🏆 2025 BIBA® Literary/Non-Genre Fiction Winner! This darkly comic tale of science and family tells the story of John Chant, who in childhood is entangled with dinosaurs, a robot, an alien astronaut, a particle accelerator, giant monsters, quantum superposition, and a malevolent experimental chimpanzee. After exile and many swerves, he ends up a professor of…

🏆 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® 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® 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® 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® LGBTQ2 Fiction Winner! Edward “Eddy” Turner’s entire life is a battlefield. Growing up gay in the violent and poverty-stricken streets of East London, Eddy’s childhood is haunted by the shadow of bullying, rejection, and his domineering football hooligan father. Enrolling in medical school is his only lifeline – but it only catapults…

🏆 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…

🏆 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® Non-Fiction: African American Memoir Winner! An incredible true story of extraordinary courage and grit! Working undercover, conducting covert operations in the shadows, leading an FBI Homicide Task Force, and investigating drug smugglers, drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert. But, as destiny…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Children’s: Preschool ABC Book Winner! Ignite the Joy of Learning with Together! The ABCs of Living Together in Harmony Looking for a fun and meaningful way to help your child learn the alphabet? Together is the perfect choice – a beautifully illustrated children’s book by Jere Silber. This delightful ABC adventure invites…