind.
Synopsis
Galveston, Texas: secrets and danger, the WW 2 years. A Jewish widow and a mysterious stranger help her son Benjamin overcome polio as refugees from Nazi death camps find safety and spies threaten Galveston.As clouds of war gather, a man crashes his car into Sarah's front yard, exits the wreck and dies. The young widow finds her life full of danger. She will learn that her crippled son has a secret from that day that he believes he must never reveal. A mysterious stranger, who becomes a romantic interest for the poverty-stricken widow, has an odd friendship with her great uncle Levi, a Galveston pioneer and family patriarch. This stranger has a secret that could threaten the foundations of a government. As the world descends into armed conflict and German submarines lurk in the Gulf of Mexico, Sarah, assistant manager of the organization that schedules Galveston shipping, finds herself the target for saboteurs and spies. And all this time Sarah herself has a secret. She knows the strength and true grit of her son's character and longs for the day when he will put aside his braces and crutches. Benjamin's dream is to go to the beach and Run With The Wind.
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A coming-of-age fiction story of strength and true grit about a young poverty-stricken Jewish widow whose son is crippled with polio. The boy's heart's desire is to one day put aside his crutches and braces and Run With the Wind. How Sarah and Benjamin, with their strong mother and son relationship, and despite the blanket of WW2 that settles upon their island-city of Galveston, Texas, one day reach the point where Benjamin does put aside his crutches, is the story of Run With the Wind. It is set against the backdrop of enemy espionage and the help of a romantic but mysterious stranger of German heritage. These strong Jewish characters provide a romantic WW2 story of intriguing and powerful historical fiction as the world descends into armed conflict and German submarines lurk offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Sarah, assistant manager of the organization that schedules Galveston shipping, discovers herself surrounded by secrets of war as German spies and saboteurs invest her coastal city. Her great-uncle Levi, a Galveston pioneer and family patriarch has, she will learn, a secret he must carry to his grave. Her romantic but mysterious stranger has an odd friendship with Uncle Levi, and both men harbor a secret that could topple a government. Sarah's son, Benjamin, as he struggles to overcome his polio, has a secret that he believes he must never tell in order to protect the lives of those whom he loves.
Synopsis
When Sarah Jacobs awoke that peaceful morning 3 years before United States' entry into WW2 her major concern was her son, Benjamin, crippled with polio as an infant, and the boy's progress over his disease. She had no idea that before noon that day a man would be murdered in her front yard and soon her life would be filled with secrets. Nor did she know that within weeks she would meet a romantic stranger whose secrets would change the lives of all her family. And the stranger would be found to have an odd relationship with Sarah's great-uncle Levi, family patriarch and Galveston pioneer, who would be found to have a secret that he would die to protect. On that long-ago summer morning however, Sarah's life revolved around her son Benjamin. She was pleased with the boy's medical progress, but at age 10 Benji was not pleased. He could walk only with the aid of wrist canes and a leg brace, and he wanted more. He wanted to go to the beach and run.Run With the Wind, a coming-of-age fiction saga of strength and true grit, brings a number of strong Jewish characters into an intriguing and powerful historical fiction tale of Galveston, Texas. This unsung part of the United States' WW2 story pits the island-city and its citizens against espionage and intrigue as enemy submarines lurk offshore and spent torpedoes are tossed by the uncaring sea onto Galveston's beaches. The story of Galveston's secrets of war, thrilling, deadly and some that could topple a government, set against promises of love and Benjamin's ultimate triumph, form a backdrop of wartime events that encompass the entire 600-mile sweep of Texas' coastline. The reader will cheer and cry at Benjamin's gritty determination when he takes his first staggering, faulty, unaided steps on the soft beach sand, body covered in salt spray, struggling, falling, wiping away sweat, taking painful step after step, and then falling again. But Ben knows that the day will come when one step becomes two, then three. And then he can run for 12. And then he can run a mile. Go, Ben Run With the Wind But never tell your secret. Because it could destroy everything.