🏆 2025 BIBA® Christian History Winner! What does a second-century bishop in Asia Minor have to teach Christian believers today? Plenty. This is the first of four books taking historical fiction to a new level. Begin to delve into the life and times of this remarkable martyr to the Christian faith. Polycarp was a bishop…

🏆 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…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Psychology Winner! The screen beckons, the notifications buzz, and the lines between our physical and digital selves blur. In this groundbreaking exploration, you’ll discover the profound psychological impact of technology on our lives. From the dopamine loops of social media, engineered to keep us hooked, to the persuasive design of our favorite…

🏆 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…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Inspirational (Latina Women in Business) Winner! In Latina Madrina: Stories, Lessons and Hard Truths from a Brown Latina in Tech, Julissa S. Germosén offers an empowering guide for Latinas, BIPOC, and other marginalized leaders navigating the challenging world of the technology industry and their personal identity. Drawing on her twenty-five years…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Book Of The Year $2000 Grand Prize Winner! Qusay Hussein was just seventeen years old when a car bomber changed his life, and he lost his vision. That was the beginning of a journey from Iraq to Jordan, and across the world to the United States. That one moment caused Qusay to…

🏆 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® 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® 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…