考门夫人，原名丽蒂·伯德，1870年3月3日出生在美国伊利诺州一个乐观善良的家庭。1901年，她与丈夫理查·考门一同，在没有基金支持的情况下，开始了在远东地区长达25年的传教工作。足迹遍及韩国、日本和中国，并发起创建了远东传教会。在此期间，考门先生因心脏病而倍受煎熬，他们不得不回到美国，并一直相互支撑，凭借虔诚的信含和巨大的毅力一次次渡过生命难关。《荒漠甘泉》与《黑门山路》记录的便是他们在这个艰难时期的心灵感悟和真实体验。《黑门山路》一经出版，迅速在世界各地得以传诵，继《荒漠甘泉》、《黑门山路》后，考门夫人又陆续出版了7本著作。1960年在一个复活节的星期天，90岁高龄的考门夫人与世长辞。

We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences...(展开全部)

On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply di...(展开全部)

The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke that morning to find herself alone. Her family—mother, father, and brother—had vanished without a word, without a note, without a trace. Twenty-five years later, Cynthia is still looking for answers. Now she is about to learn the devastating truth. From ...(展开全部)

Beloved Buddhist teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh offered the world much-needed words of calming wisdom in his previous book, Anger-a coast-to-coast bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Now, in a book both timely and timeless, he tackles a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five hundred years-and an eternal mystery that touches us...(展开全部)

Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy . Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everyt...(展开全部)

Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy . Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everyt...(展开全部)