🏆 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® Romance Winner! Tech entrepreneur Emma Davis needs a do-over. In the midst of a contentious divorce, her self-esteem, as well as her once-thriving career, have hit rock bottom. Writing professor Evy Hanover is a newcomer to the town of Belmont, New York. Confident, free-spirited, and fun-loving, Evy can navigate whatever life throws…

🏆 2025 BIBA®Non-Fiction: Adventure Memoir Winner! The Naked Sailor is a light-hearted memoir of a naive retiree enticed off to sea…”Don’t worry, it’s mostly Auto Pilot”. Who knew there were pirates in paradise, earthquake tsunamis that rolled over your boat, or a new typhoon every two weeks? Who knew a jellyfish could kill you in…

🏆 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® Non-Fiction: Women’s Health Memoir Winner! It’s difficult to change society. The word “abortion” is taboo, and many people don’t want to share their experiences. But without open and honest dialogue, how can change ever happen? Linda is excited when she realizes she’s pregnant with her second child, and her family shares her…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Pregnancy and Midwifery Winner! Midwives attending childbirth in homes and birth centers seldom encounter emergencies, but when a crisis occurs, lives hang in the balance! It is difficult to remain proficient in skills so seldom practiced, yet pregnant women rely on the expertise of the provider in an emergency. Birth Emergencies for…

🏆 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® Women’s Fiction Winner! After a fatal hit-and-run devastates their close-knit community, author Caroline Beasley and high school senior Ethan Shawver find themselves at a crossroads as their lives intertwine in unexpected ways. Both are left reeling as they try to make sense of the tragedy that has irrevocably changed their families forever.…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Historical Fiction Winner! When bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, the trajectory of Faye Baxter’s Midwestern life takes an unexpected detour. Her fiancé Steve Connor enlists in the Army, and Faye follows him to California for a spur-of-the-moment wedding just days before he ships out. Eager to contribute to the war effort, Faye…

🏆 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…