🏆 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® 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…

🏆 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® 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® Visionary Fiction Winner! The eyes are the windows to the universe, if one knows how to look. For a select group of extraordinary children, this has never been more apparent. Born into a world ravaged by war, Samuel Helen is among the first in a wave of “new youth” children who possess…

🏆 2025 BIBA® Paranormal Winner! Sometimes love gives you a second chance. Sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes it returns in a way you could never imagine. Tyrus Cal, TC to his friends, had no plans to leave his party boy life, but when he met Ginny at an outdoor music festival, he fell. Hard. He…

🏆 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® Non-Fiction: Inspirational (Latina Women in Business) Winner! In Latina Madrina: Stories, Lessons and Hard Truths from a Brown Latina in Tech, Julissa S. Germosén offers an empowering guide for Latinas, BIPOC, and other marginalized leaders navigating the challenging world of the technology industry and their personal identity. Drawing on her twenty-five years…

🏆 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® Money Management and Investing Winner! Rat Race to Riches is a compelling narrative about growing up in a poor, first-generation immigrant family and realising the dream of financial freedom. After losing his job, with a mortgage to pay and a baby on the way, the author discovered that an education and a…