🏆 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® Expatriate Memoir Winner! In Tokyo Tempos, award-winning mystery writer Michael Pronko explores the mystery of everyday Tokyo life. He draws on his thirty years of living, writing, and teaching in Japan to delve into what it’s like to live with Japanese food, seasons, ceremonies, rules, and trains. The pithy, pointed writings in…

🏆 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…

🏆 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® Men’s Inspirational (Prostate Journey) Winner! An inspiring wake-up call to embrace and cherish every moment of life. Living While Dying is a blend of adventure and resilience—a guiding light for others facing life’s hardest challenges with unwavering strength and optimism. Eight years ago, Thom’s life took an unexpected turn with a prostate…

🏆 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…

🏆 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® Poetry Collection Winner! Linda Neal Reising’s collection Navigation is both a lyric, melodic experience and an examination of histories, both intimate and vast. Navigation, with its carefully crafted poems of sonic resonance, is a sort of sacred harp singing in book form. It is a book about the history of America—indigenous and…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Self-Help Adventure Planning Winner! Create your own rules for an adventurous life! Embark on an extraordinary journey across the United States on a tandem bicycle with “10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure.” This heartwarming and insightful book explores the highs and lows of adventure cycling, unforgettable moments, and self-discovery after divorce…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Van Life Travel Winner! Lovestruck and newly unemployed, Andrew Singer cashes in his savings to investigate a key question: Is #vanlife as awesome as it looks? After all, what could go wrong when two millennials—who have never used a saw before—attempt to convert a plumber’s van into a tiny home-on-wheels? On this…