🏆 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® Parenting Winner! Many of us did everything we could to prepare for becoming moms, but there just wasn’t any way to know what might lie ahead. Most of us have, at one point or another, looked around and wondered if we are alone in our parenting challenges. Hope for Moms offers a…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Biography Winner! Discover the life of Som Tamang, a true hero of the Himalayas, and be inspired by his incredible journey of triumph against all odds. Penned by award-winning former ABC journalist Kirsty Nancarrow, Som’s life is a testament to the incredible strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Health Winner! In On Healing, integrative medicine-trained physician, epidemiologist, and journalist Dr. Amitha Kalaichandran takes readers on a compelling journey to understand what it means to truly heal and live longer, healthier lives. Drawing from her own experiences in formal medical training and practice, as well as from stories of patients around…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Historical Fiction Winner! When bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, the trajectory of Faye Baxter’s Midwestern life takes an unexpected detour. Her fiancé Steve Connor enlists in the Army, and Faye follows him to California for a spur-of-the-moment wedding just days before he ships out. Eager to contribute to the war effort, Faye…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Travel Winner! Fusing historical depth, cultural nuance, and travel insight into one beautifully written volume, A Guide to Jazz in Japan helps you explore and understand one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the world. Whether you’re visiting Japan, living there, armchair traveling, or just love jazz, this guide points you…

🏆 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® 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® Action Winner! A GRITTY NEO-WESTERN THRILLER FOR FANS OF CHARACTER-DRIVEN THRILLERS LIKE ORPHAN X AND MODERN WESTERNS LIKE WIND RIVER Graham Hayes has never fit in—not in the life he left behind, and not in the one he’s trying to build. After years with the Regimental Reconnaissance Company—an elite special operations unit—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…