🏆 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® Illustration: Coffee Table Book Winner! The Last Book is a beautifully illustrated encyclopedia told from the point of view of Noah Kaplan, the last human survivor of the destruction of Earth. Left alone on an alien ship, he writes a book to preserve the essence of humanity. This book contains the myths…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Christian Winner! Have you ever questioned or doubted some of the more unusual stories from the Bible? Has a Bible story ever left you feeling more confused than comforted? More fearful than faithful? More cynical than satisfied? If so, then this book is for you. Often, these stories that have one meaning…

🏆 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® Pregnancy IVF Winner! In Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter’s Personal Journey into IVF and Surrogacy, international journalist Ginanne Brownell, whose work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, embarks on a profound exploration of assisted reproduction and surrogacy that combines intimate memoir with…

🏆 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® Parenting Winner! Many of us did everything we could to prepare for becoming moms, but there just wasn’t any way to know what might lie ahead. Most of us have, at one point or another, looked around and wondered if we are alone in our parenting challenges. Hope for Moms offers a…

🏆 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® Christian Non-Fiction: Dating and Relationship Winner! Are you tired of waiting for your life to begin? In a world obsessed with wedding timelines and social media perfection, it’s easy to feel overlooked, incomplete, or stuck in a perpetual “waiting room.” You’ve diligently prayed, you’ve patiently waited, and you’ve done the deep inner…

🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Christian Memoir Winner! Weaving his personal story with his work as the international president of Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families, & Friends, Nathan Kitchen’s memoir is a must-read for those seeking to understand queer joy in the face of rejecting actions and words. It is a triumph of the queer spirit seen…