🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Cancer Memoir Winner! He got the job. He got the girl. He got the diagnosis. Son of a… Dan Duffy was twenty-nine when he heard the worst three words imaginable: “You have cancer.” Testicular. Stage three. His life became equal parts fear and anger, with a dash of stupidity for flavor.…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Travel Winner! Fusing historical depth, cultural nuance, and travel insight into one beautifully written volume, A Guide to Jazz in Japan helps you explore and understand one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the world. Whether you’re visiting Japan, living there, armchair traveling, or just love jazz, this guide points you…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Palliative Care Winner! A palliative care doctor’s surprising and heartwarming guide to dying well and living better. End of life still has life in it. Tackle the difficult conversations with humor, understanding, and candor in this one-of-a-kind guide to end-of-life care. From a cancer patient prioritizing their last sip of orange soda…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Women’s Fiction Winner! After a fatal hit-and-run devastates their close-knit community, author Caroline Beasley and high school senior Ethan Shawver find themselves at a crossroads as their lives intertwine in unexpected ways. Both are left reeling as they try to make sense of the tragedy that has irrevocably changed their families forever.…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Children’s Middle-Grade Winner! Finding a weird metal cylinder in the junkyard—that’s where it all started for eleven-year-old Harper Graybridge. The young explorer had no idea his discovery would lead to an encounter with a three-foot-tall bug-man named Lyt. When Lyt reveals he is searching for the very same cylinder—known to him as…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Book Of The Year $2000 Grand Prize Winner! Qusay Hussein was just seventeen years old when a car bomber changed his life, and he lost his vision. That was the beginning of a journey from Iraq to Jordan, and across the world to the United States. That one moment caused Qusay to…

🏆 2025 BIBA® TV History Winner! From Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, to the Scandinoir investigators Lisbeth Salander of The Millennium Trilogy and Saga Norén of The Bridge, to anime’s L in Death Note, to Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, increasing numbers of…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Mental Health Memoir Winner! From survivor to psychotherapist—one woman’s path to triumphing over trauma by understanding how the brain’s brilliant protective mechanisms helped keep her alive. In this powerful and deeply personal work of nonfiction, survivor and psychotherapist Sara Davidson explores one of life’s devastating but all too pervasive realities—trauma, and…

🏆 2025 BIBA® New Age Energy Healing Winner! As human beings, we are beginning to wake up to our inner multidimensional power and our ability to consciously co-create our lives. However, with this power comes the responsibility to master the creation process so that we can be who we were designed to be while here…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Visionary Fiction Winner! The eyes are the windows to the universe, if one knows how to look. For a select group of extraordinary children, this has never been more apparent. Born into a world ravaged by war, Samuel Helen is among the first in a wave of “new youth” children who possess…