Primarily known for historical novels in the Crusader and Cossack series, this time Harold Lamb in "A Garden to the Eastward" features a hidden tribe living in a volcano in Kurdistan.

First published in the original German in 1927, this translation first published in the US by Harper and Row Publishers in 1962, public domain. "What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism -- as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought.

The true story of two great Asiatic lovers, Jahangir, despot of the richest court in the world and Nur Mahal, the beautiful Persian girl who ruled his empire for him.

Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and... murder.  The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, the first of Patricia Wentworth's mystery novels, was originally published in 1923.