🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Inspirational (Latina Women in Business) Winner! In Latina Madrina: Stories, Lessons and Hard Truths from a Brown Latina in Tech, Julissa S. Germosén offers an empowering guide for Latinas, BIPOC, and other marginalized leaders navigating the challenging world of the technology industry and their personal identity. Drawing on her twenty-five years…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Educational/Computer Science Winner! GOAT Coder: Master the Art of Coding and Problem-Solving What does it take to go from curious beginner to unstoppable coder? GOAT Coder is your ultimate guide to conquering the world of algorithms, data structures, and real-world programming challenges. Packed with crystal-clear explanations, hands-on examples, and strategies used by…

🏆 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® Motivational Winner! The Power of the Only is for anyone who has ever felt the tug to do more, to be more, but held back because they didn’t feel ready—or because the voices around them said they couldn’t. It’s for those who want to unlock their full potential but aren’t sure how…

🏆 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® Sociology Winner! To heal a world in crisis, we must rethink “legacy”—and commit to something bigger than ourselves. From the time he was born, Martin Luther King III has carried the weight of his father’s legacy—and his dream of a Beloved Community built on justice, love, and equal rights for all. Today, in a…

🏆 2025 BIBA® LGBTQ2 Fiction Winner! Edward “Eddy” Turner’s entire life is a battlefield. Growing up gay in the violent and poverty-stricken streets of East London, Eddy’s childhood is haunted by the shadow of bullying, rejection, and his domineering football hooligan father. Enrolling in medical school is his only lifeline – but it only catapults…

🏆 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® Cooking/Cookbook Winner! Islands in a Common Sea is about hope. It is also about Mother Nature and how we nurture her all over the world in the face of adversity. Discover the stories and recipes of 25 men and women across the globe whose lives are dedicated to farming and fishing, each…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Vegan Cookbook Winner! Shayaa grew up eating everything from oxtails to jerk chicken to curry goat—to mac ’n’ cheese and roti—and it was all delicious. But it wasn’t healthy. In this crafty little cookbook, filled with childhood memories and recipes, Shayaa recalls helping with family meals as early as age eleven and…