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Recently-added or Featured Books  Complicated Favors: A Turkish Affair   A Jeanne Reeder Novel, 256 pages; BookSurge Publishing (November 20, 2006) -- ISBN-13: 978-1419649417; Approx USD $15.99. While vacationing in Turkey, two women friends get caught up in a web of international terrorism. One of them must cross the line from tourist to intelligence agent -- joining forces with a clandestine Kurdish military team led by a Turkish spy. The team comes face to face with danger, intrigue -- and romance. Just click one of the logos... if you'd like to check it out.  The Complete Dictionary of Essential Turkish Suffixes -- with modern examples galore! The Best of Learning Practical Turkish -- Volume 3 Another print publication first! Includes postpositions, prefixes, particles, and buffer letters! by Jim and Perihan Masters; four country computing ltd; Gümüldür -- Izmir (Turkey, November 2004) -- Paperback, 281 pages No matter where you finally come to grips with the subject of Turkish suffixes (and their cousins), it's not going to be at a 'picnic in the park'. And, since we promise to be 'gentle'... it might as well be here! But, there will be 'joy in the morning'... eventually. Because as the Turkish suffixes (and their cousins) begin to align themselves logically in your mind, you'll start to feel the 'fun' of the language re-emerging for you -- as it reveals its ancient secrets in the words of the people not of the textbooks! Just click on the logo -- to learn more about this book...  1,001 Essential Turkish Idioms (for English speakers) The Best of Learning Practical Turkish -- Volume 2 A print publication first! Includes selected 'Best of' the Idiom-origin stories! by Jim and Perihan Masters; four country computing ltd; Gümüldür -- Izmir (Turkey, November 2003) -- Paperback, 308 pages The first and only book of its kind for English-speaking Turkish-language learners -- representing the crème de la crème of LPT's multimedia Turkish-idioms encyclopedia on CD (and online). Painstakingly selected, corrected, revised, and arranged for the printed page, these basic Turkish idioms are intended to meet the everyday needs of Beginners and Intermediate learners of the Turkish language. These are the idioms you'll hear and see wherever you go, whoever you meet, whatever you read. Just click on the logo -- to learn more about this book...  The Best of Learning Practical Turkish -- Volume 1 (Electronic Book coming in Spring 2006!) ...with voice-recording bonus-pack of 'Essential Turkish' or 'Terms of Endearment'! by Jim and Perihan Masters; four country computing ltd; Gümüldür -- Izmir (Turkey, April 2002) -- Paperback... More than 150 pages of the most-useful colloquial Turkish language you'll ever find in one place. The complete '700 Club' of essential words and phrases -- plus 'key selections' of intimate terms of endearment and off-color indecencies. Learn the language of the people, not the text-books! Just click on the logo -- to learn more about this book...  Elementary Turkish  by Lewis V. Thomas (revised and edited by Norman Itzkowitz); Dover Publications (1986); ISBN 0-486-25064-4; Approx USD $7.95 -- From the publisher, "This superb grammar and exercise text, used successfully for years at Princeton University, enable English speaking students--in and out of the classroom to gain a quick and thorough understanding of Modern Turkish. In a carefully arranged sequence of 23 lessons, Lewis V. Thomas, late Professor of Oriental Studies at Princeton, presents thorough coverage that allows the student to begin to use the basic patterns of modern Turkish without time-consuming and expensive private instruction." Have a look at our very own review of this book... Just click either logo -- to learn more about this book...  Just Enough Turkish   by D. L. Ellis, Roderick Conway Morris, 144 pages (September 30, 1990). A reviewer said, "My husband (who is Turkish) and I agree that this is the perfect little phrase book to use when I get stuck trying to remember just the right question. Not only does it have a very easy to use layout and many vocabulary words, but it also has many questions and (most importantly!) several common answers. A really great book for anyone traveling to Turkey!" Just click one of the logos... if you'd like to check it out.   Our Turkish Phrasebook   (in collaboration with Tom Brosnahan, for Lonely Planet Publications). Second Revised Printing -- December 2000 (cleaned of all those embarazZing priinting erorsz) A modern phrasebook for the new-age 00's -- even includes romantic terms and phrases !! Just click one of the logos... if you'd like to check it out.  Culture Shock! Turkey by Arın Bayraktaroğlu; Published by Times Books International in paperback, Singapore Just click the logo -- to learn more about this book.  A Fez of the Heart -- Travels around Turkey in search of a hat  by Jeremy Seal; Picador, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (1995)... Through interviews with villagers and historical essays, Seals chronicles his journey through Turkey, to areas both metropolitan and remote, to find the heart of the country as embodied by its former national head gear -- that was outlawed completely by Ataturk in 1925. "A truly beguiling mixture of history, politics, and travel -- and very funny too." Just click the logo   -- to learn more about this book...   Our World Food -- Turkey  (in collaboration with Dani Valent, for Lonely Planet Publications) -- was runner-up winner for the UK's prestigious Andre Simon Award in the 2001! Includes comprehensive bi-lingual dictionary and Menu Decoder... Just click one of the logos... if you'd like to check it out.

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