🏆 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® Fantasy Winner! With a kingdom in peril and magic awakening in her blood, Celeste is thrust into a deadly game of power, secrets, and forbidden desires. In a world plagued by darkness and deceit, half-fae Celeste Westergaard is torn between her duty as the Commander of the Royal Regiment and her station…

🏆 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® 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® 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…