Genres: Memoir, Inspirational Poetry, Love Poetry
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Time Measured Out! transforms ordinary moments into extraordinary poetry. Larada Horner-Miller shares raw emotions from 9/11 to RV treks, weaving seven decades of life and recovery into deeply felt truths. These candid poems celebrate resilience, self-reinvention, and healing. Find comfort in reflective verse that reminds you to treasure each precious moment.

Genres: Memoir, Inspirational Poetry, Spiritual Poetry
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15

"Was It a Dream?" is an intimate poetry collection that weaves through the landscape of human experience, from sun-dappled peaks to shadowed valleys. Award-winning poet Larada Horner-Miller transforms deeply personal moments into universal touchstones, crafting verses that speak to the shared journey of loss, healing, and rediscovery. Opening the Navigating Life's Journey Through Poetry series, this first volume maps the terrain of grief and renewal through meditations on family bonds, nature's quiet wisdom, and transformative travels. With keen observation and gentle humor, Horner-Miller's poems celebrate life's small wonders while honoring its deepest sorrows, inviting readers to find their own story reflected in her words. From moonlit musings to dawn's fresh possibilities, these poems chart a course from heartache to hope, guided by the resilient spirit that lives within us all.

Genres: Biography, Memoir, Inspirational Poetry
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Tired of focusing on the stressful hustle and bustle of December? These delightful stories brim with Christmas nostalgia and heartwarming moments. Are you hoping to rediscover the magic of the winter holidays? Looking for traditional inspiration for your upcoming Xmas parties? Ever wondered what’s behind the twelve days of gift-giving? The daughter of a real cowboy, award-winning author Larada Horner-Miller grew up in a small rural community in southeastern Colorado. Now she’s using her seventy years of festive experiences to share the true meaning of the season and how to rejoice in its miracles. Hair on Fire is a compilation of poems, prose, and helpful scripture references all centered around family. Using vivid and humorous language, Horner-Miller reveals a treasure trove of tales that will touch anyone’s heart. And when you immerse yourself in the warmth of her stories, you’ll soon be looking forward to the big day with refreshed...

Genres: Memoir, Mental Health, Mind Body Spirit

"Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better?" - A Captivating Journey of Poetic and Prose Reflections Amidst the Pandemic In these unprecedented times, the global upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic has left a profound impact on our lives. We have all faced an array of emotions and challenges throughout this enduring crisis. Now, delve into an eloquent and introspective literary masterpiece, "Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better?," a book that captures the essence of our shared experience with heartfelt poetry and thought-provoking prose. Written by Larada Horner-Miller, this compelling collection of writings serves as a profound chronicle of the author's personal journey through the pandemic. Through beautifully crafted verses and evocative prose, you will be transported into a world where emotions intersect with reality, offering solace and connection in times of isolation. Each chapter presents a symphony of words, meticulously woven to resonate with readers from diverse backgrounds and circumstances. Whether you...

Genres: Biography

Just Another Square Dance Caller is more than a biography filled with the remembrances and stories of a 90-year-old man with 64 years' experience in the world of square dance. It's a unique and colorful retelling of the life and times of Marshall "Flip" Flippo; a legend in the world of square dance callers. Flippo was a Navy veteran, father, husband, and proud Texan who lived a life of passion and zest until his passing in 2018.  With chapter titles like Three More Ships & Baseball, Burma Shave Jingles, North and Then East, South, & Home for Christmas, Four Special "Once Mores," and Callers Flippo Called With & Slept With, this biography will give readers an entertaining look at the long life and career of a man who gained his first big career break in a chicken coop.    Flippo may have been considered a Renaissance man by many, but those...

Genres: Memoir, Self-Help/Personal Development, Inspirational Poetry, Spiritual Poetry

When Larada Horner-Miller’s father died in 1996, her mother told her, “Everyone grieves in their own way.” Horner-Miller took these words to heart when her mother passed away in 2013. She discovered that writing poetry was the best way of working through her fresh grief. Eventually she penned dozens of intimate, heartfelt poems about her parents’ lives and legacies and her deep sorrow and gradual recovery. Now she has gathered those verses into her first collection, A Time to Grow Up. Horner-Miller discusses the emotional challenges of caring for her parents at the end of their lives. Her words will strike a chord with any worried caretaker or child watching over ailing but fiercely independent loved ones. As Horner-Miller explores the nuances of bereavement through her poetry, she provides inspiration and comfort for readers coping with the same burdens. While many of her poems explore the depths of her anguish,...

Genres: General Nonfiction, History

How did a young mail carrier from Oklahoma put together a ranch in southeastern Colorado during the depression when others were losing theirs? This delightful booklet tells the story of how my grandfather, Laurence Horner, put our family ranch together in southeastern Colorado during the depressions. Harold Horner, my dad begins the tale in Oklahoma and how the young Horner's ended up in a small ranching community in southeastern Colorado. Harold details the process of how my grandfather bought homestead near each other to build our family ranch. He shares about his family and beginning experience as a rancher. Take a step back in time and witness this family story unfold.

Genres: Historical Fiction

This poignant historical novel of immigration takes you to the high plains of southeastern Colorado, where a Mexican-American girl grows up knowing that her father has been imprisoned for ten years for something he didn’t do. In When Will Papa Get Home?, Maria is taken back to her childhood home when she comes across a blue marble in her jewelry box. She remembers herself as an eight-year-old girl playing with the marble while waiting for her father to return to the rock-and-adobe homestead house her family had built with their own hands. Based on the tale of “the Philly Place” that author Larada Horner-Miller has heard her whole life, this novel imagines the life of the person who might have left that very same blue marble behind, to be discovered by Horner-Miller while exploring her family ranch many decades later. Through the fictitious daughter of a man named Philadelphia Gonzales,...

Genres: Memoir, Inspirational Poetry, Nature Poetry

Growing up as a member of a ranching family in Branson, a small town in southeastern Colorado, provided author Larada Horner-Miller a treasure-trove of stories, characters, and emotional moments that make up her touching memoir, This Tumbleweed Landed. This collection of poems and prose transports readers back to rural America during the fifties and sixties, to one idyllic, tight-knit community in particular. Each of the book’s eight sections weaves a nostalgic yarn that tells of playtimes with friends and neighbors, favorite hiding places, living without a telephone for the first eleven years of life, and the touching memories of growing up on a ranch community. Whether it is Saturday night dances or hot days working with 4-H at the county fair, the poems and pages roll along like a tumbleweed in search of a place to land. Readers will find themselves longing to go back to this very specific time...