🏆 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® Vocational Guidance Winner! In the shadows of Hollywood’s spotlight, Chad Gregory reveals a powerful truth: greatness lies not in fame, but in the relentless pursuit of mastery. “Behind the Star” is more than a guide to the unsung art of stand-in work—it’s a motivational manifesto for anyone striving to unlock their potential.…

🏆 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® 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® Coloring Book Illustration Winner! Greetings, curious soul. You have stumbled upon the peculiar realm of Victor M. Nightshade—a shadowy figure of enigmatic talent and imagination. Within these pages lies a portal into the untamed corners of my mind, a labyrinth of oddities, whimsy, and wonder. This is not just a coloring book.…

🏆 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…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Psychology (End of Life) Winner! Early Exits offers a profound exploration of Canada’s practice of euthanasia, called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), while addressing universal themes of mortality, existential distress, and spiritual transformation. It delves into the psychological, cultural, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of MAiD, challenging conventional narratives around autonomy and end-of-life…

🏆 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® 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® Dark Thriller Winner! At just 18, Tyler is a prodigy—a rising literary star whose bestselling novels captivate millions. He’s the devoted boyfriend every girl dreams of, the pride of his father, Detective William Grayson, and the golden boy of his community. But beneath the surface lies a far darker truth. When the…