🏆 2025 BIBA® Sociology/Anthropology Winner! Modern society has reached a critical juncture in its existence. Like past civilizations, ours has reached a point where its future is far from certain, with its decline or even collapse being distinct possibilities. The Incas, the Mayans, the Romans, the Rapanui, and many others had seemingly successful societies, yet…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Aging and Personal Growth Winner! Presenting a clarion call to the aging to awaken before they die, Kamla K. Kapur explores how we can become warriors on the spiritual path in order to embrace and prepare for the truth of our mortality and the ultimate triumph of conscious living and dying. Set…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Aging and Caregiving Winner! As a clinical neuropsychologist, I started Remembery as a means to disseminate knowledge about various forms of dementia. In my neuropsychology clinic, I found myself consistently providing the same feedback to patients and their families. I later realized how few professionals were spending time educating their patients and…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Short Story Collection Winner! In David Joseph’s fourth collection of fiction, I Wanted To Be A Bluesman, he explores human relationships through the Delta-dipped lens of the blues. The twelve stories in this collection are carefully intertwined with the blues—from Mississippi to Chicago and places in between. Along the way, the bricklayer,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® True Crime Winner! A serial killer terrorized young, single women throughout Orange County, California, in the late 1970s, committing six sexual assault homicides. Follow the multi-agency team through all the stages in the investigation as they finally tracked down and arrested the perpetrator in 1996, in the process freeing a man wrongly…

🏆 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® 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® Biography Winner! Discover the life of Som Tamang, a true hero of the Himalayas, and be inspired by his incredible journey of triumph against all odds. Penned by award-winning former ABC journalist Kirsty Nancarrow, Som’s life is a testament to the incredible strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of…

🏆 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® 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,…