The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every TimeIn our current real estate climate, it's more important than ever to have the right words at your fingertips. Whether you're new to the game or a seasoned seller, Perfect Phrases for Real Estate Agents and Brokers has just the right words and phrases you'll need to track down prospective properties and clients, manage transactions, negotiate terms, facilitate communications between buyer and seller, and close ...

Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning. And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing.Vinnie is a member of the Ojibwa Indian tribe, and he just might be Alex McKnight’s best friend. So Alex can’t help but be worried when he disappears. There’s a deadly crime war creeping into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and Alex never would have thought that his friend could be involved. But after an unexpected stranger arrives in town, Alex wil...

Alex McKnight swore to serve and protect Detroit as a police officer, but a trip to Motown these days is a trip to a past he’d just as soon forget. The city will forever remind him of his partner’s death and of the bullet still lodged in his own chest.Then he gets a call from his old sergeant. A young man Alex helped put away—in the one big case that marked the high point of his career—will be getting out of prison. When the sergeant invites Alex downstate to have a drink for old t...

On a frozen January night, a young man hangs himself in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call Misery Bay. Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won’t even hear about the suicide until two months later, when the last person Alex would ever expect comes to him for help.What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless and methodical kill...

Edgar Award winner Steve Hamilton takes his acclaimed series to new heights in A Stolen Season. If you thought you knew Alex McKnight and how far he’ll go for the people he cares about … think again.On a freezing night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it weren’t the Fourth of July, a boat plows full speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow water of Waishkey Bay. After Alex helps rescue the passengers, he figures he’ll ...

Even the most ardent baseball fan will be amazed at the quirks, quips, and comments in Baseball Gold. Consisting entirely of bits and pieces of baseball's offbeat history, this volume covers teams and a myriad of players, owners, managers, and broadcasters—from their exploits on the field to those behind clubhouse doors. It can even be picked up in the middle and read backward—one nugget at a time.

On the afternoon of July 30, 1975, former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa left the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, never to be seen again. Over two hundred FBI agents have been working the case in the forty-four years since that day—digging up end zones, driveways, hay fields, and horse farms—and yet Hoffa’s body has never been found.In this story by two-time Edgar Award–winning, New York Times bestselling author Steve Hamilton, Alex McKn...

Performance Programs Company's Fundamentals of Agency in Texas is one of the six required 30-hour prelicense education courses every candidate for a Texas real estate salesperson license must complete before sitting for the state licensing examination administered by the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC).This course covers 14 chapters across four areas of study: the legal and practical foundations of agency, the full range of agency positions recognized under Tex...

Performance Programs Company's Essentials of Contract Law in Texas is a 30-hour qualifying education course designed to give Texas real estate license candidates a thorough working knowledge of the contracts, forms, and legal principles that govern residential real estate transactions in Texas.The course covers 11 chapters organized to build understanding progressively. It opens with the regulatory framework of TRELA and TREC, the Texas Real Estate Broker-Lawyer Co...

Steve Hamilton’s novels starring ex-cop and sometime–private investigator Alex McKnight have won multiple awards and appeared on bestseller lists nationwide. And when you start listening to Winter of the Wolf Moon, you will instantly understand why …When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings on a...

In this third book of the Shingo Model series, Continuous Improvement focuses on five of the Shingo Guiding Principles: seek perfection, embrace scientific thinking, focus on process, assure quality at the source, and improve flow and pull.Each chapter in Continuous Improvement is designed to enhance your comprehension of one or more aspects of the Continuous Improvement dimension of the Shingo Model and to increase your understanding of how the dimension interrelates with and comp...

Performance Programs Company's Principles of Real Estate Practice in Texas contains the essentials of the national and Texas real estate law, principles, and practices necessary for basic competence as a real estate professional and as mandated by Texas license law for Principles I & II. It is based on our highly successful and popular national publication, Principles of Real Estate Practice, which is in use in real estate schools nationwide.The text is tailored to the needs of the...