The gripping story of a young woman who fled civil war in Syria and endured a harrowing journey across the Mediterranean for a chance of a better life.Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight, just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around, nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel stays afloat on a small inflatable ring and clutches two little girls—barely toddlers—to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, a...

Soon to be a major film, produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was deliberately capsized, and of those five hundred people, eleven survived; they were rescued four days after the boat sank. Doaa was one of them - her fiancé Bassem, with whom she had fled, was not; he drowned in fron...

A impressionante história de uma jovem, uma crise internacional e o triunfo do espírito humano.À deriva no mar gelado, sem terra à vista — apenas destroços do naufrágio da embarcação e cadáveres flutuando a sua volta —, a jovem de 19 anos Doaa Al Zamel flutua com uma pequena boia inflável na cintura e segura duas crianças pequenas junto ao corpo. As crianças foram confiadas aos braços de Doaa pelos parentes que se afogavam, todos refugiados a bordo de um barco perig...

The extraordinary true story of one teen refugee's quest to find a new life—now adapted for young readers.A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by her country's brutal civil war. She and her family escape to Egypt, but life quickly became dangerous for Syrians in that country.Doaa and her fiancé decided to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education, but four days after se...

Melissa Fleming, die als Sprecherin des Flüchtlingshilfswerks der Vereinten Nationen eine der weltweit größten Expertinnen in Flüchtlingsfragen und im deutschsprachigen Raum durch Auftritte im Fernsehen bekannt ist, erzählt in diesem Buch die Geschichte von Doaa.Melissa Fleming hat dieses eine Flüchtlingsschicksal ausgewählt, weil es sie sehr bewegt hat und weil gerade die Erlebnisse dieses syrischen Mädchens das Leid der Menschen auf der Flucht greifbar und verständlich macht. Sie ...

Un relato estremecedor basado en hechos reales sobre la dura realidad de los refugiados sirios.Esta es la historia de Doaa, una chica normal y corriente de un pueblo de Siria que, en 2015, se convirtió en una de las quinientas personas que se vieron obligadas a subir a un barco de pescadores rumbo a Europa. Solo sobrevivieron once, que fueron rescatados cuatro días después de que el barco se hundiera. Doaa fue una de las supervivientes. Su prometido, con el que emp...

Doaa Al Zamel och hennes familj lämnar det krigsdrabbade Syrien för Egypten. Men även där blir det politiskt instabilt och allt farligare att vistas. Hon möter och förälskar sig i Bassem, en före detta frihetskämpe, och tillsammans bestämmer de sig för att lämna de trakasserier de möter i Egypten att fly till Europa. Doaa och Bassem blir två av de tusentals flyktingar som gör den livsfarliga resan över Medelhavet på överfulla och nedgångna båtar.Efter fyra dagar till havs sänks der...

Dua ez-Zamíl átlagos szíriai lány volt, 2011-ben azonban örökre megváltozott az élete, amikor hazájában polgárháború tört ki. A hadsereg elfoglalta Dua szülővárosát, szigorú kijárási tilalom, áram- és vízkimaradások, valamint erőszakos események nehezítették az életüket. A család úgy döntött, Egyiptomba költözik. Ám néhány hónappal később a kormányt megdöntötték, és a menekültek már ott sem voltak többé biztonságban.Eközben egy fiatal ellenzéki harcos beleszeretett Duába, megkérte ...

A beautiful new edition of “the greatest dessert book in the history of the world” (Bon Appétit), featuring 175 timeless recipes from Gramercy Tavern’s James Beard Award–winning pastry chef.Claudia Fleming is a renowned name in the pastry world, acclaimed for having set an industrywide standard at New York City’s Gramercy Tavern with her James Beard Award–winning desserts. With The Last Course, dessert lovers everywhere will be able to re-create a...

She's a woman at the crossroads of her life.Cynthia Myers knows she's being dramatic, but her life is kind of a mess. She dumped her fiance and her father disowned her. Still, she has never been so happy in her life. Or, at least she thinks she is. That is, until that ex-fiance gets married and introduces her to a man who turns her world upside down.He's given up on love.Chris Dupree's last relationship crashed and burned over a year ago. It left him scarred and war...