🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Memoir Winner! This sneaky memoir celebrates the campiness and nostalgia of some of the more infamous (some might say underappreciated) sequels of the eighties and nineties, with brand-new interviews with cast and creative team members, while at the same time emphatically conveying the restorative power these films had on the author’s traumatic…

🏆 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® Travel/Winter Camping Preparation Winner! Winter isn’t just a season to endure—it’s an opportunity to discover resilience and immerse yourself in nature’s raw beauty. Are you ready to embrace it? Imagine navigating icy roads, camping beneath snow-laden trees, and embarking on breathtaking expeditions into the wilderness. Embracing the Cold: A Guide to Solo…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Memoir Winner! Imagine completing a marathon every day for two and a half years. Solo. Self-supported. Through a global pandemic. Across four continents and 680 marathons, Marie Leautey faced scorching deserts, icy mountains, and the solitude of the open road. She braved blistering heat in Australia, navigated the Andes in South America,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Self-Care Winner! *You don’t have to feel guilty about screen time—learn to fully enjoy the best of technology by setting boundaries around the worst of it.* In our ever-connected world, inner peace isn’t about rejecting technology—it’s about having a better relationship with it. You need boundaries, but that doesn’t mean you should feel…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Short Story Collection Winner! In David Joseph’s fourth collection of fiction, I Wanted To Be A Bluesman, he explores human relationships through the Delta-dipped lens of the blues. The twelve stories in this collection are carefully intertwined with the blues—from Mississippi to Chicago and places in between. Along the way, the bricklayer,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Tween Winner! Think middle school is tough? Try being dead. For middle schooler Liv Creep, being dead is totally ruining her life—constantly worrying about body parts falling off in class, the diet of (ew, you know), and keeping the million-year-old secret that the dead exist so humans don’t freak. But the worst…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Creativity Motivational Winner! Wrangling the Doubt Monster is the little book of encouragement every creative person needs right now. Through a potent combination of short, poetic bursts of text, inspirational quotations, and joyful illustrations, Bernstein positions self-doubt not as an adversary to be vanquished, but as a companion to be managed. The…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Homeschooling Winner! “Educational Disobedience” is an award-winning memoir that chronicles one mother’s unwavering determination to reshape education for students overlooked by traditional systems. Dr. Annise Mabry shares her personal journey from advocating for her own child to leading a broader movement for change in education. Through vivid storytelling, thoughtful insights, and well-researched…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Collectibles Winner! Eversharp: Cornerstone of an Industry is the result of 25 years of collecting, researching, and writing about writing instruments made between 1913 and 1968 – by The Eversharp Pencil Company (1913-1915), The Wahl Company (1915-1940), Eversharp, Inc. (1940-1957), and finally by The Parker Pen Company (1957-1968). The book is 434…