🏆 2025 BIBA® Young Adult Winner! Fifteen-year-old Austin Bowman vanishes off the face of the earth. Was he kidnapped, abducted by aliens, or murdered by his hotheaded brother, Colton? Despite the rumors and his troubled kid reputation, only Colton knows he didn’t kill Austin. He also knows what drove his brother from the house that…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Pregnancy IVF Winner! In Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy, international journalist Ginanne Brownell, whose work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, embarks on a profound exploration of assisted reproduction and surrogacy that combines intimate memoir with…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Expatriate Memoir Winner! In Tokyo Tempos, award-winning mystery writer Michael Pronko explores the mystery of everyday Tokyo life. He draws on his thirty years of living, writing, and teaching in Japan to delve into what it’s like to live with Japanese food, seasons, ceremonies, rules, and trains. The pithy, pointed writings in…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Van Life Travel Winner! Lovestruck and newly unemployed, Andrew Singer cashes in his savings to investigate a key question: Is #vanlife as awesome as it looks? After all, what could go wrong when two millennials—who have never used a saw before—attempt to convert a plumber’s van into a tiny home-on-wheels? On this…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Cozy Mystery Winner! Veterinarian Ginny Reese is adjusting to her recent inheritance in the small southern town of Greenbrier. After a storm takes down one of the outbuildings on her property, her dog, Remington, discovers human remains in the ruins. When the victim turns out to be Vicky Coleman, an old high…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Christian Non-Fiction: Dating and Relationship Winner! Are you tired of waiting for your life to begin? In a world obsessed with wedding timelines and social media perfection, it’s easy to feel overlooked, incomplete, or stuck in a perpetual “waiting room.” You’ve diligently prayed, you’ve patiently waited, and you’ve done the deep inner…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Strategic Planning Winner! In The Non-Obvious Guide to Drawing Your Future, Patti Dobrowolski unveils the transformative power of visual thinking in shaping personal and professional trajectories. Drawing from her extensive experience as a visual practitioner in business settings, Dobrowolski offers a refreshing approach to strategic planning, problem-solving, and goal-setting. Through engaging narratives,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Memoir Sensory Dysregulation Winner! Growing up in a time when sensory dysregulation wasn’t in our vocabulary felt like a daily obstacle course-the victory being not throwing up in the backseat of a hot Buick station wagon, or the pure freedom to dance one’s heart out in the wood-paneled family room of…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Poetry Collection Winner! Linda Neal Reising’s collection Navigation is both a lyric, melodic experience and an examination of histories, both intimate and vast. Navigation, with its carefully crafted poems of sonic resonance, is a sort of sacred harp singing in book form. It is a book about the history of America—indigenous and…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Paranormal Winner! Sometimes love gives you a second chance. Sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes it returns in a way you could never imagine. Tyrus Cal, TC to his friends, had no plans to leave his party boy life, but when he met Ginny at an outdoor music festival, he fell. Hard. He…