🏆 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® 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® Cooking/Cookbook Winner! Islands in a Common Sea is about hope. It is also about Mother Nature and how we nurture her all over the world in the face of adversity. Discover the stories and recipes of 25 men and women across the globe whose lives are dedicated to farming and fishing, each…

🏆 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® Military History Winner! The phrase “trinity of war” represents the intimate cooperation of the government, the military, and, most importantly, the people of the nation in the context of military action. With this cooperation, each member of this trinity better understands the issues prior to a fully committed war. Without this close…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Mystery Winner! Seventeen Parcels shares a thrilling – and unconventional – treasure hunt that will keep readers guessing with each page. In this novel, a wealthy man wills a vast fortune to his three grown children but leaves directions to it in 17 parcels hidden throughout the US. Now, the heirs must…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Sociology/Anthropology Winner! Modern society has reached a critical juncture in its existence. Like past civilizations, ours has reached a point where its future is far from certain, with its decline or even collapse being distinct possibilities. The Incas, the Mayans, the Romans, the Rapanui, and many others had seemingly successful societies, yet…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Medical Memoir Winner! No Woman Left Behind is the unlikely story of how one woman left Madison Avenue to tackle the global maternal health crisis head-on. Fistula Foundation CEO Kate Grant’s new memoir takes readers across the globe and explores the systemic challenges that perpetuate maternal health disparities, including gender inequality,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Dystopian Winner! In the ruins of a world engineered to collapse, survival isn’t just resistance. It is a memory you have to fight for. When Clara gives birth to a genetically altered child, the echoes of a failed experiment ripple across time. Leo is one year old, trapped in a five-year-old’s body,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Children’s Middle-Grade Winner! Finding a weird metal cylinder in the junkyard—that’s where it all started for eleven-year-old Harper Graybridge. The young explorer had no idea his discovery would lead to an encounter with a three-foot-tall bug-man named Lyt. When Lyt reveals he is searching for the very same cylinder—known to him as…