🏆 2025 BIBA® New Age/Spirituality Winner! Advancing the practices of forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Ellen Dee Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature. Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old-growth redwoods,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Science Fiction Winner! When vengeance becomes your only purpose, how far will you go? Grief-stricken and betrayed, Neven Kenk embarks on a dangerous mission to avenge his wife, whose life was stolen in a brutal act of violence. Paired with Tashanira, a fierce Uri warrior, and Ellipse, a sentient AI, they embark…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Young Adult Winner! Fifteen-year-old Austin Bowman vanishes off the face of the earth. Was he kidnapped, abducted by aliens, or murdered by his hotheaded brother, Colton? Despite the rumors and his troubled kid reputation, only Colton knows he didn’t kill Austin. He also knows what drove his brother from the house that…

🏆 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® Dystopian Winner! In the ruins of a world engineered to collapse, survival isn’t just resistance. It is a memory you have to fight for. When Clara gives birth to a genetically altered child, the echoes of a failed experiment ripple across time. Leo is one year old, trapped in a five-year-old’s body,…

🏆 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® 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…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Dog Care and Training Winner! (A Must Read) For millions, dogs are a vital part of their family, and one might assume that after thousands of years of living together, understanding one another would be easy. Yet even after attempts at breeding dogs to our liking, reading countless training books, and watching…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Mental Health Memoir Winner! From survivor to psychotherapist—one woman’s path to triumphing over trauma by understanding how the brain’s brilliant protective mechanisms helped keep her alive. In this powerful and deeply personal work of nonfiction, survivor and psychotherapist Sara Davidson explores one of life’s devastating but all too pervasive realities—trauma, and…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: African American Memoir Winner! An incredible true story of extraordinary courage and grit! Working undercover, conducting covert operations in the shadows, leading an FBI Homicide Task Force, and investigating drug smugglers, drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert. But, as destiny…