🏆 2025 BIBA® Children’s (Ages 3-8) Winner! Young Peggy visits the Oregon coast with her parents and siblings, Gayle and John, and it’s a magical day. The sand, the waves, the tidal pools… what could be better? When her dad goes fishing and catches a perch in the ocean, Peggy and her siblings are in…

🏆 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.…

🏆 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…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction Winner! You’re not alone. Whether you are facing cancer as someone who’s been recently diagnosed, as a survivor, or as a caregiver…this book provides hope, healing, and practical advice, ensuring that no one has to face that journey without support. Hope in the Face of Cancer brings together powerful stories from…

🏆 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® TV History Winner! From Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, to the Scandinoir investigators Lisbeth Salander of The Millennium Trilogy and Saga Norén of The Bridge, to anime’s L in Death Note, to Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, increasing numbers of…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Aging and Caregiving Winner! As a clinical neuropsychologist, I started Remembery as a means to disseminate knowledge about various forms of dementia. In my neuropsychology clinic, I found myself consistently providing the same feedback to patients and their families. I later realized how few professionals were spending time educating their patients and…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Men’s Inspirational (Prostate Journey) Winner! An inspiring wake-up call to embrace and cherish every moment of life. Living While Dying is a blend of adventure and resilience—a guiding light for others facing life’s hardest challenges with unwavering strength and optimism. Eight years ago, Thom’s life took an unexpected turn with a prostate…

🏆 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® Vegan Cookbook Winner! Shayaa grew up eating everything from oxtails to jerk chicken to curry goat—to mac ’n’ cheese and roti—and it was all delicious. But it wasn’t healthy. In this crafty little cookbook, filled with childhood memories and recipes, Shayaa recalls helping with family meals as early as age eleven and…