🏆 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® 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® Sociology Winner! To heal a world in crisis, we must rethink “legacy”—and commit to something bigger than ourselves. From the time he was born, Martin Luther King III has carried the weight of his father’s legacy—and his dream of a Beloved Community built on justice, love, and equal rights for all. Today, in a…

🏆 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® Inspirational Winner! 52 Pieces: A Manual of Light to Survive the Abyss of Trauma is based on Dr. Marina Kostina’s near-death sky-diving accident and her miraculous journey back to life. Dr. Kostina’s body and face were broken into 52 pieces, and it took 10 surgeries to put her back together. The book…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Psychology (End of Life) Winner! Early Exits offers a profound exploration of Canada’s practice of euthanasia, called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), while addressing universal themes of mortality, existential distress, and spiritual transformation. It delves into the psychological, cultural, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of MAiD, challenging conventional narratives around autonomy and end-of-life…

🏆 2025 BIBA® New Age/Spirituality Winner! Advancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature. Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old-growth redwoods,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Parenting Winner! Many of us did everything we could to prepare for becoming moms, but there just wasn’t any way to know what might lie ahead. Most of us have, at one point or another, looked around and wondered if we are alone in our parenting challenges. Hope for Moms offers a…

🏆 2025 BIBA®Non-Fiction: Adventure Memoir Winner! The Naked Sailor is a light-hearted memoir of a naive retiree enticed off to sea…”Don’t worry, it’s mostly Auto Pilot”. Who knew there were pirates in paradise, earthquake tsunamis that rolled over your boat, or a new typhoon every two weeks? Who knew a jellyfish could kill you in…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Coloring Book Illustration Winner! Greetings, curious soul. You have stumbled upon the peculiar realm of Victor M. Nightshade—a shadowy figure of enigmatic talent and imagination. Within these pages lies a portal into the untamed corners of my mind, a labyrinth of oddities, whimsy, and wonder. This is not just a coloring book.…