🏆 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® Vocational Guidance Winner! In the shadows of Hollywood’s spotlight, Chad Gregory reveals a powerful truth: greatness lies not in fame, but in the relentless pursuit of mastery. “Behind the Star” is more than a guide to the unsung art of stand-in work—it’s a motivational manifesto for anyone striving to unlock their potential.…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Sociology Winner! To heal a world in crisis, we must rethink “legacy”—and commit to something bigger than ourselves. From the time he was born, Martin Luther King III has carried the weight of his father’s legacy—and his dream of a Beloved Community built on justice, love, and equal rights for all. Today, in a…

🏆 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® Novella: Horror Winner! Someone is slaughtering the residents of Felton, a suburb of Anywhere, USA. It’s a flat and largely unremarkable place, and the powers that be strive to keep it that way. However, when the latest body in a string of gruesome murders is discovered by Kyle Bloch, an aspiring journalist,…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Memoir Sensory Dysregulation Winner! Growing up in a time when sensory dysregulation wasn’t in our vocabulary felt like a daily obstacle course-the victory being not throwing up in the backseat of a hot Buick station wagon, or the pure freedom to dance one’s heart out in the wood-paneled family room of…

🏆 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® 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® Mystery Winner! Seventeen Parcels shares a thrilling – and unconventional – treasure hunt that will keep readers guessing with each page. In this novel, a wealthy man wills a vast fortune to his three grown children but leaves directions to it in 17 parcels hidden throughout the US. Now, the heirs must…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Religion & Philosophy Winner! Have you ever watched and listened to any “science versus religion” debate and wondered if they were arguing from facts or emotions? It could be argued emotions, and this is where I make my case. Please note that I’m not trying to shoot down either side, but trying…