🏆 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/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® Suspense/Thriller Winner! Michael Thorne meets with a French spy to talk about a nuclear warhead floating around on the black market. It’s an easy assignment, right up to the moment someone tries to kill him. He survives, but there are complications. The trail of the bomb leads to Serbia and the dark…

🏆 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® Memoir Winner! Imagine completing a marathon every day for two and a half years. Solo. Self-supported. Through a global pandemic. Across four continents and 680 marathons, Marie Leautey faced scorching deserts, icy mountains, and the solitude of the open road. She braved blistering heat in Australia, navigated the Andes in South America,…

🏆 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…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Women’s Fiction Winner! After a fatal hit-and-run devastates their close-knit community, author Caroline Beasley and high school senior Ethan Shawver find themselves at a crossroads as their lives intertwine in unexpected ways. Both are left reeling as they try to make sense of the tragedy that has irrevocably changed their families forever.…

🏆 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® Parenting Memoir (Down Syndrome) Winner! Like any first-time mother, Suzanne assumed having her first baby would come with all the usual pleasures and trials of motherhood, except one — an unexpected diagnosis of Down syndrome when her son, Owen, was seven days old. This discovery derailed every expectation she had of parenthood.…

🏆 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…