🏆 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® 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® Travel/Winter Camping Preparation Winner! Winter isn’t just a season to endure—it’s an opportunity to discover resilience and immerse yourself in nature’s raw beauty. Are you ready to embrace it? Imagine navigating icy roads, camping beneath snow-laden trees, and embarking on breathtaking expeditions into the wilderness. Embracing the Cold: A Guide to Solo…

🏆 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® Non-Fiction: Cancer Memoir Winner! He got the job. He got the girl. He got the diagnosis. Son of a… Dan Duffy was twenty-nine when he heard the worst three words imaginable: “You have cancer.” Testicular. Stage three. His life became equal parts fear and anger, with a dash of stupidity for flavor.…

🏆 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® Children’s (Ages 5-8) Winner! Step into the enchanting world of The Little Adventures of Erig the Earwig, an award-winning children’s book where nature’s tiniest creatures embark on the grandest adventures! Join Erig, a brave and curious young earwig, and best friend Bob, a clever copper beetle, as they explore the magical Long…

🏆 2025 BIBA® How-To Winner! Boost your brand awareness & scale your business with the power of storytelling and the strategy of podcast guesting. In Make Every Podcast Want You, author Kimberly Spencer reveals one of the marketing industry’s BEST KEPT SECRETS for small business owners–podcast interviews! If you want to grow your business, generate…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Collectibles Winner! Eversharp: Cornerstone of an Industry is the result of 25 years of collecting, researching, and writing about writing instruments made between 1913 and 1968 – by The Eversharp Pencil Company (1913-1915), The Wahl Company (1915-1940), Eversharp, Inc. (1940-1957), and finally by The Parker Pen Company (1957-1968). The book is 434…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Book Of The Year $2000 Grand Prize Winner! Qusay Hussein was just seventeen years old when a car bomber changed his life, and he lost his vision. That was the beginning of a journey from Iraq to Jordan, and across the world to the United States. That one moment caused Qusay to…