![]() ![]() "The next morning they continued south to Richmond, where they turned off busy Highway 1 onto a narrow two-lane road, State Highway 60 and headed southeast. Here is text beginning beginning on page 9 of the new edition of Apollo describing the car trip of Owen Maynard and his family to Langley, Virginia in 1959: And, at last, after Williamsburg, there seemed to be nothing but forests and marshland, and the occasional farmhouse." ![]() "When Jim Dana passed Richmond he turned the Corvette off Route 1 and onto the narrow highway 60 headed southeast. Here's one example-a quote from page 86 of the paperback edition of Voyage-the character is driving to Langley, Virginia: There are whole passages that Baxter copied almost verbatim. I do not use the term "plagiarism" lightly. Two reviewers have mentioned that this book relies or draws on Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox's excellent nonfiction book, "Apollo." I will go further to say that there is significant plagiarism from that work. Too Bad So Much of this Novel is Plagiarized! ![]()
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In the winter of 1951, a storyteller, the last practitioner of an honored, centuries-old tradition, arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O’Mara in the Irish countryside. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The seashells from my collection decorate the arrangements, with leaves, flowers and buds replaced by the former real estate of mollusks and my lyrical thoughts form the structure of the branches.” she further added when briefing about the books. “I am an avid collector of seashells, an interest that started during childhood, but which only during the last 4 years found a home in the world of arts when I started creating Ikebana arrangements without living flowers, in a new style I call “marine Ikebana”. “The scientific branch of medicine helps sustain life during emergencies, but the beauty of art makes those added moments of life worth living for.” stated the author in the introduction of the book series. 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