L J Emory Publishing: 25 books

In this short-story, Doreen Sizemore, an elderly and opinionated Kentucky woman who hasn't been outside of home town since her senior class trip, gathers her courage and boards the Texas Eagle train bound for her brother's home in Texas. She is feeling quite the brave adventuress...until she discovers a murder on the train.

How different are Amish schools from our public ones? Author Serena B. Miller finds out when a friend invites her to a Christmas program in a one-room Amish school. As Serena watches the Amish children recite and sing, she is reminded of the reasons Amish parents once willingly went to jail to protect their right to educate their children in the ways they thought best.  

In this tongue-in-cheek short story, Doreen Sizemore, an opinionated seventy-one-year-old Kentucky woman, leaves the comfort of her hometown to help cook for a Christian youth camp on an island in Ontario, Canada. Doreen ends up in the middle of yet another murder mystery giving proof to her strongly held belief that "it just don't pay to travel."

This is a collection of 5 Doreen Sizemore Novelettes:  Murder on The Texas Eagle  Murder at the Buckstaff Bathhouse  Murder at Slippery Slope Youth Camp  Murder on the Mississippi Queen  Murder in the Mystery Mansion    Doreen Sizemore is an opinionated old Kentucky...

In this short-story, Doreen Sizemore, an elderly and opinionated Kentucky woman who seldom leaves her small town, visits a niece who works as a Mary Kay consultant in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her niece has a special surprise for her after she arrives—a nice, long, soak in the mineral waters of Hot...

A lost legacy. A forgotten past. A derelict lighthouse. Moriah Robertson, owner and caretaker of a Canadian fishing resort, can fix anything—except the broken lighthouse her family tended for over a century. Ben is one of the best stone masons in the world. He’s the right man for...

The building of a historic railroad. A tragic drowning. Cooking for hungry threshers. Celebrating the end of WWI. At 93, Mildred Hayward Bonzo experienced nearly a century of our country’s history. This careful recounting of her rural Ohio Valley childhood is a gift from her heart.

Rachel Troyer. Great cop. Loving wife. Adoring mother. A perfect existence. Until a monster from the past forces her into the fight of her life. Can revenge be satisfied and Rachel survive? Or will her family have to pay the price?

Escaped slaves. Secret tunnels. Risky hiding places. Fifteen-year-old Hannah uncovers her family’s secret past when she stumbles across a long-lost diary in her grandmother’s attic. Discovering the story of her family’s courage during a dark period of our country’s history, stirs her heart and changes her life.

Detroit's mean streets. Two orphaned boys. The beginning of a life of crime. An elderly Japanese grandmother fights for her grandson's life with her only weapons - good food, tough love, and a forbidden diary. Eleven year old Mu-Chan learns the meaning of true courage when he and his friend, Johnathan, discover the stirring words of his kamikaze grandfather, a man who chose to live.

In this tongue-in-cheek novella, reluctant amateur sleuth, Doreen Sizemore, vows to never leave her home in South Shore, Kentucky ever again. She’s afraid of discovering another dead body since murders only seem to happen when she travels. Her vow to stay home is broken when a newly rich relative...

In this tongue-in-cheek novella, bad things happen every time Doreen Sizemore leaves her South Shore, Kentucky home. She can’t seem to go anywhere without stumbling over yet another dead body. So Doreen comes up with a solution. She won’t go anywhere. She’ll simply stay in her tiny home town...

Originally published as Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio. Republished as Love's Journey in Sugarcreek: The Sugar Haus Inn (Book I) ---Back Cover Blurb--- Policewoman Rachel Troyer has always looked after her three elderly Amish aunts, proprietors of a farmhouse inn near Sugarcreek,...

Four authors. Twelve stories. Another writing session with only the unknown before them.In the pages of Beyond the Door Volume 2 can be found stories about:a dangerous beauty seeking revengethe power of wordsan alien invasionespionage during the Civil Warfraternity hazing with a dangerous...