Maxi: The Ultimate Racing Experience is the definitive book on maxi boats (the biggest sailboats that race under the maximum IOR Rule).

When a BIG, lovable, does-it-her-way dog wiggles her way into the heart of a loudmouth pipsqueak of a boy, wonderful things happen that help him become a bigger, better person. Perfect for fans of Wonder and Because of Winn-Dixie. Timminy knows that moving to a new town just in time to start middle school when you are perfect bully bait is less than ideal. But he gets a great consolation prize in Maxi—a gentle giant of a dog who the family quickly discovers is deaf. Timminy is determined to do all he can to help Maxi—after all, his parents didn't return him because he was a runt. But when the going gets rough for Timminy, who spends a little too much time getting shoved into lockers at school, Maxi ends up being the one to help him—along with their neighbor, Abby, who doesn’t let her blindness define her and bristles at Timminy’s “poor-me” attitude. It turns out there’s more to everyone than what’s on the surface, whether it comes to Abby, Maxi, or even Timminy himself.

He's little! He's cute! But he's getting all dirty! This warm, charming story perfectly captures all the ups and downs of a busy little taxi's first day on the job! It's Maxi the Taxi's first day of work. What fun it is to zip and zoom all around the town!SPLASH go the mud puddles!PLIPPITY-PLOP drips the ice cream and mustard from sticky little fingers!Soon Maxi becomes so grimy and gooey that no one wants to ride with him.Who will help this dirty little taxi discover what he needs most? It's a smart little boy who takes Maxi for a noisy, tickly bath in the car wash!

This is an adventure story for children with lots of great, challenging and imaginary twists and turns. The story includes a bit of magic and mystery of the unknown. Because Maxi has a pure heart and good intentions he is accepted, protected and welcomed everywhere he goes. During his journey he comes across a magical forest. He crosses many difficult, dangerous and tricky paths. Maxi meets many different creatures and beings, including animals both good and bad. Then he sees a giant’s Kingdom, whose Queen, after he earned, it made him a citizen of her Kingdom. Without his knowledge she and the giants prepared him for the continuance of his quest. Maxi started his adventure when he was only sixteen years old, he was still quite young for such a journey. As this adventure takes a long period of time. Maxi is growing up and maturing quickly. He experiences lots of fascinating events during his quest. Maxi made friends very easily because he was a very hardworking, honest and fearsome young man. He tried to help everyone as he could on the way to complete his journey. He reached a Kingdom which was draped in black. The King’s daughter was kidnapped by a big dragon. Maxi takes the challenge on and goes after the princess, to rescue her. He brings her back to her father, he succeeds in his quest. This is when Maxi realizes his urgency for the calling of this journey. After being Knighted, Maxi is rewarded by the King by allowing Maxi to wed his daughter, Princess Goldie. Maxi is now a very handsome mature young man. He goes to pick up his father as he promised and then visits the giants Queen’s castle. He then returns home to the King’s castle. He became very thrilled with his new life and the future of his new family, including his father in the King’s and Princesses’ and his Kingdom.

When Ben Gazzara and his wife, Elke, reluctantly agree to adopt the pet dachshund their daughter no longer wants, the couple unknowingly takes a new member into their family. Neither of the Gazzaras is a "dog person," and the sudden presence of a pet in the lives of these jet-setters appears at first uncertain. However, the ever-sweet, playful, and surprisingly smart Maxi immediately endears herself, and soon she becomes the Gazzaras' unlikely "child" in the empty nest of their Madison Avenue townhouse. The little dog accompanies the pair everywhere -- to the theater, restaurants, dinner parties, world-class hotels, receptions for heads of state, and even the dentist. Madison Avenue Maxi is the story of a love affair between a dog and her owners. With heartfelt humor and a dog lover's eye, Gazzara chornicles Maxi's antics in Manhattan as well as at their second home in Tuscany and over travels to the French Riviera, Brazil, Spain, and other luxurious locales. Along the way she meets celebrities such as Roman Polanski, Gena Rowlands, John Voigt, Danielle Steele, Gay Talese, Peter Bogdanovich, New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Frank Gehry. Madison Avenue Maxi is a warm, touching memoir of man -- and woman's -- best friend.

Maxi faces more than a few challenges in this book. After he just gets comfortable living in the kingdom with his wife, Goldie, Maxi was visited by the wolf during his and Goldie’s outing regarding the Ventura village being in trouble with its king. He also found out earlier that within his kingdom of residence, people are disappearing—to another dragon, he believed. He must fight two battles this time. Maxi decided that the most urgent was the dragon, so he uses White Knight and his sword again and travels many different dangerous and challenging paths on the way to find the new dragon’s cave. He fought the dragon, which was vicious, and won the fight, dropping the human the dragon had brought in and freeing the person. After returning to his kingdom, Maxi asked the king for warriors to help fight the Ventura king; he was given a big army of men. Maxi also went to the giant’s queen and she of course gave him warriors to help him. He then saw the wolf who advised him they were ready to go fight the ruthless king of Ventura. Maxi, King John, the giants’ queen, and the wolf collaborated about the upcoming war. Maxi had his army meet him at the edge of the forest, by the Ventura village. They attacked in the morning. Battle was easy with the giant soldiers and animals being there first surrounding the soldier prisoners. Later, Maxi’s soldiers went through the towns and villages collecting the ex-king’s army until there were none left. They brought them to the yard. After clearing the castle of soldiers, they arranged for their own servers and maidens in the castle from amongst their own people. Goldie was expecting the baby very soon; she wanted her father, King John, and the giant’s queen present for the birth of the baby. After the birth of the child, they were visited by all of the neighboring kings and queens. The way Maxi ran the kingdom, the castle was operating very well, and the people were extremely happy with their new king and queen, but especially the new prince.

Maxi faces more than a few challenges in this book. After he just gets comfortable living in his kingdom with his queen, Goldie. Maxi was visited by his friend the wolf during his and Goldie's outing, when he was advised the forest is in danger from the red wolves in both the Enchanted Forest and the Black Woods Forest. Maxi used his own army, King John's and Queen Victoria's armies along with all abled animals to prepare for a battle with the red wolves, who were overtaking the forests and controlling and abusing the peaceful creatures living there. Maxi's army won the battle with the help of the magic trees and took the remaining red wolves to the mountain forest, which is theirs now to rule and occupy. Maxi visits King John, returns his army, and discuses the details of the battle, the victory. He then visits the Queen Victoria and returns her army. She wants to know what happened, and Maxi tells her the story of the battle to removing the red wolves from their own forest on the mountain. After getting Sunset to come with him to the Enchanted Forest, Maxi finds out they in fact were not red wolves but rather Changelings. And when Maxi, Dark Cloud and the changelings go to the mountain forest, they were cleared of being a part of the pack of red wolves; they became Maxi's allies, being in a human form. After returning the changelings home, past Ventura, he returned to King John's castle to see his wife and son. After spending some time at King John's, Maxi and Goldie return home with the prince to the Ventura castle. They had to rush back To Ventura as Maxi found out the ex-king is scheming to take the castle from Maxi. Upon returning, Maxi caught the ex-king lounging and acting like the bad king he was, while other prisoners were working, so he moved the ex-king to the dungeon in the basement of the castle, disregarding his pleading and crying. The way Maxi ran the kingdom, the castle was operating very well and the people were extremely happy with their new King and Queen, but especially the new Prince. Even the prisoners were not complaining and quite content being in their situation. They did not lack for anything.