🏆 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® Mystery Winner! Seventeen Parcels shares a thrilling – and unconventional – treasure hunt that will keep readers guessing with each page. In this novel, a wealthy man wills a vast fortune to his three grown children but leaves directions to it in 17 parcels hidden throughout the US. Now, the heirs must…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Trauma Memoir Winner! Fans of Lori Gottlieb’s, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, and horse lovers alike will appreciate this therapist’s intimate journey in “the other chair” as she strives to untangle the trauma from her equestrian childhood that now threatens her marriage. Raw and riveting, Girl, Groomed is seasoned psychotherapist…

🏆 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® Christian History Winner! What does a second-century bishop in Asia Minor have to teach Christian believers today? Plenty. This is the first of four books taking historical fiction to a new level. Begin to delve into the life and times of this remarkable martyr to the Christian faith. Polycarp was a bishop…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Career Planning Winner! Do you have a successful high school plan to achieve your goals? Each generation of high school students faces rising expectations. With multitasking academics, activities, and the pressure to succeed, they often become overwhelmed by stress and anxiety about their future. How can they manage their work and maintain…

🏆 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® Fantasy Winner! With a kingdom in peril and magic awakening in her blood, Celeste is thrust into a deadly game of power, secrets, and forbidden desires. In a world plagued by darkness and deceit, half-fae Celeste Westergaard is torn between her duty as the Commander of the Royal Regiment and her station…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Business Culture Winner! What if the way you experience the world—deeply, intuitively, with intense perception—isn’t a challenge to overcome, but a strength to harness? If you’ve been told you’re “too sensitive” or struggled to navigate corporate environments that seem to reward detachment over depth, Perceptive offers a powerful reframe: Your heightened awareness,…

🏆 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…