The 2025 Best Indie Book Award® 1

A Dagger in the Ivy

🏆 2025 BIBA® Fantasy Winner! With a kingdom in peril and magic awakening in her blood, Celeste is thrust into a deadly game of power, secrets, and forbidden desires. In a world plagued by darkness and deceit, half-fae Celeste Westergaard is torn between her duty as the Commander of the Royal Regiment and her station…

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Mischievous Mr. Battons

2025 BIBA® Children’s Book Of The Year Winner! Can there be too much cat mischief 🐱? Read on to see how Mr. Battons pushes the limits of feline antics. Will he be punished? Probably. Will it lead to an amazing adventure? Absolutely! This wordless book lets you and your child create the story together! Bright…

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Raising Owen: An Extra-Ordinary Memoir on Motherhood

🏆 2025 BIBA® Parenting Memoir (Down Syndrome) Winner! Like any first-time mother, Suzanne assumed having her first baby would come with all the usual pleasures and trials of motherhood, except one — an unexpected diagnosis of Down syndrome when her son, Owen, was seven days old. This discovery derailed every expectation she had of parenthood.…

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Losing Austin

🏆 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…

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Liv Forever: Never Say Zombie

🏆 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…

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Hope for Moms: It’s Tough Out There, But So Are You

🏆 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…

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The Last Book: The Diary of The Last Earthling

🏆 2025 BIBA® Illustration: Coffee Table Book Winner! The Last Book is a beautifully illustrated encyclopedia told from the point of view of Noah Kaplan, the last human survivor of the destruction of Earth. Left alone on an alien ship, he writes a book to preserve the essence of humanity. This book contains the myths…

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Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully

🏆 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…

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Escaping the Assembly Line: The Tools to Notice (And Power To Change) the Discipleship Defaults that are Killing Your Faith

🏆 2025 BIBA® Christian Winner! Change your defaults, and your faith will follow. The Christian Church is captive to our own assumptions. The way we imagine faith and following is shaped at least as much by our culture as it is by the Scriptures, with the result that what seems obvious and natural to us…

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Comfort Sequels: The Psychology of Movie Sequels from the 80s and 90s

🏆 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…

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