🏆 2025 BIBA® Suspense/Thriller Winner! Michael Thorne meets with a French spy to talk about a nuclear warhead floating around on the black market. It’s an easy assignment, right up to the moment someone tries to kill him. He survives, but there are complications. The trail of the bomb leads to Serbia and the dark…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Business Technology Winner! “Technology has a way of making us look to the future but forget the past. The past history of streaming is rich in learnings for those willing to put aside their perceptions and embrace a broader perspective. Patrick Seaman provides that perspective with his retrospective account of the origins…

🏆 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® Humor/Satire Winner! The Bold, the Brave, and the Wrinkled: Retirement Just Got Rowdy! Barry and Beth, high school sweethearts separated by time and circumstance, find themselves reunited at the Blue Loon Village senior living center in Minneapolis. Now both seventy, they rekindle their relationship only to discover how differently time has shaped…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Women’s Health Memoir Winner! It’s difficult to change society. The word “abortion” is taboo, and many people don’t want to share their experiences. But without open and honest dialogue, how can change ever happen? Linda is excited when she realizes she’s pregnant with her second child, and her family shares her…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Novella: Horror Winner! Someone is slaughtering the residents of Felton, a suburb of Anywhere, USA. It’s a flat and largely unremarkable place, and the powers that be strive to keep it that way. However, when the latest body in a string of gruesome murders is discovered by Kyle Bloch, an aspiring journalist,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Money Management and Investing Winner! Rat Race to Riches is a compelling narrative about growing up in a poor, first-generation immigrant family and realising the dream of financial freedom. After losing his job, with a mortgage to pay and a baby on the way, the author discovered that an education and a…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Vocational Guidance Winner! In the shadows of Hollywood’s spotlight, Chad Gregory reveals a powerful truth: greatness lies not in fame, but in the relentless pursuit of mastery. “Behind the Star” is more than a guide to the unsung art of stand-in work—it’s a motivational manifesto for anyone striving to unlock their potential.…

🏆 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® Science Fiction Winner! When vengeance becomes your only purpose, how far will you go? Grief-stricken and betrayed, Neven Kenk embarks on a dangerous mission to avenge his wife, whose life was stolen in a brutal act of violence. Paired with Tashanira, a fierce Uri warrior, and Ellipse, a sentient AI, they embark…