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100			_aFleming, Melissa _q(Melissa R.) _eauthor. _931864
245	1	2	_aA hope more powerful than the sea : _bone refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival / _cMelissa Fleming.
246	3	0	_aOne refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
250			_aLarge print edition.
260			_aWaterville, Maine _bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning _c2017.
300			_a369 pages (large print) ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aThorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
500			_aOriginally published: New York : Flatiron Books, 2017.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 351-366).
505	0		_aA childhood in Syria -- The war begins -- The siege of Daraa -- Life as a refugee -- Love in exile -- The engagement -- Deal with the devil -- Ship of horrors -- All that is left is the sea -- Rescue at the dying hour -- Epilogue -- A note from Doaa -- Author's note.
520			_aAdrift 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 floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutches two children, barely toddlers, to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who boarded a dangerously overcrowded ship bound for Sweden and a new life. For days, Doaa floats, prays, and sings to the babies in her arms. She must stay alive for these children. She must not lose hope. Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011, her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa's hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life. After Doaa's father's barbershop was destroyed and rumors of women being abducted spread through the community, her family decided to leave Syria for Egypt, where they hoped to stay in peace until they could return home. Only months after their arrival, the Egyptian government was overthrown and the environment turned hostile for refugees. In the midst of this chaos, Doaa falls in love with a young opposition fighter who proposes marriage and convinces her to flee to the promise of safety and a better future in Europe. Terrified and unable to swim, Doaa and her young fiancé hand their life savings to smugglers and board a dilapidated fishing vessel with five hundred other refugees, including a hundred children. After four horrifying days at sea, another ship, filled with angry men shouting insults, rams into Doaa's boat, sinking it and leaving the passengers to drown. That is where Doaa's struggle for survival really begins.
600		0	_aZamel, Doaa Al, _d1995- _931866
650		0	_aWomen refugees _zSyria _vBiography. _931867
650		0	_aRefugees _zSyria _vBiography. _931868
650		0	_aSurvival at sea _zMediterranean Sea _xHistory _y21st century. _931874
655		0	_919965 _aBiography. _2lcgft
655		0	_93726 _aLarge type books.
830		0	_aThorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
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